Bodhi
bar // cafe
Bodhi Gallery
art // retail
214 Brick Lane
London
E1 6SA
United Kingdom
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tel: 020 7749 0750
About Bodhi
Welcome to East London's cultural center. Bodhi incorporates a sushi and Japanese cuisine cafe, a bar and a gallery space.
Based in East London's cultural district, Bodhi offers a peaceful place to eat, drink and spend time. Please feel free to visit us during our regular opening hours, or contact us at info@bodhi-uk.com
Bodhi bar & cafe is open for food and drinks from the daytime menu from 11am until 11pm. The newly refurbished Bodhi bar offers a selection of food and a full drinks menu of amazing cocktails, freshly made juices, beer and wines.
Bodhi Gallery
We have an amazing underground gallery space, showcasing the best in art talent from around the world. The space also houses a select mini-store, carrying the best subculture brands, from toys, clothing, books, magazines as well as a special selection of international independent brands.
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-shirt100 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.
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!
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).
This coming Sunday, 21st October from 2PM until 3PM Faris Badwan will be at Bodhi to sign the gallery exclusive postcard prints.
The prints, featuring the artwork “Press Raven” from his first exhibition, will be available for sale for £3 each. The signing session marks the last day of the exhibition, so if you haven’t had a chance to come along to see the artwork make Sunday your day.
Last night saw the opening of Faris Badwan’s first exhibition. The images are reproductions of his intensely fine drawings from his Moleskin notebooks. The exhibition runs until the 21st October. To get a better idea of the minuscule details the works need to be seen in person.
Faris hit the decks with a DJ set, sake was consumed in massive quantities thanks to our sponsor
Tazaki Foods. Also thanks to
Letraset for the sponsorship and continued support of Bodhi.
The new issue of
Super Super magazine, London’s fashion rockujournal of all things fashionably cool features an interview with the Horrors frontman Faris. The magazine comes with a free pull-out poster of one of Faris’s artworks.
Even Bodhi gets a mention!
A launch event for the latest in original manga book titles in the highly successful series Manga Shakespeare from independent graphic novel and manga publisher
SelfMadeHero at Bodhi – London’s first Manga Café and visual arts gallery.
An exclusive book signing will take place with four of SelfMadeHero’s manga artists to mark the UK release of
The Tempest,
Richard III and
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. DJ Yota from Japan will provide music throughout the evening.
Friday 28th September 2007, 6.30pm – 10pm
Faris Rotter, frontman of
The Horrors, will present the first ever exhibition of his drawings and prints at The Bodhi Gallery on London’s Brick Lane from the 12th until the 21st of October 2007.
A student of St Martins College of Art, his unique artwork has already adorned the sleeves of The Horrors records, T-Shirts and their fanzines, he also created the artwork for the recent Hatcham Social singles.
Faris’s works on his micro, intense, drawings in his Moleskin Notebooks (beloved by travelling proffesional artists since the 50’s) all the time. The only time he puts them down is when he is onstage!
He says that the drawings directly relate to his composing methodolgy and the lyrics, vice versa, to his art. This show gives a further glimpse into his strange, compelling world, and confirms him to be one of the most interesting and truly contemporary artists creating in the right here and now.
Cited by the
NME as the most exciting British band since the Sex Pistols, The Horrors played their first gig in September 2005 at The Spread Eagle pub on London’s Kingsland Road. They were singed by Loog Records soon after and released their debut single ‘Sheena Is A Parasite’ in April 2006
which was
accompanied by the infamous Chris Cunningham video starring Samantha Morton. A handful of brilliant singles followed in the run up to the release of their critically acclaimed debut album ‘Strange House’ in March 2007.
The Horrors, who have spent most of the last twelve months touring around the world, will release a new EP before the end of the year.
