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Paris: JR – Wrinkles of the City Istanbul

May 8, 2017 butterfly

Gallery Perrotin in Paris is currently showing the latest instalment of ‘Winkles of the City – Istanbul’, a project created by French artist JR, featuring monumental portraits across cities dedicated to the elderly people and their stories.

In May 2015, JR created works on 15 buildings all over Istanbul, a city seen as a link between Europe and Asia, and not far from new conflict zones. In the last chapter of his project ‘The Wrinkles of the City’, JR portrays older people who have lived through the changes and upheavals of their city – especially the secularization of Istanbul after 1924 – and enlarges their portraits to reflect the changes in the architecture of various areas of the city.

In parallel to the pictures and artworks exhibited, the show features a screening ‘Wrinkles of the City’.

JR- Wrinkles of the City Istanbul
Until 13 May
Galerie Perrotin
76 Rue de Turenne, 75003 Paris

Paris, Shows

Paris: Faile ‘Meet Me Halfway’

May 3, 2017 butterfly

Brooklyn-based duo Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller a.k.a FAILE are exhibiting for the first time in Paris at Magda Danysz Gallery.

The show titled ‘Meet Me Halfway’ presents a large range of media, from paintings, collages and stencils and works on carved wood featuring their signature iconography: Faile’s Dogs, Wolves, Bunnies, Ballerinas, NYC, the presence of the 1986 Challenger spaceship and more.

In parallel, the prolific duo also created a large scale mural in the 13th district of Paris as well as a few stencils in the streets of Paris.

View the full set of pics here

Faile – Meet Me Halfway
Magda Danysz Gallery
78 rue Amelot, Paris

Paris

Paris: Bom.K – Effets Secondaires

April 24, 2017 butterfly

Four years after his last solo show in Paris (covered), graffiti artist Bom.K is returning to Paris for a solo show entitled Effects Secondaires (Side Effects) at Galerie Itinerrance opening on April 21st. The title of the exhibition refers to the sensations we managed to grasp from an artwork after enjoying the technique and subject. In addition, it also refers to one of the works in wood bearing the same name on the subject of overconsumption and the exhaustion of natural resources.

Through the extreme precision of the spraycan, Bom.K invites the viewer into his mystical world of hybrid creatures. The show also presents artworks and installations dealing with ‘Flesh and Harmony’, a favourite theme of the French artist featuring distorted corpses and figures, a ‘Guetto Clowns’ series, as well as subjects including the wish for ecological and political awareness.

View the full set of pics here

Bom.K – Effets Secondaires
Until 20 May 2017
Galerie Itinerrance, Paris

Paris, Shows

Paris: Levalet – ‘Nobodies’ solo show

April 21, 2017 butterfly

After five years of touring France and abroad with his in-situ characters, French street artist Levalet is presenting a new solo show in Paris at Galerie BRUGIER-RIGAIL entitled ‘Nobodies’.
The exhibition plays on identity and judgement. Even though « you can’t judge a book by its cover », normative orders of promotion, advertising and institutions influence our dress codes.

A series a faceless portraits in period costume with mirrors invite the spectators to project their own real-life experiences, emotions and culture. Nobodies clothes and the absence of visible bodies are an open window on history, sometimes universal, sometimes specific.

Levalet revisits art history where the body was omnipresent and echoes the dehumanization phenomenon which has been developed with social media and technology.

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Levalet – Nobodies
Until 6 May 2017
GALERIE BRUGIER-RIGAIL
40, rue Volta 75003 Paris

Art Fair, Paris

Urban Art Fair Paris 2017

April 20, 2017 butterfly

Following last year’s success with more than 20.000 visitors, the second edition of the Urban Art Fair in Paris is gathering art critics, galleries, collectors, artists and fans of urban art at the Carreau du Temple from April 20 to 23, 2017, with thirty French and International galleries specialized in urban art.

Numerous galleries that exhibited last year are returning to the fair in 2017: galerie du jour agnès b., Galerie Ange Basso, Galerie Artistik Rezo, Galeries Bartoux, Galerie Berthéas les Tournesols, Galerie Brugier-Rigail, David Pluskwa Art Contemporain, Galerie 42b, Green Flowers Art, Joël Knafo Art, Lézarts Urbains, PDP Gallery et Galerie Wallworks for the French galleries; Vroom & Varossieau, Urban Spree et Urban Art Gallery among the international galleries. Twelve exhibitors are joining for the first time at Urban Art Fair: Avenue des Arts (Hong- Kong), Galerie Bel-Air Fine Art (Geneva), ART IN THE GAME (London), Pretty Portal (Düsseldorf), Galerie Mathgoth (Paris), Openspace (Paris), NUNC ! (Paris, Grenoble), Le Grand Jeu (Paris), Galerie Géraldine Zberro (Paris), Galerie Lélia Mordoch (Paris), Galerie Saltiel (Aix-en-Provence), H Gallery (Paris).

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The Urban Art Fair presents a panorama of urban contemporary artists from Banksy to Blek Le Rat, Jef Aerosol, Cranio, Miss Tic, The London Police, Shepard Fairey, Gris1, Kan, Monkey Bird, Seth, Cleon Peterson…

View the full set of pics here

The programme also includes a series of talks, film screenings and talks on 21 and 22 April from the beginning of the graffiti in NYC to contemporary muralism.

« The Covers Collection » booth presented by Graffiti Art Magazine is highlighting ten iconic pieces that were on the cover of the contemporary urban art magazine.

In parallel to the Fair, an outdoor exhibition titled « Cannot Be bo(a)rdered » explores popular subcultures in L’Espace Commines from April 21 to May 7 through the works of thirty artists and collectives from Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, using skateboards as their main medium.

Urban Art Fair Paris
20 – 23 April 2017
Le Carreau du Temple
4 Rue Eugène Spuller, 75003 Paris