My friend Mundano has just sent me some pics of work by fellow Brazilian street artist MAGRELA. She’s got a pretty interesting style, and I like how nice her work looks on a large scale:
The Deluxx Fluxx Arcade pics and giveaway
On Thursday night, Lazarides‘ Greek Street and Rathbone Place galleries were both packed for the private view of The Faile/Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade at Greek Street and a Faile retrospective at Rathbone Place. The arcade is something you really just have to experience in person, but basically, Faile and Bast have transformed the gallery into a 1980’s style video game arcade, but an arcade in a Faile/Bast world. All the games (officially, “interactive artworks”) are based on art by Bast and/or Faile. It’s crazy.
And if you’re a fan of Faile, their retrospective at Rathbone Place is a great place to see all of your favorite pieces from as far back as 1999:
Photos by S.butterfly
And now for the giveaway… Thanks to The Lazarides Galleries, I’ve got a Faile/Bast tshirt and some stickers to give to one lucky winner.
All you have to do to enter is either comment on this post, or go on twitter and link to this post and put the hashtag “#deluxxfluxx” in your tweet. Do one of these things before noon (GMT) on Monday the 15th, and you’ll be entered in the random draw.
New Steve Powers print at POW
This new Steve Powers print at Pictures on Walls is just awesome. It looks great (much better than his last print there), and it’s an edition of 300, so the price has been kept at a relatively affordable £99. Still available as of this post going live at Picturesonwalls.com.
Banksy versus Robbo recap
In case you missed anything in the Banksy versus Robbo saga, here’s a little video I did recapping all the events:
The latest from Ethos
Claudio Ethos has sent me some pics of his latest works in São Paulo, Brazil. The detail and technique on these are pretty damn impressive.
And this one is a collaboration with Alex Hornest aka Onesto:
The Poster Boy book
According to Amazon.com, Poster Boy has a book coming out next month. Poster Boy: The War of Art
Here’s Amazon’s description of the book:
His cut and slash mash-ups of subway platform billboards only exist in New York City, but Poster Boy’s artful and funny appropriations of advertising have gotten him attention the world over. The New York Times dubbed him an “anti-consumerist Zorro with a razor blade, a sense of humor and a talent for collage”; the Guardian UK said of his work, it “is witty, web-savvy and economical . . . and the only materials it requires are chutzpah, imagination and a 50 cent blade.”
Poster Boy tweaks corporate copy, replacing it with incisive and playful puns and turns of phrase rich with innuendo and political punch. Beautiful models turn ghastly and iconic spokespeople become the mouthpieces for Poster Boy’s ideas. Poster Boy: The War of Art collects his best work yet.
This could be a really great book, also, it could be complete crap. Has Poster Boy really done enough work to fill a book? Especially if it only contains his “best work?” Maybe he has, but then again, his forays into anything other than subway ad disruptions have been met with a lukewarm response at best. I’m hopefully, but cautious. What I would love to see is something like half the pages filled with disruptions that he has made at home with magazines or something. That might be interesting.
Ron English goes Bovine Bombing
Teaser pics from the Faile/Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade
Ian Cox just sent me these exclusive pictures of the Faile/Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade which opens tomorrow at Lazarides Gallery Greek Street. It’s going to be crazy. It looks like Faile and Bast have completely transformed the gallery space, it’s going to be an immerse experience into the worlds of Faile and Bast. Hope to see you there, and if you can’t make it, I’ll probably be tweeting pics from the opening.
And Ian has some more pics on his flickr
Remi/Rough in California
Remi/Rough sent me some pics today from his time in San Fransisco for the Never A Dull Moment show at White Walls SF. For me, the highlight is definitely this wall he painted with Joker, Poesia, Kofie, Codak, Kema and Diel. Here are some slightly more detailed shots:
Here’s Remi’s wall in the White Walls show:
And of course, I can’t mention this group show with mentioning Anthony Lister. Great piece. Glad to see he can paint interesting pictures without using superheroes:
Finally, Augustine Kofie:
Vinchen: Maybe Ohio’s top street artist
You know that artist or musician whose work you really like, but nobody else has ever heard of them? That name you can use to sound like your knowledge of culture is slightly more cutting-edge and eclectic than the other guy? Vinchen is one of those artists you can mention. Yeah he’s been on Wooster from time to time, but seriously, this guy is good and rarely does his name over come up online or in conversation. Vinchen lives Columbus, Ohio, which could explain why his name is moderately obscure while Dickchicken finds himself on Playboy’s website.
Anyway, enough of my ranting (for now, the end of this post gets rant-y again). The important thing is that Vinchen is a cool artist who does some great work outdoors. These are some of my favorite pieces from him.
Check out more of Vinchen’s work on his website.
All photos by Vinchen
Okay here’s why I get rant-y again:
This is a bit of a tangent, but back in November, I criticized the media for labeling SpY “The Spanish Banksy,” and I stand by that. But one argument I’ve heard for why Mr. Brainwash’s popularity is that people are looking for “The American Banksy.” Now, I think that whole thing is pretty silly, but if people really are searching for an American Banksy, Mr. Brainwash isn’t the only option (just the one with the largest marketing budget). Vinchen is way the hell more interesting than MBW, and his work is more politically challenging without directly ripping off other artists. So America, what do you think? Could Vinchen be your Banksy? Do you need one?