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By admin, 20 August 2010 5:42 PM

The Mooch Contemporary Street Art gallery yesterday had its second exhibition, and introduced for the occasion three British artists whose works are mostly based on portraits, with three very different styles.

Danny O’connor, a Liverpudlian artist, makes canvases in an abstract style and mostly works with several layers overlapping each other.
Ben Slow uses a lot drips and thrown paint in his portraits.
As for Gemma Compton, she makes magnificent and very realistic paintings of half-human, half-animal characters.

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The Beautiful and The Damned,
from the 20 August to the 2 Octobre
Open to the public from Wednesday to Saturday from 11a.m. to 6p.m.

The Mooch Contemporary Street Art Gallery
88 Oldham Street, M4 1LF
Manchester

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By admin, 18 August 2009 9:48 AM

For you people who have been living in a cave these last months, the very media-friendly Banksy is currently having an exhibition in the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.

If you want to go there, be aware that you’ll have to be incredibly patient. Not less than two hours before I could enter… And it was in the middle of the week!!

Then, once inside, you queue again, in front of each painting. But it’s worth the wait: the exhibition is much diversified with huge paintings, hilarious ones, pretty weird robots, sculptures…

The exhibition is composed of three distinct rooms. The first one mainly contains paintings, as well as what seems to be a reproduction of Banksy’s workshop, which is full of details, so keep a keen eye!

The second room contains pieces made for the fake pet shop of New York, that is to say embezzled animal robots (salami snake or chicken made of nuggets). You’ll also see pics explaining how they were made in the fake workshop.

The main hall of the museum hosts embezzled sculptures, such as a revisited ice cream truck, and a part of Stonehenge made of chemical toilets, which was made for Glastonbury Festival a few years ago.

What amazed me the most was the number of people who queued for hours to see Banksy’s exhibition, and do not even go and see the rest of the museum. That’s a shame, because Banksy hid a lot of stuff everywhere in the museum. I appreciated that; because it felt like being in the street, looking for each tiny detail.

Anyway, except for the crowd, this was a great exhibition, and you should definitely go there.

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By admin, 30 March 2009 12:55 PM

Boston ICA, big national modern art museum, is hosting a survey of Shepard Fairey’s work, aka Obey Giant. This survey runs from the 6th of February to the 16th of August, and shows works created over more than 20 years.

All media used by Obey are shown, from the simple sticker to the posters, skateboards, records sleeves, and paintings from private collections. The most impressive part of the exhibition is the huge wall inside the gallery, facing another wall covered with 90 screenprints.

(huge wall at the ICA)

This exhibition is fantastic for Obey fans, but apparently not for other people. Indeed when I was there there were a few groups of school children who seemed bored by the explanations of the guides. What would I have done to be taken there when I was in middle school!

(screenprints wall)

I unfortunately could not make pictures, it was forbidden in the museum. I could not even snak pics since the rooms were heavily guarded.

So, sorry about that, but you will only have the pics of the works Obey left accross the Boston. I could not find them all since, as you can see on the pics, it was the “Monday mega storm” on this day. I gave up when I froze.

Anyway, if you’re going to Boston, don’t miss it!

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