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Mr Eggs V Banksy, by Daniel Silk on Mar 26, 2006 10:52:58 GMT 1, www.dcist.com/archives/2006/03/24/itsy_bitsy_boll_1.php
itsy bitsy bollocks
If you've yet to succumb to Butterstick madness, succumb to Mark Jenkins' matured version of our feisty panda. His futuristic revision proposes a more rebellious future, sculpted with a tape gun including red flashing tits, a short skirt, and a permanent stance on 14th st. NW.
D.C. resident miscreant Jenkins is part of a fluid four-man street art installation called itsy bitsy bollocks, with Mr. Eggs, Travis Millard, and local Kelly Towles (last seen curating WPA/C's Wallsnatchers). Like a backpack nuke exploded inside a fringe art gallery, the artists have vandalized P street's transformer gallery inside and outside with graff and its awesomely pop cousins, the wheatpaste, the projection, and D.C.'s tape sculptures. It's the most chaotic thing I've seen inside a gallery with a keg at the opening.
Travis Millard shoots and speeds up graffiti in progress. The video itself is driving, maybe monotonus, but it's incorporation with Towles and the others is brilliant. A small advertisement tow-plane serves as the video's projection screen and the coordination is seemless and at once chaotic.
There's no show stealer more prevalent than the outside of the gallery, making this a gratifying window shopping show in the off hours. The facade is dressed in plastic pigeons pooping paint on to the gallery. A tape sculpture baby contemplates the edge of the roof while Eggs and Towles paint around the gallery, spilling in to the street.
The installation is a return to Towles' 2005 Adamson Gallery show in which a hundred street artists offered free works for auction. The current collaboration brings Mr. Eggs from England, where he paints over works by Banksy in that street artist's own gallery shows--an extreme diss in the friendliest sense. His work is usually left up. The Manchester native creates a no apologies street art palimpsest: "I just want to paint the town yellow and make folk smile and if I have to break a few eggs along the way, well I guess thatโs whatโs got to happen."
If there's something off putting about the show, it's the no seams success of it all. This is street art but despite it's exploded in the gallery look, the show is clean on the inside. The integration is alarmingly tight. This is street art's compromise in the gallery and it may be necessary, but there should be more risk.
So maybe take over the neighborhood Wholefoods? We're not sure, but this is as close as it gets without being arrested.
www.dcist.com/archives/2006/03/24/itsy_bitsy_boll_1.phpitsy bitsy bollocks If you've yet to succumb to Butterstick madness, succumb to Mark Jenkins' matured version of our feisty panda. His futuristic revision proposes a more rebellious future, sculpted with a tape gun including red flashing tits, a short skirt, and a permanent stance on 14th st. NW. D.C. resident miscreant Jenkins is part of a fluid four-man street art installation called itsy bitsy bollocks, with Mr. Eggs, Travis Millard, and local Kelly Towles (last seen curating WPA/C's Wallsnatchers). Like a backpack nuke exploded inside a fringe art gallery, the artists have vandalized P street's transformer gallery inside and outside with graff and its awesomely pop cousins, the wheatpaste, the projection, and D.C.'s tape sculptures. It's the most chaotic thing I've seen inside a gallery with a keg at the opening. Travis Millard shoots and speeds up graffiti in progress. The video itself is driving, maybe monotonus, but it's incorporation with Towles and the others is brilliant. A small advertisement tow-plane serves as the video's projection screen and the coordination is seemless and at once chaotic. There's no show stealer more prevalent than the outside of the gallery, making this a gratifying window shopping show in the off hours. The facade is dressed in plastic pigeons pooping paint on to the gallery. A tape sculpture baby contemplates the edge of the roof while Eggs and Towles paint around the gallery, spilling in to the street. The installation is a return to Towles' 2005 Adamson Gallery show in which a hundred street artists offered free works for auction. The current collaboration brings Mr. Eggs from England, where he paints over works by Banksy in that street artist's own gallery shows--an extreme diss in the friendliest sense. His work is usually left up. The Manchester native creates a no apologies street art palimpsest: "I just want to paint the town yellow and make folk smile and if I have to break a few eggs along the way, well I guess thatโs whatโs got to happen." If there's something off putting about the show, it's the no seams success of it all. This is street art but despite it's exploded in the gallery look, the show is clean on the inside. The integration is alarmingly tight. This is street art's compromise in the gallery and it may be necessary, but there should be more risk. So maybe take over the neighborhood Wholefoods? We're not sure, but this is as close as it gets without being arrested.
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Mr Eggs V Banksy, by mido on Mar 26, 2006 12:59:14 GMT 1, bit of an unfair story. Mr Eggs doesn't โpaint over works by Banksy in that street artist's own gallery showsโ.
he placed a small (tiny) piece of his own work in banksy's show (just like Banksy did in the Tate, Louvre etc), and they left it up, so they must have been pretty cool with that.
he's made no secret of the fact that he will add to banksy work, in his own style. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery isn't it? I don't think he will paint over it, like a coucnil might sand blast or whitewash a work.....
proper news / quotes etc are at www.transformergallery.org/
bit of an unfair story. Mr Eggs doesn't โpaint over works by Banksy in that street artist's own gallery showsโ.
he placed a small (tiny) piece of his own work in banksy's show (just like Banksy did in the Tate, Louvre etc), and they left it up, so they must have been pretty cool with that.
he's made no secret of the fact that he will add to banksy work, in his own style. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery isn't it? I don't think he will paint over it, like a coucnil might sand blast or whitewash a work.....
proper news / quotes etc are at www.transformergallery.org/
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