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Studio Visit: Nick Walker

August 27, 2015 butterfly

Ahead of his upcoming solo show ‘Entrophy’ at Above Second Gallery in Hong Kong, we popped by the studio of Bristol artist Nick Walker.

For this new show, Nick Walker has been exploring new ideas and broadening the scope of his signature Gentleman Vandal series to more abstract imagery and new techniques playing with metal and sculpture.

Nick Walker - Studio Visit 2015

“A new element I am exploring with this show is ‘Numbers’ which I call the Smoke series. Originally I was inspired by Jasper Johns some time back and began to implement numbers into my paintings as background or fragmented, but now I am focusing solely on the numbers themselves.”

Nick Walker - Studio Visit 2015

Having visited Hong Kong in December to gather inspiration and collect photos some new pieces featuring the Hong Kong busy urban landscape, Nick Walker mentions “It [has] an abundance of old signage and history, and also a very gritty edge which is something I love to portray in my street scenes.”

Nick Walker - Studio Visit 2015

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Interviews/ Studio visits, Paris

Studio Visit: Pimax (Paris)

November 1, 2014 butterfly

PIMAX Studio Visit

We popped by the studio of Parisian artist Pimax as he prepares for his upcoming group show ‘GOLDO Expo’ at Galerie Sakura.

The studio space which used to store graves is surrounded by giant spraycans, a lifesize dummy policeman, as well as melting sculptures and toys, king kong sculptures with rubicube twin towers.

PIMAX Studio Visit

Addicted to the 80’s Japanese manga TV series Goldorak, Pimax created his signature icon ‘Goldofuck’, a figurine portrayed in every possible situation. From stencils, paintings to resine casts, Pimax experiments with multiple supports.

PIMAX Studio Visit

Pimax also enjoys reinterpreting objects from the pop and manga culture into colourful melting sculptures. His ‘Impressionourf’ painting series is a tribute to the Impressionnism movement with his own twist.

PIMAX Studio Visit

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Goldo Expo
5 Nov – 17 Jan 2105
Galerie Sakura, Paris

Interviews/ Studio visits, Paris, Toulouse

Studio Visit: 100TAUR (Toulouse)

October 8, 2014 butterfly 1 Comment

Following his group shows in the US and recent installation at the Toulouse Museum (FR), we visited the cabinet of curiosities of Low Brow French artist 100taur as he prepares for his upcoming solo show ‘Monsters in my closet’ at the Artoyz gallery in Paris.

100taur is a multidisciplinary artist, whose creativity expands from graffiti, paintings, drawings, engraving to sculpture, installations and taxidermy. His sources of inspiration come from Greek mythology, hybrid creatures like Chiron, known for his kindness, knowledge and skills with medicine, but also Japanese culture and sci-fi and horror films. Passionate by the natural world, 100taur also studies and breeds insects that he draws with the ultimate details.

100taur’s fantastic world is full of happy monsters, multi-eyed slugs and hybrid creatures that seems to be floating and dancing within an oniric universe, while some pop classics like Sponge Bob are reinterpreted with his own personal touch.

100TAUR - Studio Visit

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100taur – Monsters in my closet
16 Oct – 11 Nov 2014
Artoyz Gallery
53 Bd Beaucmarchais, 75003 Paris

Interviews/ Studio visits, Paris, Shows

Studio Visit: Ludo – Chaos Theory (Paris)

October 1, 2014 butterfly 1 Comment

We visited the studio of French artist Ludo in Paris as he prepares for his London solo show Chaos Theory at Lazarides Rathbone.

Using his trademark neon green and monochrome palette, Ludo’s new body of work illustrates themes of dissolute time and resolute chaos, through a battalion of futuristic mechanical butterflies.

Blending nature and human technology with anatomical and technical precision, Ludo references the accelerated pace of life in which people continually strive to keep up with the ongoing race against the clock. The frail and ephemeral butterfly image is reincarnated into hybrid creatures that possess strength and durability reminiscent of combat weaponry: the Butterfly effect.

Ludo - Chaos Theory

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Ludo ‘Chaos Theory’
10 Oct – 13 Nov 2014
11 Rathbone Place, London W1T 1HR

Interviews/ Studio visits, London

Studio Visits: Hisham Echafaki

June 18, 2013 butterfly

We recently had the chance to visit pop-surrealist painter Hisham Echafaki‘s studio. Using acrylic and oil paint, the London-based artist loves exploring symetry and patterns, as well as depicting animals in a surreal environment, as shown in his kufic and butterflies series.

We were fortunate to document some of the painting process of his Anthropomorphic Bowie pieces as he prepared for the upcoming group show The Many Faces of David Bowie at the Opera Gallery London.