D-FACE THE G20

Posted on 2009-04-13

During the recent G20 summit in London, Local street artist DFace took the opportunity to showcase some new work, not on the street but on digital billboards around the city. Several variations of the G20 £20 pound note are being displayed with the Queen in varying states of makeup and facelifts, something DFace has become quite good at. So did he hack the ad space or buy it?

Just over a year ago, SKULLPHONE put his character up on digital displays around LA. Some bloggers claimed their “boy” hacked into Clear Channel’s computers, but that was a lie. He actually paid for the self-advertisements. Did D*Face do the same?

www.dface.co.uk

  

SQUEEZE MARKER

Posted on 2009-04-06

The Krink & André Squeeze Marker has been released. Coming in two colorways, the Parisian artist did not only influence the bottle design, but also the color of the marker. Now on sale at Colette

www.colette.fr

  

MONSTERS INKED

Posted on 2009-04-06

Bringing together over 100 monster images, Monsters Inked
will explore the development of monster illustration from the
deepest, darkest depths of an artist’s imagination; through
sketchpad drawings ,into glorious technicolour monster creations on the gallery’s walls.

The exhibition will take an exclusive and remarkable look inside the minds of the Gods of monsters to try and discover where their monster creations come from.

This exhibition runs until the 4th of May, 2009

Idea Generation Gallery
11 Chance Street
London
E2 7JB

www.ideageneration.co.uk

  

KRUNK

Posted on 2009-04-06

Krunk in collaboration with Cuadro Fine Art Gallery is proud to present a historic three-man exhibition in Dubai, featuring original works by urban art pioneers Futura, Stash and Phil Frost.
On the pulse of the contemporary art world, KRUNK/Cuadro will provide foreign markets in the Middle East and beyond a rare opportunity to view and purchase extraordinary new collections by these world-renowned Contemporary Urban Artists. The show was launched by Cuadro during Art Dubai, the U.A.E’s contemporary art fair, which in only its third year has become a leader in the global art scene.

This show runs until the 17th of June, 2009.

www.cuadroart.com

  

THE PRADA TRANSFORMER

Posted on 2009-03-30

Launching in Seoul at the end of April 2009, the highly anticipated Prada Transformer designed by OMA/Rem Koolhaas will showcase a groundbreaking series of cross-cultural exhibitions, screenings and live events. For five months this shape-shifting venue will host multiple interdisciplinary projects, bringing a unique mix of visual arts to Korea.

The Transformer combines the four sides of a tetrahedron: hexagon, cross, rectangle and circle into one pavilion. The building, entirely covered with a smooth elastic membrane, will be flipped using cranes, completely reconfiguring the visitor’s experience with each new programme. Each side plan is precisely designed to organize a different event installation creating a building with four identities. Whenever one shape becomes the ground plan, the other three shapes become the walls and the ceiling defining the space, as well as referencing historic or anticipating future event configurations.

www.prada-transformer.com

  

THE ADVENTURES OF ROBBING GOOD

Posted on 2009-03-30

Paradise Row proudly presents The Adventures of Robbing Good, the first major London show of leading Russian contemporary artist Gosha Ostretsov. Employing narrative installation, performance, painting and sculpture, Ostretsov introduces a new hero for our troubled times – Robbing Good – a creation informed by the history, theory and associated art and design of the anarchist, socialist and Marxist movements of the last century and a half.

Gosha Ostretsov is one of Russia’s leading contemporary artists. Since the late 1990’s Ostretsov has been working on The New Government project, a parodic gesamtkunstwerk on the nature of power and despotism in post-Soviet Russia and, by extension in the world at large.

This exhibition runs until the 2nd of May, 2009

Paradise Row
17 Hereford St, (off Cheshire St)
London
E2 6EX

www.paradiserow.com