A quick round up of some of the great art stuff going on this month – which can also be used as a handy guide to tasteful last minute Christmas presents.
Last weekend saw the Christmas Bazaar featuring Pure Evil, Mr Jago and a whole host of others. The line-up and events sounded amazing and, judging by the above image, it looked the dogs bits as well. Also happening this December is Pictures On Walls annual art-ghet-t0-together headlined this year by Evol with a supporting cast full of familiar names (will Bansky appear, the catalogue says not but history suggests yes), whilst Print Club have their excellent 12 Prints show going on. Meanwhile up north, illustrator Matt Sewell has been working as fast as a Hummingbird’s wings producing some brilliant work around birds (the feathered not the female kind).
It’s been a while since I visited Ben Eine’s website so it was good to see he has given it a lick of paint.
Gone are the mischievous Care Bears and eye watering psychedelic colours and, in keeping with Eine’s upward trajectory in the art world, comes something altogether more slicker. Einesigns 2.0 boasts more refined navigation, greater content and promises to be updated more regularly.
The work on show looks to have gone up a notch as well, with the imagery from his show, The Greatest, at White Walls gallery, looking particularly tasty. Featuring one-off words using his trademark typefaces and vibrant colours, this is one wall I’d happily transport to my own living room.
If anyone is in the market for some Eine, check out No Walls Gallery who have some letter canvases in or why take a gamble on Bonafide issue 02 which has an indepth interview with the king of typo-graff.
If there’s something you want to get off your chest, then you might want to get down to Sickboy’s new installation, open this weekend.
The elusive Bristolian street-artist has taken over the Old Truman Brewery to garnish its walls with his latest imaginings, entitled ‘Heaven and Earth’, in conjunction with fellow artists such as D*Face, Eine and Paul Insect. …Read More.
More exhibition news, this time a bit closer to home. From the 04 – 27 November 2011, Borough and Lane a new exhibition featuring works on paper by American artist Evan Hecox, will be held at Stolenspace, London.
Bonafide issue 04 star D*Faceis holding his first solo exhibition in Australia during November. His new show takes places at the Metro Gallery, Melbourne, and will give our Antipodean cousins a chance to view work in the flesh by an artist who has made his name subverting popular culture and playing fast and loose with the trademark pop stylings of Litchenstein and Warhol.
The exhibition will launch on the 02 November and include his flutterdies and splutterflies work, original pieces, huge concrete spraycan sculptures (that will also be dotted around Melbourne city – try nabbing that Mr Street-Art reseller on eBay) and, according to the blurb, a new limited edition print.
Having stumbled across their playful Check Yo Self mirrors – a must for any rapper or wannabe rapper’s bathroom – released by CMYK Projects in parallel with theAnti-Social Networkingexhibition, Black Book Gallery, all I have to say about Skewville is – believe the hype.
From their clever Wharol-esque Hype boxes to their pieces made out of found objects that speak a native street dialect through to their massive boomboxes on the sides of walls, Skewville aka twin brothers Ad Deville and Droo, have been making street insurrections for over a decade. You may also recognise them for their wooden kicks tossed over phone lines – mark making for the hooded generation.
Slinkachu is taking his little people on a mini-European adventure. Pitching up at Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, which is in Ludwigsburg near Stuggart, he will bring his finely crafted street vignettes to German audience for the first time. Featuring a mixture of past work and new work (shot on the streets of Berlin, Stuggart and Ludwigsburg). As German art heads might say “überprüfen Sie es heraus.”
Clothing label Supremebeing have hooked up with the likes of Mr Jago, She One and Will Barras to produce the White Canvas Project. Using various found objects the live paint jam takes part in an undisclosed part of the English countryside. All have to say about the Mr Jago piece is DAMN THAT’S NICE!
Channel 4 need to be applauded for Street Summer, their season of urban culture programmes, if anything it has come, albeit accidently, at a vital time and will hopefully help express young people’s interests whilst at the same time explain that rap and hip-hop aren’t the devils creation.
Graffiti Wars is the latest one I have watched, a documentary revolving around the spat between Robbo (and his team) and Banksy, with cameo’s from Blek Le Rat, the police and the entertaining Ben Eine. However, I’m in two minds about whether I liked the programme.
Street Fonts: Graffiti Alphabets from Around the World Claudia Walde Thames & Hudson
Claudia Walde (or MadC as she is known in graffiti circles) spent over two years collecting alphabets by 154 artists from 30 different countries. Each artist was briefed to design their own version of the 26 letters of the latin alphabet. …Read More.
