About
A show centralised around breaking and reshaping common ideas, exploring creative constraints and perceptions of the current exhibitive formula and the modern artistic challenge. A bid to define our own time.
This auto-curated collaboration with BSMT Space will experiment to find and offer other options necessary for promoting artists' freedom and autonomy, to form an urgent, refreshing and essential alternative to contemporary options.
Each artist has been affected and moulded directly by the closure and disregard of autonomous practical creative space in the face of rampant and irresponsible gentrification projects throughout the capital. Their spectacle stems from this hidden matrix of handmade corners, opposing angles and hard knocks. A collision of conventions and constructing questions for 2016 and beyond. These are the first stark answers.
Discuss. Rectify. Reshape.
JOE FUR
Joe Furlong is a visual artist who is now focussing on perfecting freehand
line drawing and interactive live art performances under the alias JOEFUR. He is currently working with ink and wood.
An upfront juxtaposition of surrealism and illustrated harsh reality dominates his work which aims to contrast social constructs of the present moment with the delicate collective nature of the human spirit slowly disappearing from clear view due to our rampant individualism.
He wishes to challenge the position of the artist in modern society and seeks to promote collaborative activities andcreative community outreach throughprojects such as ‘Minesweeper Collective’ Co-op of which he is director and co-founder.
http://www.joefur.com/
MR WIM
Born Antwerp, Wim went to Jesuits, studied art history, joined the army and decided to become an artist- a peaceful revolutionary!
He is hailed as one of the godfathers of the sticker movement and street art. Influenced by tattoo and graffiti movements of early in the ’90s Mr Wim spreads his art works between epic murals, human bodies, hand made stickers and the finest screen printed editions.
http://misterwim.blogspot.co.uk/
VESNA PARCHET
Vesna Parchet’s work revolves around themes such as growth and transformation, conscious and subconscious, real and abstract, fusing imagery from personal experiences with magazines and newspapers cut outs to explore the complexity of the human form and the body as a convoluted entity. Her primary influences are Abstract Expressionism, Outsider Art and Japanese culture. Vesna works in a variety of mediums ranging from painting, printmaking, photography to collage art.
Her work has been shown around the UK, Europe and Asia.
http://www.vesnaparchet.com/
LADY GONZALEZ
Lady Gonzalez ’s signature of digitally manipulated textile prints form the core of each design, and her strong anarchic values always feed into her work. The explosive combination of her methods and ideas have earned her the accolades ‘Neosurrealist’, and ‘Digital Print Storyteller’.
Her inimitable sartorial style have carved out a true niche in the world of design. Throughout her dynamic trajectory through the art and fashion fields, her work has so far been featured in publications such as ID (online), Vogue Italia (online), Vision China, Super Super, Tank (online) and Carpark magazine amongst others. She has exhibited alongside the likes of Alejandro Jodorovsky, Charles Bronson, Alex Noble, Fred Butler and Iris Schieferstein and curated alongside the Mutoid Waste Company site-specific artworks and large interac-tive installations at Glastonbury Festival 2013.
http://ladygonzalez.com/
KROM BALGESKY
Krom uses drawing, muralism and sculpture to express different aspects of his creativity. Krom's new work represents visions of figurative silhouettes, which appear spontaneously, echoing the memories of mystic creatures from our collective past. This genetic shadows arefloating in space, seemingly being independent from the physical world.
http://krombalgesky.blogspot.co.uk/
