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Post by Guest on Oct 25, 2011 6:59:28 GMT 1
I know the show has been touched upon in the latest Faile print release thread..but it def warrants a thread of its own.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------  FAILE: Fragments of FAILE 4 November – 3 December 2011 Lazarides Gallery presents FAILEʼs all-new exhibition, Fragments of FAILE, the widely popular US artistsʼ first UK solo show in three years. Whilst the show, running from 4 November until 3 December, will still please FAILEʼs many fans it strikes out in a sophisticated new direction. Over the course of the past decade, FAILE developed an artistic practice inflected with remixes of mass culture, and built on careful juxtapositions of seeming dualities. Fragments of FAILE allows us to see them working at one frontier of their practice, stripping their painting down to its essentials and engaging a century of the more expressive terrain of abstract portraiture. This suite of new works provides an intimate counterpart to FAILE’s recent large-scale explorations of religious motifs while drawing out less obvious threads in their practice, from subtle gradations of color and pattern to a conscious removal of clear identities in order to explore archetypical structures beneath. Assembled from the artists’ own archive, Fragments of FAILE represents not a radical departure, but a rare opportunity to see their iconic practice anew. |
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Post by shibby on Oct 25, 2011 7:18:25 GMT 1
definitely looking forward to this. I like the description and it's always good to see an artist stretch their legs a bit out of their comfort zone. Failes body of work is already pretty vast and varied so I'm excited to see what they have come up with next
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Post by happyshopper on Oct 25, 2011 11:39:14 GMT 1
Forgot about this! Have emails gone out from the Gallery? I seem to have slipped off their list!  Looking forward to it!!! |
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Post by saint on Oct 25, 2011 14:27:34 GMT 1
Sounds like a load of old tosh that to me.
Looking forward to the show tho, just wish the blurb wasnt so flowery.
TBH most of it makes absolutely no sense to me.
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Post by chaturz on Oct 25, 2011 14:48:48 GMT 1
Is opening night invite only, or open? + is there gonna be any affordable releases or all high end?
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Post by saint on Oct 25, 2011 14:58:33 GMT 1
ooh dont you know?
i think its all being kept a bit hush hush for now matey, no one knows anything apparently.
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Post by twist65 on Oct 25, 2011 15:06:23 GMT 1
i'm sure at the time of the Post Mo Bills show there was talk of this one having affordable releases too, I'm hoping its true and there's some of those book cover style pieces - but i'm not holding my breath...
although if its a more stripped down style then maybe thats kind of an excuse for some slightly lower price points?
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Post by chaturz on Oct 25, 2011 15:07:57 GMT 1
Sly... never even got a cheeky email about this. Clearly well out the loop. Though it is laz and I may get the email a week after the event  |
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Post by saint on Oct 25, 2011 15:14:19 GMT 1
Me neither, dont think the emails been sent out yet as the person in charge of pretentious twoddle had a fit after dribbling the blurb out Sand posted above. We're just waiting for him to come safely out of his op and then i expect an email, possibly tuesday of next week, possible beforehand, depending on how long it takes for him to compose an email whilst using a thesaurus to make every single word as difficult to understand as possible.
I wonder what the flowery term for thesaurus is? abstract wordification document?
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Post by happyshopper on Oct 25, 2011 15:19:33 GMT 1
Hang on, the more you read between the lines... and especially the last part... sounds like just more/simple reworkings of same old Faile images!!
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Post by saint on Oct 25, 2011 15:25:17 GMT 1
I'd actually like that, be good to see the faile dog make an appearance again.
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Post by ricobenfico on Oct 25, 2011 15:42:48 GMT 1
Baby Kangaroo Tribianni ;D
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Post by saint on Oct 25, 2011 16:05:00 GMT 1
Baby Kangaroo Tribianni ;D Lol! good friends citation, kudos Rico. |
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Post by fragile on Oct 25, 2011 21:29:29 GMT 1
From Steve Lazarides twitter...
"Just seen the new FAILE work. TOP NOTCH. No images will be released before show. So get your asses to Greek st to check it out nxt week."
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Post by fragile on Oct 25, 2011 21:33:09 GMT 1
Don't think you'll see much at Greek Street though, the show is at Rathbone Place.
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Post by saint on Oct 25, 2011 22:18:48 GMT 1
Haha!
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Post by reptonic on Oct 26, 2011 0:08:51 GMT 1
Hang on, the more you read between the lines... and especially the last part... sounds like just more/simple reworkings of same old Faile images!! yeah, i've read the bit "Assembled from the artists’ own archive, Fragments of FAILE represents not a radical departure, but a rare opportunity to see their iconic practice anew" on the laz website about 20 times and it still doesnt make sense to me. Still, a faile & invader show in london in the same month-ish, can't possibly grumble. |
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Post by shootagain on Oct 27, 2011 13:00:45 GMT 1
I've been told as well that the direction taken by Faile for this Show is gonna be so different ... intriguing ;-)
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Post by fragile on Oct 27, 2011 13:03:16 GMT 1
It's a BIG change of direction! It won't be to everyone's liking.
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Post by fuzzyduck121 on Oct 27, 2011 13:18:42 GMT 1
It's a BIG change of direction! It won't be to everyone's liking. Huge.....but marmite indeed |
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Post by UmBongo on Oct 27, 2011 13:52:48 GMT 1
Anyone got a preview yet? I am GAGGING to see whats coming...
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Post by craigf on Oct 27, 2011 14:13:41 GMT 1
They've not been sent out yet
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Post by cardiff on Nov 1, 2011 23:56:59 GMT 1
Does anyone have a contact email at Laz for the preview? If so, please drop me a pm. (Edit) Just re-read the press release from Laz and got the contacts.
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Post by shootagain on Nov 2, 2011 0:07:45 GMT 1
Still nothing out, hopefully tomorrow...
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Post by sacked on Nov 2, 2011 0:11:28 GMT 1
There's a rumour around town that the art is caught in customs !! Anyone heard the same?
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Post by maven on Nov 2, 2011 0:16:03 GMT 1
They arrived earlier and are being stretched
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Post by sacked on Nov 2, 2011 0:23:34 GMT 1
They arrived earlier and are being stretched Good,at least we'll have something to see then. |
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Post by rrrich on Nov 2, 2011 10:31:20 GMT 1
i actually met faile in new york last week while they were putting up a huge new paste up on a billboard in the east village (over an old jr). just by chance they happened to be there while i was walking past. anyway, the billboard had no new surprises in terms of the look - found some images here - imagestoliveby.wordpress.com/looks good - was only half done when i was there. not sure if this will reflect what's in the new show - the guys didn't say anything to suggest that it was or wasn't!  |
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Post by shower on Nov 2, 2011 12:43:19 GMT 1
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Post by saint on Nov 2, 2011 12:50:01 GMT 1
You going tomorrow mate?
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