Handiedan x White Walls Project @ Unit44

Unit44: ‘Wall number seven here at Unit44
we called in Dutch artist HANDIEDAN. Known the world over she pushes the limits of her own work to take on this huge street piece for the White Walls Project. Using a mixture of paste-up, collage material, and illustrations this wall sits proudly amongst the others on a wall perfectly suited to this style.
Taking only four days she went to work tirelessly on the wall treating the piece with the same level of attention as with her original works. We will update you in six months after weather & time have left their mark.‘

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In addtion we are pleased to announce our first Unit44: White Walls Print release working with the internationally known Phone Booth Gallery (Longbeach, USA) together with a new Handiedan original artwork.’

‘Trois No.4′
mixed media.
UV ink print,
print & collage, paint & pen
on old metal (zinc)
20″ x 24.5″
50,5 x 62 cm
2011

Unit44 Presents in association with Phone Booth Gallery:



‘Trois No.1 2011′
Hand Pulled 13 colour Screen Print with Pearlescent layer.
Printed on Cougar Smooth Opaque 100lb. Cover Stock.
24″ x 36″
Edition of 44
Signed and Numbered by the artist

Handiedan x Hey! Magazine

www.heyheyhey.fr

HiFructose x Amsterdynasty

Now on view at Denver’s Black Book Gallery is a compelling show pairing together Dutch street artists The London Police alongside female collage artist Handiedan. Entitled “Amsterdynasty”, the show has found a way to go beyond regional associations to present a well realized, multifaceted and occasionally collaborative exhibit done strictly in black and white. While one wouldn’t normally expect art nouveau-inspired collages and crisp line driven graffiti to go hand in hand, they surprisingly do, and do it well. Get a look at the show and opening night, here on Hi-Fructose.

Handiedan

The London Police



HiFructose Blog – Written by Ken

Hi-Fructose Studio Visit with Handiedan

Intricate and meticulously crafted,
Handiedan’s collages represent the gradual accumulation of layers—not only of materials like wood, metal and paper, but cultural references as well. Over a backdrop of baroque designs culled from international currencies and antique sheet music, the artist fuses classic pin-up girl body parts to create her own version of beauty. Sometimes these beauties might wield an extra arm or two, and everything that lies exposed beyond their garters and brassieres is heavily inked with hand-drawn tattoos.

Departing from her rich color palette of beige and burgundy, Handiedan just finished preparing a series of black and white collages for her upcoming group show, “Amsterdynasty” (where she’ll be showing alongside The London Police), which debuts at Denver’s Black Book Gallery on May 14. The sleek monochromatic collages turn her figures into femme fatales, exploring the darker side of their classic sensuality. Before heading off to Denver, Handiedan invited Hi-Fructose into her Amsterdam studio, a digital and artisanal workspace where the artist alternates between working on her computer, sheets of zinc and antique picture frames. Nastia Voynovskaya previews Handiedan’s latest creations below.
Read the original post at the Hi-Fructose blog here..

Black Book Gallery presents The London Police & Handiedan “Amsterdynasty”

May 14, 2011 through May 31, 2011



Denver, CO (April 20, 2011) -Black Book Gallery is at it again for the month of May, delivering some of the most accomplished and established international street artists in the world to Denver. It’s pretty incredible, actually, to think of the shows Black Book Gallery has already produced this year… and 2011 isn’t even half over. We’re talking repeatedly on beat with the likes of gallery exhibitions found in major art hubs: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and the UK. Only these shows require no major travel at all. Pay attention Denver, contemporary and urban art-loving fans; history is happening NOW and it’s all for you, so tuck away any excuses not to attend Black Book Gallery this month, mark your calendars for May 14th and treat yourself to a seriously special collaboration with The London Police and Handiedan! Artists will be in attendance.

Chaz and Bob Gibson make up The London Police, a widely-known and well-respected duo from England who combine styles on every piece they produce, often mixing in a tall portion of antics and mock-seriousness along the way. In fact, their work is largely created from the dynamics of their friendship, which is a result of two small-town artists who continue to share an insatiable desire to work big and leave their mark. Since the beginning, which was back in 1998, Chaz and Gibson have clicked not only with each other, but with the international, contemporary and urban art world. Unknowingly and out of pure satisfaction to create and collaborate, the two began by traveling into London from their nearby homes tapping into the big city energy and laying down what at the time was not so common large ink drawings on the street surfaces of London and later, Amsterdam. In a well-timed series of events, Chaz and Gibson soon found themselves propelled into a lifestyle of global travel, art-making and art-showing, where The London Police emerged as major icons in the street and graffiti art movement over the past decade, their influence still potent to this day.



On their upcoming Denver show, Chaz says, “In the collaboration work between Bob and myself we have tried as ever to mix images and impressions of Denver and USA with the world of the LADS (TLP characters). As always its a pure pleasure to be exhibiting our work in another great American city. Denver has always been in my heart ever since Heather Locklear joined the cast of Dynasty and I asked my mum and dad if I could have a lock on my bedroom door.” Bob responds with this, “I was more into ‘Dex Dexter’ in Dynasty to be honest. A dark, manly, well-dressed smooth operator who taught me the value of strong business etiquette and oily seduction.”

The name of the show is called “Amsterdynasty.” Chaz explains by saying, “Working life for an Amsterdam artist is a potent mix of love, obsession, sweat and tears. An everyday soap opera in the windmill-strewn, wooden-shoe-wearing canals and alleyways of Holland’s capital, not too dissimilar from the popular Denver-based soap extravaganza that was ‘Dynasty’.”

In addition, The London Police are working with Handiedan on an all black and white show. This is a departure from Handiedan’s normal work that is usually full of color. Although, she reports excitement that the black and white challenge is taking her back to her roots in photography.

Check out my Facebook fan page for more pictures of the opening.

Handiedan’s feminine and sensual content will be an interesting, uniquely bizarre, counterbalance to The LADS characters. The boudoir aesthetic Handiedan chooses, also mixing in bits from classic tattoo culture and fantastical collage, arouses a certain tenderness that accompanies the subject matter. Handiedan pays big respect to women and sexual expression in general by using pin-up shapes, reframing the notion of a modern goddess. Not only are the female forms attractive to view, Handiedan’s collage work is a highly enjoyable experience in-and-of-itself. It is delicate and ornate, incorporating vintage details and tactile pieces of history. Handiedan is from the Netherlands and sites cultural periods, especially in Europe, as a major influence in her work.

Truly, do whatever you need to do not to miss this show; it will be a mash-up of high creativity and well-developed style from far off and exotic places!


The artwork and prints are available at www.theblackbookgallery.com and go for more close up pictures to my website.

Black Book Gallery
Denver
www.theblackbookgallery.com

Handiedan x ‘The New Lost Generation’

Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Rome

If contemporary art is to be characterised by something, it could be characterised by its detachment from the sidereal cultural debate within the society in which it operates. Here we are not talking about its latest raillery ‘I know what to do too’ which so much ignorance has gifted to the world, instead it is the widespread and real incapacity of the art system to measure itself against its own epoch.



Mondo Bizzarro Gallery has over time undertaken a voyage through the hyper-contemporary art world, exploring culture, initiating  debate, and bring with it crowned champions and outsiders alike. It has thrown a stone into the pond of modernity, sending ripples of ‘the underground’ across its surface.
The gallery has returned from its voyage of exploration bringing with it a bounty of enticing proposals from unprecedented artists, who approach the canvas without fear of being ridiculed, or being thrown to the post-conceptual sharks.



‘The New Lost Generation’ does not shout, instead it whispers about the delicacy, fascination and wider art history. If the first ‘Lost Generation’ was comprised of those American writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Eliot who, following the horrors of the First World War found, refuge in France, today, the new lost generation is there on the horizon, having been chased from of the temple of elitism, and is arriving on on safe shores.

Is it a ‘return to order’ after the great revolutionary binging of the late twentieth century? Not exactly. One can’t see a revolution if there isn’t one. But the subterfuge of the cultural debate, where value is defined by: listings, prices, millionaire acquisitions, auctions, petrodollars, the nouveaux rich, Russian Mafia and emerging markets, has been stripped away leaving the only thing which matters: the artists and what they produce: art.

So we have returned to an order where conscience and capacity define that what is beautiful and what is right, using a scale of value which belongs to us and defines what is human. We all know how horrible it has been and now sail forwards to the horizon.

‘The New Lost Generation’
Jennybird Alcantara, Alessandra Amici, Dan Barry, Ciou, Luciano Civettini, Edward Robin Coronel, Matt Dangler, Bob Dob, Mark Gleason, Handiedan, Teiji Hayama, Mari Inukai, Andy Keohe, Miran Kim, Tara Krebs, Edith Lebeau, Daniel Lim, Lisa Petrucci, Gail Potocki, Nerea Pozo, Prunelle, Michael Pukac, Dan Quintana, Karine Rougier, Rubenimichi, Mari Syring, Yoko Tanaka, Ania Tomicka, Yosuke Ueno, Christopher Umana
16/04/2011 al 18/05/2011

‘The New Lost Generation’
group show
16 April – 19 May 2011
Opening Saturday 16 April – 9.30 – 10.30 PM
The works are also available online at www.mondobizzarrogallery.com

Mondo Bizzarro Gallery
Monday/Saturday h12:00-20:00 Sunday 16:00-20:00
Via Reggio Emilia 32 c/d
00198 Rome, Italy

HANDIEDAN x Urban Contemporary Art Auction

Haven House Childrens Hospice
I donated Poker Paradise No.10 for the Haven House Childrens Hospice auction at Bloomsburys Auctions / Dreweatts in London at 6 April 2011.

Online bidding on the work is also available:
http://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/dreweatts-london/catalogue-id-2834318/lot-10791052
http://www.dnfa.com/search.asp?view=lotno&auction=20462&lotno=89&uniqueid=435116-1
Poker Paradise No.10 can be found under Lot 89.

ALL of the sales proceeds will go to the Haven House Childrens Hospice and a nice detail to mention is that this fund raising charity event has been curated by Liam Patel, a 15 year old who has been collecting urban art from the tender age of 12, yay!
Read more about the Urban Contemporary Art Auction here..

Contact details:
Dreweatts
Mary McCarthy
email:  mmccarthy@dnfa.com
Tel: 015944 531288 (Dreweatts)
Tel: 020 7495 9494 (Bloomsbury Auctions)
Bloomsburys Auctions
Dreweatts

‘Oh, You Are Sick…’ An Art Show Dedicated to David Lynch’ at Phone Booth Gallery.

Lost Highway No.2
I created for this group show a new pin-up work on paper.
Inspired by the David Lynch’ movie ‘Lost Highway’.
More size, price information and pictures will follow soon..

‘Oh, You Are Sick…’ An Art Show Dedicated to David Lynch’
at Phone Booth Gallery.
An exhibition of works inspired by the life and works of the legendary David Lynch, includes five David Lynch movie screenings in Long Beach, and an ambitious David Lynch screen printed art series. Movie screenings kindly provided by Long Beach Cinematheque. RSVP.

Opening show
 12 March
19:00 – 22:00
Phone Booth Gallery
2533 East Broadway
Long Beach, CA 90803
www.phoneboothgallery.com

Handiedan x White Walls Mural Project

I’m very excited to announce
that I’ll be flying over to Newcastle, UK to join the White Walls Project with a big size pin-up in June, yay!
Thanks to Unit 44, in co with Phone Booth Gallery!

Handiedan ‘Donna Juana No.1′ art print SOLD OUT

Because it was my birthday
earlier this month I released an special art print edition of 13 at 3:11 31-1 2011 at my website store. The edition sold out o-so quick, but because of the high amount of interest it was a bumpy ride in the store.
A big congrats to those who made it through the shop wilderness and enjoy-enjoy your print! Thanks again for the support!

Donna Juana No.1
Art print
308 gsm Hahnemühle paper
21″ x 27.5″ / 53.5 x 70 cm (image size)
With hand embellishments: collage, ballpoint pen doodles and acrylic paint.
Every print is unique
Signed and numbered on the front
Stamped on the back
Edition: 13


See more images here..