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A group exhibition including Brooklyn based artist Criminy AKA QRST among others.

April 2019 is the beginning of a two-month celebration at downtown Los Angeles’ Corey Helford Gallery, consisting of two massive group exhibitions, the first being The Fine Art of Street and Graffiti, featuring world-renowned muralists D*Face, Ron English, Hush, RISK, EINE, Okuda San Miguel, Herakut, and many more. The exhibition is curated by owner Jan Corey Helford, CHG Co-Curator Caro and world-famous street and graffiti artist RISK. CHG was among the early galleries in Los Angeles to bring these artists together for exhibitions that established the stature of this art form and its place in the fine art scene. Following in the paths of Haring, Basquiat and others, these self-styled vandals brought the streets of the world a voice that expresses the jarring beauty and incongruity of art and life in the urban setting. CHG is proud to present new works by these artists and other upcoming artists from around the world.

The Fine Art of Street and Graffiti will feature new works by: Ahoy, Aspire, Barlo, Bates, Beau Stanton, Bio Tats Cru, Bisco Smith, Buff Monster, CES, Candybird, Caratoes, Cryptik, D*FACE, Defer, EINE, Estevan Oriol, Faith XLVII, HOXXOH, HUSH, Herakut, Jecks, Jillian Evelyn, Kano, Kwest, La Belle Epoque, Lauren YS, Logan Hicks, Mauy, Messy Desk, Miss Van, OG Abel, Okuda San Miguel, Pure Evil, Quick, RISK, Ramiro Davaro-Comas, Ron English, SEEN, seenaeme, Sel, Senna, Sever, Simple Bao, Skeme, Starman, Taz, Vyal and Zlism.

Opening reception (open to the public) for The Fine Art of Street and Graffiti is Saturday, April 6th from 7pm-11pm and the show will be on display through Saturday, May 11th. Corey Helford Gallery is located at 571 S. Anderson St. Los Angeles, CA 90033.

In commemoration of the ILO Centenary, the ILO is collaborating with an organization called Street Art for Mankind to create multiple murals in the vicinity of the United Nations Headquarters, depicting images of decent work. It is our pleasure to invite you to an #ILO100 Art Walk to unveil the murals on 9 April 2019.

The art walk will begin at 1:00p.m. at the first mural located at 209 E 48th street (between 2nd and 3rd avenue) and end at 2:45p.m. at the Westin Hotel on 212 E 42nd street (between 2nd and 3rd avenue). Light refreshments will be served at the Westin Hotel following the art walk.

The art walk includes stops at five murals depicting images of green jobs, youth employment, gender equality at work, the eradication of child and forced labour and the future of work. During the walk, you will have an opportunity to learn more about the policy issues and meet the internationally renowned artists who made this project possible: Clandestinos (Shalak Attack and Bruno Smoky), Faith 47, Jorge Gerada, Mr Cenz and Victor Ash

Starting at: 209 East 48th Street, NYC

On behalf of Rodney and Katerina, we are delighted to welcome you to join us at our Clerkenwell showroom for the Private View of our latest installation, ‘Alive in the Human Hive’, by British artist David Shillinglaw.

"We measure mountains with feet and emotions with colours. We are such funky little space monkeys, orbiting a ball of boiling hot gas. We jibber-jabbering to ourselves and each other on some kind of cosmic spectrum. Seven and a half billion humans. A proud crowd. A team of teeming sapiens, a swarm of warm blooded beings. Planet Earth is a garden and we are the insects." – David Shillinglaw.

Date and Time

Tue, 9 April 2019

18:00 – 21:00 BST

Location

Morgan Furniture

1 Dallington Street

Clerkenwell

London

EC1V 0BH

United Kingdom

Dopamine
A dual exhibition with Axel Void and Ana Barriga
Opening 11th April 2019 7pm until Late
Public Opening: 12th April 2019 - 14th April 2019
60 SE and 1st St, Miami

Void Projects presents Dopamine, a dual exhibition with visiting artist in residence Ana Barriga and Axel Void. Through a series of new collaborative works, the artists explore the role of Dopamine; its effects on our biochemistry and how this translates to our perception of the world.
Dopamine is a naturally occurring neurotransmitter and is a key molecule in how we navigate our everyday lives. Responsible for our attention, perception and emotional responses; the pleasure of Dopamine thrives in pursuit of reward or expectation. However, once we reach our goals, we stop feeling its effects and again, crave the sensation. Doperminergic activity is stimulated by our passions and interests, with specific levels being unique to our biological makeup. Too little dopamine can send us into spiraling depression, too much can cause a break with reality or psychosis. A little googling even points to methods of increasing dopemineragic activity, they include caffeine, drugs, eating certain supplements or foods.
The drug of the future, Dopamine is always looking ahead but dissipating in the moment. From an evolutionary perspective, it stimulates our survival instincts, motivating us to search out food or shelter. In modern times, we divert our dopamine activity away from survival and towards imagination and growth. But to what end?
Through the minds of creative people, dopamine enables poetic associations to simple, even absurd things. Ana and Axel explore this relationship from a shared interest in subject and philosophy, with their collaborative work serving as a more existential and sociological analogy. The results are visually conflicting and wrestle between play and discord, tension and release.
Dopamine seeks to question the absurdity of the cycle we perpetuate in doing more and achieving less. Beyond survival, dopamine arguably now fuels futility, frivolity, and excess. Dopamine is a 4-day event hosted by Void Projects Miami space, run in association with Mana Contemporary and Juxtapoz Magazine

12 Avril- 8 Juin 2019 / “Deuxième Désintégration”

L’artiste portugais ADD FUEL investi entièrement l’espace de la galerie pour son premier solo show en France nous donnant à voir des installations détonantes et ses nouvelles créations.

Vernissage le 12 Avril en présence de l’artiste

Dopamine
A dual exhibition with Axel Void and Ana Barriga
Opening 11th April 2019 7pm until Late
Public Opening: 12th April 2019 - 14th April 2019
60 SE and 1st St, Miami

Void Projects presents Dopamine, a dual exhibition with visiting artist in residence Ana Barriga and Axel Void. Through a series of new collaborative works, the artists explore the role of Dopamine; its effects on our biochemistry and how this translates to our perception of the world.
Dopamine is a naturally occurring neurotransmitter and is a key molecule in how we navigate our everyday lives. Responsible for our attention, perception and emotional responses; the pleasure of Dopamine thrives in pursuit of reward or expectation. However, once we reach our goals, we stop feeling its effects and again, crave the sensation. Doperminergic activity is stimulated by our passions and interests, with specific levels being unique to our biological makeup. Too little dopamine can send us into spiraling depression, too much can cause a break with reality or psychosis. A little googling even points to methods of increasing dopemineragic activity, they include caffeine, drugs, eating certain supplements or foods.
The drug of the future, Dopamine is always looking ahead but dissipating in the moment. From an evolutionary perspective, it stimulates our survival instincts, motivating us to search out food or shelter. In modern times, we divert our dopamine activity away from survival and towards imagination and growth. But to what end?
Through the minds of creative people, dopamine enables poetic associations to simple, even absurd things. Ana and Axel explore this relationship from a shared interest in subject and philosophy, with their collaborative work serving as a more existential and sociological analogy. The results are visually conflicting and wrestle between play and discord, tension and release.
Dopamine seeks to question the absurdity of the cycle we perpetuate in doing more and achieving less. Beyond survival, dopamine arguably now fuels futility, frivolity, and excess. Dopamine is a 4-day event hosted by Void Projects Miami space, run in association with Mana Contemporary and Juxtapoz Magazine

'TWO FOR TOMORROW'

TOBIAS KROEGER (DE) // NAWER (PL)

two artist exhibition on display from April 12 until June 02

vernissage April 12 // 7pm - 10pm //

44309 STREET//ART GALLERY
Rheinische Straße 16
Dortmund 44137
Germany

The Speerstra Gallery Paris is pleased to present the exhibition Legends #1

opening : Saturday the 13 April 2019 from 4 to 8 pm.
exhibition : 13 April - 11 May 2019

Thirty-five years after their first exhibition in Monaco, the Speerstra Gallery is renewing its original commitment to defend graffiti art, that gave them a pioneer role as an art gallery, with Post Graffiti. The gallery has been sponsoring European and American artists ever since then, especially those that established the aesthetic foundations of this artform until it gained perennial status in the history of art. Immediately aware of the visual and symbolic power inherent to graffiti culture, the Speerstra Gallery brought together a nebula of artists, collectors, patrons and institutional partners in order to extend the outreach and the understanding of this movement. A whole generation of artists was born around Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat and was able to fulfil, over the years, a keen interest that became planetary.

Today, the first artworks of this movement, those of Dondi White and Rammellzee for instance, compete in record sales in the most prestigious auction houses, and there are multiple retrospective exhibitions of the movement within an institutional framework.

In order to celebrate thirty-five years supporting and promoting this generation of artists, the Speerstra Gallery invites us to (re) discover the artists that figured in its inaugural exhibition in 1984, whose overwhelming avant-garde and eclectic spirit made a lasting impression: A One, Henry Chalfant, Crash, Daze, Dondi White, Futura 2000, Rammellzee, Noc167, Quik and Seen. Subsequent exhibitions saw other pioneer names of Post Graffiti join the gallery like Coco144, JonOne, Sharp and Snake1. Reuniting all these artists is a breath-taking achievement, turning heads and filling our eyes with wonder! For the first time in Paris, the original works of these pioneer artists, criticised at the time and now glorified as legends of the Post Graffiti movement, are reunited in the gallery that launched their European career. The exhibition displays drawings, canvases and photos and is a unique opportunity to see a key period in the history of graffiti, when the work evolved from walls to canvas.

SPEERSTRA GALLERY / PARIS
24 rue Saint-Claude
75003 Paris

Jeremy Fish & Mike Giant "A Giant Fish Story"
Get ready for an epic show featuring two of the best to ever do it!
All new drawings, prints, skateboards and more!
Join us Saturday, April 13th - 6-10pm - Free & Open to the public - Artists in attendance
Send us an email to get on the preview of original art
Additional info on online print releases will be shared soon!

BACKSLASH le JEUDI 18 AVRIL de 14h à 21h pour le vernissage de ma nouvelle exposition MIND OVER MATTER.

Rero a tout d'abord pensé à créer une secte, puis il a préféré préparer une nouvelle exposition chez Backslash.Le titre qu'il a choisi propose une réflexion inédite autour de l'hégémonie de l'esprit sur la matière et interroge notre impossibilité à mener une existence dépourvue de toute signification et souhaite à travers cette exposition questionner la notion de spiritualité laïque d'apparence.

La maxime MIND OVER MATTER sous-entend que l'esprit règle directement, et souvent inconsciemment, une question avant même d'y réfléchir. Ce mantra quasi bouddhiste souligne le fait qu'en réalité l'essence même de la vérité n'est pas sensorielle mais intellectuelle et déductive. Et pourtant, la matière est par définition indispensable. Rero interroge ici le concept d'indissociabilité de ces deux entités, sans réellement y dévoiler sa solution. Fidèle à son projet artistique, il barre les questions qu'il soulève mais laisse le spectateur libre de leur interprétation.

Au-dessus de cette réflexion plane avant tout la question principale : qu'est-ce que la matière et comment est-elle liée à notre esprit ? Evidemment, il y a l'idée du solide, de ce que nous pouvons palper. Mais il y a aussi notamment la matière noire (a priori un grand « rien », tout du moins pour l'œil humain) ou la matière grise, autrement appelée « cerveau », qui permet l'intellect, donc l'esprit. Cette multiple définition désaxe totalement l'idée de MIND OVER MATTER, et fait tourner en rond, tel l'ouroboros, ce fameux serpent qui se mord la queue.

Avec l'exposition MIND OVER MATTER, Rero utilise comme prétexte la matière pour questionner notre rapport à la spiritualité et les valeurs qui bâtissent notre société. Et cela vient contrecarrer la quiddité de son travail artistique habituellement initiée par les mots. Il s'est attaché à employer des matières nouvelles, inhabituelles, pour enrichir son langage artistique. Ainsi, ses aphorismes interagissent avec de nouveaux supports qu’il détourne afin de mieux les questionner. Dans cette exposition, l'artiste intervient sur des ronces de noyer, des blocs de sel d’Himalaya, des pierres Agate, des feuilles de pierre, des fibres de chanvre ou encore du béton. D'ailleurs, dans quelques siècles, le béton sera-t-il toujours aussi solide ? Ce que nous pensons comme l'incarnation même de l'indestructible le sera-t-il toujours autant ? Ou ce sera-t-il effrité pour disparaître et ne rester qu'une idée ou un concept et devenir ainsi esprit sans matière ?

Entre Rio de Janeiro et Paris, l'artiste français Rero inscrit son identité artistique à travers ses fameuses lettres barrées d'un épais trait noir. Son travail a été exposé dans de nombreuses institutions à travers le monde, notamment au Centre Pompidou, au Grand Palais, au MAC/VAL, au MAC de Bogota, à la Fondation Montresso de Marrakech, au Art Science Museum de Singapour ou encore à la Caixa Cultural à Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo et Brasilia.

BACKSLASH
29 rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth
75003 Paris

XXL
MOHAMED SAÏD CHAIR, POES et SKUNKDOG
Espace d'Art Montresso* Marrakech, Maroc
Du 20 avril au 15 juin 2019

XXL is an annual artistic event on the thematic of monumentality. For its third edition, it reveals the surprising worlds of Mohamed Said Chair, Poes and Skunkdog.

Born from a desire to confront artists with the exercise of the oversize, XXL thus offers, beyond a purely formal form of experimentation, the freedom to make each of their writings exist in all their expansive potential.

In an ultimate dialogue, Mohamed Said Chair, Poes and Skunkdog break down in turns the boundaries of creation. In this way, by transcending the contours of their practices, they succeed in disrupting both space and time. By proudly embracing their time, these three generations of artists thus achieve to match their visions to their aspirations.

It is through an experience that is both inescapable and immersive that the artists of this selection propose to reveal to us an intergenerational perspective, focused on our world.