'Ritual Spirit' - The Visuals

London highlight, March 2016

3D's exhibition at Lazarides Editions in South London: Massive Attack, Ritual Spirit

Exhibition
3D: Massive Attack, Ritual Spirit

Lazarides Editions

Wednesday 3rd of February 2016 to Saturday 2nd of April 2016

Featuring 3D

Lazarides Editions is thrilled to welcome Bristol-based artist Robert Del Naja, aka 3D, with the launch of the new Massive Attack EP, Ritual Spirit. Coinciding with the band's three sell-out shows at London's Brixton Academy from 3rd to 5th February, the artist will take over the South Bank gallery with the release of a hand-finished special edition EP, presented alongside a new box set of limited edition prints and a selection of works by the artist that document the visual history of the band.

Ritual Spirit marks the band's first release since Heligoland in 2010. Each of the 300 limited edition 12" EP sleeves are artfully hand-finished by Del Naja in Lazarides' own print studio on Greenwich Peninsula. 200 will be available for purchase for £30 at Sea Container House at 22 Upper Ground, SE1.

Celebrating the launch of Ritual Spirit, the artist has collaborated with Lazarides Editions studio to create 25 clothbound portfolios containing seven hand-crafted screenprints, each individually signed and numbered, and featuring the artist's iconic symbol prints. Splashed across their album artwork, Del Naja's imagery featured in the box set has become instantly recognizable to fans globally as universal symbols and iconography for the band.

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Exhibition dates

The exhibition runs from 3rd February 2016 to 2nd April 2016

Opening hours

Tuesday–Saturday 11am–7pm. Admission is free

Contact details

Address: 22 Upper Ground, London, SE1 9PD
Phone : +44 (0) 203 664 9776

Closest tube stations

Blackfriars (5min walk); Southwark (10min walk)

Ashton Court

Just a perfect Sunday.
Green spaces, blue skies, winter going on spring, lovely smiley people and some much for later.

A few shots of Ashton Court Mansion and Gardens, Bristol.

X - Still Here - Lazarides Gallery: Ten Years of Exceptional Out-of-the-Box Art

Just another day in London...

But what a great day!

Many memories at many street corners... and many discoveries.

Hightlight:

The 'Still Here - A Decade of Lazarides' exhibition in Central London at the Lazarides Gallery.

3D, JR and Banksy's artworks wrong talented others. 

JR:

3D:

And more:

Banksy's corner:

Recent graffiti:

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Details:

Exhibition
Group Show: Still Here, A Decade Of Lazarides

Lazarides Rathbone

Friday 12th of February 2016 to Thursday 24th of March 2016

Featuring 3D, Aiko, Anthony Lister, Antony Micallef, Banksy, Brett Amory, Chloe Early, David Choe, Doug Foster, Faile, Frank Laws, Gary Taxali, Herbert Baglione, Hush, Ian Francis, Invader, Joe Rush, Jonathan Yeo, JR, Karim Zeriahen, Katrin Fridriks, Know Hope / Addam Y, Lucy McLauchlan, Marcus Jansen, Mark Jenkins, Miaz Brothers, Mode 2, Nina Pandolfo, Oliver Jeffers, Pete Hawkins, Ron English, Sage Vaughn, Scott Campbell, Sickboy, Stanley Donwood, TEACH, Todd James / REAS, Vhils, Xenz, Zevs

In February 2016, Lazarides will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a group exhibition from the gallery's most celebrated and pioneering artists. For the landmark exhibition, the gallery has invited back those artists who have helped shape the gallery to take over their flagship space in the heart of London's Fitzrovia.

Visitors to the gallery will be invited to view unique originals across the three floors of at Lazarides Rathbone by over 30 artists significant to the gallery's legacy: 3D, Aiko, Anthony Lister, Antony Micallef, Banksy, Brett Amory, Chloe Early, David Choe, Doug Foster, FAILE, Frank Laws, Gary Taxali, Herbert Baglione, Hush, Ian Francis, Invader, Joe Rush, Jonathan Yeo, JR, Karim Zeriahen, Katrin Fridriks, Know Hope, Lucy McLauchlan, Marcus Jansen, Mark Jenkins, Miaz Brothers, Mode 2, Nina Pandolfo, Oliver Jeffers, Pete Hawkins, Ron English, Sage Vaughn, Scott Campbell, Sickboy, Stanley Donwood, TEACH, Todd James, Vhils, Xenz and Zevs. These varied artists have formed the backbone of Lazarides' mission, each challenging the norm of what is acceptable within the art world, simultaneously providing art that is free and accessible to an international public without discrimination.

Over the last decade, Lazarides has assumed a pivotal role promoting those artists thriving outside the conventional contemporary art market. Since Steve Lazarides' conception of Lazarides in 2006, the gallery has spanned international territories and undergone myriad transformations that echo its artists' constantly evolving and progressing practice.

Since the inception of the gallery's current space on Rathbone Place, Lazarides has hosted numerous, diverse exhibitions, including JR's Crossing (2015) featuring his latest film ELLIS, and 3D's Fire Sale (2013), a retrospective of imagery paying homage to Massive Attack's visual history. Lazarides continues to be a forerunner in revolutionary off-site projects and immersive art experiences – from Los Angeles to New York, Frankfurt, Moscow and Istanbul – as well as taking part in art fairs and collaborating with museums, partner galleries, art fairs and private collection around the globe.

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Read also here:

Steve Lazarides on His S|2 Show and the Rise of Street Art

http://www.sothebys.com/en/news-video/blogs/all-blogs/contemporary/2016/03/steve-lazarides-they-would-be-kings-exhibition-street-art.html?cmp=social_hk0686_twitter_s2_kings_30916-32616

Street art, says Steve Lazarides, is “not just about backpacks and spray cans anymore. It’s something bigger.” And he would know. The pioneering London-based dealer first encountered street art growing up in the UK during the 1980s and went on to launch the careers of numerous boldface names, including Invader, JR and, perhaps most famously, Banksy. Now, Lazarides has curated They Would Be Kings, a selling exhibition at Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery that highlights the work of early street artists such as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat as well as contemporary masters like KAWS, Vhils and Os Gemeos. Ahead of the show’s opening on 17 March, we spoke with Lazarides about the rise of street art, his role as a dealer and what he’s looking for in the next wave of artists.

John Akomfrah's 'Tropikos' still at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

Part of:

JOHN AKOMFRAH: VERTIGO SEA

Saturday 16 January 2016 to Sunday 10 April 2016, 11:00 to 18:00

Free

Details on 'Tropikos':


As part of the exhibition, a new work Tropikos (2016) will also be shown. Set in the sixteenth century and using the writings and memoirs of a number of seafarers as its raw material, this single channel film is a Brechtian costume drama which merges Shakespeare's The Tempest with true accounts of the journeys to and dreams of the 'New World'. Exploring the point in history when Britain’s economic exploitation of Africa began, this work focuses on the waterways of the South West and their relationship to the slave trade, referencing larger themes of colonialism, maritime power and loss.

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On 'Vertigo Sea':

Vertigo Sea, a three-screen film, first seen at the 56th Venice Biennale as part of Okwui Enwezor’s All the World’s Futures exhibition, is a sensual, poetic and cohesive meditation on man's relationship with the sea and exploration of its role in the history of slavery, migration, and conflict. Fusing archival material, readings from classical sources, and newly shot footage, the work explicitly highlights the greed, horror and cruelty of the whaling industry. This material is then juxtaposed with shots of African migrants crossing the ocean in a journey fraught with danger in hopes of ‘better life’ and thus delivering a timely and potent reminder of the current issues around global migration, the refugee crisis, slavery, alongside ecological concerns.

Shot on the Isle of Skye, the Faroe Islands and the Northern regions of Norway, with the BBC’s Bristol based Natural History Unit, Vertigo Sea draws upon two remarkable books: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1851) and Heathcote Williams’ epic poem Whale Nation (1988), a harrowing and inspiring work which charts the history, intelligence and majesty of the largest mammal on earth.

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Shown together, these two lyrical and melancholic films propose a ‘voyage of discovery’, a meditation on water and the unconscious, referring specifically to the passage of migration into the UK. Placed in the context of Bristol, the films connect to this city’s complicated maritime history and its position as port – a point at both the start and end of epic journeys in the past and the present.

Vertigo Sea is presented in Bristol with support awarded to Arnolfini through Arts Council England’s Strategic Touring Fund. During 2016 and 2017 Arnolfini will lead a national tour of the work to venues across the UK including Turner Contemporary, Margate and The Whitworth, Manchester.

Tropikos is a 70th Anniversary Commission for the Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre London, with the River Tamar Project and Smoking Dogs Films.

Download the Vertigo Sea exhibition guide here.

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John Akomfrah is an artist and filmmaker whose works are characterised by their investigations into personal and collective histories and memory, cultural, ethnic and personal identity, post-colonialism and temporality.  Importantly, his focus is most often on giving voice to the experience of the African diaspora in Europe and the USA.

A founding member of the influential Black Audio Film Collective, his work has been shown in museums and exhibitions around the world including the Liverpool Biennial; Documenta 11, Centre Pompidou, the Serpentine Gallery; Tate; and Southbank Centre, and MoMA, New York. A major retrospective of Akomfrah’s gallery-based work with the Black Audio Film Collective premiered at FACT, Liverpool and Arnolfini, Bristol in 2007. His films have been included in international film festivals such as Cannes, Toronto, Sundance, amongst others. He has recently been shortlisted for the Artes Mundi 7 prize.

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This poem, among other texts, inspired John Akomfrah for the films: 

'Paradise Lost' - extract:

Ah! gentle pair, ye little think how nigh
Your change approaches, when all these delights
Will vanish, and deliver ye to woe—
More woe, the more your taste is now of joy:
Happy, but for so happy ill secured	370
Long to continue, and this high seat, your Heaven,
Ill fenced for Heaven to keep out such a foe
As now is entered; yet no purposed foe
To you, whom I could pity thus forlorn,
Though I unpitied. League with you I seek,	375
And mutual amity, so strait, so close,
That I with you must dwell, or you with me,
Henceforth. My dwelling, haply, may not please,
Like this fair Paradise, your sense; yet such
Accept your Marker’s work; he gave it me,	380
Which I as freely give. Hell shall unfold,
To entertain you two, her widest gates,
And send forth all her kings; there will be room,
Not like these narrow limits, to receive
Your numerous offspring; if no better place,	385
Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge
On you, who wrong me not, for him who wronged.

Protest in Lesbos

Tuesday March the 8th, the charity and volunteer group

Better Days for Moria will organise a peaceful protest in the Moria camp, in the island of Lesbos, at 3pm, in response to Europe's decision to close the borders for refugees and asylum seekers in the Balkans.

Journalists are very welcome to join and document the march, as well as to interview volunteers and refugees to get their opinions on the situation. 

They are expecting over 1,000 people to attend.

They want to send the message to the world that they do not agree with this European policy and that the refugees are human beings asking for help who should not be pushed aside and ignored.

If you, your colleagues or anyone else you know will be in Lesvos tomorrow, you're welcome to come by:

https://www.facebook.com/events/532541746926053/

Contact:

Ayesha Keller

Better Days for Moria

www.betterdaysformoria.com

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More on Moria:

WELCOME TO MORIA

Moria is a transit camp and registration point for refugees arriving on the island of Lesvos from Turkey. Better Days for Moria is a group of individuals who have come from far and wide to improve the humanitarian situation in the camp. We have set up our own services right next to the official registration camp: a place to make people feel welcome and to give out aid such as dry clothes, food and hot tea. 

We are one of the many grassroots operation groups working in Lesvos where everyone takes the reigns collaboratively. Our progress has been impressive and inspiring - we have come so far since the disastrous situation in October! The common goal among the volunteers is to bring a sense of humanity and care to the difficult journey these people are experiencing. We are always looking for more good souls to join our team. 

You just need to bring some kindness, some love and a hard working attitude with you!