Revert to Disarray: Life After Horror & Romance
New work by STEFANOS ROKOS

Show runs from THURSDAY 6TH JUNE
to MONDAY 27TH JUNE 2013

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Charting the space between acuity and confusion, detail and dissolution, contemporary Greek painter Stefanos Rokos arrives in London with his first UK show.

It’s a world you’ve already spent some time in, I suspect. You turn your back on a compelling stranger only to find just colours, smoke, and memories. Any. Friday. Night. And who doesn’t smile in recollection of that near riot down the guitar bar? Sure, your friends will be along presently, little punctures in the chaos, and yet that sense of an ending gathers, reflected in the waiting lenses arrayed across the room.

In these works the senses will meet their match. Details are perceived, yet evade our grasp. Women might be muses, imperilled, but always fatales. Men find safety in numbers, hoping to cope with the fantastical. And music is ever present, filling each silent canvas as we revert then, to disarray.

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Alexander Mayor

Program of live music throughout exhibition month:
Performances start at 8pm each Thursday in June

6TH JUNE - Matt Friedberger solo (The Fiery Furnaces)
13TH JUNE - Stef Kamil Carlens solo (Zita Swoon Group)
20TH JUNE - Alexander’s Festival Hall
27TH JUNE - Piney Gir

All the acts performing during these four weeks have also participated in the making of “Horror & Romance on Another Planet”, a music compilation that Stefanos Rokos curated and released instead of an art catalogue for his last solo show in Athens three years ago. Lead by previous collaborations and/or friendship, he asked artists that he knew and admired to compose and record music inspired by his work.

MATTHEW FRIEDBERGER

Half of New York’s The Fiery Furnaces, inventive, absurd and as prolific as one can be (last year he completed his 8 lps solo box set as well as an original instrumental motion picture soundtrack for a non-existent horror film), Matthew Friedberger will be presenting his custom made compositions inspired by the exhibition.

STEF KAMIL CARLENS

Key figure in bands like dEUS and Kiss My Jazz during the 90’s, Stef Kamil Carlens from Antwerp, Belgium, soon chose to focus on his very own special project, the band/collective now called Zita Swoon Group. From the early days of Moondog Jr to the contemporary stage performance of “Dancing With The Sound Hobbyist” and his recent collaboration with traditional West African musicians, though, he still remains a dedicated singer-songwriter too, often showcasing his intimate one-man live thing in it’s simplest form.

ALEXANDER’S FESTIVAL HALL

Former Baxendale member and long time Piney Gir collaborator, Alex Mayor (aka Alexander’s Festival Hall) just released his very first brand new full length personal album called “Not a dry eye in London”!

PINEY GIR

Born in Kansas, USA, but based in London for around over a decade now, Angela Penhaligon has been playing (and possibly making) music since the age of four. Her unique taste on pop and country led her from her first record “Peakahokahoo” in 2004, to “The Yearling”, to the Piney Gir Country Roadshow touring band, to the “Jesus Wept” and her latest “Geronimo!” lp produced by Los Angeles’ Rob Campanella.

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STEFANOS ROKOS

Stefanos Rokos is a greek contemporary artist, born in Athens in 1977.

Academic Studies

1995-2000: Studies painting and printmaking at the Athens School of Fine Arts.

1999: Attends lithography classes at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Αrts in Paris, within the European programme “Erasmus”.

2001-2002: Degree of Master of Arts, MΑ: Print from the Wimbledon School of Art in London.

Solo exhibitions

2011: “Horror & Romance on Another Planet”, CK Art Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus

2010: “Horror & Romance on Another Planet”, Agathi Gallery, Athens, Greece.

2010: “Horror & Romance on Another Planet> The Prequel”, International Contemporary Art Fair Art Athina 2010, Agathi Gallery, Athens, Greece.

2008: “First Contact With Nature”, International Contemporary Art Fair Art Athina 08, Agathi Gallery, Athens, Greece.

2007:  ”After Dinner”, International Contemporary Art Fair Art Athina, Agathi Gallery, Athens, Greece.

2006: “Painting”, Art Gallery Yiomisti Kefali , Sifnos Island, Greece.

2005: “Noise and Useful Objects”, Agathi Gallery , Athens, Greece.

2002: “Painting”, Art Gallery Αmymoni , Ioannina, Greece.

2001: “Painting”, Agathi Gallery, Athens, Greece

Since 1999, he has participated in a number of group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
 
In 2009 he presented, in collaboration with musician Orestis Karamanlis, “Imago Dixit”, an interactive installation (painting, sound and realtime gesture capture).

In 2010 he presented the art/music project “Horror & Romance on Another Planet”, with the participation of 18 musicians and bands from Greece, UK, USA, Canada and Belgium. (more info : www.horrorandromance.com/)

He has created the artwork for the covers of cds by Bobby Conn, Krista Muir, Interstellar Overdrive, Sigmatropic, Pavlos Pavlidis, Foivos Delivorias and Christos Leondis, as well as posters for theatre performances, concerts and films.
From 2002 he is a member of “Kormoranos”, a Non Profit Company involved in the field of cultural events. (http://www.kormoranos.gr/)

Stefanos Rokos will present his new set of works “Revert to Disarray” in two solo exhibitions in May and June 2013:

16-19 May : International Contemporary Art Fair Art Athina , Athens, Greece

06-27 June : Neu Gallery, London, UK

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Pricelist

1. Loyal to the Campaign for a Beautiful Terrorism (174 x 134 cm)….. ￡7000
2. Chess (120 x 80 cm) ……..…..………………………………….………….. ￡5000
3. Revert to Disarray 1 (135 x 109 cm) …………………………………….. ￡4000
4. Revert to Disarray 2 (133 x 103 cm) ……………………………….……. ￡4000
5. The Crowd, the Moon and the Rain (135 x 109 cm) …………………. ￡4000
6. Too Many Birds (133 x 103 cm )…………..………………………………  ￡4000
7. More than 204 Shots (125 x 90 cm) …………………………………….. ￡4000
8. Specific Cases ( 90 x 74,5)….………………………………….….………. ￡2000
(Horror & Romance cd  ￡10 each)

HARD TIMES.
UNFAIR.
LET THEM EAT SOUP. (Part 3)
by William Blanchard

Private View
Thursday 28th March 2013, 6.30PM - 10.00PM

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MEN Gallery presents William Blanchard’s series ‘UNFAIR’ (Part 3) with ‘I Just Don’t Care Anymore’ and ‘Warhol’s Pop Art Soup’ which highlights a simmering anger that  bubbles beneath the surface of the financial and economic situation and feelings. Blanchard combines three elements to take a swipe at the current malaise and discontent of society at this present time with a slight ‘Pop’ mirror and comment to consumerism in our state.

GODDOG CREATIVE & TALLY HO! UK LAUNCH

Private View
Ides of March
Friday 15th March 2013, 6.30PM - LATE

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GODDOG is an autonomous collective of creative entrepreneurs – united in their mission to facilitate ideas through collaboration, provocation and conversation. Through their ‘barks’ members project, promote and elicit linking across all social media. GODDOG sources and emits original creativity and enterprise via the web of artists it procures and nurtures. Tall Ho! A powerful visual compilation and free spirit of creative individuals which features images never published before, from progressive artists, photographers, designers, writers, illustrators, painters and stylists. Tally Ho! is an artful visual treat for the modern pop culture–savvy individual, a collection of some of the most celebrated fine artists today. An art-based publication finding the unseen and seen talent around the globe from London to New York curated by renowned photographer Phil Knott and designed by Jonathan Bailey.

Derrick Santini, Joe Hunter, Mark Anthony, Martin J Tickner, Phil Knott, Jonathan Bailey, Khashayar Naimanan

www.derricksantini.com / www.philknott.com / www.khashayar-naimanan.com / www.markanthonybradley.com / www.the1234shoreditch.com / www.mattandmartin.com

Slogan T-Shirts: Cult and Culture
by Stephanie Talbot

Private View
Thursday 7th March 2013, 6.30PM - 8.30PM

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MEN Gallery host an evening event to celebrate the launch of the book Slogan T-ShirtS: Cult and Culture - published by Bloomsbury - it features appraisals, in depth commentry and interviews with notable fashion insiders, cultural commentators and creative luminaries and offers a multi-faceted approach to the question of what makes the slogan T-shirt so rich, layered and culturally relevant…because slogans are never simply just words; they are emotive and evocative, suggestive and provocative.

Slogan T-Shirts: Cult and Culture explores the vast spectrum of slogan use on T-shirts; its function as a message delivery system; its expression as an artefact of language; and its role as an emblem of political, social, recreational  and  sartorial  trends. The book unfurls as a cultural library of perspectives, nuanced positions and eclectic sources and each interview offers a cultural snapshot within the versatile framework of slogan T-shirt culture. The book also glances into the inner worlds, inside stories and mechanisms of those involved in fashion, design and the production of media. Beautifully designed, visually seductive and packed with influential innovators from the last three decades, every page of this book is a source of inspiration.

Included in a stella cast of commentators are YMC, 6876, Scott King, Jeremy Deller, Dr. Noki, Jon Savage, Jamie Reid, Neil Boorman, Holly Johnson, Katharine Hamnett, Barnzley Armitage, Vexed Generation and Michael Kopelman.

‘STOB EHT’ Photography Zine Launch

THURSDAY 25TH OCTOBER 2012, 7pm - 10pm

///// STOB EHT

////////// PHOTOGRAPHY ZINE LAUNCH

///////////////// THE BOTS ON TOUR ACROSS EUROPE

//////////////////////// SHOT BY DAN WILTON

///////////////////////////////DISCOUNT ZINES, PRINTS, FREE BEERS, TIE DYE

/////////////////////////////////////DJ’S ///// THE BOTS ////// RAISA K

///////////////////////////////////////////// STOB EHT

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‘SOUP-erstitious’
by Lennie Lee

THURSDAY 11TH OCTOBER 2012, 6.30pm - 10pm

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To coincide with Frieze art fair, Maurice Einhardt Neu Gallery is pleased to announce a new solo show by artist, Lennie Lee.

Lee is primarily counter-culture and a graphic painter, whose bold use of line and colour, invokes dark, comic book illustration. Much of his work focuses on the kind of art a primitive might produce if he were living in contemporary society. To this end, he has painted and collaged his four-floor house in Dalston, covered a car in tar, teeth, vinyl records and matchbox toys and made a number of ritualistic performances. Lee despises the idea that artists are duty bound to specialize in one particular field of activity. He is fascinated by the numerous ways in which contemporary pop culture echoes the rituals and behaviours of older, more primitive societies. This fascination has lead him to accumulate underground art and other fetishes, to make large format photographs of people at dress-up parties, to work with underground art collectives worldwide and to make artwork from everyday or found materials.

His latest show, “Soup-erstitious”, provides a taste of the darker side of Lee’s work.

For the opening, Lee who has twice survived open-heart surgery will create a ritualistic performance “To the Goddess of surgery”.

‘Candid Interiors’
by Makda Iyasu and Rebecca Thomas

Opening Night / Private View
THURSDAY 4TH OCTOBER 2012, 6pm - 9pm

Show until SUNDAY 7TH OCTOBER, 2012, Midday - 6PM

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Candid Interiors is a multi media exhibition celebrating strong, talented, beautiful women.

It consists of photographs of women in the intimate space of their bedrooms and films of them sharing stories and opinions whilst in the bath. The women range in backgrounds, ages and fields of creativity, they include Princess Julia, Cozette McCreery, Dee Sade of Blue On Blue, Hannah Clark of Foe, Billie JD Porter, Harriet Verney, Bella Gladman, Venus X, Scarlette Carlos Clark, Angel Rose.

Makda Iyasu and Rebecca Thomas have been working together in a partnership of film and photography for the last year and a half and have shot for publications including
i-D, GQ Style, Vice, Q-Who, Hysteria, as well as fashion labels including Jonathan Saunders, Nikos Nikolau and Fashion East.

The private view sponsored by Saints.

Makda Iyasu on Facebook

‘THE WORLD’
SUPERFERTILE | Kali Arulpragasam

Opening Night / Private View
THURSDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER 2012, 7pm - 10pm
RSVP info@superfertile.com

Show runs from FRIDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER
to WEDNESDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER, 2012, 12.30PM - 8PM

Closing Night Party
WEDNESDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER, 2012, 6.30pm til late

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As artists we have a responsibility to bring forth the most difficult issues of our troubled world. With this collection I tackled the growing corruption that lies at the root of many world problems. We want to expose the truth. Whilst designing the collection, I also discovered that Africa is the centre of our World. Set in geography, shaped like a human heart. When the index is worn as a necklace, it sits on the wearers heart. It seems always broken, suffering, damaged, and we need to fix that.

The unisex collection comprises 24 medium and large necklaces of carefully selected stones that have been crafted into accurate colour matched world map indexes. All of the pieces are hand-made, with the utmost precision and execution using gold and silver plated brass as the bases which are then meticulously inlaid with semi-precious stones. There are 24 different indexes of corruption in total including nuclear weapons, conflict intensity, political instability, education, global peace, under-nourished, safe water, life span, human development, world risk, corruption index, emission and energy, HIV Aids, civil liberties, literacy rates, wealth inequality, labour under $1 a day, freedom of press, human rights, income rates, and even the map of happiness.

Each necklace - Wearable Art. Informs us of where the World is today. With upto date index of all forms of issues effected by corruption.

All stones and colours  are matched exactly to the 24 maps most recent data. Which are carefully selected to showcase and capture where we are now with The World. Truth in the form of sparkling glorious lasting jewels which pushes design, form and reason.

All necklaces will soon be available to purchase online at www.superfertile.com

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The collection will be on display during at PARIS FASHION WEEK, 1ST - 3RD OCTOBER, 2012 at HOTEL AMOUR in Paris.

By Invitation Only. Live Exhibition and Installation, viewing in private suite.

HOTEL AMOUR, 8 Rue de Navarin, 75009 paris SEE MAP
http://www.hotelamourparis.fr

‘This Is William Blanchard’

WEDNESDAY 25TH JULY - SUNDAY 4TH AUGUST 2012
@ THE STRAND GALLERY
Open 7 days a week, 11am - 6pm

Private View
TUESDAY 24TH JULY 2012
7pm - 9.30pm

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THE STRAND GALLERY is delighted to present THIS IS WILLIAM BLANCHARD, a survey of works by William Blanchard (aka Wildcat Will). Following on from shows in London, Los Angeles and Paris over the last 5 years this is the first survey of a seletion of Blanchard’s full works. Blanchard will also be showing new works comissioned for the show which continue his exploration of the semiotics of Pop culture through assemblage, reconfigured ready-mades and collage, resulting in his most impressive collection to date.

A LIMITED EDITION signed print will be available to purchase on the night.

WWW.THESTRANDGALLERY.CO.UK

Image ‘Warhol’s Pop Art Soup’ © William Blanchard 2012

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The Strand Gallery
32 Proud Central, London, WC2N 6BP
Tel: +44 20 7839 4942
Email: info@thestrandgallery.co.uk

www.thestrandgallery.co.uk

Ready, Aim, Fire!
by William Blanchard (aka Wildcat Will)

28TH JUNE 2012
THURSDAY 7.00pm - FRIDAY Midnight
30A Redchurch Street
LONDON E2

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The Night Gallery is a series of late openings curated by select artists and designers. The ‘night’ openings run from 7pm until the late morning with a curated music program and fully licensed bar. Performances will take place at the rear of the gallery in the The Night Gallery Rehearsal Room.
There will be a limited Edition print to buy on the night as well as the art work exhibited.

DJs
Douglas Hart (Jesus and Mary Chain)
Wildcat Will (Beth Orton / Whitey)
Luke and Rusty’s Rodeo Show
Ricardo Garcia
Wavey Davey
Russell autoKratz (Bad Life)

Live
Volume Courbe
Arrows Of Love