[Daniel Silk]

www.stolenspace.com/section.php?xSec=258

'Lovestain' A Solo Show By Miss Van
01.10.09 - 18.10.09

StolenSpace are proud to present 'Lovestain' a UK premier solo show from world renowned female street artist, Miss Van. A retrospective as well as a new body of work and taking over two exhibition spaces at StolenSpace, this will be her largest solo show to date.

Toulouse native and current Barcelona resident Miss Van started to paint her graffiti on the streets during the 90s, at the age of 18. Her overtly feminine street art was a breath of fresh air in a traditionally masculine movement of urban art and paved the way for many contemporaries. Now her infamous sultry female characters, known as her ‘Poupes’, are seen on the streets and in galleries alike all over the world.

From these pouting, sulky girls emerges a certain sensuality and disconcerting eroticism that is frank and unabashed. Their thoughts are palpable and the paintings become real in both flesh and spirit. Miss Van creates her characters with an innovative spirit. Affirming her style, the artist infuses into her work traits from her own personality, rendering them thus, self-portraits. It is through their fantasy that the sensitivity and fragility of the artist is expressed. She takes pleasure in playing with ambiguities, her dolls are childlike women that are equally angelic and devilish. They have a rare appeal that transcends gender-an appeal that also extends to the work that she shows in galleries.

Over the years, Miss Van’s characters keep evolving. They have become less cute and more dangerously alluring, edgier - their sexy aura made all the more complex by their increasingly ambiguous facial expressions. The more she has moved into gallery work and can work with the nuances of more fragile media than the streets allow (pencil, for one), her characters have grown even more sensitive, subtle, and delicately rendered.

Featuring a retrospective of her work & new paintings this show will also see the release of a rare exclusive hand pulled limited edition screen print from Miss Van.

[Martin Whatson]

Looking forward to see pics from this.
Thanks for the info!!

[thecsoldier]

love her stuff!
will be a great show!

[Coach]

Sept 25, 2009 22:16:32 GMT 1 Martin Whatson said:

Looking forward to see pics from this.
Thanks for the info!!

Me too - queen of street art imo.

[Daniel Silk]

This one opens tonight Anyone going along?

[Daniel Silk]

Anyone get any photos from this show that they could post up? Really wanna see what this shows like

[hops]

Waiting for pictures as well..

[Copyright]

some pics from the opening on the stolen space website
www.stolenspace.com/section.php?xSec=187

and all the work from the show is on their site too
www.stolenspace.com/section.php?xSec=176

I got one of the screenprints. Ive wanted somthing from miss van for years but not keen on the expensive giclee prints she usualy does.
so a cheaper smaller edition screenprint was perfect.

either a nice white box frame or ornate gold jobber i think

[Daniel Silk]

Lot of pieces up on the website Did they have room to display all of them.

A few really nice pieces along with some that maybe look a little rushed

[Happy Shopper]

Took a look down there yesterday. Love the work, generally an bit pricey though I thought.
Far better to have more cheaper pieces (and have them sell) and just a few above £10,000, rather than the other way around!

Prints looked great too, but even those I thought were slightly over priced so didn't bother (I'll probably regret that later!).

[erzengel]

The show looks great but the prices are worst.

[geoffw]

Agreed...Stolenspace really need to re-think the pricing policy. Unless they like an inventory full of unsold work. I went really wanting to make a purchase to find some pretty poor IMO masks painting on a print of The Madonna or a pencil piece on Wood for £2.5k.

[HowAboutNo]

Read the Graffoto review of the evening here by the inimitable Rattusamorus, I think it's his best write up yet of a superb show . . . . graffoto1.blogspot.com/2009/10/miss-van-lovestain-stolen-space-old.html

[stopki]

Oct 6, 2009 9:44:30 GMT 1 geoffw said:

......................a or a pencil piece on Wood for £2.5k.

i liked that piece.

[geoffw]

Oct 6, 2009 14:11:34 GMT 1 stopki said:

Oct 6, 2009 9:44:30 GMT 1 geoffw said:

......................a or a pencil piece on Wood for £2.5k.

i liked that piece.

Oh yeah, me too....but not at £2.5k!

[Martin Whatson]

Amazing pieces, but the pricing is even more amazing!
I agree she is very good and deserves to get the props shes getting, but its not Os Gemeos, Neate, Parla or Banksy yet!!

Would love one of the screenprints tho!
Beauty!!

[runtoline]

some pics of the opening on my flickr stream:
www.flickr.com/photos/runtoline/sets/72157622387564203/