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LE Gun and The Black Squid, at THE MUSEUM OF MANKIND.

2012-01-16T04:37:00.000-08:00

This January Christie’s hosts a unique exhibition in the impressive setting of the Museum of Mankind beside the Royal Academy, showcasing the collecting spirit at its most varied: an assembly of exquisite art and objects spanning 500 years, an unrivalled group of etchings by the late Lucien Freud and an insight into the eclectic tastes of young collectors at their most expressive.

Living With Art – A Private European Collection represents more than 150 masterpieces from the dawn of the Renaissance to the present day. Assembled with a profound sense of connoisseurship, it reflects a personal yet engagingly universal vision of beauty.

Comprising 45 prints, The Printer’s Proof: Etchings by Lucian Freud from the Studio Prints Archive presents a unique insight into Freud’s printmaking and his twenty-five year relationship with the printer that realised his vision.

Among the most striking elements of preview is Generation Y Collectors, an innovative loan exhibition showcasing works of art from the collections of 30 new collectors. This public exhibition is a unique opportunity for visitors to gain an insight into the diverse and discerning tastes of a contemporary generation of art collectors.

The Collector Exhibition 16-27 January 2012
The Museum of Mankind
6 Burlington Gardens, London W1S 3ET

BARE BONES 7 Istanbul ISSUE

2011-11-26T06:55:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Dukkan for making this happen. xx

NeVER MIND THE BOSPHORUS - Istanbul

2011-11-26T06:41:00.000-08:00

NEVER MIND THE BOSPHORUS - Istanbul

2011-11-08T02:51:00.000-08:00

In collaboration with one of the most productive and offbeat creative houses in town, Dukkan, Heretic, LE GUN and Bare Bones are back in town after last year’s limited edition prints sale success.

The eight thriving names from London’s pleasantly strange art collectives will be drawing, painting and giving away a glimpse of their signature style. Curated by Damla Kurklu and Necdet Sahin, an exclusive silk print workshop taking place between the 16th and 20th of November, “Never Mind The Bosphorus” is sure to be a genuine experience for both its attendees and visitors; who will be able to buy the freshly created, limited edition goodies as the workshop continues. And the best part is -being an attendant is totally free.

Visuals for Red Hot Chilli Peppers - current tour

2011-11-08T02:41:00.000-08:00

Jasmin Jodry at WWW.THISISMOTO.TV asked us for some drawing to animate for current RHCP tour here's a little preview, http://thisismoto.tv/film/redhotchillipeppers/

Thanls to UVA too.

Le Gun and The Black Squid, La Catastrophe

2011-11-08T02:32:00.000-08:00

SUZANNE TARASIEVE PARIS / LOFT19
Passage de lʼAtlas – 5, Villa Marcel Lods 75019

Le Gun and The Black Squid, La Catastrophe
Exhibition 4 November 2011 – 23 December 2011

Tuesday to Saturday, 11am–7pm and by appointment
Opening Friday 4 November, 6–9pm

Le Gun and The Black Squid, La Catastrophe

Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve has the pleasure to announce the exhibition of LE GUN.
Le Gun are the artists Neal Fox, Robert Rubbish, Stephanie Von Reiswitz, Chris Bianchi.LE GUN was founded in 2003 by a group of MA graduates from the Communication Art and
Design course at the Royal College of Art, London. Also, LE GUN is an independent narrative
illustration publication and provides a common ground for both emerging and established artists,
illustrators, writers and poets.

The Black Squid (Le Calmar Noir) were a group of surrealist artists based in Paris who broke off from the core group of the surrealists in 1924 in disagreement with André Breton's manifesto and their continued use of colour. François Lardon, Thomas Le Turk, Olga Tiktokova, Diego Mangina, and Éduard Lezard were talented artists but little known outside their small bohemian circle and have since faded into the margins of art history.
The group believed that dreams were always in black and white, and that the exclusive use of black and white in art would make the everyday into a dreamscape. They claimed they had simultaneously dreamed of a giant black squid who imparted their manifesto. Apart from exploring the squid as a dream symbol for latent sexual desires, they revered black ink as a liquid of creation.

Not long after the split, on September 25th 1925, the five artists held a black and white banquet, the exact motivations behind which remain unclear. They consumed a sumptuous meal and varied drinks, and strange sounds were reported to have emanated from the room. All five artists left the banquet intact and went their separate ways, but catastrophically all five found their demise in various ways the very same night.

The debris of the mysterious final dinner was documented in minute detail. No poison was found, or evidence of a suicide pact, and hypothesizing about what actually happened that night was for a while a popular pastime in fashionable salons. Soon however the whole event faded into oblivion.

The original document detailing the exact layout of the room & the objects within it still exists.
As a group of artists working in black and white, LE GUN feel a strong connection to the Black Squid group and were particularly intrigued by this age old mystery. As well as reproducing large scaleportraits of the Black Squid's elusive members, based on the group's original 'exquisite corpse' drawings, LE GUN has attempted to recreate the final supper before the catastrophe, which will be shown alongside the Black Squid's last known surviving painting.

Besides having collective exhibitions, performances and the self-titled Magazine, Le Gun have
produced large-scale communally executed drawings in London, opened a curiosity shop, cooperated with Paul Smith for a clothing line, produced a music clip for Pete Doherty's Babyshambles and
recently did an impromptu window display/exhibition, talk,etc at Arrtco Collection in Beijing, China.

LE GUN in China

2011-10-20T08:57:00.000-07:00

LE GUN where invited by Arrtco Collection to put on a little exhibition, thanks to Arrtco

and JOYN:VISCOM for making this possible.

Here are some pics from the trip and exhibition.

'75 Peters'

2011-10-20T08:53:00.000-07:00

'75 Peters', the exhibition will be held in Brisbane, Australia (in association with the Institute of Modern Art) and London on the occasion of Iconic British Architect (and Archigram founder) Sir Peter Cook's 75th brithday.

The exhibition will begin in Brisbane on 26th October 2011.

Projects been organised by the adam and eve projects.

PEPSI_DISNEY

2011-07-20T09:55:00.000-07:00

LE GUN @ ART BASEL

2011-07-06T03:26:00.000-07:00

Mr Blau himself.

Poster for Film Festival

2011-07-06T03:22:00.000-07:00

http://kinemastik.org/

Drawing for GQ magazine

2011-06-23T07:08:00.000-07:00

LE GUN on studio music

2011-05-31T05:59:00.000-07:00

A project curated by Rose Blake, studiomusic.fm, Rose asked us and others to come up with a playlist which she then links to a spotify playlist,

enjoy....

New PIcs - destination ART BASEL _ Daniel Blau

2011-05-24T06:33:00.000-07:00

The other day in Camden

2011-05-24T06:31:00.001-07:00

LE GUN show at BOUROUINA GALLERY BERLIN

2011-05-12T07:01:00.000-07:00

CLOSE EYES TO EXIT opening pics

2011-04-05T06:21:00.001-07:00

NEW LE GUN + BARE BONES LAUNCH 1st April PRESS Release

2011-03-01T02:35:00.000-08:00

HARRY MALT........... DONT LET HIM FOOL YOU

2011-02-09T11:53:00.000-08:00

THIRTY SECONDS

2011-02-09T06:52:00.000-08:00

New vimeo blog for 30 second films..........from seconds from nowhere's travels and open eyes.

BERLIN TRAIN RIDE from THIRTY SECONDS on Vimeo.

I-D I-SPY BARE BONES........Chris Briend

2011-01-31T05:07:00.000-08:00

Haphazardly sourcing unconventional artists who have a sense of humour, Bare Bones is the quiet zine for loud thinkers.

LE GUN RIPP OFF COPY CATS

2011-01-19T04:34:00.001-08:00

Various designers/companies have been ripping-off our upside down cat image from LE GUN 4 recently - in particular the T-shirt designs we created using the same image for Duffer Saint George and Paul Smith.

We believe that it is wrong for these companies to be profiting from artwork and ideas that do not belong to them. If you know of any more examples please let us know.

Please support us by not buying these poor imitations.

For those who would like to buy the original T-shirt, we will be printing a new run to coincide with the launch of LE GUN 5 in April.

www.legun.co.uk

Roll Up Roll Up Debut Art !!

2011-01-17T06:22:00.000-08:00

Thanks Debut Art for adding my portfolio to your website and representing my work !!

here's a link to my online Debut Art portfolio.

Bon Chance

PARIS BAR EXHIBITION _SUZANNE TARASIEVE PARIS / LOFT19

2011-01-14T03:44:00.000-08:00

Exhibition runs until 12th March here is the address Passage de l'Atlas / 5, Villa Marcel Lods

F-75019 Paris if you happen to be in Paris you should hunt it down, Here's a little preview.www.suzanne-tarasieve.com

Recent Commission BBC NEWS

2011-01-14T03:33:00.000-08:00

I was asked by the BBC News people to illustrate a family watching xmas television.

HAPPY NEW DRAWINGS :<>:

2011-01-03T09:14:00.001-08:00

LE GUN IN PARIS BAR EXHIBITION 8th JANUARY

2010-12-30T04:18:00.000-08:00

LE GUN will be travelling on mass to Paris from the 8th to the 10th Jan, our work will feature in a show at www.suzanne-tarasieve.com .

BARE BONES AT OLLIE'S LAST PUB-Malta

2010-12-30T03:59:00.000-08:00

LE GUN _The Unknown Room

2010-12-30T03:54:00.000-08:00

BARE BONES V

2010-10-29T04:17:00.000-07:00

Bare Bones wheels keep on turning..............Issue 5 will feature Robert Rubbish of Soho London

BB will also host a solo Robbert Rubbish show, a Heretic printmakers Pyramid and The Blind Pig ................

Garden of Eden Screen Print collaboration with Concrete Hermit.

2010-10-27T02:06:00.000-07:00

Concrete Hermit asked me to produce an image for screen print with the garden of eden in mind.

in their own words

"Specially commissioned from eight internationally renowned artists, these beautiful prints are produced in editions of 50. A snapshot of the best work out there at the moment, these genre-defining works are fantastic investments in the work of these great artists."

Exhibition will open this Thursday 28oct at Concrete Hermit 6-9 pm be great to see you there.

LE GUN in SWEDEN

2010-10-19T00:51:00.000-07:00

Last week we traveled to Stockholm to launch a new book LE GUN - for beginners with publishers orosdi-back , we also collaborated with a few Swedish illustrators on a room drawing, Enter the Beast, thanks to Emma Rendal and Mat Newsom for their kind anglo-swed hospitality.

Day 4 @ ADF- NEU- Heretic

2010-09-23T04:28:00.000-07:00

Prints just keep coming theres no stopping them......Heretic have had a great response to the pop up studio on red church street, they will be there printing until sunday 26/09/10.

EXHIBITION at GALERIE DANIEL BLAU MUNICH

2010-09-22T03:53:00.000-07:00

Four members of LE GUN collective all had a chance to show as solo artists at GALERIE DANIEL BLAU MUNICH, which ended in a group show which will run until the 1st October, thanks to Daniel Blau, here are some snaps of my work.

HERETIC @ http://www.antidesignfestival.com/

2010-09-20T09:39:00.000-07:00

Glowworm INC join up with HERETIC print makers for a week of printing

to coincide with A N F, here are some prints so far, workshop will be up and running at

Neu Gallery red church street until the 26th sept 2010.

BARE BONES -LE GUN - NEVILLE BRODY - WHATEVER

2010-09-20T09:31:00.000-07:00

http://www.antidesignfestival.com/

and

Idea Generation

KITES SAVE THE CHILDREN

2010-07-21T01:37:00.000-07:00

I was asked to come up with a kite design for SAVE THE CHILDREN which will be flying at all major festivals this summer, Heretic studios will be screen printing them.

LE GUN LE BUM BARE BONES AND HAIR CUTS IN JAPAN

2010-07-15T08:44:00.000-07:00

Billy Bragg, Matt Appelton, and James Graham are in Japan getting a hair cut and doing the rounds for us all in London, here are some links to live streams, and workshop pics enjoy

DRAWING ROOM @ BIG CHILL'S NEW BAR

2010-07-15T07:33:00.000-07:00

Myself, Steph von Reiswitz and Robert Rubbish where asked by lucy Tauber to creat a victorian style room for big chills new venture in Bristol.

BIGCHILL IN THE GUARDIAN

2010-07-15T07:32:00.001-07:00

BARE BONES IIII MOMENTS IN NY

2010-07-09T06:42:00.000-07:00

http://www.openingceremony.us/entry.asp?pid=1012

http://www.dazeddigital.com/view/default.aspx?Category=22&ArticleID=7902&PageNum=1

http://www.winkball.com/walls/Randyll_Wendl/bare_bones:_a_london/;jsessionid=C6B6F60055EC23551930915710F05731

BODY PARTS drawing

2010-07-05T05:31:00.000-07:00

Steph von Reiswitz and myself body explosion drawing,

NEW NEW STU STU STUDIO

2010-07-05T05:26:00.000-07:00

Harry Malt and myself move into new studio just seconds away from our old one, no windows but plenty of room .... for now.

Printing BARE BONES 4 The U.S Issue

2010-07-05T05:23:00.000-07:00

Went over to printers News Fax in East London to watch BB get printed.

MAKING PRINT WITH HERETIC

2010-07-03T02:54:00.000-07:00

BARE BONES CHINESE LAUNDRY , Heretic, Harry Malt and myself produce BB screen printed posters for NY exhibition.

BARE BONES NYC Exhibition 29/06/2010

2010-07-03T02:01:00.000-07:00

Some pics of the BARE BONES show at Envoy Enterprise, for more pics visit

New and old KINEMASTIK posters

2010-07-03T01:36:00.000-07:00

For the 6th year in a row ive been asked to produce a poster for KINEMASTIK short film festival http://kinemastik.org/
here are a selection of old and new posters.

Birmingham childrens hospital

2010-07-01T02:08:00.000-07:00

Just made pendolo train which made me feel sick up to Birmingham
Headed for the childrens hospital, i drew a few pics which would then be coloured in by
the children there, hope they enjoy it as much as i did, and get well soon.
i then met up with Walter Newton www.walternewton.com who showed me around
a few extra large birmingham pubs with a colourful selection of beer
i suggest A Game Of Two Half.

BAre BoNeS go West

2010-06-23T04:33:00.000-07:00

Bare Bones go to New York City to Launch issue IV,
http://www.quarterlybarebones.blogspot.com/
http://www.ourbarebones.com/