Biography
This artist is responsible for perhaps the most recognizable street art stunt of the last decade. In a planet-wide war of attrition, the pixilated expansionist aliens from Toshiro Nishikado''s infamous 1978 arcade game Space Invaders stalked the Earth one more, appearing everywhere from on the 'Hollywood'' letters to Jacques Chirac''s lapel. Despite a counter-attack in Los Angeles, where a local ''vigilante'' group fought back against the Invaders defiling any they saw, eighty-five percent of the original put-ups remain.Gallic in origin, Space Invader''s work is distinctly
Invader''s new gallery pieces are made up from hundreds of original Rubik''s cubes (we''re not telling you where they''re from, but we have loads out the back). Ranging from interpretations of iconic images (the Mona Lisa, Alex from A Clockwork Orange) to the abstract (representations of fragmented and de-fragmented hard drives), the Rubik''s pieces are as instantly recognizable as Space''s Invaders, and on their way to becoming just as internationally recognized. No little square stickers were peeled off and moved around in the making of these artworks.
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David Choe and DVS - Wenlock Road, N1, Great Western Studios, W9, and Perry's Place, W1
Charlie Isoe - Kean Street, WC2 and Prestwood Street, N1
Vhils - Oval Road, NW1, and Truman Brewery, E1
Paul Insect - Broadwick Street, W1, and Southwick Mews, W2
Mode 2 - Rathbone Place, W1
Teach - Great Western Studios, W9, and Shelton Street, WC2
Invader - Truman Brewery, E1, and balloons tied to practically every lamp post in W1
Lucy McLauchlan - St John's Hill, SW11
Conor Harrington - Mercer Street, WC2
Many thanks, as always, to Ian Cox for the superb photography and dedication to comprehensively documenting the project, and to all of the artists involved in the event, many of whom proved without doubt that painting in the rain is both stupid and clever at the same time.
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David Choe and DVS - Wenlock Road, N1, Shoreditch House, E1, Great Western Studios, W9, and Perry's Place, W1
Charlie Isoe - Kean Street, WC2, Prestwood Street, N1, and Wenlock Road, N1
Vhils - Oval Road, NW1, and Truman Brewery, E1
Paul Insect - Broadwick Street, W1, and Southwick Mews, W2
Mode 2 - Rathbone Place, W1
Teach - Great Western Studios, W9, and Shelton Street, WC2
Invader - Truman Brewery, E1, and balloons tied to practically every lamp post in W1
Lucy McLauchlan - St John's Hill, SW11
Conor Harrington - Mercer Street, WC2
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This new series of 30 original works, entitled 'Ode to Autumn', will be the very last of the Leaf Studies on paper ever to be released, and are priced at a frankly ridiculous £250 (inc. VAT) each. All purchases will of course be dealt with in the strictest of confidence and packaged in plain brown paper, with the word 'PORN' written on the outside in huge letters.
Personal callers at the Shop should additionally be thrilled to find they can also enjoy a collection of Jonathan's paintings, collages and prints, old and new, displayed throughout the gallery.
And that's not all, because to celebrate the end of Invader's amazing 'Low Fidelity' solo show at our Rathbone Place gallery, we're releasing an exhibition catalogue that not only accompanies this body of work, but also features much of his outdoor pieces from 2009. The book is now available from Shop at Lazarides, Rathbone Place, and Lazarides Quayside for only £9 per copy. Bon, non?
