Charlie McFarley - Art Sale

TOOFAIRY - Acrylic and spray paint on canvas - 120x100cm

SWEET DREAMS - Acrylic on canvas - 100x100cm

ROBOT LOVE - Acrylic on re-claimed canvas - 70x50cm

MEDICBOT400 - Acrylic and spray paint on canvas - 100x100cm

LAUGHING LOLLY - Acrylic on wood - 50x70cm

HAPPY PILL - Acrylic on wood - 50x70cm

We're pretty sure you may have already seen Charlie McFarley's stickers posted around town...Catch up with his blog http://www.charliemcfarleylovesyou.blogspot.com

Charlie is also involved in http://www.urbancurations.com

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Julie Carbonaro & Ju Hee Park "Idylle d'écorces"

"Idylle d'écorces" has opened last Friday at the E-Klozin Garden Session. The installation takes place in the garden 6B, an artists' studio located in Saint-Denis (93), France.

The resulting skin is an organic and friendly structure that links nature and visitors by furniture. Just like this installation, our work aims to highlight objects and materials recovered from everyday life (cardboard packaging, chairs...).

Julie Carbonaro and Ju Hee Park, eco-designers

More Information and Dates:
http://facebook.com/art.choufleur
http://www.etapes.com/actus/actu-linstallation-ydille-decorces-presentee-e-clozin-garden-session

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Questlove DJ Set @ East Village - Friday 19th August 2011

The Doctor’s Orders in association with Dephect present
The Official Roots after show party ?uestlove Exclusive DJ Set

10pm-4am Saturday 19th August 2011
Venue: East Village, 89 Great Eastern St, EC2A 3HX
Info : www.thedoctorsorders.com
ONLY 350 tickets available £10 each
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=461410

?uestlove (3 Hour Set) Spin Doctor (The Doctor’s Orders)
Eric Lau (Ubiquity) & DJ Excalibah

Few names in music carry quite as much kudos of that of our headline DJ ?uestlove. He has worked with such a phenomenal array of talent while always leaving his own distinctive mark on each one. The list reads like a who’s who of modern Hip-Hop & Soul; Jay-Z, Al Green, Erykah Badu, J-Dilla, Common, Joss Stones & De La Soul to name just a handful. All this before we mention The Roots for whom this is an official after party for the live show at Hammersmith Apollo.

As a drummer he is a funky metronome that has brought to life so many tracks originally created through samples, drum machines and computers. Just check out his leadership of the ever morphing group of musicians that calls itself the “Illadelphonics” on Jay-Z’s unplugged album (Roc-A-Fella) and Madison Square performance in “Fade To Black” (Paramount) or at “Dave Chapelle’s Block Party” (Rogue Pictures) for an example of this. As a producer, both on his own and as part of the Soulquarians alongside J-Dilla, Q-Tip & Ali Shaheed Muhammad, his musical knowledge and understanding has seen him bring the classic Al Green sound bang up to date on “Lay It Down” (Blue Note) as well as bring the very best out of performers like D’Angelo & A Tribe Called Quest.

He’ll be making the most of all of these phenomenal attributes as he blesses The Doctor’s Orders crowd to what, if last year’s show was anything to go by, is sure to be a real treat for all Soul and Hip-Hop fans alike. With only 350 tickets available this is sure to be another packed house so grab your ticket now and get there early to get your spot on the dance-floor.

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Kirsty Whiten - F e r a l F a m i l y - Mammalian Pastoral

F e r a l F a m i l y - Mammalian Pastoral
by Kirsty Whiten

Thursday 1st September - 25th September

StolenSpace Gallery

The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL

F e r a l F a m i l y
Mammalian Pastoral

A new series of large-scale paintings from Kirsty Whiten, depicting moments of family intimacy set in a psychedelic forest. Bare, essential scenes with infants, beautiful and frightening in one breath, see us stripped of clothes and technology, bringing to mind apocalypse and the great ape ancestors.

These are people made of each other; the vulnerable, the intimate, the real, the true of families; of mothers, fathers, helpers, raisers of children, protectors, connectors.

Nature and Nurture; what’s natural, instinctual, innate. What’ll do for now. What’ll keep us safe.

These scenes of the mammalian pastoral are set to take our Victorian ideas of motherhood as selfless and self-sacrificial and show it awkward, raw: mother as a brimming cup. A woman in demand, and in danger.

The beauty and complexity of naturalistic, animalistic, instinctual behaviours.

Their commonplace involvement in everyday life.

The meaning they impart about our existence

Our e v o l u t i o n .

More Info on Website - http://www.stolenspace.com/

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The Street Art Apes are Coming

Beatwax have launched a campaign of Ape inspired Street Art...

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Art Fair by Hudson Zuma

In light of the current arrests of two known Street Artists that I know, Revok, and Chor Boogie, Banksy’s: Exit Through the Gift Shop, being nominated by Hollywood in it’s documentary form, MOCA exhibiting ‘Art in The Streets’ (though some claim it is in attempts to chain Art into the Museum hmm?) and what we know as Street Art rapidly gaining recognition by the Academy and the general public viewers, it appears as though the stage has been set in more ways than one. The museums are pawing and prying into every slab of concrete to get a fix on the styles and the freshness of Street Art. All of which brings me to my current question. Art Fair. Is it? or is it not? and what is fair in the realms of commercialism and/or publicity? Where do we draw the line and is it more important now than ever to keep our art IN the streets, in it’s rare, free, raw form?

I’ve had the great opportunity to attend four amazing Fairs, Berlin Biennale, Art Basel Miami, and in New york, The Armory Show and Volta NY, perusing the booths, collecting information careening the press rooms, and attending the open forum panels as well as meeting some amazing new artists and curators from all walks of life and every corner of the world, and trust me new art forms are being created in rapidity as we speak. The one constant occurrence I seemed to notice was that there was an absence of «color» in the arena. So being the Roving Reporter that I am and in attempts to better understand the» vibe» I conducted a little experiment.

At the beginning of every day I would walk about the Fair without my press badge and not much to my surprise, being black and female, I did encounter some strange looks, some altered behavior, completely ignored by curators in the booths and by museum representatives, and much to my surprise by several of the artists. So i decided to take it a bit further and enter into the panels where my questions were ignored, I was refused seating at times and was even asked for my credentials in a public forum, meaning open to the public. I remained unaffected by it on the outside but, on the inside I could only imagine how it must feel for an artist of color to enter into the not so welcome, intimidating world of the Art Fair.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN LSD MAGAZINE ISSUE 7 (FREE)

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What´s the message in the QR and why?

Berlin - July 2011

Berlin - July 2011

Spain

LSD caught up with QR in Berlin...

'I started to use QR with artistic purpose in 2008. The message is that there´s no message. Well, all of my QR say the same: I DON´T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING. I thought that I had to annul any message to convert the QR into art and not into any kind of publicity support, the real reason why the japanesse created this in 1994. The first reaction once you see QR for the First Time is: “I don´t understand anything" Then, when you discover that there´s a secret message, you take a picture. And in the end, you realize that there´s no any message that will save your life or sell you anything. You end in the beginning….As in the Monty Python´s The Meaning of Life…”

See more from QR on his Flickr Stream

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