Posts Tagged ‘group shows’
Urban Superstar: Back from Black and Napoli Comicon
Following the successful 2009 Superstar show, Jon is currently in Naples for another round of the Urban Superstar Show curated by David Vecchiato. The 2010 event is entitled Back from Black and boasts a roster of:
Amy Sol, Anthony Ausgang, Alberto Corradi, AlePOP, Alessandro Rak, Prof. Bad Trip, (Gianluca Lerici), Basil Wolverton, Bigfoot, Blu, Boris Hoppek, Brendan Danielsson, Buff Monster, Camilla D’Errico, Camilla Falsini, Catalina Estrada, Cesko, Charles Burns, Ciou, Daniel Clowes, Dave Cooper, Dave McKean, DEM, Diavù (David Vecchiato), Fidia, Francesca Ghermandi, Gary Baseman, Gary Taxali, Gianluca Costantini, Gilbert Shelton, Gio Pistone, Glenn Barr, Hitnes, Ian Stevenson, Jamie Hewlett, Jeremy Fish, Jim Avignon, Joe Ledbetter, Jon Burgerman, Laurina Paperina, Licia Viero, Lina Hoven, Lisa Petrucci, Marco About, Massimo Giacon, Matti Hagelberg, Michael Sieben, Mike Davis, Mr. Wany, Paper Resistance, Paul Chatem, Ray Caesar, Robert Crumb, Scarful, Sergio Mora, Shag, Squaz, Tara McPherson, Tokidoki (Simone Legno), Victor Castillo, Zelda Bomba, Zoe Lacchei
Here’s what you need to know:
WHERE: MADRE, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples. Via Luigi Settembrini 79, Napoli – tel. +39 0815624561
WHEN: May 1st to June 14th, 2010
WHAT: MADRE and Napoli COMICON present Urban Superstar Show Festival, first edition of the first Festival that a Contemporary Art Museum dedicates in Europe to Underground Art, Pop Surrealism, Lowbrow Art and Urban Art, which are to say the new artistic currents which better represent the contemporaneity. Italian artist David Vecchiato has mustered lots and lots of fellows from all over the world into Naples MADRE for 4 collective exhibitions for the year 2010 and will keep on gathering, in his capacity as curator, leading figures of an art movement which is destined to become the new Contemporary Art avant-garde. Vecchiato’s aim is to propose a critical order among different artistic trends.
The exhibition opening the Festival, on May, the 1st, 2010, is Back from Black. From bright Pop to dark Underground. And back. Urban Superstar Show Festival wants to clarify the origins and the stylistic divisions, thus the currents of this Underground or Lowbrow Art, or this “low profile” Art that, as it’s analysed in Vecchiato’s writing, is actually the only one able to tell with extreme clearness about the juxtapposition between fiction and reality in which Western Countries are lately living.
It looks like Italy is also going to be treated to an Anxieteam performance! Tweets Jon:
I’m doing a signing and doodling with Jim Avignon at the Napoli Comicon tomorrow. And the later we’ll do a singing and dancing.
If we have any Posse members in Italy, please take pictures and I’ll send you stickers!
Kicks-n-Canvas Video
Check out this video from the Kicks-n-Canvas show. We like when non-traditional art objects are given the fine art treatment. Cheers to SoleHeaven and Zero Cool Gallery for making this event happen. Love to see these end up as production footwear in our Sneakers category. Just sayin’.
Custom Vinyl Rody
Everybody at Doodlesplatter is always excited when there’s the potential for a new Jon Burgerman toy. We think that the rumored collab with Amanda Visell may have been just that (a rumor), so the current fate of new JB toys lies in the hands (hooves) of an Italian horse named Rody. Rody was licensed by a Japanese company called Jammy, turned into a vinyl toy by intheyellow and is now the subject of a group custom toy show sponsored by the great folks at Paradise Toy Land in Taipei. Jon is representing all of England amongst an excellent roster that also includes Bwana Spoons, Uamou and Tim Biskup (and Tim Biskup’s daughter). The show is currently up and running (trotting) in Taipei.
For those of you keeping count, this is actually Jon’s SECOND custom horse toy. The first was Pizza Face Pony for the My Little Pony Project in 2008. Perhaps if Rody is successful overseas, we’ll eventually get a production version. But let’s not put the cart before the horse. OK I’ll quit horsing around with the puns now!
Small Favors at Giant Robot
Small Favors, a show of about 70 artists working in mini-size, opened tonight at Giant Robot in New York. Jon’s pieces (particularly when viewed together) have a much more definitively downer tone than the My American Summer work he did for GRNY less than a year ago. This tends to make me think that it’s the chilly Nottingham air that is rendering Jon–much like the color of the paper in the work shown above–blue. Come back to America, Mr. Burgerman! (And will you bring your solution to standard-sounding indie music, aka Anxieteam, too?)
Re: Pokemon
Jon is among seven artists participating in an exhibition inspired by Pokemon.
To celebrate the new Pokémon HeartGold Version and Pokémon SoulSilver Version releases on the Nintendo DS & Nintendo DSi, VICE asked seven of their favourite artists to reinvent those strange little Japanese creatures from the 90s, creating the Pokémon inspired artworks below, entitled RE: Pokémon.
The exhibition will be held from March 25th-March 31st at Blackall Studios in Shoreditch, London. Jon has been known to play a bit of Wii, and did the illustrations for Game On at the London Museum of Science in 2006.
Kicks-n-Canvas Custom Sneakers
I’ve often said that sneaker collectors and toy collectors have a lot in common, chiefly: recognizing art and value in something most people regard as disposable. The sneakerheads at SoleHeaven got together with the art crew of Zero Cool Gallery to merge their passions into the Kicks ‘n’ Canvas exhibition. The show is set to open in central London on April 8th and will feature artists such as Goldie, INSA, Dan Baldwin, Meggs, Ben Frost, Mr. Jago and Dickchicken alongside Jon.
SoleHeaven presents Kicks n Canvas, a fresh concept on the art scene. The idea for the event is to bring together two of SoleHeaven’s most loved pursuits - Kicks & Art. We’ve locked down a scorching line-up of 21 artists primed and ready to paint. The concept of the show is to confront traditional graffiti writers and artists with a new canvas, and thats a pair of pristine all-white Nike kicks. We are throwing down the sneaker gauntlet to see them transfer their styles from the metal shutters, concrete bridges and underpasses on to a pair of trainers. Every artist will be hand painting and customizing a pair of kicks and teaming it up with a 50×50cm piece.
The Doodlesplatter posse knows that Jon is no stranger to footwear. These are especially cool-looking kicks, in my opinion. I’m digging the backs (or is that called “Heel Counter” in sneaker-speak…). Thanks to Anthony at Zero Cool for providing the photos. Unfortunately, I’m an ocean away from attending this event, but if you’re on the right continent, check out Kicks ‘n’ Canvas by RSVPing here.
Breasticles for Peepshow
Offset, a group that puts together Ireland-based creative events, asked the “sauciest creatives around what turns them on for an X-rated gallery show” at the Monster Truck Gallery. The images explored “their darkest, erotic, sexy thoughts and weird fetishes.” The show was so hot, it could only be held for a few days, and ran from November 2nd to November 8th in Dublin. Jon’s piece, Breasticles, which he referred to as “probably the rudest thing I’ve ever drawn” was in good company with art by Tim Biskup, Tara McPherson, Serge Seidlitz, TADO and Jeremyville.
MODART Group Show at thinkspace
While most of us were focused on Jon’s August events in New York, Los Angeles not-so-quietly celebrated 20 issues of MODART magazine with a group show at thinkspace. Jon had 5 pieces in the show, which counted art stars like Tim Biskup and celebrities like Ashton Kutcher and Punky Brewster among the attendees. You can check out all the art here, and then hit up this link for availability and pricing. If you’re short on bandwidth, Jon’s pieces are all mixed media on paper (framed), measuring 23 x 16 and run $500-$600. Photos after the jump. The show runs through September 4th.
Pointing the Finger of Blame by Jon Burgerman
Brooklyn Bailout Burlesque
Next Friday, August 14th, Jon and Jim return to Factory Fresh in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYC for a group art show entitled Brooklyn Bailout Burlesque. There will be an opening party Friday from 7-10PM. On August 21st, patrons will be treated to a live performance by ANXIETEAM. (There’s a good chance Doodlesplatter’s pals, I Heart Cool Stuff, will stream the event.)
The show runs through August 30th and also features work by Roman de Milk & Wodka (Switzerland), Ema (France), Asuka Ohsawa (Japan), Daniel Dueck (Brooklyn) and Christine Young (Brooklyn).
Here’s some info from Factory Fresh. A photo of ANXIETEAM and one of Jon’s pieces for the show follow after the jump.
The art world, global companies, complex societies and every small individual all have one problem in common: how to deal with the crisis. When money goes wrong nothing goes right. Many in the high society of art dreamt the dream of instant success and big overnight money, but the awakening was rough and most of the ambitious collectors had gone with the wind. So how can one stay in a market that barely exists in this time, where money displays a rather strange behaviour.
Cute & Dangerous Video
Here’s a fun and random little video from June’s Cute & Dangerous show that recently hit my inbox. It features some chatter with Jon and other artists involved in the event. The piece was done by Kian of Americano Agency.
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