Collective Exhibition of Spanish Artists @ The Vyner Studio

5. May - 12. May 11 The Vyner Studio

free

Opening Times:

Friday 1230-4; Saturday 1230- 6; Sunday 1230-4; Monday +Tuesday 1230 - 3; Wednesday + Thursday 1230-6

The Vyner Studio is one year old!!

TODAY THE VYNER STUDIO IS OFFICIALLY ONE YEAR OLD!

I hope that on this second year the project keeps defining itself, growing, improving, sharing, learning, and pretty much being what is intended to be: a great platform for culture.

On Thursday 630-930 come and celebrate one year with us.
1-5 Vyner Street. We have a new entrance closer to Cambridge Heath Road.

All the best from The Vyner Studio,

IkerONE YEAR OLD!

I hope that on this second yea...r the project keeps defining itself, growing, improving, sharing, learning, and pretty much being what is intended to be: a great platform for culture.

On Thursday 630-930 come and celebrate one year with us.
1-5 Vyner Street. We have a new entrance closer to Cambridge Heath Road.

All the best from The Vyner Studio,

Iker

About food and paintings and friends

Hi,

Although I don´t often post things related to hospitality, today I would like to introduce you to two places that are worth visiting.

First, Buenavista in San Sebastian, Basque Country.

A second house in my childhood. A family run restaurant with amazing views overlooking the sea at the top of Igueldo Mountain. This views were one of my first inspirations to paint, wich I depicted on a serie of three oil paintings.

Eneko Irizar, my good friend and school mate that I grew up with, leads the kitchen with the best views I have ever seen and that delivers amazing food and desserts.
Arantxa Irizar, an aunty to me, was actually the first person that bought my art. I now smile looking back and remembering those paintings that helped me on my trip moving to London, ten years ago.


The second place is El Baruco de Anero in the outskirts of Santander. Alfonso Ruigómez, has built a restaurant that is already having good reviews and he has done it all from scratch. Well done Alfonso!
Three of my works hang on the walls of El Baruco.


Have a nice week!

Group Show by Artycok TV at The Vyner Studio

The Vyner Studio Group Show 7 - 31 October from Alice Masters on Vimeo.

Alice Masters and Ruben Hale (Artycok TV) arranged a visit to The Vyner Studio a few weeks ago to interview Jon Braley and to also film the Group Show.

The video is now on the official website of Artycok, where you can also read the review by Ruben Hale.

http://artycok.tv/lang/en-us/group-show/6447

For those in London, tomorrow 630-930 and Saturday 12-430 are the last chances to see this show.

Find all the information of how to get to The Vyner Studio on Artrabbit.

http://thevynerstudio.co.uk/exhibitions.html

1300 visitors at Michal Cabaj One Man Show at The Vyner Studio!

Lips. 2009. Acrylic on canvas. 90 x 90 cm.
"Only one letter makes a difference between the lips and lies. But one can not do without the other. From the distance you see the lips...when you come closer you´ll see two slugs...come even closer and you will see hundreds of worms forming the slugs...it´s like unfolding the truth - sometimes the deeper you go the more disgusting it gets. But from the distance it´s really pretty...A lie" (Michal Cabaj)

For Michal Cabaj every painting has a story. Texts like this accompained the paintings and drawings that were exhibited at The Vyner Studio yesterday on the busiest night at the gallery ever.

The visitors could get a close look at the inner world of an artist who´s work goes deep.

From here I would like to congratulate Michal for a show that people will remember.

Have a nice day

Hackney Wicked Festival 3rd Edition this week end!

Hey!

For the 3rd year and coming stronger than ever The Hackney Wicked Festival will start on Friday and untill Sunday.

Here´s a little video from last year´s festival by Beatriz Fernandez.

All sort of events from open studios, exhibitions, live art events, open air film screenings, and a lot more...

Check the main wensite to find out what´s on
http://www.hackneywicked.com/

I have been invited to do a live painting performance at Lord Napier on Saturday from 12 pm, an event sponsored by Red Bull.
Please come and perhaps add something on the walls to help me cover the whole space with paint, it will be fun!

2010 Iker García Barrenetxea Calendar and Atormentado Poster

I designed a calendar for 2010. Each month a different character to observe. I hope you like it.
Have a nice sunday!

www.zazzle.com/ikergarcia*

Drawing Dreams and Alex Andreyev

Hi again! Today I received an e-mail from Drawing Dreams inviting me to participate supporting the project. Drawing Dreams is a Berkeley, California-based non profit organization that helps provide art supples to children´s hospitals, and other organiztions where need arises.

Of course my answer was yes, I will paricipate. While checking their website I found these cool works by Alex Andreyev an artist from Sant Petesrburg that participates with his work for this charity.
I selected many of his works and I suggest you log on his site to see more of his works:
http://alexandreev.com/
I hope you guys are having a great Xmas, I am!
Bye now!

Collin Van Der Slujis

Yesterday I visited Pure Evil Street Art Gallery and I discovered Collin Van Der Slujis, an artist from The Netherlands who is showing about six works this time. I´ve just checked his website and here´s a litte selection of works I liked. Twisted and dark, animals and people brought to the canvas with some registers that reminded me of Basquiat and some of Brazilian Os Gemeos. I recommend you to go along and see it by yourself, as paintings always look different in reality.

Pure Evil Street Art Gallery is on 108 Leonard Street London EC2A 4XS.
www.collinvandersluijs.com
www.pureevilclothing.com

Iker Garcia Barrenetxea at Eyre Brothers Restaurant

This are some pictures of my exhibition at Eyre Brothers Restaurant, wich I hanged last wednesday. Three oil paintings that portray London and also Barcelona. The paintings are for sale and will be replaced for new paintings when sold.

I´d like to thank Gastón Tegeiro for this pictures.
The Eyre Brothers has got a new website that was uploaded last week:
Web Design by Gastón Tegeiro (E: jdm_elreylagarto@hotmail.com)

www.eyrebrothers.co.uk

INTOART: SEE THE REVOLUTIONARY ART EXHIBIT

INTOART: SEE THE REVOLUTIONARY ART EXHIBIT

7 November-6 December 2009
Outset Project Gallery (Gallery 5) & 176 / Zabludowicz Collection Project Gallery (Gallery 6)

"South London art collective Intoart was founded in 2001 by Guy Allott, Sam Jones and Ella Ritchie. Here the group present their distinctive approach to studio practice, that includes people who have a learning disability. The exhibition includes new work by Ntiense Eno Amooquaye, Selina Helene, Mawuena Kattah, Doreen McPherson, Philomena Powell and Clifton Wright with four short films which document the lives and working processes of the artists.

Alongside this exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery has commissioned theorist and art historian Malcolm Bull to reflect on the group’s work. Bull has used language articulated in the Intoart studio for a new text considering their collective working method. His commentary does not attempt to provide a definitive description of Intoart’s approach, rather, it offers scope for further reflection.

See the Revolutionary Art Exhibit is part of the Gallery’s Education Programme, that engages with artists to investigate and present new modes of education and community practice."

www.whitechapel.org

Iker Garcia Barrenetxea at Eyre Brothers Restaurant

Exhibition at Eyre Brothers Restaurant in London. Yesterday I hanged three oil paintings and I will change them for new works periodically in the future.
I would like to thank Eyre Brothers Restaurant for their support and specially David Eyre for his help and support.

Address:
70, Leonard Street
London
EC2A 4QX

Morning Sun by Edward Hopper

Henrik Von Gerber

Paintings by Sweedish artist Henrik Von Gerber. Back in 2003 I exhibited with Henrik at Mall Galleries in London in a group show. The show was titled "I Dreamt in The City". Von Gerber lives and works in Sweeden.
To check more of his works check:
www.henrikvongerber.com
Have a nice week end!

Vincent Van Gogh

Simon Schama's Power of Art - Rothko, part 1 of 7

Here´s a special documentary about the american abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko. A BBC program.
You can easily see the rest of the parts on youtube.

At the moment I am very busy working on a project to create an interesting space in London in collaboration with reputed artists and that will beneffit the community. I have been working on this for the last couple of months and it´s taking a lot of my time, so I´d like to apologize for those that check the blog every day and didn´t find as many posts as usual.
I´d also like to say that I was recently invited to talk about art for a couple of minutes once a month on a radio station in London; the first one will be next week. I will keep you informed.

Also, I´ve got three oil paints at the frame shop that will be hanged at The Eyre Brothers Restaurant in London very soon. I will also let you know about that.
All the best from the freezing London guys!

Marc Rothko

YUKO NASU

“I am interested in portraits because I am surrounded by them everyday in the media. However I am not interested in drawing someone special but someone whom no one knows. I love to imagine the history and personality of a person simply through what they look like. I usually draw imaginary people rather than specific people because I have learned from many cases that we can never judge a person by his or her appearance. I am curious about what sorts of things can make a person be recognized/ differentiated from others. In order to find what the most important thing to differentiate people is, I create a lot of drawings. Through these drawings which were inspired by the public, I have made my "Imaginary portrait series." (Yuko Nasu /Sesame Gallery)

Yuko Nasu was born in Hiroshima and lives and works in London. Nasu´s paintings will be part of "Represent" at Blackall Studios in group show opening this coming thursday in Leonard Street, London. On this show we´ll see Mathew Small´s work as well. Funny enough I met Matt in person this morning as he was carrying his work to the gallery.
Bye now!

Francisco Centofanti

This is the first painting I saw of this great painter that I met nine years ago when I first got to London, and that became a very good friend of mine. At the moment Centofanti lives in Japan, although he will be back in London soon and we will provably be working together in a nice project. Very much looking forward to it.
All the best from London Cisco!

Women in mirror

Eduardo Anievas Cortines, Egard Degas, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault and Dino Valls. These are a few paintings I selected from Carmen Pascual´s blog under the subject Women in mirror. Check her blog to see the rest of her great selection: Carmensabes.
Bye now!