MALLEUS, the artist collective of Urlo, Poia and Lu, the remarkable poster design team from Italy, will be unveiling their new works and limited art prints on Saturday, October 10 at ARTROCK GALLERY in San Francisco
Alan Forbes and Chuck Sperry / Ron Donovan of the Firehouse will exhibit with MALLEUS - each presenting art prints specifically designed for the event.
In addition there will be a live print demonstration, so you will have an opportunity to acquire an exclusive art print made for you right before your very eyes.
The event is a celebration of DARK NOUVEAU, a return to the roots of poster creation.
DARK NOUVEAU evokes equally the fin de siècle style of Toulouse-Lautrec and 1960's San Francisco Psychedelia - and operates here as a manifesto of reinvention and revision - aimed at connecting to the poster movement of the Decadent Period to the Belle Epoque and folding it into the Psychedelic Period to the present modern global silkscreen movement.
DARK NOUVEAU opens at 7pm • Saturday, October 10 at ARTROCK GALLERY • 893 Folsom Street in San Francisco.
Monday, 5 October 2009
DARK NOUVEAU Malleus, Alan Forbes and Firehouse
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Friday, 2 October 2009
Urban Nerds - At Chew The Fat 12th Birthday
On Friday 9th October Chew the Fat! returns to The Arches in London Bridge to celebrate a humungous 12 years in club land and Urban Nerds are proud to join the party and bring there usual eclectic underground mash-up to room 2! They’ve got the beats & bass truly covered and will be getting the party started with the finest grime, dubstep, garage, UK funky and a whole lot more from this little lot…
Marcus Nasty
Spyro (Rinse.FM)
Flirta D
Rattus Rattus (Urban Nerds)
Klose One (Urban Nerds)
Chrome Kids
Ordio Kid (Urban Nerds)
Plus in room 1 Chew The Fat! present an ENORMOUS line-up of the best in underground electro, fidget house and party beats…
Speaker Junk (Herve & Trevor Loveys)
Riva Starr
Doorly (Reclaim The Dancefloor)
Aquasky
Paul 'Trouble' Arnold
The Living Graham Bond
Room 3 Hosted By Keyboard Masher
Frank Milan & JB
Plus Special Guest Stan Fontan
The Fat! crew are renowned in London for their exciting music policy, a boisterous young crowd and an atmosphere at all their parties that would get even a real pensioner dancing, so this huge Birthday rave-up is set to be ridiculously heavy!
Limited £20 'Birthday 100' Tickets / £10 Advance & Students / £13 On The Door
The Arches
51 -53 Southwark Street
London Bridge
SE1 1RU
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Streetfest 2009
StreetFest – Saturday 3rd of October 2009 @ Hearne St car park, 7-11 Hearn St, Shoreditch, London, EC2 3LS 2pm – 1am
Building a modern day community of collective creativity StreetFest is a new breed of festival where the onus is on promoting and merging creative talents
StreetFest, is the first live art street festival in UK. StreetFest performers are drawn from a across the artististic spectrum ranging from creative painters, architects, designers, illustrators, skaters and writers who will be expressing themselves during the day through live demos, screenings and shows. This niche festival pulls together design styles and crews from all over the world.
* The art focus of the festival consists of both individual and crews of artists displaying their skills, in real time whilst an audience observes. Some of the artists also compete via timed paint-offs against other art collectives (crews).
* The lifestyle focus of StreetFest sees inline skaters & skateboarders introduce their ‘culture’ through various displays, showcasing their innovative pastimes
* Our cinematic offering includes a selection of captivating films/documentaries/shorts and animations shown throughout the day
* Fashion content at StreetFest ensures that the newest and freshest collections are displayed via a fashion show
* Musical programming at the festival sees ‘cutting edge music from some of the leading promoters, DJ’s and live acts around.
Stalls promoting international food, emerging clothing brands, books, prints, art toys and collectables will also be participating on the day.
So be prepared to enter the quirky and wonderful world that is StreetFest.
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Thursday, 1 October 2009
Scott Campbell's Always Almost There Show at Lazarides SOHO
The Shop at Lazarides new show with Scott Campbell's first UK solo exhibition 'Always Almost There' opens tonight
This collection looks at the desire to memorialize through iconography, drawing on Scott's background in tattoo art, the bedrock of his approach. The show includes several series of his work. The first is a series of 100-deep stacks of 1-dollar bills with layers removed to reveal an image within the currency. Also featured in the show is a series of collages which play on the urge to commemorate through symbolism; and the random narrative that is created when they coexist. This show promises to be an insightful quotation of Americana that should not be missed!
The show opens with a private view this Thursday, 1 October from 6.30 to 9.30 at 8 Greek Street, Soho, London W1D 4DG.
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Obey release Sticker Print Kit - Oct 6th
Credit Card at the ready for Obey's latest print release on Oct 6th.
Dave and Holly Combs are wonderful people as well as the founders of PEEL Zine. They took the risk of following their artistic passion and have paid the price of losing their home. I created this print with and for them to raise money to help with their huge debt. PEEL has helped to support and grow the street art community and I believe they deserve to have the favor returned. Profits from this print go to help the Combs family. Please help out.
-Shepard
The Sticker Kit Print will so on sale 10/6 at a Random Time, Limit 1. Edition of 450, 18×24, S/N, $45.
The unveiling of exclusive OBEY x PEEL poster by Shephard Fairey for Peel Magazine (authors of MBP’s PEEL: The Art of the Sticker) will take place at the first Mark Batty Publisher (MBP) Urban Arts Fest: a full day dedicated to the thriving urban arts community MBP has advocated since its inception. With skateboard demos, live graffiti writing, installations, music and DJs, open bar dance party at night, and plenty of art and books for sale, there will be something for everyone! The non-profit beneficiary is Art for Progress, which supports rising multi-discipline arts in New York City.
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Died Young, Stayed Pretty - A Film about Rock Posters
Died Young, Stayed Pretty is a candid look at the underground poster culture in North America. This unique documentary examines the creative spirit that drives these indie graphic artists. They pick through the dregs of America’s schizophrenic culture and piece them back together. What you end up with is a caricature of the black and bloated heart that pulses greed through the US economy. The artists push further into the pulp to grab the attention of passersby, plastering art that’s both vulgar and intensely visceral onto the gnarled surfaces of the urban landscape. The film gives us intimate look at some of the giants of this modern subculture. Outside of their own circle, they’re virtually unknown. But within their ranks they make up an army of bareknuckle brawlers, publicly arguing the aesthetic merits of octopus imagery and hairy 70s porn stars. They’ve created their own visual language for describing the spotty underbelly of western civilization and they're not shy about throwing it in the face of polite society. Along the way, they manage to create posters that are strikingly obscene, unflinchingly blasphemous and often quite beautiful. Yaghoobian shows these artists for what they are: the vivisectionists of America’s morbidly obese consumer culture.
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Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Miss Van at Stolen Space
If you're out and about on the first Thursday Art Train tomorrow, Miss Van is the one to see. Get on down to Stolen Space at the Truman Brewery, Oct 1st from 6.30pm. Show runs until the 18th Oct.
Toulouse native and current Barcelona resident Miss Van started to paint her graffiti on the streets during the 90s, at the age of 18. Her overtly feminine street art was a breath of fresh air in a traditionally masculine movement of urban art and paved the way for many contemporaries. Now her infamous sultry female characters, known as her ‘Poupes’, are seen on the streets and in galleries alike all over the world.
From these pouting, sulky girls emerges a certain sensuality and disconcerting eroticism that is frank and unabashed. Their thoughts are palpable and the paintings become real in both flesh and spirit. Miss Van creates her characters with an innovative spirit. Affirming her style, the artist infuses into her work traits from her own personality, rendering them thus, self-portraits. It is through their fantasy that the sensitivity and fragility of the artist is expressed. She takes pleasure in playing with ambiguities, her dolls are childlike women that are equally angelic and devilish. They have a rare appeal that transcends gender-an appeal that also extends to the work that she shows in galleries.
Over the years, Miss Van’s characters keep evolving. They have become less cute and more dangerously alluring, edgier - their sexy aura made all the more complex by their increasingly ambiguous facial expressions. The more she has moved into gallery work and can work with the nuances of more fragile media than the streets allow (pencil, for one), her characters have grown even more sensitive, subtle, and delicately rendered.
Featuring a retrospective of her work & new paintings this show will also see the release of a rare exclusive hand pulled limited edition screen print from Miss Van.
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LAB @ SZIGET festival Budapest
This Summer LAB went over to Sziget festival to join in with the Arcadom Wall installation. The wall is 50x2 meters, one side decorated by European Street artists the other for the Festival crazies to have a go. The Wall commemorates the 20th Anniversary of the demolition of the Iron curtain along Hungary's western border and later the Berlin wall itself.
ARCADOM-WALL: "Everything is allowed as long as you are FREE"
The Arcadom-Wall was built to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the change of political system in Eastern Europe.
With the party state and it's ideology gone, the notion of Freedom gained new meaning in 1989.
The demolition of the Iron curtain along Hungary's western border and later the Berlin wall itself, triggered the transition to democracy across Eastern Europe. These two emblematic events have inspired the creation of the Arcadom-Wall.
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Wish You Were Here - NYC in London
What in NYC is going on here, this Saturday from 11am see's the launch of 'Wish you were here'. London's Newburgh Quarter (I didn't know it existed either) trades places with NYC's Lower East side for a month of city swapping, bagel poppin, hot dogging fun shopping. With pop up boutiques, free Bagels & Coffee then munch down on some Bodean's BBQ.
Wish You were here ends the month Bobbing for apples and jack-o’-lanterns galore! The Newburgh Quarter will feature a New York style Halloween Party themed: Famous New Yorkers! So come down as Woody Allen, Sammy Davis Jr, Edward Hooper or any other New York great for a street-wide Halloween party. The party will include a street food fest, live performances, and prizes for the best costumes of the day.
The Wish You Were Here Pop-Ups in the Newburgh Quarter can be found at:
8 Newburgh Street and 3 Lowndes Court (Open daily, 11-7 Monday to Saturday; 12-6 Sunday)
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