Found this on Digg today. David Shrigley’s photos are pretty cool. I wonder if he leaves these things outside after he is done photographing them. More photos after the jump.
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David Shrigley’s Photos
Saints and Sinners
I don’t have time to go into details tonight, but hopefully I will tomorrow. In short, Saints and Sinners is artrepublic’s exhibition at the St. Martin Lane Hotel. They have over 50 pieces there by a huge range of artists. Some of the work is good, some is great, and some isn’t, but if you have a chance to stop by, you’re sure to find something you will like.
There is work by Mau Mau, Mr. Brainwash, Pure Evil, Eine, Peter Kennard, Dolk, Logan Hicks, Asbestos, AME 72, Blek le Rat, Nick Walker, and many others.
I’ve got photos on my flickr if you want to have a look at some of the work.
Also, while I was there, I spoke to two of the artists in the show, and I’ll be posting those interviews later in the week.
More Faile Pictures
This is probably my last post on Faile’s Lost in Glimmering Shadows show. I felt I had to do one more post for two reasons. A. WallKandy took some great photos, and B. It is really a top notch show, and everybody in London should go have a look.
So here are a couple of highlights from the show, thanks to WallKandy, who’s entire set of images can be seen on his flickr. Hopefully, they convince anybody who hasn’t seen it yet to go have a look. The show ends on the 16th.
Adam Neate Updates
Thanks to Beautiful Crime for noticing this. The Elms Lesters website has a press release up on their website about Adam Neate’s 1000 piece extravaganza which is happening this Friday. I just spoke with Elms Lesters about the show, and they mentioned that Adam Neate was on BBC World this weekend to talk about the show.
Here’s the press release. Note that the works aren’t really original works, but more individualized screenprints. Nonetheless, I think there will be a few more than 1000 people out hunting for these on Friday. Also, The Independent said that the drop was happening at sunrise, but this press release says evening time.
10.11.08
ADAM NEATE: The London Show
As dusk falls on Friday 14th November, Adam Neate will be claiming the streets of London as his gallery by leaving 1000 artworks scattered across the city.
Old habits die hard, even the most conceptual ones.
In a one-off art happening of characteristic generosity, one thousand hand screenprinted paintings by Adam Neate will be left on the streets of
London through the night of 14th November 2008. Teams of distributors will begin under cover of darkness at the furthest edges of the capital, working their way towards the centre by day break randomly distributing individually numbered ‘unique’ multiples.For one night only, The London Show adopts the whole capital as its
gallery space and rethinks the idea of the ‘private view’. There won’t be any queues to see the work, no chilled wine, the artist himself won’t
necessarily be present – just one thousand chance encounters that make up a conceptually pre-meditated potlatch.“The whole concept when I started the free art thing was challenging the notion of art as a commodity and its worth in society. Now I’m taking that to another level, testing the viability of separating art from commerce.”
Adam Neate reckons to have left around 6,000 paintings on cardboard on
the city’s streets over a period dating back many years. But that was at the height of his anonymity and now, with his star in its ascendancy in the British contemporary art scene, his distinctive style has become an instantly recognisable.Taking a tip from Andy Warhol’s Factory, Neate has worked with a
silkscreen printer to ‘mass-produce’ the same number of paintings in a couple of weeks that it would have taken him a year to make by hand.“I’m interested in that Warhol idea of the brand as assisted readymade. Apart from creating the master image in stencil, I haven’t had to touch these works at any point in their production, even the signature is rubber-stamped – and although they’re multiples, each one is compositionally unique.”
Printed on cardboard and shrink-wrapped in cellophane, there’s a
deliberate attempt to blur the boundary between painting, print and product.“I remember as a kid going into Woolworths and seeing laminated prints
of that famous Tretchikoff painting ‘The Chinese Girl’ and thinking it was great that people could have that iconic image at home for next to
nothing. I’m hoping that for some people who come across one of these
new paintings, they’ll pick it up not because they recognise it as one of mine, but just because they connect with the image and would like to hang it on their wall.”When they get it home, each new owner can decide whether their chance
acquisition of an art work by Adam Neate has greater value with the
shrink wrap left on (pure product), or taken off (pure painting). Whichever they decide, they still own one thousandth of an extraordinary public art project.Ben Jones, art historian 31 Oct 2008
artrepublic’s Saints and Sinners
HOOKED has the details on artrepublic’s one-off show Saints and Sinners, which will be held off-site at the St. Martin’s Lane Hotel. It starts Tuesday, and features work from artists like Nick Walker, Asbestos, and Logan Hicks.
Keith Haring at Deitch
Legendary street artist Keith Haring just had an exhibition open at Deitch in New York. The show displays a series of work called The Ten Commandments that Haring made in 1985. This is the first time these works will be displayed in the states. For more, check out The World’s Best Ever.
Adam Neate Bonanza
If you’ve always wanted your own Adam Neate, but couldn’t come up with £40,000, you’re in luck. The Independent has a huge writeup on him today, and according to them, this coming Friday, Neate will be putting 1000 pieces on the street. I’ll be out of town, which is killing me, but for those lucky collectors in London this weekend, a quick reaction time is all that will be needed to snatch up a fantastic work of art.
Perhaps “Street Art Action,” as the endeavor is being called, is a bit of a publicity stunt compared to Neate’s previous random sprees of dropping art wherever he wanted, but who cares? By giving out 1000 pieces in one day, Neate will not only decrease the resale value of all the street pieces being sold at auction, he’s making sure that all his fans know when to go looking for their own cardboard treasure. I just hope that nobody goes around following his assistants and taking every piece for himself.
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Os Gêmeos, Vitche, and Nina
Luna Park has been taking some great photos in Munich. Here are two that I really like. The first piece is by Vitche, and in the second, he is joined by fellow Brazilian street artists Os Gêmeos and Nina. Both of these are at the Kultfabrik, a former industrial complex that now houses dozens of clubs and bars.
Mutate Britain
Not sure exactly sure about the details of this, but it looks to be a real quality group show with a wide range of artists. Eelus, Eine, Part2ism, Paul Insect, Pure Evil, Shepard Fairey, and many more. Mutate Britain is the first show at the brand new Behind The Shutters Gallery. Behind The Shutters says it “will demystify the gallery experience whilst keeping the ‘art’ on show exciting and inclusive and above all accessible to everyone. Whether you can afford a £10 poster or a £25,000 original piece of work”
See you at the opening.
SAM3 at Cargo
SAM3 has a been spending some time in Shoreditch. He’s put two great pieces at the entrance to Cargo, across from Eine’s “SCARY” wall. Unusualimage has the photos.
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