Thanks to all that came, Tiger for the beer and Oval for the Vodka and Mr jazz dance ... if there's a better reason for staying fully clothed in an art gallery I haven't seen one.
Biography
Despite being runner-up in the National Portrait Gallery's BP/Amaco Portrait of the Year prize in 2000, Anthony has always turned down portrait commissions insisting not only that he's a figurative painter, but that he could never see himself "inflicting brutal emotions on somebody I didn't know." At once colourfully beautiful and deeply troubling, Anthony's work examines our dichotomous relationship with consumerism, examining how we can maintain to despise multi-national brands yet still allow ourselves to be seduced by them. "The trouble with pop imagery is that it doesn't really go deeper than the surface" he says. "You have to drag it down and challenge it to make it interesting. When you put two contrasting images together, it causes friction, and that is the bit I'm interested in. Play a Britney Spears track and then follow it with a Nine Inch Nails tune - Britney no longer sounds the same, the union of two opposites make an intriguing and strange chemistry." Described as 'Caravaggio meets Manga' and 'Bacon in Disneyland' this strong cocktail has already seen Anthony become enormously popular with collectors such as REM's Michael Stipe.
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Thanks to all that came, Tiger for the beer and Oval for the Vodka and Mr jazz dance ... if there's a better reason for staying fully clothed in an art gallery I haven't seen one.
The day before our opening preview, we found Kelsey “Jesus with a tan” Brookes, wandering the streets by the river looking for tramps to have beard-offs with. Nothing unusual about that of course, just that Kelsey doesn't live in Newcastle, he lives in San Diego and had decided to pop over for the opening of our spanking new gallery, as you do when you're only 6,000 miles round the corner. Quite how Antony Micallef, Jonathan Yeo, Zevs, Ben Turnbull and Miranda Donovan found their own way from London to Newcastle is anyone's guess, we don't even titter at questions like “which tube line stops there?” anymore. But find it they did, a great venue in a great city. Find it for yourself, it's obviously not difficult.
Thanks to Tiger beer for understanding “it's Newcastle, we'll need twice as much beer as they do in London”.
Please note the prints being released by POW are different to the lithographs we are releasing on Wednesday.
The details are as follows:
The four lithographs will be released for purchase on Wednesday 19th September 2007 and can ONLY be bought IN PERSON from the Lazarides gallery at 8 Greek Street, London. The gallery will open from 9 am - 6 pm that day.
The titles and details of the four designs are as follows:
Improvised Minotaur - 94 cm x 65 cm -edition 400 - signed and numbered - £1000 + vat (£1175) each.
Uzi Lover 1- 68 cm x 65 cm -edition 400 - signed and numbered - £1000 + vat (£1175) each.
Uzi Lover 2 - 68 cm x 65 cm - edition 400 - signed and numbered - £1000 + vat (£1175) each.
Peace Keeper - 96 cm x 67 cm - edition 400 - signed and numbered - £1000 + vat (£1175) each. The Lazarides gallery in London will be selling 200 of each lithograph, the rest will be sold during the Micallef show Impure Idols, which will take place in Los Angeles, USA, from the 19th - 29th September 2007.
As aforementioned, customers will ONLY be able to purchase IN PERSON from the Lazarides gallery at Greek Street. We will NOT be taking any payments via email or orders over the telephone from UK residents.
If you are an overseas customer (i.e not a UK resident), and therefore unable to come to the gallery in person, we have set aside 20 of each lithograph that can be purchased via emailing us using the Artwork - Sales / Enquiry contact form on our website ONLY (http://www.lazinc.com/contact/).
Please email your full name, contact telephone number, your overseas billing address and overseas delivery address (if different from your billing). We will be working on a first come first served basis and contact you on Thursday 20th September to let you know if you have been successful. We will not be accepting any email requests placed before 9 am (GMT) on Wednesday 19th September 2007.
There will be a shipping cost (sent via FEDEX) for overseas customers. We will be able to provide a quote for shipping once we have your full delivery address. It will take up to 28 days between purchasing, packing and shipping.
We can only sell one set of the four lithographs per customer. However, they do not have to be purchased as a set of four.
All four lithographs will be on display at the gallery for you to view in person.
In addition to the lithographs we will also be selling the revamped edition of the Micallef book (this is an unlimited edition and not signed). It is priced at £25. Books will be available for purchase along with the lithograph release, and in the usual way (telephone orders or email orders) from Friday 21st September.
The preferred methods of payments are via credit/ debit card but we will take cash - no cheques please.
Provenance letters will NOT be issued for any of these lithographs, your receipt will act as authenticity.
For directions to the gallery please visit the website: http://www.lazinc.com/contact/
Please note the gallery will be closed on Tuesday 18th September so we can prepare.
Uzi Lover 1
Improvised Minotaur
Uzi Lover 2
Peacekeeper
Book cover
Inside book
