ROA at Black Rat Press

February 23, 2011 Pierrick Senelaer

On my way to BRP (Black Rat Press), I knew I was up for a treat. I knew I would hang out for a while and enjoy ROA’s installation.

What makes ROA so popular is definitely his unique style – (very often) large black and white scale wildlife animals made of spray paint but also his ability in putting together quite clever installation integrating his wildlife characters. Flip out/ flip in some wood panels or just walk round and get a new angle on the installation and you can now see something completely different, the inside of the animals or the outside in this case.

We appreciated also ROA’s effort to push its creativity further by integrating x-rays light effect in one of his work. Close the flap and you see the fur of the animal, open it and the inside of the animal is revealed with an X-ray effect (see below)

ROA’s wildlife is powerful and definitely worth seeing with your own eyes. More pictures of the installation below.

The show is now over.

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Rhizomatic at Departure gallery

October 15, 2010 Pierrick Senelaer

Rhizomatic is an experimental, decentralised curatorial system based on the concept of the Rhizome, as explored in Deleuze and Guattariâ€™s philosophical masterpiece A Thousand Plateaus. This is Departure Galleryâ€™s largest and most ambitious show so far and includes work by over two hundred artists exhibiting in 100,000 sq ft of warehouse space. Continue reading Rhizomatic at Departure gallery →

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3D street art by Francois Abelanet

July 12, 2013 Pierrick Senelaer

When you know that this 3D piece covers an area of over 400 square meters, you have to appreciate the effort. And when it looks as striking as this you just bow to the artist’s talent – Francois Abelanet. This piece is located in Lyon and has been commissioned to showcase the latest range of Renault trucks.

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Banksy new pieces in Los Angeles

February 18, 2011 Pierrick Senelaer

Everybody is talking about so it would be almost rude not to feature the three new pieces Banksy has just dropped in Los Angeles.

The first piece depicts Charlie Brown holding a gas can, this piece was dropped on what looks like a house that burnt down. The second one is a child holding a gun and firing crayons.

And the most recent and probably the bolder one can be spotted on Sunset Boulevard and features the vision of the artists on Mickey and Minnie Mouse.

We will all have understood here that Banksy is preparing the ground for the upcoming Oscars.

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5 awesome Star Wars themed prints by RYCA & Trafford Parsons

May 11, 2015 Pierrick Senelaer

With the release of yet another episode of the Star Wars saga – Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, later on this year we looked at how much artists get inspired by it and selected 10 pieces we felt were worth sharing.

May the (art) force be with you. Enjoy these 5 awesome Star Wars themed prints by RYCA & Trafford Parsons

“Han Echoes Red” by RYCA

“Choose your droid” by RYCA

“R2 Tag2” by RYCA

“Rebel Rebel” by RYCA

“R2D2 by” Trafford Parsons

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Masterpieces revisited by FatCat

April 13, 2014 Pierrick Senelaer

Revisited famous paintings by Fat Cat who thinks that these iconic paintings would be better off with the appearance of a big ginger cat. Well some are defo better. See by yourself.

Venus by Velazquez

Great Wave of Kanagawa by Hosukai

Musical Angel by Rosso Fiorentino

Danae by Rembrandt

Mona Lisa by Leonardo De Vinci

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The 500 festival comes to Village Underground

September 16, 2012 Pierrick Senelaer

The 500 Festival, a new art and music festival is coming to Shoreditch this October and promised to entertain you all day and night and showcase of some of the most talked about DJ talent on the festival scene and an array of artistic gems.

Originally from Devon and normally happening outdoors, the festival invites itself in the heart of London and will take over Village Underground from midday till late on the 06th October 2012.

The art line up will include Mikel Kruminswill, the up and coming Scottish designer who had worked for the last 5 years or so as a designer in the creative industry and who will be exhibiting a project specifically for The 500.

One of Mikel Kruminswill's latest work | Art-Pie — One of Mikel Kruminswill’s latest work

Another artist that will probably worth seeing is Raoul Simpson, a self taught lighting / video artist who is as passionate about art as he is technology. Raoul’s works includes lighting designs within the entertainment industry as well as interactive public art installations

'Illuminated canvas" by Raoul Simpson | Art-Pie — ‘Illuminated canvas” by Raoul Simpson

Holly Foskett-Barneswill on the other hand will certainly impress us with her rice sculptures made of 500 grains of rice while Nicholas Harvey installation and three dimensional sculptural work and especially his glass sculptures should wake our senses.

On the music level, Grammy nominated (The Garden) Zero 7will be headlining The 500 with a DJset. The Zero 7 gents are well known for their work with artists such as Sia, José González, Mozez and Sophie Barker.

The Festival is an all day midday-02.00am event promoting artists, new music and some famous names.

WHEN – October 6th 2012 | 2pm – 2am
WHERE – Village Underground | 54 Holywell Lane Shoreditch, London EC2A 3PQ

Get your discounted tickets now from this link – http://bit.ly/QtnlUn

http://www.the500.co.uk

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Blanxer, Vasmoulakis & Jos street art

September 25, 2013 Pierrick Senelaer

Part of our 3 street art works series you should see today: Christian Blanxer, Alexandros Vasmoulakis & Jos.

Christian Blanxer – located in n/Apolo Teatro, Barcelona (Spain)

Alexandros Vasmoulakis – located in Athens (Greece)

Jos – located in Bilbao (Spain)

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Tatsuo Horiuchi | the 73-year old Excel spreadsheet artist

June 15, 2013 Pierrick Senelaer

Meet Tatsuo Horiuchi, a 73-year old Excel spreadsheet artist. Yes I know, you must be thinking “Excel spreadhseet, wth?!“. While millions of us would dive into the software and try to make sense of crazy formulas, Tatsuo Horiuchi has turned it into an amazing art generator.

And guess what, it is only just before retiring that he thought he had to do something new in his life and went on buying a computer, discovered Excel and has now mastered like no one the tool to produce pretty eye catching pieces.

“I never used Excel at work but I saw other people making pretty graphs and thought, ‘I could probably draw with that,’” says Tatsuo Horiuchi

“Graphics software is expensive but Excel comes pre-installed in most computers,” explained Horiuchi. “And it has more functions and is easier to use than [Microsoft] Paint.” adds Tatsuo Horiuchi

This artist is annoyingly good at what he does. Back to my formulas for my part.

Have a peek at some of the Excel spreadsheets, it is pretty incredible
Cherry Blossoms at Jogo Castle (2006)
Kegon Falls (2007)

First view on Spoon & Tamago

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Bunny suicides from Andy Riley

June 1, 2017 Pierrick Senelaer

When we first saw Andy Riley’s Bunny Suicides illustrations, we immediately love them but also found them very funny.

In a nutshell, rather desperate bunnies try to end their lives by any means they can think of and find themselves in ingenious yet dramatic situations.

You are looking at dark humour so these might not be your taste but cute bunnies might?

We included 9 of the best illustrations of the illustrator we spotted online

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