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BOILER ROOM – MAKE SESSION 007

I could not sound more hipster than saying – “I am going to the latest instalment of the Boiler Room Make Sessions, the world’s leading underground music show, where there will be some Red Stripe to drink at will. The whole thing is Hackney and 14 Bike Co will build five bespoke Red Stripe inspired fixed-gear bikes – live.”

I have not made this up. It is happening tomorrow and I am going to such a thing. I am actually looking forward to it as I have heard from Boiler Room and it has rather been a positive feedback.

Added to the bike sort of live workshops, the tunes should be banging.DJs Steve Braiden, XXXY, Midland and Paul Woolford are there for that and will play the decks back to back.

We will report back on here after the event but if you cannot wait that long, why don’t you logon tomorrow from 7 and check out the live streaming of the event- address below.

Make Session 007 is invite only, but can be viewed at www.boilerroom.tv/live

Boiler Room Make Sessions 07

WHAT – RED STRIPE® MAKE SESSION 007 BOILER ROOM | 14 Bike Co.
WHEN – 25.02.13 | 19.00-23.00

MUSIC – Steve Braiden, XXXY, Midland and Paul Woolford – Back to Back
EVENT – Live build of five bikes by 14 BIKE CO.

TWITTER – @RedStripeLager (#redstripeboilerroom
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FACEBOOK – www.facebook.com/redstripelagerbeer

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Jester Jacques at the Other Art fair

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This is it. Last stretch before the start of The Other art fair and the display of delightful artworks as usual. We are also looking forward to see our friends at Jester Jacques gallery who will hold their fort in the bar area – nice.

True to themselves and always believing and supporting of the emerging art scene, Jester Jacques gallery will most certainly please use with a pertinent selection of artists for the fair. Artwork from Rob Bellman, Chris Daniels, Super Future Kid, Steven Quinn and Nicholas Goodden will be showcased.

We have included below our favorite artwork for each artists and hope to see you at the fair.

Nicholas Gooden
Nicholas Gooden

Super Future Kid (left) | Chris Daniels
Super Future KidChris Daniels

Steven Quinn (left) | Rob bellman
Steven QuinnRob Bellman

The Other art fair

PREVIEW

Transcend, a show by Tom French at Lawrence Alkin gallery

TRANSCEND by Tom French | Art-Pie
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Following his 2014 sell out show, Tom French returns to Lawrence Alkin Gallery with his latest body of work, Transcend. Evolving from French’s Duality series, the exhibition continues to incorporate figurative elements and the artists’ signature use of illusion, while embracing abstraction more than previous works.

About the artist and this show

In the slant towards abstraction, French allows for his work to be interpreted on multiple levels. He commented: “Abstraction is less obvious, so the images are open to a wider range of meanings and interpretations. It’s intended to offer the viewer a more personal experience – different people will see different things and read the images in their own ways.”

French is fascinated with exploring the relationship between the conscious and subconscious and this is communicated through his paintings. The figurative elements of his work represent the conscious, with characters absorbed in their own actions. The abstracted portraits in which they sit representing the subconscious, the instinctual yet hidden human drives that shape and determine the blissfully unaware subjects and make up the bigger picture.

TRANSCEND by Tom French | Art-Pie

“These latest paintings are formed through a more abstract, improvised and free flowing approach. For this series I worked straight onto canvas with only a very loose idea of the outcome. This allowed the images to naturally evolve, while I intuitively worked out placement and composition as they progressed.”– Tom French 2016

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London Art Fair – artists we enjoyed, Philip Braham

We strolled through the London Art Fair for the fourth consecutive year and as always stumbled upon remarkable artworks from ever so talented artists.

In this series, we will tell you why we liked a particular piece from these artists as well as posting more works. We hope you will also enjoy it as we did.

Feel free to comment too at the end of this article. Let’s get started….

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Philip Braham

"Ophelia bathing" by Philip Brahams at London Art Fair | Art-Pie
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We stumbled upon the piece called “Ophelia Bathing” – oil on canvas, 183x122cm, and instantly appreciated the hazy feel of the depicted landscape.

It made us feel like diving in this river or enjoy a long and lazy lie down on one of its banks.

About the artist

Represented by the Roger Bilcliffe gallery at this year’s London Art Fair, Philip Braham is a Scottish artist whose paintings and photographs emerge from the Northern European engagement with landscape as a metaphor for the human condition. Recent projects reflect on the temporal nature of our existence through personal recollection and collective history, set within the slowly evolving landscape that bears us forward. Fidelity to experience is fundamental to his practice, and this brings a poetic grace to his technical mastery of oil painting and silver-based photography.

Other works from this artist

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Philip Brahams | Art-Pie

Philip Brahams | Art-Pie

Philip Brahams | Art-Pie

PREVIEW

Precious Damage Copyright X Numskull at Red Bull studios

The concept of this show is simple : Two Artists – One Hundred Works – One Night Only

Each artist will be producing 50 works on cardboard mixing paint, paste and print which will fill the exhibition space creating a collage installation.

Each piece will be for sale at just £100 and will be taken straight off the wall when bought so it can be taken home with you when you leave.

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When: 17/02/2011
Where: Zero Cool @ Red Bull Studios
155 – 171 Tooley Street, London Bridge
London, United Kingdom

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Artocracy in Tunisia, a project by JR

JR’s latest project involved six Tunisian photographers who traveled the country upside down and took 100 pictures of unknown Tunisians. The aim was to get a representative sample of the Tunisian population from all ages and backgrounds.

Images from the project below.

Artocracy, a project initiated by Slim Zeghal and Marco Berrebi and created with the group of Tunisia

Photographers: Sophia Baraket | Rania Dourai | Wissal Dargueche | Aziz Tnani | Hichem Driss | Héla Ammar.

More on the project here – http://www.jr-art.net/

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Rene Magritte at Tate Liverpool

Last time a major show about Rene Magritte happened was in 1992 at the Hayward gallery, London. This time, Tate Liverpool is having a go at presenting us a character known to be a sexual obsessive with a twisted mind – the perfect definition of a surrealist painter, some would say, which Rene Magritte was.

Reading about his biography and it does not take long to get to the bottom of his deviance. Rene Magritte saw his mum getting pulled out of the river she threw herself in, she only had her nightdress wrapped around her head, the rest was naked. Rene Magritte was 14.

A direct link to this traumatic event can definitely be seen in The Lovers, painting he made in 1928 and on display at the Tate Liverpool for this show.

Commercial works have also taken a large place in Rene Magritte’s life and this show dedicates a large section to them – Rene Magritte did not get rich until late in his career and resorted some freelance graphic design work. One of his main clients was the Belgian couture house Norine.

What – René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle
Where – Tate (Liverpool)
When – 24 June – 16 October 2011

Related links
René Magritte: The artist who turned the world on its head (The Telegraph)
René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle – exhibition (The Guardian)

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Object-Culture: bridge for the launch of East End promise

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A few days ago, I met the Paul Sakoilsky, the curator for Object-Culture, read the post here, the first of four pop up shows happening back to back throughout April and May 2010. Paul kindly sent the pictures below of the opening night (photos credits: Nick Ensing). This first show runs until the 25th April 2010.

Three more shows will then follow –
PRESS – a group show playing off the triple meaning of May Day opens on 6th May and runs until the 20th May
BUNCH OF STARS – curated and organised by The Star of Bethnal Green opens on the 25th May and runs until the 28th May Continue reading Object-Culture: bridge for the launch of East End promise →

STREET ART

Cardon Copy: boring looking flyers made stylish

We have all seen these handwritten flyers taped on bus stops or telegraph poles and for most of them if not all of them, they look rather boring and plain, aren’t they? This is what the New York designers at Cardon Copy must have thought and decided to do something about this.

This involves ‘high jacking’ these infamous fliers and give them a full make over in order to over powering their message with a new visual language. They are then stick back up where they were first snatched.

Art to help the community. Nice one.

See a few examples below

Related link
> Visit cardoncopy.com for more

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