[mammal2]

Just a heads up really lads and lasses!


I have been contacting an artist called Adam Koukoudakis recently. A Central Saint Martins Grad whose pieces are really quite amazing and VERY sardonic. I came to know about him after I kept seeing his name print in "2007 Art Names To Watch" type articles - This months ARENA for example. I contacted Adam and he was able to send a number of pics of his work. This work is nothing short of amazing and currently he has signed prints and original canvases for sale. His work was once shown at Laz and I believe if you like his stuff he will beome as big as AM within a couple of years.

Go check him out. His site is www.adamaki.com, though this site is under construction, but you get to see a "bleedin smurf" which I really love and looks beautiful on canvas. I think that if you love the Banksys, Insects, Micallefs of this world you may dig his stuff! I know that he has a number of prints ready to go and as he works out of a basement in London has all his work on memory stick ready to send out through e-mail. I simply wanted to see his work before his site went live to get the op to purchase early if I like his stuff. I am doing just that.

Send the ol man an e-mail at [e-mail] and i'm sure if your polite and love art you will dig the examples of work he sends. If you don't no loss, I just know that many members of this board love fresh work! I thought I would get his name out there. Tell him Danny sent you, ask about prints, ask him anything. Sound bloke.

Oi Oi

Danny ;D

Theres a canvas here for peterbirks.livejournal.com/139571.html a gander. Have fun!

[atkuefler]

Mammal- I PM you

[mammal2]

From all the PMs im getting it seems that Adam is hitting a cord. Have fun. I know he has a print run of 10 for sale at the mo. However, don't know how many have sold! oi oi!

[mammal2]

Hi all, have just recieved an e-mail of Adz, though have not had the chance to reply. This guy is readying some amazing work! Get those e-mails into him. He is more than ready to e-mail you with work that I belive will blow your mind. Smurf on canvas will be a must! Oi Oi. 2007 - This guy will be HUGE! Hope you enjoy the work that he sends. Great prices too! The work that he did for Laz blew my mind!

[bond]

hi there , i took the advice and mailed the lad. He's just sent me some of the work he's done with a price list. At the moment he is not doing lage run prints . Most is canvas to order . I'm going to take a look through a.s.a.p and will in all probability hoover something in . All the best !! ;D

[atkuefler]

Plese PM price list to me. He sent me pics of all his work, but no price list.

Thanks

[bond]

Done mate.

[rydal]

Bond, any chance you could let me have a price list too. I had the same problem, images but no price list. I agree, some of his work is great. Thanks again.

Cheers

[corblimeylimey]

Thanks mammal for the info, I've been in touch and had some emails from him, I like some of his stuff and think he'll be worth keeping an eye on.

My favourite is Image 34, Cheeky fuckin pigz.....

[mammal2]

No worries - I think a bleedin smurf is great! Adam, will do you guys the A1 prints for £195 instead of £250. He will do smaller prnts at £100 instead of £150. Banksy.info early bird deal! Ha!


Adam also mentioned this to me:

The CMYK screen prints of Blair being frogmarched by the riot policeman which are A3 and £150 (The Right To Remain Silent, which is one of the canvasses sold at Laz Gal) at the moment this pricing will be for all the crew that have been pointed my way by you. I am gonna do a run of the smurf canvas at 27"x39" (2ft+X3ft+) also.

Get in before Laz reclaims his boy me thinks! Ha.

Danny

[rydal]

Thanks Bond, £700 for a smurf may be out of my league but may well ask for a smaller canvas, probably the bleedin' kid. Cheers

[bond]

very welcome mate. I think i may go for an A1 cheeky pigs print. - like that one a lot .

Tricky though is'nt it - what seems expensive now may be cheap in a while !! ;D

[mammal2]

WOW the response is amazing!!!

Okay guys having recieved information from Koukoudakis. Here are some extra pics of his work for you to browse through. With the amount of e-mails that Adam is recieving now I really feel that we are going to see a hell of alot of his work around in the coming years. The prints are flying!!!

Here are some examples of his work.

Regarding the prints from Adam K:

"Many of you have asked about prints but I haven’t any work made using the spot prints printing technique like you see in POW’s or Santas Ghetto, these are mass produced, not by hand and are usually runs of large editions. When I refer to “prints” I refer to hand made prints that I am making by hand either painted with a brush or with stencil/spray and brush, so you are getting a more unique piece. . . .the drips are never the same."

Right where am I going to hang my smurf?

If you would like further information email: [e-mail]

p.s There is a nice pic of Blair in this months ARENA mag. Go check it out. Just read it off the stand - f**k em!

[tomhills]

mammal what do you mean "p.s There is a nice pic of Blair in this months ARENA mag. Go check it out. Just read it off the stand - f**k em!" - ARENA IS CLASS. BUY IT!!!
i'm not on tha payroll btw, worth the money for justin quirk's writin alone.
peace.

[mammal2]

Yeah I love ARENA! Slags galore! OI oi

[bond]

hi - A bit more info .......


The print of the right to remain silent iz a run of 70 and all the work will
be signed. Regarding cheeky pigs, I will do a run based on orders and will
number them as they leave the studio accordingly, but will not know the
final number until I have heard back from the other crew members but at the
moment the interest is distributed fairly evenly so no one piece will be
over produced, that's not what I do. . . .the very maximum I imagine for
that would be 20 which is a small run when they are hand painted and you
consider most runs are done on a presss by a machine and tend to be of
editions of 100+


--- i'm ordering ..........Image 34 – “Cheeky fuckin pigz” - SIGNED
A1 prints £195



Image 29 – “The Right To Remain Silent” Limited ed. Run of 70.
A3 at £150.



bonjour ! ;D

[gbh]

would be great if he did a print run of the smurf.
Canvas is just a little too rich for me.

[bond]

Bonjour all.

Just thought i'd let you all know that i got a mail from Adam yesterday and he said he's in touch with POW regarding a new run of prints. - Makes me think it's worth bagging a Smurf canvas after all , but £ 700 is still pretty pricey especially after my recent purchases of Flying copper ,applause and napalm but it's a top print !!

So confused !!!!!!!!! ;D


- Has anyone ordered anything so far .?

all the best.

[gbh]

sure you all just got this as well:

Hellooooooo,


After moaning about group e-mails yesterday I have decided I need to send this one out to all the crew too. It appears that there are quite a few of you out there that want to get the bleedin smurf canvas but the £700 price tag has just been too high.

Considering all the support you guyz have shown me through e-mail and sales, and considering that I am at the beginning of my career and that so many of you seem to love that piece I am dropping the price to £500.

For those of you that are already on the confirmed list at £700 you can either take the £200 drop or you can have a bigger piece for £700, so e-mail me to discuss.

At the end of the day whilst money helps I value the support you have given me more at this stage and would rather show some faith in return.

I don't consider this shooting myself in the foot, just trying to keep thingz a little bit more real under the circumstances.


Thoughts on a postcard please


Eazy

adz



P. S No this doesn't mean the prices for the other pieces are gonna drop. .
. . .cheeky bugger!!

[knox]

I'm so broke and don't know what to do about this...

I like the Bleedin Smurf and with it now being reduced to £500 it seems a really good offer considering it seems likely he will be taken on by POW. The only way I can see around this is to put my Micallef Light Angel Bomber #2 on the bay (which is currently out of a frame due to lack of space).

I prefer the image plus it is a canvas so it seems a good idea. Any thoughts? Or offers for the Micallef?

[notitle]

it's a tough call, but you don't know if he will be taken on by POW. i think he said he was speaking with pow to have some prints done, doesn't mean they'll be selling them, they print stuff for a lot of people.

anyway, that doesn't matter really, if you like it more than your angel bomber it's easy enough to sell that and put your cash into the smurf. if it's future value you're interested in then it's a much tougher call.

[knox]

Yeah that was what I was thinking... I'm gonna go for it I think.

Cheers

[buffruffly]

is it only me or has nobody taken on board that his work is very, very derivative.........is there any reason why his work is something special? And by that I mean special enough to be £700 for a canvas!!!!! To me he's just hanging on the coat tails of Banksy et al

[tomhills]

that's a whole new can of worms buff. it is a very rare thing to have something that is TOTALLY original, so to some degree isn't all art derivative?
i like the cut of his jib, as no-one says, and yes you can see clear influences in elements of his work. that doesn't mean it's to the detrement of the pieces, you could also say that many current "street" artists are hanging on banksy's coat tails if not all.
would there be such a big market for micallef prints if banksy had not previously blazed a trail?
there's plenty of room for any artist that makes you think while also putting a smile on your face in my opinion.
peace.

[chrisps303]

buffruffly said:

is it only me or has nobody taken on board that his work is very, very derivative.........is there any reason why his work is something special? And by that I mean special enough to be £700 for a canvas!!!!! To me he's just hanging on the coat tails of Banksy et al

If you find his work derivative or not special then dont buy it.
I on the other hand really like his work and i cant wait for my bleedin smurf, cheeky fuckin pigs and too much bush, not enough hoody.
Art is worth different things to different people so i dont consider £700 to be that expensive, especially when you see the price of other artists work.
As someone has said already dont you think there is a lot of artists work being sold on the back of what banksy has been doing.

[buffruffly]

Agreed, there are certainly a lot of people succeeding on the back of Banksy, but they have more of a unique style than this guy. At best it is OK, but the majority is pure plagiarism. To me, it's the kind of stuff we all take the piss out of on eBay for being "Banksy Inspired"

But hey, that's my opinion. Art isn't a science so we can both have the different opnions and still be right.

[tomhills]

buff, is the plagarism you're referring to from roger hargreaves?
must say i respect your opinion but you'd be better placed saying from whom he's derived and what he has plagarised. any argument holds more weight if you qualify your point with evidence.
not trying to get your back up by the way, just trying to see where you're coming from and to understand your viewpoint a bit better.
peace.

[buffruffly]

look, I'm not getting on my high horse either, so no worries. I'm just pained that a lot of people seem to be getting carried away with this. Okay, take cheeky coppers or whatever it's called. Has nobody seen this iconography before:

Police+Clown

This clash of concepts would work (*for me*) if I hadn't seen it before. many times.

but i have.

so it doesn't.

[numusic]

buffruffly said:

look, I'm not getting on my high horse either, so no worries. I'm just pained that a lot of people seem to be getting carried away with this. Okay, take cheeky coppers or whatever it's called. Has nobody seen this iconography before:

Police+Clown

This clash of concepts would work (*for me*) if I hadn't seen it before. many times.

but i have.

so it doesn't.

Must say I agree.. 700 quid is waaay too much for someone starting out, no representation, no overheads, no shows, no history etc etc.. you can still pick up major pieces by some very well know artists for that sort of cash.

I just bought this for 20 quid ! ;D

cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=018&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&viewitem=&item=280071663367&rd=1&rd=1#ebayphotohosting

[atomcore]

There was a gallery in London recently showing a load of work by an artist, all (or most) featured pictures of smurfs.
Am I missing something? I'm affraid to say I think the bleeding smurf is poor. I think if I saw that on someone's wall I would p*ss myself. But hey, what do I know?