Super Smooth

Celebrating the launch of their first book Super Smooth, featuring work from their first year in Los Angeles, plus some gems from the past, Dabs Myla are taking over Revolver Upstairs, transforming the backroom with art installations you won’t want to miss seeing.

The first edition of their book Super Smooth is limited to 100 copies worldwide, those purchased on the night will be signed and numbered by the artists and the first 50 sold come with a free limited edition Burn/Dabs Myla t-shirt!

Dabs Myla will also be there on the night customising books.

Tunes from Ms Butt, Dust and Danielsan.

Wednesday 7th April, 6pm — ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Revolver Upstairs
229 Chapel St
Prahran, VIC 3181

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More on Dabs Myla
Dabs is a prolific illustrator and graffiti artist who spent his teenage years growing up in Melbourne in the Early ‘90s. The graffiti scene influenced him greatly in his style and technique. These days Dabs’ characters come to life in more contextualized environments than ever before, whether they are painted on walls in the streets, or on canvases for a gallery setting.

Myla was also raised in Melbourne where she was obsessed with detailed painting and drawing from an early age. Throughout her life Myla has continued to develop her artistic ways, and now concentrates on detailed cities and landscapes. Three years ago, along with Dabs, they combined forces to solely collaborate on their works together.

For the past 12 months Dabs and Myla have been living and working in Hollywood. In a town where many of the world’s high-profile artist’s reside the two have made a name for themselves, working for established people such as Disney, Hummer and Green Day.

The media caught onto the buzz and their work featured in renowned publications Desktop Magazine, Sneaker Freaker and Juxtapoz.

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.

Kings Way is, without a doubt, the most significant piece of literature on the beginnings of Australian and in particular Melbourne’s graffiti culture that has ever been produced. It acts as a bible, chronicle and visual encyclopaedia of the evolution and rise of this influential subculture through 80s and early 90s and pays tribute to Melbourne’s early writers and crews that helped build their city’s international reputation as a graffiti style capital.

Mapping the progression of styles, influences and key players in the graf scene the attention to detail is unmatched. Over the last two years co-authors and Australian graffiti veterans Duro Cubrilo, Martin Harvey and Karl Stamer have painstakingly crafted Kings Way into a 384 page book featuring over 12 hundred full-colour images with contributions by over 60 people including the likes of Bathy, Chose, Duel, Duet, Krisy, Merda, New2, Paris, Peril, Puzle, Ransom and Ron the Train Driver. A serious task.

As well as the regular edition of the book which will be available from July 1st, 2009 for AUD$64.99, the guys will also be releasing 200 hand-numbered limited edition versions of the book which feature a protective slipcase box, foil detail, unique end paper design and images and are each individually signed by the authors.

Don’t sleep on this one.

more book pics here.
words from lifelounge
Kings Way blog.

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“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