Video directed / edited by Joe Cox.
HELMET is a new contemporary art gallery in the heart of Munich’s Glockenbach quater, exhibiting a solo show of new works by Kid Acne. Show runs until June 5th @ Helmet Gallery, Fraunhoferstrasse 8, 80469, Germany.
To tie in with the exhibition Afro Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic at Tate Liverpool, TATE ETC magazine asked cultural critic Greg Tate (no relation) to look at the role of wit in this history. He examines DOOM’s lyrics in an interesting context and you can now read the feature online here.
As an artistic tribute to the airbrush heavy cartoon-like poster for 80s fantasy-action-adventure film The Beastmaster, Kid Acne has created his own version. But why? Well It’s also a tribute to a scene from original graffiti film Style Wars in which a group of writers do a street-crit dissection of the film poster in a [...]
LA based artist Charlie White (who recently collaborated with Boom Bip) is giving a talk at New York University – Thursday, October 15, 2009 5:15 [...]
Illustrator James Jarvis has created the artwork for Jneiro Jarel’s Georgiavania collaboration album with Khujo Goodie, working together as Willie Isz. The LP version folds out to become a 2ft square poster and the CD is a miniature version. Read more about this at the Jarvis’ Amos Toys blog HERE. Willie Isz album available now [...]
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BOOM BIP: WE LOVE TO SHOP (TEEN DANCE REMIX)
Boom Bip (also 1/2 of Neon Neon) has been collaborating with artist Charlie White (who’s work you may recognize from his Understanding Joshua series and Adidas Adicolor promo) to remix the theme song to a new animated video work entitled OMG BFF LOL, shown [...]
A series of site-specific installations by P-Origins of Pommery artists working in Guernsey, one of the tiny islands amongst the Channel Islands well off the coast of England, actually closer to France. This British owned territory is peculiar having been successfully occupied during World War II by the Nazis who heavily fortified the island, [...]
kid Acne’s long-overdue first solo exhibition is at Stella Dore gallery off Old Street in London. If you can’t make it down, peep the video below for a snoop around the exhibits. The Show runs from 3rd-25th April 2009
For the closing party on the final day, Kid Acne will be giving a guided tour + [...]
We just spied a massive Kid Acne graffiti piece lurking in the background of the trailer for the new film by Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation / Being John Malkovich etc). Click HERE to view the trailer.
Kid Acne has been involved with Beck’s (Beer, not artist) ‘Music Inspired Art Project’ in which illustrators remix their favorite record sleeves. From the list of 100 albums, he’s chosen Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique and rendered it in a slight homage to Stephen Wiltshire… Check it out at his website including some of the [...]