Burning Bridges
13th June – 22nd June – 11am – 6pm
Preview 12th June 2008 6pm – 9pm
Campbarbossa, Gallery Nosco and Planet Patrol in association with Brahma beer are pleased to present their upcoming summer show, Burning Bridges, a multicultural exhibition showcasing some of the hottest established and emerging artists in the urban art movement today.
Street artists from across the world will be exhibiting, many in the UK for the first time including: Stormie Mills from Australia; Alexandros Vasmoulakis, Matt Small, Cum* and Herakut from Europe, Mantis and Kareem Lotfy from Africa, Ethos and Bruno 9LI from South America; Labrona and Other from North America and many more…
Preview is on the 12th June for invites contact info@thebricklanegallery.com
the exhibition will be open to the public from Friday the 13th June until the 22nd of June 2008.
In the lead up to the show, a live painting event will also be taking place on Friday the 6th of June from 6pm to 9pm at Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3AY.
Contributing artists will be Dave the Chimp, Labrona vs Gawd and Alexandros Vasmoulakis with music from DJ Dante Gabriel (Planet Patrol resident) and DJ Aya (Tokyo-Boombox Records)- a unique opportunity to see these street artists work whilst enjoying a beer and some tunes.
12th – 22nd June, Brick Lane Gallery - 196 Brick Lane, London, E1 6SA
CampBarbossa Artists:
Labrona: Legendary Freight Train Painter keeping Moniker Culture alive and well. “A train yard is like a forever-changing outdoor art gallery”. Canadian artist Labrona is a painter who is best known for using trains as his canvas. With his distinctive style reminiscent of German Expressionism Labrona uses oil sticks over more traditional graffiti methods.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/labrona
Other: Canadian Freight train Painter and keeper of the faith. Other AKA Troy Lovegates, painter, printer and global traveller, often collecting ‘found’ wood/metal/books on his travels and using these objects as his canvas and his surroundings as his inspiration. Other paints out of love and the ‘process of creation’ and not to suit someone’s trendy living room.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/other
Sweet Toof: …boasts an impressive CV including a BA Hon's in painting & printmaking, diploma in Painting at the Royal Academy Schools-London together with many awards. “For the future, I want to get myself into something big and take a big bite”. Sweet Toof has hit the East End hard with spray paint, paste-ups and virtual installations on a grand scale often with his partner in crime….
www.beforechrome.com
Cyclops: When asked to write a bio for himself, Cyclops would only forward the following: "At
present I am working closely on a series of shows with the friends of Tony Romanoff”. When
pressed further, the only information we could gather was a mangled quote, allegedly originating from Walt Whitman "I begin now, hoping to cease not until death"
www.beforechrome.com
Mantis: Born and raised on the Dark Continent of Africa and later educated on the streets of
London, Mantis travels the globe gazing out in reverie at the streets like a cultural anthropologist leaving behind him his thoughts in the form of street art, a devious but often insightful reminder of life's grim realities. Although full of hope his work rides and questions on the darker edge of the social conscience
www.themantisproject.co.uk
Beejoir: His trademark slurs and political rants have appeared on walls from Bangkok to Shoreditch. After his sell out show in Asia he was headlined at the 'Found' show in the summer of 2007 where he created quite a stir. An epic artist responsible for some powerful and iconic images.
www.beejoir.co.uk
Mr Jago: a pioneer of the doodle, founder member of Scrawl Collective and a well respected figure in the street art movement. Influenced from classic Marvel comics, graffiti and hip-hop culture have help forge his unique freehand style. Jago has worked with some of the biggest international brands such as Nike, Puma, Xbox, Yohji Yamamoto & Boxfresh to name a few.
http://www.mrjago.com
Herakut: German Duo - “Opposites attract. Opposites attack.” - A collaboration of the aliases Hera and Akut, two graffiti artists from Frankfurt and Erfurt. Working together since they met in 2004, they combine contrasting styles of both spray paint and traditional painting methods in their highly stylised street works.
http://www.herakut.de/
Ethos: Prolific Street artist from Sao Paulo, Brazil, now making waves in Europe. A master with oth the pen and the spray can.
http://www.ekosystem.org/tag/ethos
Stormie Mills: On a dark wet night in 1984, Stormie ventured out into the street scapes and made his first mark in the world. Since then Stormie has carved a distinctive niche for his work that has seen him showcased internationally to critical acclaim. “Look beyond the surface to find real beauty amidst the Decay”
http://www.stormie.com.au
Gawd: Christopher developed his style outside the studio, within the urban landscape. Freight trains and buildings were his original canvas. The nature of graffiti art informs his rhythm and his imagery, the raw interaction between art and the urban landscape reflects in his work.
www.flickr.com/people/mygawd
Matt Small: Matt Small’s work has strong urban roots. Painting directly onto found objects bringing physical elements of the city directly into his work. The people he paints are filmed anonymously on the streets of London. In this way, Matthew focuses on creating portrait painting at its best, when the identity of the sitter is of lesser importance than the power and insight of the piece.
www.mattysmall.com
The London Police: … started when big English geezers headed to Amsterdam in 1998 and started rejuvenating the visually disappointing streets of the drug capital of the world. The characters known simply as "LADS" soon held an iconic presence in the city. “Never be scared, don’t be a hero”
www.thelondonpolice.com
Case: A member of the notorious German 4 piece Crew. The story began in 1999, when Akut, Case and Rusk were working on common projects. 2001 and incoming was Tasso and the Maclaim crew were formed, producing some of the best photorealistic graffiti in the world today.
http://maclaim.de
Gallery Nosco Artists:
CUM*: Based in Ghent, Belgium, the trio known as Cum* have been making their "fucking erotic street entertainment" since 2002. Their work began with a stencil of a pin-up girl and has evolved, with a great deal of influence by the massive amounts of pornography readily available on the internet, into a sexual free for all.
http://www.cuminthestreets.com/
Alexandros Vasmoulakis: Born in 1980 and of Greek origin he now lives & works in Paris where his highly distinctive and prolific work can be seen on the streets. With a natural instinct for scale & composition he has produced stunning pieces on doors, telephone boxes, hoardings & the sides of buildings up to 10 storeys tall.
http://www.zap51.com
UNO: Remy started his first graffiti in 1996 and became rapidly obsessed with texture and pattern. During the years he developed a unique technique and mainly spray paints portraits.
In 2002 he founded the collective Armada. His style has led him to be invited to paint murals from Mexico to Finland and from France to the US.
Juan Francisco Casas: Casas paints large size oil canvases where he reproduces images he takes with his camera. He also produces amazingly lifelike works using nothing more than the common biro. During 2005 he participated, together with important artists such as Damien Hirst, Neo Rauch or Maurizio Cattelan, at the International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Prague. His work can be found in important collections and museums like the ARTIUM and Carthasis
www.juanfrancisocasas.com
Laser 3.14: Everyone has a similar story about laser 3.14. He is a near legend of Amsterdam, as army's of people find his art in new places all the time in reaction to his never tiring efforts offinding new places to put his words. In a world of repetitive throw up tags and images that seem formless, he has taken the power of the word and put it in to a new context day by day, moment by moment, to be shared by as all.
www.laser314.com/
Hugo Mulder: Hugo is a graphic designer, street artist and painter from Amsterdam. He began experimenting with graffiti in 1984 getting into graphic design in 1990 - and returning to the streets with stickers and paste-ups in 2001. He creates hand painted canvases exploring the timeless unity between word and image. Hugo is also part of Amsterdam’s artist collective KMDG.
www.dhmdesign.nl
Kareem Lotfy: Kareem is an artist both fascinated and amused by the heady mix of middle eastern & western cultures in his native Egypt. His work is a satirical reflection on this clash. He prefers not to stick with one medium and works in digital, screen printing, stencilling, oils and handmade illustrations.
http://kareemlotfy.com/
Phillippe Marthien: Born in Lyon, France in 1980 Philippe Marthien works and lives in Paris. He is a street photographer with an eye for the unusual who captures everyday life objects while travelling through urban landscapes. His new work is a series called ‘Solitudes’ which he produced whilst in the USA
http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/454038
Planet Patrol Artists:
Dave The Chimp: Born in an egg on a mountain top, Dave the Chimp paints graffiti without his name, and makes fanzines to switch on your brain. He has exhibited in London, Tokyo, Portland (Oregon), Hamburg, Munich, Milan, Luxembourg and Barcelona. He continues to bomb the streets under a variety of secret identities. Painting and skating keep the noose from around his neck.
www.davethechimp.co.uk
Bruno 9li: Bruno 9LI's work is inspired by alchemical imagery that is wildly imaginative and
meticulously realized. The last five years have seen this graphic designer and street artist become an artist of international renown. Within this short period of time Bruno has held three major solo shows, with a forth exhibition due in August at the Anno Domini Gallery, California. The coming year will see this prodigious talent flourish with news of Bruno 9LI's first major exhibition in London!
