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Kaws @ Perrotin Hong Kong

Intelligensius Anarchus — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:02:52 +0000

“The Nature of Need”, solo show of American neo-pop artist Brian Donnely, a.k.a. KAWS, started this week @ Emmanuel Perrotin‘s brand new Hong Kong space. KAWS, who has a background in graffiti, has gone a long way: his 2010 solo “Pay the Debt to Nature“ @ Perrotin’s Paris gallery sold out already during the opening and besides being a respected artist, he’s also a celebrated product designer (if you don’t have one of his toy figures already, you should consider ;-)).

For The Nature of Need he created new series of paintings that use cropping of the pictorial space, resulting in visually striking colorful grids with a very cool optical effect – take a look at the photos here on the left. The exhibition runs till June 30th, so should u be in town for the Hong Kong Art Fair – go see!

(Photos by Arrested Motion, Galerie Perrotin and Wallpaper)

Frederik Heyman @ Base Alpha

Intelligensius Anarchus — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:57:35 +0000

Pen Pals, solo show of Belgian artist Frederik Heyman opens this Thursday @ Base Alpha gallery, Antwerp. Working with diverse media – Heyman studied graphic design, illustration and photography and works often as fashion photographer – he has managed to build an impressive portfolio of clients (including Bruno Pieters, Christian Wijnants and Henrik Vibskov) in just couple of years time. Find out more about him and his work in an interview @ Dazed Digital and @ Nothing of Me Is Original. And visit the show, of course, coz some things are best seen in real!

Pen Pals runs from 17 May til 30 June 2012.

Christian Louboutin @ the Design Museum

Intelligensius Anarchus — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:06:01 +0000

Fellow slaves of the glossy red soles! Christian Louboutin‘s retrospective has just started @ the Design Museum in London, celebrating 20 years of the designer’s career and showcasing some of the finest pieces produced during this period: from stilettos to lace-up boots, studded sneakers and bejewelled pumps. Part of the exhibition focuses on the handcrafted shoe, with examples of unique designs, forms and materials and there’s a special section dedicated to the shoes created for Fetish, a collaborative project of Louboutin and the one–and–only David Lynch, first exhibited in Paris’ Gallerie Du Passage in 2007. Must–see or a must–see?

The show will run until 9 July 2012.

Daniel Jackson @ PSM Gallery

Intelligensius Anarchus — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:19:24 +0000

Today is the last day of Daniel Jackson‘s solo Belly up @ PSM gallery in Berlin. Jackson presents an installation, which, besides looking pretty cool, has also a rather intriguing concept. Based on the utopian theories of Retro-Futurology (understanding of how the past saw the present and how the present sees the future) he has made with 3 sculptural representations of himself: as the real but alienated artist, whose peeled-off, external identity is the only remains, as the filmed real artist, in the role of his dreams and as the artist as dummy embodying one of his possible dreaded failures (detailed explanation is available on the gallery website).

The understanding of a plurality of probabilities in the science of Futurology is a main focus in Daniel Jackson’s work and was also the basis for his installation The 1000 Yard Stare (Possible Future Me), shown by PSM on Art Basel last year (one of our favorite booths).

If you can, drop by the gallery – as mentioned, today is the last day of the show & it’s definitely worth seeing.

ROA @ Stolen Space

Intelligensius Anarchus — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:41:08 +0000

Hypnagogia, solo show of Belgian street artist ROA – known for his portrayal of large scale urban wildlife – opens this evening @ Stolen Space gallery. Hypnagogia will be a 2 space exhibition, featuring installation work within the gallery, as well as outdoor work across east London. To coincide with the show opening will also be a launch of ROA’s first artist book Roa: ’An Introduction To Animal Representation by Mammal Press. The book edition is hand–made, signed and numbered (it is a limited number of 500 copies) with 2 screen prints enclosed.

125 copies will be available @ the opening as of 6pm, one per person, on a first come first served basis. So forget the pouring rain outside & head over to Shoreditch!