Bodhi

B2 + The Affair

East London based t-shirt company The Affair has been generating interest across the web with their debut season of designs.



B2 is proud to stock their product, starting off with a limited quantity of their Muslim Jesus (shown above) and MiniLuv designs.

Check out the commentary on The Affair over on Cool Hunting, then drop by the store to grab a taste of a bit on the side!

© Murakami

B2 has just received its stock of the latest Takashi Murakami book, © murakami.

The retrospective looks at the artist’s career and the influences he had on a whole generation of new art talent.



Available now - just in time for xmas - for £35.

B2

Our new retail store, B2 opened it’s doors on the 11th November. It is currently hosting the adFunture Guerilla Store, launching new product throughout the 6 week event.

Now available is the mini-figure series, Beware Of Fake BUKA Season One. The blind boxed assortment figure features designs by Frank Kozik, Furi Furi, Mad Barbarians, Wrongwroks, Shin Tanaka, DGPH, Hicalorie, Phallic Mammary, Nanospore and Bodhi artist Sichi. There are also 2 mystery figures in the collection of 14 designs.

The store will bring you new product in the form of 10” Teddy Troops and previously unseen new figures. Expect some big things for the vinyl art toy world.

Head to B2 to get your vinyl fix!

Jo Holland - Dissected Beauty

Dissected Beauty

A Retrospective / 1-16 December
Private View / Thursday 6 December 6.00-9.00pm

Jo Holland works on the borders between photography and painting, employing the techniques of both to create images that belong to neither medium. Holland makes photographs without the intermediary of either camera or negative, directly exposing the object through the lense onto what becomes a unique ilfochrome print. In this respect her work goes against the grain of much of contemporary photographic practice, which is dominated by the reproducibility of the medium and its digital manipulation.

Focusing instead on the line between attraction and repulsion in the viewer’s response, the objects of Holland’s gaze include pig eyes, rotting pears, lamb hearts, sheep brains and, in her recent series, the human placenta. Having dissected the object, Holland arranges the resulting cross-sections on a glass plate, onto which, in her more recent images, she introduces glazes and blocks of colour, creating a hybrid form of image-making between photography and painting. Acquiring from this process the presence and aura of a unique work of art, the resulting images reveal a hidden, fleeting and often violent beauty where we least expect to find it.

This exhibition is Holland’s first retrospective, and a unique chance to see works from her fourteen years as a professional artist.

Head Swim

New paintings and prints by Julian Phethean at Bodhi from Thursday 22nd until 29th November.

Julian Phethean is a practicing fine and graffiti artist who also works as a community artist in between painting. He has been a keen artist from a young age producing his first commissioned graffiti mural at 11 yrs and having his first solo show at 17 yrs. Since then he progressed through Art College and university to complete a degree in Art Practice in the community at Middlesex University. After his graduation being chosen as a finalist in the Mercury Art and Music Prize launched his career as a professional artist since then he has had numerous commissions and exhibitions of his paintings including solo shows at: The Oxo Tower, The Stables Gallery and The Red Gate Gallery, London.

His recent paintings merge the lines between graffiti, street, graphic and fine art and are very unique in style, content and composition. He uses stark colours, forms and images to create interesting and intriguing abstract pictures, which are open to individual interpretation. He creates mainly figurative images in fantasy and dreamlike realms, which are full of fun and movement and energy. These are influenced by music, travel, primitive cultures, and a fascination and respect for the natural, spiritual and religious world. Hidden under the surface of this consistent theme is a more personal, serious and reflective subject matter.
 
“I begin exploring my mind by instinctively and spontaneously layering colours, shapes and forms on top of one another until they uncover the underlying feelings, emotions and issues.”
 
“Looking at my paintings is like looking for shapes and faces in the clouds. Things are constantly changing and emerging from the composition every time you look. “

Bodhi + Faris on TV

Check out this mini-documentary on Faris and his exhibition at Bodhi on Dazed Digital.



Bodhi on the telly!!

B2 present adFunture

Yesterday, the B2 retail store opened the doors to the adFunture guerilla store.





AFT GSUK will run for several weeks, and will see the launch of new products from the vinyl art toy production company.

B2 is located in the basement of the Bodhi gallery, please call in to say hello.

eLogic : Human Retail

Thursday 8th November at Bodhi sees the unveiling of creative entrepreneur Eulan To’s latest project.

HumanRetail is an experiment of consumer experiences, will you choose green ethics or see the red warning signs of supermarket corporate structures. An alternative to monetary exchange is the feelings of origin. Pay your own tailored made price!

For the exhibition Eulan will dress the gallery space as an abandoned retail store with one product left. That product is a custom tshirt, designed from humanRetail line of products.


GIVING AWAY the £10MILLION t-shirt

100 tshirts priced at the affordable value of just £10 are on sale throughout the opening night. Within 5 of the tshirt packs are 5 golden tickets, each ticket is entered into a prize draw to see who will walk away with the £10million piece of art.

This naturally brings to attention the price of art, where it’s value is based on its level of desire. Most recently highlighted by Damian Hirst’s Diamond Skull and its £50million price tag. Human Retail inspired by “game theory” explores the relationship between price and product. The installation and retail experience also looks at the virtual buying experience, in its purest form is somebody wanting to sell something to somebody who wants to buy. In essence a personal market stall or the closest we get to a free market economy. But is it really today’s new way to shop? The exhibition connects the experience of people and place. Brands have personalities and humans have prices, we consumers are looking for a sense of participation.

Eulan explains, “In this supermarket of style, does the packaging cost more than the contents?

Inspiration is drawn from John Maeda’s physical “myspace” ,Japan’s Undercover store and Taipei store and pop-up shop style installations. Eulan previously won the Bal Masqué costume contest, part of influential fashion photographer Nick Knight’s ongoing creative venture SHOWstudio.

B2

Where is the first place in the world you can buy the 123 Klan 10” Teddy Troop produced by adFunture?



The B2 retail store will be launching on November 11th 2007 with a 6 week period of adFunture exclusive product, during their UK Guerilla Store. We will be updating you with continuing news over the next few weeks. Stay tuned!

RUGMAN (aka Anthony McEwan) Exhibition

Anthony simultaneously feeds off of and pays tribute to our media saturated cultural landscape, taking a satirical look at the interplay between the viewer and the subject by using icons and archetypes to illustrate the vacuity of everyday activity.

By juxtaposing seemingly apposite subjects and objects, Anthony invites the viewer to test their own boundaries within the confines of the artist/audience relationship. The sex/death connection, the self-loathing voyeurism inherent in our society, the unspoken violence of children and the hypocrisy/corrosion of their innocence are all consistent themes woven into his challenging, esoteric work.

Understanding that true art finds all things acceptable and nothing taboo, Anthony bridges the gap between pop art, erotica and classical collage/montage techniques to create a unique and potent vision of the modern world in which we live and judge each other.



text by: Michael Freedman (film maker).