Faile Star-Spangled Shadows Print Release
Based on their large canvas shown last Autumn in London, this one is for all of you who do not have a bilboard sized wall to hang your art on.
Two Color Screenprint on Lenox 100 Paper.
Acrylic & Silkscreen Ink on paper.
Dimensions: 58cm x 96cm Priced at $350. Out Today
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Faile Print Release
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Affordable Art Fair
The Affordable Art Fair is the place to discover and buy paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography and original prints – all priced between £50 and £3,000.
Battersea Park, London:- Thurs 22nd - Sun 26th Oct £12
With 120 carefully selected galleries from across the UK and Europe exhibiting there is contemporary art on show to suit every taste and budget.
The forthcoming Autumn Collection (22 – 25 October) in Battersea Park, London, marks AAF’s 10th anniversary.
When Will Ramsay founded the fair in 1999 his aim was to make contemporary art accessible to everyone, and to show you don’t need to be an art expert or a millionaire to enjoy and buy art. Ten years on the fair is still a relaxed and fun way to browse a huge variety of art at one time.
AAF is a great place to spot fresh, new talent – look out for the Recent Graduates’ Exhibition at the front of the marquee which features our selection of this year’s fine art graduates.
The Education Programme offers free activities suitable for all ages, including hands-on printmaking workshops, sculpture demonstrations, an open access drawing space and kids activity packs. And for those who prefer to listen The Contemporary Art Society are running a series of talks about collecting art.
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Crazy Fools Exhibition
Crazy Fools Exhibition @ The Library Bar, Islington
24 & 25 October 2009(Not an Official Banksy Exhibition)
Private View: 12 - 2PM
Gallery Open: 2 - 10PM
A pop-up gallery by Crazy Fools. Exhibited works include an exclusive piece by Banksy, original works from Inkie, and 3D from Massive Attack all housed in a an Islington pub
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Viva Mexico
Revolution on Paper: Mexican Prints 1910 – 1960
22 October 2009 – 5 April 2010
British Museum Room 90
Admission free
The exhibition will be the first in Europe focusing on the great age of Mexican printmaking in the first half of the twentieth century.
Between 1910 and 1920 the country was convulsed by the first socialist revolution, from which emerged a strong left-wing government that laid great stress on art as a vehicle for promoting the values of the revolution. This led to a pioneering programme to cover the walls of public buildings with vast murals, and later to setting up print workshops to produce works for mass distribution and education. All the prints in the exhibition come from the British Museum’s collection which has been acquired thanks to the generosity of the Aldama Foundation, Dave and Reba Williams and The Art Fund.
Some of the finest of these prints were produced by the three great men of Mexican art of the period known as ‘los tres grandes’: Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. The best-known print is Rivera’s Emiliano Zapata and his horse which has achieved iconic status in twentieth century Mexican art. Other prints including Rivera’s portrait of Frida Kahlo, Siqueiros’ Dama Negra, Orozco’s The Masses, demonstrate the extraordinary breadth, imagination, and quality of the works shown. In addition to the Los Tres Grandes, many other artist were involved and rose to prominence, especially after the founding of the Taller del Gráfica Popular (TGP) in Mexico City in 1937. The range of material is fascinating: as well as single-sheet artists’ prints, there are large posters with designs in woodcut or lithography by these same artists, and illustrated books on many different themes. The exhibition will also include earlier works around the turn of the century by the popular printmaker, José Guadalupe Posada, who was adopted by the revolutionaries as the archetypal printmaker who worked for the people, and whose macabre dances of skeletons have always fascinated Europeans.
Printmakers in Mexico often belonged to groups, societies and movements which were underpinned by their commitment to politics. The earliest movement was Stridentism, an avant garde group which was launched 1921 and was similar to the Italian Futurist movement because it rejected the past. The Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP) was formed in 1937 by Luis Arenal, Leopoldo Méndez and Pablo O’Higgins as a graphic arts workshop which was influenced by communism. TGP members had access to printing equipment at the workshop and did not need to have artistic training. The collective produced prints for posters, flyers and portfolios which were printed on cheap paper. Their prints often supported the campaigns of trade and workers unions in Mexico. For example, Pablo O’Higgins and Alberto Beltrán collectively made a poster advertising the first Latin American Petrol Workers conference. The TGP was also particularly committed to the fight against international Fascism. Angel Bracho’s striking red and black poster, Victoria! (1945), which celebrates the allied victory over the Nazi’s in 1945, is a key example of the TGP’s anti-Fascist stance. Other printmakers addressed subjects such as corruption, capitalism and Mexican daily life in their prints.
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009
MUTATE BRITAIN PRIVATE VIEWING THIS THURSDAY 22ND OCTOBER 7PM - 10PM UNDER THE WESTWAY, 3-6 ACKLAM RD, LONDON W10 5YU.
Mutate are having another opening night tomorrow Thursday 22nd. Get your name down and get in. Again!
One Foot in the Grove this Thursday as brand new
pieces from Joe Rush, Wreckage International, Teddy Baden, Gwarmination and many
more are unveiled for the first time.
Since the official opening of Mutate Britain's homecoming two weeks ago, over
7,500 people have passed through the doors already and to meet demand, the
exhibition is keeping its doors open for an extra week, through to the 1st of
November.
As well as the new pieces, guests will also be able to see an exclusive sneak
preview of Mutoid Waste's Glastonbury documentary from Ignite Creative.
To RSVP and ensure your place on Thursday, or for more information and media
requests, email dan@raw-material.co.uk
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Green Day Presents: 'The Art of Rock' Curated By Logan Hicks
In November 2008 the seed for the Green Day Art Project was planted. The concept was to choose eighteen international artists to informally collaborate with GreenDay. Each artist would receive lyrics to one of the songs from the soon to be released 21st Century Breakdown.Then they would produce a piece of art that was influenced, or inspired by the lyrics of the song. Although the artists had the lyrics, they did not have the music that accompanied the words.The results from that collaboration are presented in this show.
Stolen Space London 23.10.09 - 01.11.09. Preview night Thursday 22nd October.
Featured Artists:
M-CITY // MARIUSZ WARAS
MEGGS
PEAT WOLLAEGER
PISA73
RON ENGLISH
SADHU
SIXTEN
THE LONDON POLICE
WILL BARRAS
ADAM (5100) FEIBELMAN
BROKEN CROW
C215 // CHRISTIAN GUÉMY
CHRIS STAIN
COMPONENT
DABS // MYLA
EELUS
JEREMIAH GARCIA
LOGAN HICKS
LUCAMALEONTE
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Ed Ruscha at The Hayward
This is the first retrospective to focus exclusively on the paintings of the Los Angeles based artist Ed Ruscha, one of the most influential and pioneering American artists of the past half century. The exhibition reveals the depth and breadth of Ruscha's achievement as a painter and highlights the conceptual underpinnings of his approach to painting. In addition to exploring the impact of print and graphic media on the artist's aesthetic strategies, it also focuses on the incisive portrait of American culture that is presented through his imagery.
Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting
Sunday 10 January 2010 - Sunday 10 January 2010
The Hayward Southbank Centre, London, SE1 8XX
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Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Obey - European Invasion
While we're on the subject of Obey, Shepard was in Europe a few weeks back DJing round Europe and he found time to throw some new paste up's around town.
This one was in London along the Thames by Chelsea Bridge.
MORE PICS HERE
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Warhol Museum x Shepard Fairey
Now if you're somewhere near Pittsburgh you should probably hitch a ride in to town and go to the latest Shepard Fairey show.
Supply and Demand at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg
A 20 Year Retrospective Oct 18, 2009 – Jan 31, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA
OPENING RECEPTION: OCT 17th, 2009
Artist Talk with Shepard Fairey, 6 PM – 7 PM
Opening Reception Party, 7 PM – 10 PM featuring DJ Z-TRIP
Join The Warhol to celebrate the opening of three new special exhibitions, Shepard Fairey: Supply & Demand; SuperTrash; and Unnatural Rubber.
Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand is organized by The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and features over 20 years of the artist’s work, including illustrations, screen prints, collages, works of wood, metal, and canvas. SuperTrash features 150 film posters, ranging from ephemera to giant 3-sheets, representing the 1940’s – ‘80’s. Unnatural Rubber, sponsored by the LANXESS Corporation, showcases the work of 15 contemporary international artists to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the invention of synthetic rubber.
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Maharaja, the Splendour of India's Royal Courts
'Maharaja' The latest show to come out of the V&A opened this week, with over 250 object spanning from the 18th to the mid 20th Century. Show runs until Jan 2010. Get yourself down for gem busting inspiration.
Thrones, gem-encrusted weapons, a Rolls Royce... there's nothing particularly subtle about the world of the maharajas as explored in this major exhibition at the V&A, which covers the period from the collapse of the Mughal empire in the early eighteenth century to the end of British rule in 1947, when Indian princes acceded their territories into the modern states of India and Pakistan. But, as well as bringing on the bling, the show looks at the changing role and influence of the maharajas - politically and socially, in India and Europe - through their patronage of artists and designers. Paintings, photography, textiles, jewellery, metalwork and furniture are on show, many coming to the West for the first time, giving an indication of princely life and ideals, court culture and alliances.
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