Just had confirmation for our guest spot next wednesday and we are proud to announce it’s Tom Furse from The Horrors! We’ve gone for a Tropical Electronics theme to the night so expect a wide range of humid and brightly coloured sounds emanating from the system.

Come on down and bring your mosquito repellant and sun creams.

Big Chill Bar,
91-95 Drays Walk (off Brick Lane)
London E2 6QL

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Rotterdam artist Ron van der Ende never grew up, and I and a lot of his fans out there are glad of the fact. Lost in the daydreams of a childhood spent watching and helping his father in his industrial workshop Ron's naturally honed skill for model making led him to create some of the strangest sculptures out there. Rather than having any particular style, Ron has a methodology, a passion, a compulsion for pilfering scrap wood and 'skinning' a 3mm thin painted veneer from its surface. This is his 'paint', found colours applied by strangers or machine and weathered by nature to give his work an almost photographic surface detail.

To call his work 'wood relief' would almost be an insult, the heightened sense of reality in his art is astounding, as he says himself he 'lives on the very edge of painting and sculpture. Since a child Ron van der Ende has been an avid painter, eventually going on to study painting at art school. His understanding of colour and tone being essential to the hyperreal quality of detail in each of his bas relief pieces. The bulk of his work focuses around transport, such as cars, planes, ships, and even the infrastructure surrounding it. Here's what he has to say about cars "Cars evoke our individuality but at the same time they are the symbol of environmental catastrophe, of unsustainability."

I should reiterate that his collaged sculptures are in fact flat, using various tricks of perspective and foreshortening this guy has managed to lead the visual cortex up the proverbial garden path of logic and over the cliff edge of confusion, especially if you get the opportunity to inspect the reverse side of his work. I think that maybe the point, the real driving force behind his work, besides the ecological message there's a sense that Ron van der Ende brims with boyish enthusiasm, both for the technological toys of mankind, and for pulling the wool over the eyes of his punters, however temporarily the 'trick' might last.

His technique is based upon practicality, mostly taking inspiration from found images, especially on the net, it's obvious that anything but a single viewpoint is difficult to achieve without more source material, i.e photographs of an object from every angle. After spending 8 weeks struggling with one full scale sculpture of a car Ron had a flash of inspiration, with the aid of a few simple perspectival tricks he would never look back.

One admission in an interview at www.diskursdisko.de he confesses, much to my delight, that he takes a great deal of inspiration from music. "Music works like a reality check to me. I’m not sure if it directly informs my art but listening to fresh and challenging music is important to me when I work in my studio. It keeps me in the moment. I’m always looking for new stuff." What's funny is that at art college our grouch of a lecturer hated us playing music in the studio, he couldn't understand how artists could concentrate 'with that racket blaring out'. It's nice to see I'm not alone in the opinion that music is an inspiration, no matter what your creative background.

Check out the rest of his amazing work at www.ronvanderende.nl, and by the way, do believe your eyes!

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More about Sail here.

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Wee detail of one of the two decks I’ve done for the Deckades show that Howies and Shiner are putting on for a month in their (Howies) Bristol shop. Tons of boards from the past alongside custom boards created specially for the show.
Click here for more info and a mouth watering trailer…!

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unfortunately the Split Cream show has been delayed. More info to follow…

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Two beauties from David Ellis are available NOW.

Saint Flow 1 and Saint Flow 2 are available here: http://bit.ly/coyTFG.

Until next time.

The Wall Pimper

For more great art visit my gallery at www.pimpyourwalls.co.uk

If you’re an artist, run a gallery or publish prints, feel free to send me details of what you’ve got, and if I like what I see, I’ll give you a plug. Click here for a big-up.

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unfortunately the Split Cream show has been delayed. More info to follow…

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Robert Pokorny, aka RIP, is a fine painter.

Buy his work here http://bit.ly/a6eMpN and here: http://bit.ly/2792ba.

Until next time.

The Wall Pimper

For more great art visit my gallery at www.pimpyourwalls.co.uk

If you’re an artist, run a gallery or publish prints, feel free to send me details of what you’ve got, and if I like what I see, I’ll give you a plug. Click here for a big-up.

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ARMO Gallery Opens in Berkeley, California – Wild New Graffiti/Graphic Art

When we first saw Armo’s art it blew us away, huge detailed colour explosions and amazing textures.

Armo has announced his new art gallery is open in California (details below), where he is showing some pretty stunning art that combines graffiti and digital typography.

We wanted to know more about the man behind all this, so we asked. He replied…

WG – Where do you come from and what name do you paint as?

ARMO – Born and raised in the Bay area, but currently reside in LA. I’m of Armenian descent.

I paint under the name Armo.

WG – How did you first get into art?

ARMO – I was raised by a single mother, so I spent a lot of time as a kid finding ways to entertain myself. My love of art grew from there.

WG – Do you do mostly art on canvas or in the streets?

ARMO – I do art on canvas, but I like to take my work to the streets where the people can experience it. I also find a lot of inspiration from those who stop by to see my work.

WG – What paint and materials do you like to use?

ARMO – I use a mixed media approach. Masking tape for form and texture, digital layout, ink, acrylic, and spray paint.

WG – What inspires the wild colours and style you have?

ARMO – This is sort of “color therapy”. I like the way the colors create a harmonic balance. It’s all about relationships and how colors feel next to each other and how they balance.

WG – Where is your favourite place to paint?

ARMO – No really favorite place, but like I said earlier I like to take my work to the streets where it can be seen.

WG – What are you up to in 2010?

ARMO – On March 27 I have a showing at Pueblo Nuevo Gallery in LA with another artist who showed with me at Art Basel in 2009.

I am also scouting locations for openings in New Orleans and Boca, Florida in the Fall.

WG – What artists interest you at the moment?

ARMO – I like to follow other former street artists and graffiti artists. I also find a lot of inspiration in German and Swedish artists.

What else is there to know…

He describes himself as being part of the new Alta-Modern movement in mainstream art, and has found a way to combine his love for graffiti art with his interest in typography and graphic design. By combining the two forms, he makes the canvas explode with color and texture.

In December 2009, Armo was the only West Coast Artist to represent Graffiti Gone Global at the prestigious Art Basel art show in Miami, Florida. Many artists go their entire lives without an invitation to present their work in such a high-profile show, and Armo is only 24!

Armo has big plans for the future, and has two more gallery openings planned for the fall.

Where is the gallery?

ARMO – Love Pistols in Color
The Artwork of Armo and Carly Ivan Garcia
Where: Pueblo Nuevo Gallery
1828 San Pablo Ave., Suite 1
Berkeley, CA
Time: 6-11pm
When: Saturday, March 27, 2010.

We’ll keep an eye out, and should be bringing you more stunning photos of ARMO’s work later this week too…

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As we head into the April 16th opening weekend of Exit Through The Gift Shop in New York, San Francisco and LA, Banksy has started to release a series of exclusive videos on the film’s official Youtube channel.

In an extended five minute teaser for the film released today, Banksy for the first time sets up the film’s storyline.

Until today, the only footage online was the trailer which intentionally makes it clear that Banksy doesn’t want to give too of the film’s storyline away

Banksy says in the clip: “The film is the story of what happens when his guy tried to make a documentary about me but he was a lot more interesting than I am, so the film is now kinda about him.”

That guy is a French filmmaker named Terry Guetta. What happens to him in the film is a true case in which truth is stranger than fiction.

The film opens in cinemas across the United States beginning April 16th. For exact cities and theaters check the film’s official website here.

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Astoria Scum River Bridge from Jason Eppink on Vimeo.

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More from Chifumi here.

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Mezzoforte et Mr Qui KLAPSHOP.COM
Uploaded by KLAPTV. – Discover more animation and arts videos.

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ROA’s Solo Show opens Thursday night in London at the Pure Evil Gallery

Pure Evil Gallery
108 Leonard st
London EC2A 4RH

http://www.pureevil.eu

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The newly revamped Trocadero Underground gets a top event this weekend coming as End Of The Line team up to put on a Breakdance and HipHop showcase alongside Eastpak giveaways, graf customised t-shirts, live beatboxing, dance crews and much more…
BREAKDOWN CIRCUS // Trocadero Underground Launch Event
A Breakdance & Hip Hop showcase featuring:

// Eastpak Throwdown Breakdancers
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The Old Inn, Mullion

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“At 12am April 1st, a group of “hactivists” and concerned public citizens infiltrated and hijacked the largest outdoor led screen in the north of England in Manchester for an April Fools day insurrection. The screen – all 7 stories of it, was subverted to display a different message to the 300,000 commuters that allegedly see the advertisements daily. The intervention stayed for 24 hours costing the fat cats over £30,000 of lost revenues”…The Dead Peasants

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From Nazza stencil:

“The sadness and the happiness that walked side to side.

The carnival that is celebrated in Río de Janeiro is famous for samba’s schools which parade opposite to the spectators named “sambódromo”.

The complete city transforms in what goes from the second week of february to celebrate the carnival.

Throughout the world known as “carnival of Río de Janeiro”, the most attractive popular and tourist of brazil.

In Brazil also dies an average of 100 persons a day, which turns to the country into the world champion into absolute number of deaths of this nature, overcoming to countries in conflict as Irak, Israel / Palestina and Colombia.

Only the Brazilian state of Río de Janeiro accumulates 7.027 violent deaths between January and November of 2009, as has reported the regional government.

The police of the city kill three persons every day in R.J.

The images of this artwork generated polemic in the opinions reflected by the local mass media.

Painted en February, 2010 in Brazil with great acceptance on the part of the people who understood that the sadness and the happiness travel side to side in the daily life of the Brazilians.”

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More From Dimitris here.

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