Love & Hate and a Kai & Sunny print to be won

London’s StolenSpace gallery has given us a sneak peek at some of the works that will appear in its group show, Love & Hate, which opens tomorrow. Plus, contributing artists Kai & Sunny have offered us one of their new screenprints to give away…

Artists including D*Face, EINE, Kai & Sunny, Kelly Allen, Pete Fowler, Ronzo, Sylvia Ji, and Will Barras were all asked by the gallery to create two pieces of work, one representing “love” and another for “hate.

“The idea is that the show both celebrates and mourns Valentines Day,” says Beth StolenSpace. “We told the artists that the brief could be as literally or as loosely interpreted as they liked. The result is both a visual and conceptual battle of opposites.”

Here are some of the works created for the show:


by EINE

by Kelly Allen

by Charles Krafft

by Kai & Sunny

Created specially for the Love & Hate Show, Kai & Sunny‘s Broken Flower, Love Me Love Me Not limited edition screenprint (above, and a detail shown below) is printed in White Glitter and Black on 100% Cotton Somerset Satin White 300gsm paper (76 x 57cm) in an edition of 60.

The artists have very kindly given us one of the prints to give away to a lucky reader.

To win it, we’d like you get in touch with us via Twitter and let us know your #bestvalentinesgift or your #worstvalentinesgift by the end of tomorrow (Friday 10th), and we’ll pick our favourite.

Love & Hate runs from tomorrow February 10 until March 3 at StolenSpace, The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL

Artists showing: Arth Daniels, Charles Krafft, Chloe Early, Curtis Kulig, D*Face, Dan Witz, David Bray, EINE, Jamie Burbidge, Jeff Soto, Josie Morway, Kai & Sunny, Kelly Allen, Miss Van, Pete Fowler, Ramon Maiden, Ronzo, Ryan Callanan, Sylvia Ji, Toshi, Will Barras, William Stevenson, Word To Mother.

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CR in Print

If you only read CR online, you’re missing out. From the meaning of beans to the power of love, the February issue of Creative Review features our 20 favourite slogans of all time and the stories behind them.

What makes a great slogan? We investigate the enduring power of these clever little phrases in our special slogans issue, dedicated to our choices for the top 20 slogans.

If you would like to buy this issue and are based in the UK, you can search for your nearest stockist here. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 292 3703 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subscribe to CR for a year here and save yourself almost 30% on the printed magazine.

Murakami’s altered ego

Takashi Murakami’s new exhibition opens in Doha, Qatar tomorrow. Murakami-Ego features a huge collection of work, most of which will be hard to miss: there’s a 100 metre long painting and a six metre high inflatable self-portrait…

The show at the Al Riwaq Exhibition Hall presents just about everything you’d want to see in a Murakami extravaganza, such as the multi-eyeballed mushrooms, the glossy ‘superflat’ paintings and the cheeky chappies in their bunny suits. A new work, Self-Portrait Balloon (shown above), greets visitors at the entrance to the exhibition.

But Murakami is unveiling a host of new work, including a vast canvas that runs the length of three walls in the main gallery space.

The piece is apparently a response to the recent natural disasters that have occurred in Japan. The overall theme for the show is “a dialogue with one’s own ego,” says Murakami.

And the graphic on the outside of the Al Riwaq Exhibition Hall is also rather nice, featuring a series of self-portraits.

Murakami Ego is on at the Al Riwaq Exhibition Hall, next to the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, until 24 June.

More details at The Qatar Museums Authority’s website, here.

Pantone Swatch album art

Graphic designer and artist David Marsh combines two of his interests in a series of prints – Pantone swatch graphics from Adobe Illustrator and classic album covers

“Hip-hop artist Scroobious Pip liked them so much he commissioned me to design his latest album cover and single releases in a similar style,” says Marsh.

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CR in Print

If you only read CR online, you’re missing out. From the meaning of beans to the power of love, the February issue of Creative Review features our 20 favourite slogans of all time and the stories behind them.

What makes a great slogan? We investigate the enduring power of these clever little phrases in our special slogans issue, dedicated to our choices for the top 20 slogans.

If you would like to buy this issue and are based in the UK,you can search for your nearest stockist here. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 292 3703 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subscribe to CR for a year here and save yourself almost 30% on the printed magazine.

Peachy! High Museum Readies KAWS Exhibition

With Dallas awash in Shepard Fairey murals, it’s time to get ready for the next stop on your Southern U.S. street art tour! Atlanta’s High Museum of Art is now putting the finishing touches on its major KAWS exhibition. Opening next Saturday, February 18, “KAWS: Down Time” will be the beloved Brooklyn artist (né Brian Donnelly)’s largest show of new work to date and offers visitors the opportunity to watch him paint a 22-foot-high, site-specific mural in the lobby. A jazzy 24-foot-long triptych will invigorate the museum’s atrium. Meanwhile, curator Michael Rooks has marshaled an impressive gallery installation highlighted by a grid of 27 tondo paintings, like the 2011 Sponge Bob-meets-a giant flower pillow canvas that in November set a new world auction record of $188,500 for the artist at Takashi Murakami‘s “New Day: Artists for Japan” charity sale at Christie’s. The auction took place just days before the High installed KAWS’s monumental 2010 sculpture “Companion” (pictured) on its piazza. “KAWS has created a new order of American Pop,” says Rooks, who joined the High in 2010 from New York’s Haunch of Venison gallery. “His work is uncannily familiar but foreign at the same time, like in a dream, and it unites the often distant worlds of fine art and youth culture.”

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Rammellzee: The Equation, The Letter Racers

Two exhibitions explore a legendary New York artist’s fight for linguistic liberation

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The character of Rammellzee is one of the most compelling to emerge from the NYC street culture scene of the late 1970s and ’80s. The Queens native began his career tagging the side of A train cars in his home borough and later moved into the budding hip-hop scene, where he emerged as an influential lyricist. Rammellzee’s obsession with futurism and linguistics led him to establish the eponymous persona, at times referred to as “The Equation.” A duo of upcoming exhibitions at the MoMA and The Suzanne Geiss Company explore the work of the reclusive artist, his manifestos and the science fiction-influenced culture that he embodied.

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Created over the course of 14 years, “The Letter Racers” sculptures are on view in NYC for the first time. They represent the artist’s manifestos “Iconoclast Panzerism” and “Gothic Futurism,” two works written in Rammellzee’s idiosyncratic language. The written and visual works explore the slavery and corruption of language and its liberation through the artist’s own work.

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The complex theory behind “The Letter Racers” has to do with the freedom of language from its historical fetters. As Rammellzee writes, “In the 14th century the monks ornamented and illustrated the manuscripts of letters. In the 21st and 22nd century the letters of the alphabet through competition are now armamented for letter racing and galactic battles. This was made possible by a secret equation know as THE RAMMELLZEE.”

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Playing with metaphysical concepts in the physical world, Rammellzee used found objects from the city streets to create the sculptures. A collection of perfume caps, spray can triggers and other small detritus comprise 52 “letter racers,” armed for linguistic and galactic warfare. Witnessing the series as a whole lends insight into the man behind Rammellzee’s self-made masks as well as the impact of street culture on the American dialect.

Two years after his premature death, The Suzanne Geiss Company is exhibiting “Rammellzee: The Equation, The Letter Racers” from 8 March to 21 April 2012. At the same time, the MoMA will present a few pieces from “The Letter Racers” as part of the “Print/Out” exhibition starting 19 February 2012.


The Art of Skiing

Sur la bande son de M83 – Kim & Jessie, Extreme Sports nous propose un mix-up de différentes vidéos de ski pratiqué pas des professionnels. Visuellement très impressionnante, cette vidéo permet de souligner le talent des sportifs de l’extrême. En vidéo dans la suite.



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Quote of Note | Claes Oldenburg

“The audience was made to suffer. At one performance the only person allowed to sit was Duchamp. He said, ‘I am very old, and I cannot stand, please let me sit down.’ I thought, ‘Maybe it’s a trick. But then again, he was very old.’ I think Duchamp went to everybody’s performances. ‘Nekropolis I’ ended with us all becoming mice, dressed in burlap bags. We crawled out into the audience slowly; we couldn’t see. Then we were supposed to just drop somewhere and not move until they went home. According to the story I wound up on the feet of Duchamp. But I couldn’t see who it was. It’s a good story, but as time goes by you wonder, ‘Did this really happen?’”

-Artist Claes Oldenburg recalls for Carol Kino what actually happened at the Happenings, in an article published in today’s New York Times. A critic writing in 1962 described “Nekropolis I” as enjoyable for “the heavy slow clamor of these bulky creatures crawling and messing around in that bulky ‘environment’ of burlap, paper, paint, and other assembled junk.” Oldenburg was singled out for having “made wonderful nondescript jungle sounds and heaved his considerable weight from mound to mound like a natural denizen.”

Pictured: Lucas Samaras, left, and Oldenburg in a scene from “Nekropolis I,” from 1962. (Photo Claes Oldenburg; All rights reserved Robert R. McElroy/VAGA, NY)

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‘Make Believe’ by uusi

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I am kind of looking for new prints in our house and the new "Make-Believe' collection by Uusi is certainly part of my possible list to buy… not sure yet which one I like best… perhaps 'the Goose that laid the Golden Egg' … which one would you choose?

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In Search Of The Miraculous or One Thing Leads To Another

Milton Glaser’s latest book shows adaptation as a mechanism for learning
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Over the past five years, the highly influential graphic designer Milton Glaser has designed rugs, sculptures, posters and interior spaces for a variety of independent projects. In the forthcoming book based on the 2010 AIGA exhibition of the same name, “In Search Of The Miraculous or One Thing Leads To Another“, Glaser shows how the concepts for these works relate to each other as a continuous evolution of ideas.

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Glaser began studying Kundalini yoga in the 1960s from a spiritual leader named Rudi, who believed that your consciousness grows by layering past lives—whether that was the past life of yesterday or long ago. The cover art Glaser did for Rudi’s book, “Spiritual Cannibalism“, not only opens this book, but the guru’s teachings serve as a metaphor for the natural progression of Glaser’s work into new designs born from past ideas.

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As design consultant Ralph Caplan explains in the foreword, you can see traces of the book jacket design for “Spiritual Cannibalism” in the identity of Glaser’s graphic design for NYC’s Tibet-focused Rubin Museum of Art in 2004. Glaser was asked to create interior works, including a series of patterned silkscreen prints and a massive gilded copper wall panel inspired by his drawings of Tibetan clouds. Glaser explains in the book that these projects inspired a new interest in pattern design—from there, the unexpected opportunity to make rugs based on the patterns gave new purpose to the work he was doing, eventually giving rise to several new poster designs, and an important study on light and dark.

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Another example of Glaser’s penchant for perpetual revision lies in his series of Shakespeare portraits created for the Theater for a New Audience. The various looks Glaser gives the legendary bard not only demonstrate his ability to see something from several different perspectives, but they also served as inspiration for the theater’s annual award, which is an iridescent bust sprayed with automotive paint that changes color depending on how you’re looking at it.

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Glaser was once again inspired to experiment with patterns and portraits, which led him to develop a new series in which he explores the point where the image becomes visible through the pattern, like a more thoughtful and visually compelling version of Magic Eye posters.

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In an interview with Anna Carnick for her book “Design Voices“, Glaser neatly explains his process of refining and reflection. “The work itself becomes a mechanism for learning,” he says. “And that is the most highly desirable aspect of design or anything else for that matter.”

Glaser will be at Brooklyn’s powerHouse Arena for a discussion and book signing 16 February 2012. Pick up a copy there or pre-order from Amazon for $20.


The South London Black Music Archive

London-based music fans would be wise to head over to the Peckham Space, where artist Barby Asante has curated The South London Black Music Archive, a celebration of the music history of the region…

The gallery space has been transformed into an ‘open archive’, exploring the objects and personal stories central to the evolution of black music in South London. On show are record sleeves, posters, concert tickets and a lovely display of audio equipment through the ages:

Asante is also inviting members of the public to share their own music ephemera, which will be added to the show. Her aim is to raise awareness of how influential the music scene of South London has been. “The influence of black music on the development of popular music is often overlooked,” he says. “Black music has also played a significant role in the development of British culture from the 1950s and this is a great opportunity to provide a platform for people to consider the significance of this cultural activity on their lives.”

In addition to the archival work on show, the design collective Åbäke has designed a limited edition record sleeve for the exhibition, which is shown above (top image). The exhibition also features a map of key music venues in the area (above), that people can add to.

All photographs: © John Clare

The exhibition will be on show at Peckham Space until March 24. Tate Modern is hosting a panel discussion with Barby Asante about the exhibition on February 3, which will be chaired by Paul Goodwin, independent curator on Black Urbanism. More info on the exhibition and the talk is at peckhamspace.com.