Tag Archives: Solo show

Berlin, Interviews/ Studio visits, Shows

Studio Visits: BLO (Berlin)

July 6, 2013 butterfly 1 Comment

We visited the studio of French graffiti artist BLO, based in Berlin, as he prepares for his upcoming solo show “La Petite Mort” at Open Walls Gallery opening tonight.

La Petite Mort examines euphoric isolation of the artist, steeped in BLO’s past movements throughout the public sphere, from 1998 in the French Graffiti scene. This show has all the destructive elements of his youth – yet now he attacks his symbolic ancestors, from the Virgin Mary and Child to the Bleeding Heart.

BLO (DMV) works with many juxtapositions in his dream-like images of damage. Negating the iconic pin-up of the graffiti scene, he labours intensively over androgynous women with mechanical limbs and lead pipe bones. The sculptural curves of the paintings mirror the heavy reflex of gesture seen in the other monochrome illustrations, that are ripped from their static respite to play on a series of wooden panels and stretched cotton throughout the show.

Full set of pics here
View the online catalogue here

BLO

“La Petite Mort”
Open Walls Gallery
Stattbad, Berlin
6 July – 27 July

Paris, Shows

Paris: Bom.K – “Vertiges & Somnolences”

May 8, 2013 butterfly 1 Comment

French graffiti artist Bom.k has launched his first ever solo show, Vertiges et Somnolence (Dizziness & Drowsiness), at Galerie Itinerrance in Paris, showcasing a series of large scale canvases, drawings, and sculptures. With a unique way to paint with spray cans, distorting caps for an ultimate precision of the lines, the founder of the Da Mental Vaporz crew invites the viewer into his world of disturbing hybrid creatures and urban landscapes. The result is breathtaking.

Bom.K - Vertiges et Somnolences

View the full set of pics here

Bom.K – Vertiges & Somnolences
Until 1 June 2013
Galerie Itinerrance
7 bis rue René Goscinny, 75013 Paris

Paris, Shows

Paris: Pan solo show at Axelle B.

October 12, 2012 butterfly

Parisian based artist PAN plays around images from the urban environment to create surreal and oniric landscapes.

His “Phares” series focuses on distorted urban landscapes reflected from car lights, while his “Spheres” represent an introspective world issued from the vegetal era.

Drawing inspiration from the Art Nouveau and Art Deco period, the “affichiste-ensemblier” artist has expanded his vision to a series of bespoke furniture for his second solo show, featured at Axelle B. until 5 November 2012.

Pics from the opening here

Pan at Axelle B.

5 Oct – 5 Nov 2012
26 Rue d’Epernon
78550 Houdan

London, Shows, Street

London: Mr Brainwash returns – Part 1

June 12, 2012 butterfly 1 Comment

Four years after officially launching his “MBW” pseudonym at the Banksy’s Cans Festival, Thierry Guetta aka Mr Brainwash has landed in London for the preparation of his first huge European show to date.

2008 Banksy Cans Festival

Celebrating both the Queen’s Jubilee and the Olympics, the MBW show will take place end of July in central London, opposite the British Museum. Needless to say that the building is massive, known as the former post office.

MBW put up some huge colourful paste-ups around the building with some added trademark pink paint. Stay tuned for more details.