ROA Soloshow at Pureevil Gallery
ROA’s eagerly anticipated UK solo debut opens in London this spring to exhibit his unique portrayal of large scale urban wildlife, disquietly cohabiting city streets, hand painted in his distinctive black and white style.
ROA started painting abandoned buildings and warehouses in the isolated industrial outskirts of his hometown – Ghent, Belgium. Fixating on the animals he found there; the wildlife became the central subject matter of his work, inspired by their clever ability to adapt into scavengers in order to survive. He used the dilapidated, coarse interiors and exteriors of the unyielding landscape as a canvas to portray his large-scale creatures.
Roa filled a vast abandoned warehouse complex of different chambers and exteriors with a menagerie of large-scale animals, creating an impressive spray painted zoo of city scavengers.
His obsession went global when he took to the streets of New York, London, Berlin, Warsaw and Paris, prolifically painting his trademark cross sectioned animals wherever he went, locating them where they naturally invade the main city streets with their quiet yet powerful presence.
d’RAW – International Drawing Showcase
The international exhibition d’RAW aims to contribute to what inside-the-scene folks, the broader public, as well as professional art people think about graffiti writing in relation to contemporary art without beeing booby trapped in a one-sided street versus museum discussion. In contrast, the exhibition approaches this topic from the commonly shared base of drawings. dRAW wants to propose an open minded view towards graffiti writing and street art by presenting historical, ground breaking, simply astonishing or otherwise interesting paper-pencil material as an evidence – not for prosecution, but for quality.
Artists:
Agit – ECB Hendrik Beikirch – Bill Blast – Bitucas – Blade – Anne-Lise Coste – Crash – Boris Tellegen/Delta – Dran – Dondi White – Dr. Rat – Ekundayo – Enes – Erosie – Fafi – Futura 2000 – Pierre Galic – Barry McGee – Os Gemeos – Harald Naegli – Herakut – Honet – Jesic – Koor – Philipp König – Lady Pink – Dave de Leeuw – Loomit – Peter Michalski – Mozes & Taps – Noc 167 – Phase 2 – Quik – Rammellzee – Roa – Seen – Shoe – Collin van der Sluijs – Swoon – The Dulk – Christine Würmell – Won ABC – Zedz – Zephyr
With photos by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant
d’RAW – International Drawing Showcase
September 12. 2009 – November 1. 2009
Opening hours:
mon – sat 9am – 11pm
sun 11am – 5pm
admission free
Schnuck*
Bongerd 18
6411 JM Heerlen/The Netherlands
+31 (0)45-577 22 00
http://schnuck.nl/1031/hompage
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