I was at an opening of Rembrandt, Picasso and Warhol prints at the William Bennett gallery tonight, which was enjoyable for a few reasons.
1. I dropped by early, the gallery wasn’t crowded yet.
2. The quality and number of prints from each artist are impressive.
3. Explaination of each medium was placed next to a body of [...]
Archive | October, 2009
400 Years of Printmaking -Rembrant, Picasso and Warhol
We’re going on a Roa hunt
Roa’s been in town recently and left a great collection of pieces all over the Shoreditch area. From sleeping boars to nibbling squirrels there’s a great variety of wildlife to now be found on the all too barren streets of this part of town. Most of the main pieces are detailed below. There’s another one to be had but its on a double door thats open every time I go past.
Green Day answer – show previews tonight and opens tomorrow
So well done to Larry Livermore* for knowing the answer to the connection between Euston Station and Green Day. It was the site of their first ever UK gig which was held in what is now the Britannia pub above an Marks and Spencer Simply Food store on the station concourse. At the time it was called Rails or the Railway Tavern and was part of Travellers Fare (anyone remember that)? Quite a surreal space to go and watch a band (let alone Green Day) and then walk out directly into the station. Green Day did a neat trick which still grosses me out until this day but its probably best left untold. It wasn’t exactly a packed out show as I remember – lets just say if you were there I probably know you!
* Larry Livermore was running Lookout Records at the time – thanks for giving us ‘The Thing That Ate Floyd” Larry!
The Art of Rock previews tonight and opens at Stolen Space tomorrow.
The Britannia pub on Euston station – scene of Green Day’s first UK gig
A stranger place for the gig would be hard to imagine
Shit We’re Diggin’: Chris O’Shea’s “Hand From Above”
Hand from Above from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo.
“Chris O’Shea’s Hand From Above encourages us to question our normal routine when we often find ourselves rushing from one destination to another. Inspired by Land of the Giants and Goliath, we are reminded of mythical stories by mischievously unleashing a giant hand from the BBC Big Screen. Passers by will be playfully transformed. What if humans weren’t on top of the food chain?
Unsuspecting pedestrians will be tickled, stretched, flicked or removed entirely in real-time by a giant deity.
Hand from Above is a joint co-commission between FACT: Foundation for Art & Creative Technology and Liverpool City Council for BBC Big Screen Liverpool and the Live Sites Network. It premiered during the inaugural Abandon Normal Devices Festival.”
Seen On The Streets of Le Marais Paris
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Artist: Bonom
UPDATED: DAZE, ROKE and PRIEST Peel Back History in Birmingham, Alabama
Wes writes:
“I live in Birmingham, AL and while there is not a lot of street art we sometimes receive a gift like this. Nn 1978 a mural was painted on the side of this building and it stayed that way until a few months ago when realtors decided they wanted to rent the building. DAZE and ROKE (both bham artists), and PRIEST (of Mobile, AL) a few days ago did the piece below showing the kid peeling off the paint to once again reveal the mural underneath.”
UPDATED:
From John Morse, the photographer who shot the original photo:
“I’d like to add a bit of information to the article posted this morning about the work of DAZE, ROKE and PRIEST in Birmingham. The original mural, entitled “Geo-Chromatic Progress” was painted in 1978 by Michael Mojher, now living in Orlando, Florida. It was part of the Birmingham Mural Project, an 18-month campaign to enliven downtown walls with the cooperation of underemployed artists. The project was funded by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act and administered by the Greater Birmingham Arts Alliance.”
Photo by John Morse
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Sweatshoppe – An Introduction
SWEATSHOPPE, 4spots, the landing extras from SWEATSHOPPE on Vimeo.
“Multimedia performers Sweatshoppe have been wheat pasting buildings with moving images all over New York. Mapping video projections to LED-lit paint rollers, Sweatshoppe lay their projections on a surface, paint-stroke by paint stroke. They call new digital performance style “Video Painting”.
How it works: The software controlling the video was written in Max. The paint roller does not use any sort of paint, it simply contains green LEDs. The software tracks the color green and outputs the x y position which are sent to drawing commands and the strokes are textured with video.
Sweatshoppe is video artists Bruno Levy and Blake Shaw. They plan on eventually releasing the software, but only after it is much more refined, buffed up with features and is user-friendly.”
“Add To Basket”
“This stencils are just the representation of the irony that we´re livin´between this state of shitty economics, result of the over consumption and loads of publicity that everyday we are bombed in. Not only over internet but everywhere even facing a serious economical breakdown… They pretend to ironize the “add to basket/cart” signs over all web”… Protect Iorself 157