This coming weekend, we are hosting a few events at the space in conjunction with the Palingenesis show:

Starting Friday evening (5/17) from 8-11pm, we are screening the 1995 French film “La Haine” directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Please RSVP to rsvp@klughaus.net as there is limited capacity seating. For more information on the screening, please visit: http://klughaus.net/la-haine

Trailer for the film:

On Saturday evening (5/18) from 7-11pm, we will be hosting the 6th Annual NYC Type-Off (2013)! For more details on this event, please visit: http://klughaus.net/type-off

Hope to see you at the events this weekend!

The show is up through this Sunday 5/19. Gallery hours are 12-8pm daily and by appointment at 154 Stanton St. Please contact sales@klughaus.net for a catalog/hi-res images for requested pieces.

Photo by Cyprien Mesley

Photo by Cyprien Mesley

It was a great time with tons of great people. Thanks to all who supported!  If you missed the opening, come by the closing reception Sunday May 19 from 2-6pm.

Klughaus Pop-Up
154 Stanton St.
New York, NY 10002
646-801-6024
http://klughaus.net/palingenesis

The gallery is open everyday from 12 – 8pm at our pop-up location 154 Stanton St.. If you missed the opening, please stop by the closing reception this Sunday May 19 from 2-6pm.  For more show details, please visit: http://klughaus.net/palingenesis

Gorey hails from a background in industrial design with a diploma from the renowned Ensci Les Ateliers (Paris Design Institute). His work portrays the ingenuity and versatility of human-made recycling and strives to encompass the end of industrial production and the revenge of nature. His production is largely inspired by the concept of stacking and colliding disparate elements as a means for creating a new and unified whole. In addition to his individual artistic pursuits, Gorey works as a fashion designer for the menswear brand Woolf New York.

Horfé began to take an interest in the fine art world during his recent experience in art school, where he began incorporating the illustrative elements of his graffiti onto paper and canvases. Historically motivated by the challenge of creating works in the street under a variety of constraints including lack of money, time and permission, Horfé’s current challenge in the fine art world is producing works within the confined space of a studio. His creativity is fed by the natural energy of Paris, where he utilizes every available space with confidence and perseverance. His work is inspired by vintage cartoons from the 1930s, and explores the boundaries of precise illustration and total abstraction.

Cony’s art evokes the style of vintage Walt Disney, a mix of pop and esoteric references that creates a rich and mysterious world in which to lose oneself. Cony has shown in Paris at the Palais de Tokyo and his work was awarded the prestigious Le Salon de Montrouge in 2011. In addition to his success in the fine art world, Cony’s work can be found throughout the streets of Paris, most often high in the sky on the city’s rooftops.

Tomek comes from the Paris graffiti and street art scene with a focus on typography and gestural painting. His style explores an orbiting of energetic materials and calligraphy. His innovative techniques and the speed of his stroke invite us to both question certain aesthetic limits and consider alternative artistic approaches. One of the many appeals of Tomek’s work is the opportunity it provides to follow the evolution of an artist clearly aware of his constantly-changing era.

Saeyo graduated from L’ecole De Boulle in 2011, where he majored in “Furniture and Decorations.” His predecessors have taught him to understand the spirit of untamed Nature. Parallel to this exploration of Nature has been Saeyo’s experience growing up in a city surrounded by fleeting pleasures. Paris has been a place that allows Saeyo to fuse theatrical performance and painting, and transform the concept of graffiti as an illegal act into an intriguing and dynamic event. The extreme opposition of these two universes reflected in Saeyo’s work is beautifully paradoxical, and an essential source of his artistic approach. To him, tagging is a form of renaissance, a parietal urban doodle that cares for neither law nor order. It casts aside all conventions and makes space for only the spontaneity of a line, guided by adrenaline to the recognition of a name.

Mosa’s work is an exploration of science fiction and fantasy. He believes in a world where fantasy imagery, visions, and the expectations involved in their processions can reinvent worlds. To this end, Mosa weaves words into new stories that come to life in his paintings. He creates works that blend the past, present and future, and amalgamate distances in a way that allows the viewer to construct an ideal fantastical world. His narrative structure is reminiscent of comics and the cinema: successive or overlapping figures that propel a plot to fruition. The questions that nourish Mosa’s paintings are rooted in the anguish of our time, fear of the future, and the paradoxes of the era in which we live: fear of nuclear Apocalypse, social decadence, and the advent of virtual worlds. He attempts to open the border between the probable and the improbable, a contradiction that interests him because it reveals the strangeness of emerging forms and intriguing objects endowed with a visual power.

Esso has always been fascinated by capturing the presence of the people around him. As a child, he dreamed of becoming a war reporter, and first saw graffiti as a war on society, law, and order, before discovering that he was also interested in the war that each individual fights with him or herself. This includes the bond each writer develops between his personal history and his artwork. Graffiti opened the door to other art forms, including photography. “Photography then led me to painting,” he explains. “I met more serious, formal and academic artists at my art school, the Beaux-Arts in Paris, which fueled my desire to build links between these two practices.” Esso’s images are meant to depict nostalgic relationships between the humanity of his subjects as they are confronted with the fragility of their actions.

Skub was born in Germany in the furious 1980s. One of his earliest memories was the fall of the Berlin Wall and the opening to a new world. Now living in Paris, Skub is obsessed with the cultural differences between his French and German worlds. His appetite for art led him to the study of the occult and the esoteric. Through graffiti, PAL invited Skub to share a part of his world on the walls of Paris. The rest of Skub’s activities remain unknown, and it is only in secret shows that he can exhibit his magic thoughts to the public.

“Palingenesis” is on view at 154 Stanton St. and up through Sunday May 19, 2013. For sales inquiries, contact sales@klughaus.net

For details on the show opening next week, check out:
http://klughaus.net/palingenesis

cutlog NY 2013

Paris’ Cutlog Art Fair is coming a block away and opening the same weekend as our May 11th (154 Stanton St.) pop-up show “Palingenesis” featuring Parisian graffiti artists Gorey & the PAL Crew (Horfe, Cony, Tomek, Saeyo, Mosa, Esso & Skub.)   A warm welcome to anyone checking out Cutlog NY to drop by down the block at our space on the corner of  Stanton St. and Suffolk St.  Also, be on the look out this weekend for some of our artists doing some large scale installations in the same neighborhood in conjunction with the New Museum’s Ideas City Festival as well!

“After four successful years in Paris, cutlog art fair is pleased to announce the launch of its first New York edition from May 9-13, 2013. Approximately 45 galleries and curators will present art, installations, performances, talks, and films in a creative architecturally designed environment allowing each art project to have its own identity and a unique art interaction with the public.”

Access info

Subway: F, J, M, Z trains to Delancey Street / Essex Street Bus: lines 14A & 9

A shuttle bus will run between cutlog and the Frieze ferry stop from Thursday, May 9 through Saturday, May 11 at 11 am – 8 pm daily.
(Sunday, May 12 until 7pm)

Open to the Public

Admission tickets are priced as follows:
adults $15 | students & seniors $12 | Multipass (5-day entry) $25 / $20

Fair hours

Friday, may 10th                                             10am–8pm

Saturday, may 11th                                        10am–8pm

Sunday, may 12th                                           10am–8pm

Monday, may 13th                                          10am–6pm

From May 9th to May 12th L’après cutlog: in addition to the daytime art fair, après cutlog comes to life each evening with Outdoor Art Video Screenings and Live performances from 7pm until midnight

Read more on the Cutlog website.

Be sure to drop by to check us out as well.  Map of our location(154 Stanton St.) in relation to Cutlog’s location below:

Be sure to stop by the opening Saturday, May 11th.  Details for our show at the link below:
http://klughaus.net/palingenesis

On to the fun stuff…

For any inquiries, contact: info@lucas-dillon.com

http://galleriesgoldstein.com/

http://horfee.tumblr.com

http://facebook.com/theartofhorfee

CONY and HORFE are in the upcoming Gorey/PAL Crew show at Klughaus in New York!  “Palingenesis” opens May 11, 2013!  Check out the details on our website here: http://klughaus.net/palingenesis

Awesome work by Tomek and Saeyo! Check them out in the upcoming Klughaus Pop-up Show “Palingenesis” in NYC opening May 11, 2013 at 154 Stanton St. in the LES!

While there is a wealthy crowd in Miami buying art in the beginning of the week during the previews, the truth is that the majority of the crowd is there over the weekend (during Miami Art Basel) to party more than anything! We ended up having a great time in Miami with this project. I think that Sam Lipman-Stern did a great job of documenting that experience as it really was.

Check out the video below:

Also, check out an episode of Vice/Noisey’s Live From The Streets featuring Mr. Green. In this episode, they create the beat for the “Do The Mushrooms” song used in the video above.

For photographs of all the finished trucks along with information about the concept of our mobile art installation, check our our previous post on the project here: http://klughaus.net/blog/klughaus-x-the-seventh-letter-trucks-in-miami-for-art-basel-2012/

Don’t forget to sign-up to our mailing list for announcements on our next NYC pop-up show opening May 11, 2013!

In my opinion, Horfe is one of the few graffiti artists who have been able to smoothly transition work from the streets into a gallery setting without losing the distinct energy and style. In fact, most of the PAL Crew that Horfe is affiliated with in Paris have been pushing the boundaries of traditional graffiti done in the streets. You can check out their latest work on the Service Au Bar blog. We look forward to working with Horfe and the PAL Crew this year in New York!

Check out some photos from the Imaginarium show below:

• If you can’t make it out to the show, you can purchase some Horfe Flashpack prints here.
• There is also a 96 page book titled “Horfee’s Imaginarium: Ain’t No Doodles” available on the website.
• Last but not least, there is also a Horfee serigraph print for sale on the site as well.

You can check out some more coverage on the show at the links below:

Artslant.com – Horfee Rackroom Interview
12ozProphet.com – Recap: Horfee’s Imaginarium
Graffuturism.com – Preview Horfee Solo Exhibition”Horfee’s Imaginarium” London

• Felony Arrest Sheets – Embellished Edition of 30 – (5) Double Sided 8 x 8 Inch Archival Pigments Prints in Custom Arrest Sheet Folder with Hand-Embellishments + Unique Drawings from RIME -
• Misdemeanor Arrest Sheets – Standard Edition of 20 – (5) Double Sided 8 x 8 Inch Archival Pigments Prints -
• Original 8 x 8 Inches Artwork created with Pen, Marker & Gouache on Found Police Arrest Sheets -
• Promo Video – View The  “WRAP SHEETS DETROIT FANTASTIC“  at The Seventh Letter
• Interview With RIME with Process Photos + More at http://blog.1xrun.com/rime-rewrites-the-wrap-sheet/

RELEASE DATE: Friday, February 8th 2013 at 12PM EST

Check out this ridiculous promo video featuring what looks like stunt doubles of RIME and REVOK:

Also available now, a new 24 x 36 Inches 4-Color serigraph screen print by Victor Reyes titled “Headlands”

You can pick one up here: http://reyes78.bigcartel.com/product/headlands-print