The brilliant art collective ‘Le Gun’ has opened up their world for one week only (so get down there sharpish!) to celebrate the release of their 4th illustration led magazine. In an old Shoreditch school, not far from their workshop within SPACE studios (as one of many collectives and individuals that SPACE support), they have created a three-part spectacle of illustration and installation.
A salon style hanging on the first few walls gives an overview of the paintings and drawings of the separate Le Gun artists and their encompassing mind-blowing surrealist style.
The next section is a set of huge, some 10 meter long, ‘murals’ (in search of a better word). The collaborative artists have put their black pens to white canvas to create an unruly narrative. Crocodiles with cigarettes in their mouths, London scenes mixed in with jungle scenes, seascapes, drunken people, all are illustrated in the most incredible detail and with grim humour.
Climb through a cardboard door cut into a blank wall and you have entered the arts club made entirely out of cardboard. Walls, ceiling and floors, a mini grand piano, arm chairs, lamps, book-shelves EVERTHING! All illustrated by the collective in black marker pens, down to rugs and wooden floorboards. So cosy, and yet so cardboard!
This exhibition includes events that run each evening. Short films curated by the Independent Cinema Office, music nights including Strangeworks performance collective, and Soup session hosted by Jessica Antwi-Boasiako which is apparently ‘a cooking up of people, word artists and vegetables’, are just some of the goings on.
Last night a merry band of mistrals with trumpets led the parade from the opening to the after party in Cargo, so who knows what crazy goings-on to expect for the next week.
Possibly check the website I would imagine:
http://www.legun.co.uk/
Don’t miss this! You will regret it!
More pics coming. Hopefully of the cardboard paradise!
27th of Aug till 1 week later
Club row, Rochelle School,
Arnold Circus
Shoreditch
E2 7ES
