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2/7/2008

Pure Evil

Ink_d gallery/studio, Brighton

Using dark humour and twisting symbolism to create new forms, Pure Evil looks at what lurks around the corner on the secret streets of London and sheds light on the things under our noses that we never take the time to notice. The show explores what it means historically to be an East Londoner - how the mind can play tricks and how reality can be much more sinister. From WWII barrage balloon holders to visits from the Pearly Kings and Queens, Pure Evil?s new work will present new stencils and an arsenal of new images including lighter notes of hypnotic visual treats such as neon bunnies, neon butterflies and lightboxes.

The new show opens to the public on Friday 4th July and runs until Saturday, 2nd August. Take a look at this extraordinary street artist?s new originals and prints this July at Ink_d and prepare to be challenged, amused and delighted. He might use humour to bring people in, but his message is clear ? look deeper.

A little bit more about Mr Evil Pure Evil is in possession of a splended genealogical line which gives resonance to his new show. A descendant of Sir Thomas More, the tudor archbishop who wrote the widely regarded text Utopia, it's only natural that the artist should explore the darker side of the wreckage of Utopian dreams and the myth of the Apocalypse, a belief in the life-changing event that brings history with all its conflicts to an end.

In 1990 Pure Evil left the Poll Tax Riots of London behind and went to live in California where he spent 10 years ingesting weapons grade psychedelics, thinking about stuff, making electronic music and printing t-shirts. Inspired by skateboard culture and the west coast character graffiti of Twist, he returned to London and inexplicably picked up a spray can and started painting weird fanged vampire bunnies everywhere. After having spent the past year working on new canvasses and prints inspired by 'an apocalyptic vision of the end of time', PE is now launching his vision of darkness on an unsuspecting world, trying to look at the big picture, asking the tricky questions like: 'What does evil look like?? 'Why do humans seem to like conflict and explosions so much?? Are penguins naturally psychopathic and can they use nunchakus effectively?? 'Is earth actually a deep space battle station created millions of years ago by an evil galactic empire?'

Pure Evil has a gallery in London?s Shoreditch and has exhibited widely across the world.

private view on Thursday, 3rd July from 6.30 - 8.30pm

Ink_d gallery/studio
96 North Road - Brighton
Open Monday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm
Free admission

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