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9/3/2005

Brixton Graffic Show

198 Gallery, London

Group exhibition: promotion of urban aesthetics

For six weeks, 198 Gallery will be reverberating with the sights, sounds, colours, stories, art, images, textures, fashion, technology, photography and film that will create one of the most significant visual media events in Brixton and Greater London. This year’s Guinness® Foreign Extra Stout Brixton Graffic Show is the third major exhibition of Graphic urban art housed together in Brixton that celebrates contemporary photographic art, using techniques from the past and of the future.

Brixton Graffic Show has been developed by photographer Eddie Otchere. His vision has created a pan-urban collaboration that sees London, Berlin and Paris coordinating the development of a graffic visual vernacular with more than 15 other creatives across the capital, as well as some designers from other regions.

The official opening celebrations take place on the 10 March to coincide with the launch of the stunning Brixton Graffic Show publication, a printed visual concept meets the graphic pioneers of the show.

“Brixton Graffic Show is not just a group show, it’s a defining moment in the development and promotion of urban aesthetics and culture in the UK. We are confident that the show will challenge many people’s preconceptions about graffic art and will place many urban artists firmly within the UK and international arts scene as innovators of modernisms,” comments exhibition curator Eddie Otchere.

The time is ripe for such a major presentation of urban arts. 2004 marked the 20th anniversary of the ground-breaking book Subway Art: Britain and the rest of the world were introduced to the art of graffiti through photographs documenting the epic pieces of the New York urban graffic scene in the ’80s.

The Brixton Graffic Show located this year at the 198 Gallery on Railton Road. The choice of the gallery may be a departure from the alternative spaces of the previous incarnations of the show, but this is a venue with an unusual history, established in 1988 after the Brixton riots. Some of the fresh work on offer will be the extraordinary installations of Kofi Allen; the socially inspired work of Mau Mau; contemporary screen print-making by Adrian Wood; past and modern revisions of H.I.M. Haile Selassie I by Jahnoy Productions.

There will further stimulation for the eyes: the custom-made BMX paying dramatic tribute to urban transportation; the Arabic-inspired plates of Baraka; cutting edge contemporary illustration of Doze; thought-provoking graphics of Marok; workshops on the techniques exhibited with the Urban Vision arts and new media project. Subjects ranging from traditional photography to urban graffic art, arts to film; the first UK showing of Winstan Whitter’s art taken from the making of the epic skating film, Rollin’ through the decades. Films including Meat and H.I.M. Revisited will be screened as part of the exhibition.

Proceeds from sales will go directly to the fund for Mac-addicted graphic designers.

Supported by:
Lambeth Arts
Association of London Government
Brought to you by Guinness® Foreign Extra Stout

Artists in the exhibition:
Anissa-Jane, Kofi Allen, Christian Badger, Jennie Baptiste, Doze, Rebecca Harman, Thabo Jaiyesemi, Marok, Mau Mau, Eddie Otchere, Reach, Trini&Blest, Winstan Whitter, Adrian Wood

Curated by Eddie Otchere

Launch Event: Thursday 10 March, 6.00-9.00pm

198 Gallery
198 Railton Road, Herne Hill - London

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