Tuesday night is the opening reception for the Phillips de Pury Saturday Sale featuring a brand new work by Herakut which will be sold with proceeds going to the charity War Child. And of course, the auction is on Saturday and has work from all the usual suspects in street art plus a couple of cool toys.
Ronzo recently put up his latest creation “Crunchy” (the official mascot of the global financial meltdown) on top of Village Underground. Very cool. A 21st Century chimera.
Via UK Street Art
Mike Marcus has recently put a number of prints up for sale on Auction Saboteur. These include his Isolitude image, Lucy, and a number of images from his Exogamy series. Check them out here.
Nine times out of ten, Anthony Listers’ work leaves me absolutely blown away. That’s why I was so pleased to hear that he has a solo show called “The Pain of Feeling” opening tomorrow at KGallery in Italy. The above photo is from a wall that he’s painted at KGallery.
KGALLERY
IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE
“THE PAIN OF FEELING”THE ITALIAN SOLO EXHIBITION
OF ANTHONY LISTER,FROM MARCH 7 TO APRIL 11, 2009
The show will present new, unreleased works by the artist
Born in Brisbane 30 years ago, based in New York for 3 years, Anthony Lister comes back to Italy with new works.After the 2007 edition of Allarmi in Como, the group exhibition entitled Kick off at KGallery in 2007 and the solo exhibition “God’s got a plan to kill me” in April 2008, the new Lister’s exhibition entitled “The Pain of Feeling” open in KGallery, Legnano, on March 07 (until April 11, 2009).
Anthony Lister, indeed one of the most sensational contemporary artists, paints on large canvas taking inspiration from street art as well as ordinary life. Superheroes are revisited and deformed through an almost minimal style. A style that becomes absolutely individual and recognizable, 100% original despite the overexposure of the icons. “The work is about sexual content online – Anthony Lister says about “The Pain of Feeling – and the drive for young women to behave like their misguided rolmodels”
Lister’s solo exhibitions in the past months, scattered all around the world, from London to New York, from Melbourne to San Francisco, from Miami to Los Angeles, have made some of his works true relics, at the center of discussions in the world of collectionism.
ANTHONY LISTER
The Pain of Feeling
07 March – 11 April, 2009
Legnano (Milan), KGallery
piazza Europa 15
Opening hours: from Thursday to Saturday, from 16.30 to 19.30
And on appointment
More preview images after the jump.. Continue reading “Anthony Lister Solo Opens in Italy”
Last night my friends and I made it to four gallery openings.
We started at Pam Glew‘s show at Stella Dore. There are a few pieces that are pretty cool and her bleeching technique is interesting, but I think I’ve become a bit jaded by street art. I couldn’t keep from thinking: “portraits from a one-layer stencil” And of course, those seem to be everywhere these days. My friend who doesn’t obsessively follow street art didn’t have that same bias, and really enjoyed everything. Continue reading “Last Night’s Openings”
Trust Art has been described as “a stock market for art projects” but it’s also about cultural renewal. The basic idea is that investors can fund projects proposed by artists and after a year the resulting artwork is auctioned off an the investors split the proceeds 50/50 with the artist. In the mean time, the art project not only produces art, but helps to build up a local community.
Skewville, the New York artists best known for throwing wooden shoes onto power lines, have propsed one of Trust Art’s inugural projects: The Street Art Urban Revitalization Program. Their project proposes to find 10 rundown and ill-maintained buildings in Bushwick that can be covered in murals by local artists. The project is meant to promote the local artists and make the local buildings look nicer, since right now there are a good number of abandoned or poorly maintained buildings in Bushwick.
At the end of the project, there will be work sold at auction, which is where the investors have the potential to make their money back.
Definitely a cool project. Hopefully Skewville can raise the $65,000 they are looking for.
From the guys at Black Rat Press:
This is a friend of a friend if anyone feels to donate would be amazing.
Help Bring Holli Home
Bay Area artist Holli Hawthorne recently traveled to India to visit her boyfriend and was involved in a horrible motorcycle accident last Tuesday when a motorcycle in front of her with three passengers skidded out, and she either swerved to avoid them or ran into them. She was wearing a helmet at the time. Her friend Harrison was on the scene to give her CPR until the ambulance arrived. She has been in a coma with a serious brain stem injury since. Stanford Medical Center has offered to take her in for free as she has no health insurance. That’s the good news. The bad news is that she’s still in India thousands of miles from the hospital and needs $200,000 for the medical transport from India to Palo Alto. Her friends and family are reaching out for donations.
http://friendsofhollis.blogspot.com/
Tomorrow is the opening of Part2ism’s show Artillery for Pleasure at The Art Lounge, but it also marks the release of his book which will be for sale there.
I probably won’t be able to make it to this, but if you live it Bristol it sounds fantastic.
Crimes Of Passion: Street Art in Bristol
This Spring Bristol’s oldest and grandest gallery, the Royal West Of England Academy is throwing open all 5 of it’s galleries to host a major show by 50 of the city’s best known and most successful graffiti and street artists. This is the first major show of its kind in the city since the Arnolfini’s groundbreaking 1985 show, Graffiti Art and is a full-blown celebration of the city’s rich and diverse contemporary scene.
Bristol has nurtured many of the UK’s most successful graffiti and street artists, including 3D, Inkie, Banksy, Nick Walker, Sickboy, Cyclops and TCF Crew, to name but a few. The city continues to be a breeding ground for a wealth of exceptional creative talent and continues to have one of the UK’s most diverse and thriving scenes.
Crimes Of Passion takes the love of (and heartfelt dedication to) the art form as its starting point, but is far from a typical gallery retrospective, all the artists will be showing completely new work, as well as installation pieces and working both directly onto (and into) the walls of the gallery.
Crimes of Passion will also include a city-wide programme of large-scale painting, a photographic exhibition,a film season at local arts cinema The Cube (www.cubecinema.com) and a series of workshops and talks.
Exhibition venue:
Royal West of England Academy, Queen’s Rd, BristolExhibition dates:
21st March – 2nd May
Artists involved in the show include Cyclops, Inkie, Mudwig, Nick Walker, Sickboy, Xenz and many many many more.
If anybody goes, please let me know how it is.
