WON ABC BAVARIAN PANDEMONIUM OF ANIMALS AND ZOMBIES
paintings / graphics / sculptures / moving pictures

wonabc exhibition 2009
galery richter masset / wuermtalstr.20 / munich / germany

opening 24th july 2009 / 8pm
exhibition runs 25th july- 29th august 2009
open wed-sat 14-19h

www.wonabc.de
www.galerie-richter-masset.de

C-90 is an exhibition by Australian artist and curator Mark Drew, of cassette tape imagery via canvas, sculpture and illustrative print media. The first part of C-90 took place in Sydney late in 2008, with the June 2009 Melbourne show being all new artwork. The works in this show have been developed from a large scale mural painted at Oxford Art Factory, of his teenage collection of cassette tape spines.

“In a time of MP3 data, the imagery C-90 deals with is quite emotive, recalling the graphic side of personal music collections”. Drew has been behind the scenes of many local art shows, as the co-owner of China Heights gallery.

“einen sommer”
a show by ecb Hendrik Beikirch
May 08 to June 05

Graffiti as aesthetics between art and act of willful damage, sign language for the speed and mobility of modern urban Indians - these characterisations of wall art from the spray can are widely known. With his work on canvas, Hendrik “ecb“ Beikirch now shows that rather than following the pathway from the underground into the respectability of art galleries, graffiti is an art of space and its representation.

He does not transfer the sign language itself from walls onto canvas, but rather captures the topographical scenarios in which this language takes place. Stairways, bridges and arcades are the topics of his canvasses, with a wide sky spanning above as a symbol of anarchy and the open space for which the art of graffiti was originally designed. In these imaginary visions, anonymity and secrecy metamorphose to near photographic perfection. A deliberately minimised colour palette and a blending and running of colours evoke the melancholy of a bygone era, reminiscent of images from the early age of photography. Here, graffiti has been transformed into an art of ephemeral beauty.

pretty portal
gallery for streetart and urban art
Brunnenstrasse 12
40223 Düsseldorf
www.prettyportal.de

Michael Porter is perhaps the best recognised, though most elusive and enigmatic artist to emerge from the Melbourne street art scene over the last 5 years. His obsessive, emotionally charged heads and figures can be seen all over Melbourne on walls, train lines and subterranean tunnels. Highly original and idiosyncratic, Michael’s street paintings distinguish themselves from popular styles both in subject and technique, deriving neither from graffiti writing nor the graphic-driven stencil movement. Michael has pioneered the use of paint rollers and extension poles to create highly detailed public works that are both deeply personal and universal.

Reductivistic in his approach, Michael has said that he looks for the image of the face in the chaos rather than making it. Lusty, anguished, grimacing, laughing, critical, malevolent, impish – Michael Porter’s heads and figures often feature both male and female characteristics, expressing ambiguous states of human nature and frailty that defy simplistic reading but are instinctively understood. Morality is not straight-forward, carnality is easily descended into. We are vulnerable to dark tendencies.

Alongside his prolific legacy of street painting, for the last three years Michael has worked with increasingly ambitious bronze alongside his passion for found materials. Michael has previously shown at Until Never as part of the Trouble With Boys exhibition in 2007, and his first solo show brings together paintings, bronze, ceramics, wood, and paper works.

Gallery hours : Wednesday to Saturday 12-6pm
2nd Floor 3-5 Hosier Lane (Enter from Rutledge Lane) Melbourne AUSTRALIA