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June 2011
angelo mio @ Lazarew – Paris
To stand out in the crowded graffiti world you have to be either a virtuous (mostly mastering and mixing all techniques), be an old legend, or place your doodles and tags on the most unconceivable places and walls. Patrick Baillet attempts to do all that by bringing his classical pieces to abandoned buildings & squats. Artist & teacher Baillet has explored a little bit of everything to bring his art to life exploring several trends (hyperrealism, xerox-art...). And his latests…
Find out more »Watch Me Move @ Barbican – London
Next month starts one of those exhibitions which will delight big & small equally. A dream within a dream taken out of the insomnia and creative seizures that artists like Étienne-Jules Marey or Walt Disney used to suffer. A historical trip through the animation history produced in the last 150 years going from the emergence of the animated image, from early scientific experiments with photography to the latest wonders of computer generated imagery... and all those hairs that Pixar's supercomputers can…
Find out more »Open City @ Various – London
We told you about their contest last year and now we have most details about the upcoming London documentary Festival "Open City" coming up next month. With the ambition to give more visibility to this non-fictional film category Open City is born as a festival to place a purely documentary date in our busy summer calendar. We have set up Open City because we believe there needs to be a place to hear the stories that matter: stories that, all…
Find out more »BP Portrait Award @ NPG – London
Johan Andersson was last year's winner, and for 2011....? Wim Heldens got the always helpful £25k award from the BP funds for his "Distracted"! Wim Heldens is a self-taught, professional artist who lives in Amsterdam and whose work has been seen in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Europe and the US. He was a BP Portrait award exhibitor in 2008 and 2010. His sitter is Jeroen, a 25-year-old philosophy student to whom the artist has been a father figure…
Find out more »Things Change @ Since – Paris
New month... new great exhibition @ our favorite Parisian gallery... "Since"! (it's such a shame their exhibitions only last for a month!!). Anyway, for the next 4,5 weeks Mr Gabriel Specter will be invading that tiny but always explosive space at Rue St Maur. Specter lives in Brooklyn but maybe because of the beautiful Parisian summer he's decided to bring a few of his pieces for the first time to the French capital. In "Things Change" Gabriel brings the day-to-day…
Find out more »Mosh Pit Paintings @ Jonathan Levine – NYC
Aaaand another 1-month only exhibition for ... New York! Our friend Dan Witz & his photorealistic fights will have its own space @ the New York Jonathan LeVine Gallery. "Mosh Pits, Human and Otherwise" features large-scale oil paintings from Witz’s celebrated Mosh Pit series—produced over the past ten years—marking the first time works in this series have be exhibited together in a solo show. This Chicagoan now occupying some Brooklyn space has been elaborating for over 30 years (he was one…
Find out more »Dark Light @ Jonathan Levine – NYC
And together with our admired Dan Witz and his Mosh Pit Paintings, Mr Brett Amory will also be presenting his new works in what will be his debut solo exhibition in New York! The California-based artist brings to the Jonathan Levine Gallery his latest oils expanding on his ongoing series of works entitled "Waiting"... studies of urban life through fragmented cityscapes and anonymous, isolated figures. Amory began the Waiting series in 2001 with paintings depicting commuter subjects seemingly detached from…
Find out more »July 2011
London Street Photography @ Various – London
The LSP festival may not be as oracular spectacular as the Madrilian PhotoEspaña but in its first edition it will include not only some of the best word-class photography but a few first exhibitions here in the UK. Like part of those archives of mysterious Chicago street photographer Vivian Maier discovered by John Maloof (@ the German Gymnasium) or a newly discovered body of work by previously unknown British photographer Walter Joseph - a gritty portrait of post-war London (@ the…
Find out more »idill 2011
The International competition for short films of movement idill(.... too complicated, how about on-line dance short film competition et basta?) is back another year, so get your body moving... (Spin was 2009's winner, no need for a highly sophisitcated human choreography as you can see) idill – is a competition international in scope set up by Charleroi/Danses, the Choreographic Centre of the French Community of Belgium, La Gaîté Lyrique and Sadler’s Wells, the UK’s leading Dance House, in partnership with…
Find out more »Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed – Online
Fourth edition for Fresh Faced & Wild Eyed! The annual on-line competition recently announced the UK graduate & posgraduate winners for this year's edition: 20 artists who completed their studies in the past year and have been selected by a panel of photography experts. The featured artists have graduated from courses across the UK, including The Glasgow School of Art, University of Wales, Newport and University of the Arts London. The range of the submissions, both geographically and stylistically, demonstrate…
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