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
Zevs is not only one of the most political artists within Lazarides’ already partisan roster, he is becoming seen as one of the more inspired practitioners of mischievous street work. His Liquidated Logos series, first displayed at the Soho gallery in November 2007, are arguably the most direct and recognisable examples of the oeuvre.
His activity on the street has drawn much controversy and attention from the ‘high art’ world, blurring as it does the line between ‘street pieces’, conceptual art, and plain old-fashioned angry vandalism. Most notorious were his examples of ‘visual kidnapping’ where Zevs removed entire figures from over-sized adverts. At Berlin Alexanderplatz a vast, garish, hanging billboard for Lavazza coffee found itself without its female lead. Zevs ‘demanded’ a 500,000 Euro donation to the Palais de Tokyo art gallery in Paris for her return. Other techniques have included simply ‘cleaning’ a picture onto a dirty wall using high pressure steam cleaners, obviously toying with the notion of whether graffiti is a blight upon the landscape or a complement to it.
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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”.
There were 500 copies printed. 100 copies have been signed and are £45. The unsigned copies are £20.
Please call the gallery on +44 (0)20 7214 0055 to place an order.
Anyone who came to the preview will have realised 2 things;
1. Zevs is in his own planet. It has its own weather, orbit, language and rules.
2. That raspberry, ginger beer and vodka are made for each other.
Liquidated Logos brings together a collection of work and ideas that along with a documentary, expertly places us at the centre of his universe.
Zevs, a man who's made making a mark his trade.
Thanks again to TIGER.
