Posts filed under ‘Art & Xit’
Todd James’ War Parties
Opening tonight, Todd James: Great Adventure brings a collection of solo works by REAS to Spain for the first time. The exhibition, taking place at Galeria Javier Lopez, features James’ most recent works on canvas and paper. As with all his material, the artist displays a knack for social commentary through cartoon-like figures.
Todd James: Great Adventure will run to November 3, 2010.
Galeria Javier Lopez, José Marañón 4, E-28010 Madrid
(Below) Picture On Walls has released a new print by one of our favorite artists, Todd James, better known as Reas. The “War Party” print is limited to 150 pieces and goes for 125 Pounds on their website. Via Guillotine.
(Below) “Hot Dogs & Hamburgers,” gouache and graphite on paper, 23×31 (2008)
Via High Snobiety and Curated Mag
Cleon Peterson’s Anxiety-riddled World
In Cleon Peterson’s anxiety-riddled world, violence is the status quo. His dystopian scenes evoke Thomas Hobbes’ description of life as war between individuals: “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Many of Peterson’s paintings feature images of hostility removed from any scenery that might bring reason to bear a sense of justness to the brutality; the only context given is the mélange of evisceration coating the floor. In other works, the setting is a cityscape where storefronts only serve to indulge the base narcissism and vice taking place on the streets.
Where one might sense that Peterson’s characters occupy a lawless world, there is rather a significant presence of authorities, albeit wantonly corrupt and perhaps more savage than the civilian population. And while the official’s uniform connotes his mandate for dominance, the real power is vested in an erratic sea of like-minded miscreants that forces outsiders to bend to its will. Deviance is simply the norm, and the displaced individual is forced to navigate this wicked world alone, finding hollow bits of pleasure and meaning in violence, sex, religion and drugs.
Peterson describes his bedlam as “a gray world where law breakers and law enforcers are one in the same; a world where ethics have been abandoned in favor of personal entitlement.”
Check this artist and more at the Joshua Liner Gallery.
Haroshi Skateboard Art
Haroshi makes his art pieces recycling old used skateboards. His creations are born through styles such as wooden mosaic, dots, and pixels; where each element, either cut out in different shapes or kept in their original form, are connected in different styles, and shaven into the form of the final art piece.
To Haroshi, his art pieces are equal to his skateboards, and that means they are his life itself. They’re his communication tool with both himself, and the outside world.
Dada: The First Hardcore Cross Ever!
Merz Periodical. Kurt Schwitters. January 1923.
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as installation art. He is most famous for his collages, called Merz Pictures.
Poster Dada Matinée. Theo van Doesburg. January 1923. Print. 62 × 85 cm.
Theo van Doesburg (30 August 1883 – 7 March 1931) was a Dutch artist, practicing in painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl.
First ever NYHC logo on the “Loud And Clear” 7 inch by The Abused, 1983.
Easily one of the best NYHC bands of all time. They were earlier so it’s before NY got that tougher metal influenced sound. The Abused were just too fucking fast and too fucking good. Kevin Crowly’s inimitable bark kicks in declaring things like “Won’t be pushed around no more, cause I know I’m not alone”. Dead serious and loud as fuck. “Loud and Clear” is one of the first pure hardcore records to come out of New York City, and also one of the first anywhere that was more Hardcore than Punk. In 1983 this was the new sound. The sound of the youth rising up. Any fan of hardcore should get this because it’s essential!!
Never following any known rules, Dada self-destructed when it was in danger of becoming “acceptable”.
Sugiura’s Dark Forest X Max Protetch Gallery
Keita Sugiura is a promising young photographer who won the Victor Pincheck Award at Geisai Museum #2 and the bronze prize at Geisai #11 in autumn 2008. His sharp yet delicate works, printed on large-sized mat sheets, carry a distinctive darkness, which cannot be expressed on a glossy C-print.
“Forest” is a series of photographs portraying dusky woods, taken immediately before nightfall. While capturing expressions of a dark, tranquil forest, these works also realistically and mysteriously convey its moisture and thick air clinging onto one stepping into it.
Seb Lester’s Blazing Sunshine
For this sunny monday – the start of a new fresh week, i’m posting a piece called Blazing, type designer and illustrator Seb Lester‘s latest print. This is an “invertible ambigram” that you can read it both ways up. In his own words “the art that has always moved and impressed me most has been work that brings together the highest levels of three things – beauty, originality and craftsmanship”. Blazing is available printed in either silver or gold metallic ink on black Plike paper in editions of 100. You can order one for £85 from Pictures On Walls.
Other works from Seb Lester:
AkaCorleone X Montana Shop
The Lisbon Montana Shop opened just a few months ago and they already kicked in a couple of amazing exhibitions from portuguese rising artists. “This is not graffiti” is the name of the new AkaCorleone X Montana Shop mash up. You can browse it offline at Rua da Rosa nº14G, Bairro Alto, Lisboa, from monday to saturday, 12:00 to 21:00 hours. Do NOT miss it. Support the scene!
Kevin Cyr’s City Character Art
“In a culture in which people are easily lured by the appeal of status-enhancing symbols, I find beauty in derelict cars and unkempt landscapes. I commemorate commercial vehicles inundated with graffiti and rust, working vehicles, and well-traveled recreational vehicles. I find that there is so much character in old delivery trucks and vans — especially when covered with graffiti. Removing them from their everyday context gives them portrait-like importance. I paint with devoted attention to every imperfection and sign of age.” Kevin Cyr
