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Biography

Brooklyn-based artist Bast has been an intricate part of the street art scene for the past 10 years throughout New York and Europe, where his wheat-pasted images feature prominently across the urban landscape.

Interestingly the artist has remained an elusive character that has rarely been seen in public and whose very existence has been debated. Little is known of his work outside of what the public sees throughout New York’s urban environment, but fortunately, more has become known as Bast’s images have evolved to gallery-exhibition status in recent years.

Available Art

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Archive

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News

New BAST online at The Outsiders!

1st October 2010
Marking the end of Bast's hugely successful 'Botulism' solo show at Lazarides Rathbone gallery, The Outsiders is proud to present 'French Kiss', an exclusive online release from Brooklyn's finest. Despite being described as a print, each of the 15 editions is hand painted from top to toe, even the background, making each one different to the next. Please note that Bast has really gone to town on painting these day-glo delights, so they've been around a bit and are what we'd term 'artist quality', so expect lumps, bumps and bruises. After all, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, right?

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UNFRAMED by JR

7th September 2010
Unframed is an unprecedented urban project created for the city of Vevey in Switzerland. The urban installations mark a new artistic direction for JR who appropriated the images from the collections of the Musée de l’Elysée: the works of great photographers and anonymous authors become the material of his performances. JR immersed himself in these collections to bring a new approach and change the context of some major icons in the history of photography including the work of Robert Capa, Man Ray, Gilles Caron, Helen Levitt, Mario Giacomelli, Lucia Moholy, John Phillips and Sebastião Salgado. He then displays reproductions of these icons on facades which serve as ‘an exhibition space’.

The project will travel the world where the same images will tell different stories. In a society that revolves around the image, any reading of an image depends on context. Furthermore, a minaret pasted onto the heart of a Swiss town would not have the same meaning as in a Muslim country or in another European country. We interpret every day images through our own frame of reference and personal history.

This minaret forms part of 14 works on show in Vevey, amongst which “The young priests ” by Mario Giacomelli is posted on a church; “Woman with long hair ” by Man Ray is pasted on the Saint Jean Tower; a photo by Gilles Caron taken in 1969 of a man hiding a stone in his fist behind him; the dressing of a building with a photo on the façade by Robert Capa where we see German snipers during the siege of Leipzig; the juxtaposition of a photo by Helen Levitt of a prostitute wrapping the wall of the old prison of Vevey.

The festival takes place from the 4th to the 26th of September 2010.

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Bast's 'Botulism' solo show now open

25th August 2010
Bast's 'Botulism' solo show is now open at our Rathbone Place gallery, and it's ruddy marvelous.

All photo's ©Ian Cox.
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BAST - Humpty Print available to purchase now

20th August 2010
BAST's 'Humpty' print is now available to purchase online from shopatlazarides.com and in person from The Outsiders.
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Deluxx Fluxx website!

18th March 2010
For all of folks that were not in London these past few weeks to experience the show in person, The Faile Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade now has a website - http://deluxxfluxx.com! You can browse through the various interactive artworks, download ringtones and screensavers, see images of the show, and much more!