Botulism: a Bäst solo show at Lazarides

There aren’t many artists with more street cred than Bäst. He’s been getting up consistently for about a decade now, and he’s not half bad at collage either. While I find his work most interesting on the street, but that doesn’t mean I hate to see him indoors from time to time. And it’s about time. On August 20th, his latest solo show will open at London’s Lazarides Rathbone Place. Botulism is going to be Bäst’s first solo show at Lazarides, but he exhibited there earlier this year with Faile for their Deluxx Fluxx Arcade. Lazarides promises that for this show, Bäst will be “developing past preoccupations in an exciting new direction.”

Here’s are a couple of teasers from Botulism:

Botulism runs from August 20th through October 1st with a private view on August 19th.

New prints and originals from Bast

Bast has updated his website with some new artwork. These are some of my favorite pieces I’ve seen by Bast recently.

This looks like it could be a print or an original. Not sure which, but it’s my favorite of this bunch:

American Nitemare

Bast’s website doesn’t say if these works are for sale or for a future show or anything. He just posted the images.

There’s also this new print called Ghost Town. It’s an edition of 4 and was available for $600, but they’ve all sold out already:

Via Hooked and Feed Your Wall

Photos from Bast

Faile/Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade comes to NYC

Faile and Bast have once again teamed up to put on their Deluxx Fluxx Arcade show/experience. Last time, it was in Lazarides’ Greek Street location in London. Now, the arcade has been built in New York City. The arcade opened this weekend and will be open at 158 Allen Street through May 27th. If you’re in town (and especially if you didn’t see this arcade while it was in London), I can’t recommend it highly enough. It’s quite an experience.

Arrested Motion has pictures from the arcade’s setup and Gothamist has an interview with Faile.

Photo from Arrested Motion

Faile and Bast videos

London has been abuzz with talk of Faile and Bast’s Deluxx Fluxx Arcade show at Lazarides‘ Greek Street. Luckily, for those who aren’t in London and can’t see the show in person, Babelgum has put together a video about it:

And of course, Faile also have a retrospective going on just down the street at Lazarides’ Rathbone Place location:

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.

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

Faile and Bast in London next month

Artbleat has the scoop on London’s next hot street art exhibitions:

The Faile Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade 12th February – 27th March 2010

To kick-start the 2010 programme, Lazarides is proud to present a rare treat in the form of Faile, Brooklyn’s infamous collaborative duo. Bringing their unique vision to London and featuring long-time collaborator, Bast, the two floors of Lazarides Greek Street gallery will be taken over for a truly experiential exhibition.

And on top of that, the Lazarides Rathbone Place space will be hosting a Faile retrospective.