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2011 in Art & Culture

our picks from last year's best art, illustration and more...

2011 in Art & Culture

Street art exhibitions, illustrators and designers showcasing their works in London's hippest nightspots, fine art photography and sickening scenes with Barbie dolls...

Street art exhibitions, illustrators and designers showcasing their works in London’s hippest nightspots, fine art photography and sickening scenes with Barbie dolls. 2011 was another captivating year in art and culture, and here’s our highlights…

McBess Presents The Folding Knife at The Book Club

McBess Presents The Folding Knife at The Book Club

“A witty regression into Matthieu’s experiences, the show includes his first folding knife, chicks in bikinis, guitars and of course tins of bear doodie.”

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Non-Sign II, Lead Pencil Studio

Non-Sign II, Lead Pencil Studio

“A surreal examination of advertising, architecture and the environment. A negative billboard that frames nothing other than nature.”

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Recollection Quartett by Fredrik Heyman

Recollection Quartett by Fredrik Heyman

“Choosing 4 ‘young classics’ – dating from the 1960s to 1980s – photographer and artist Heyman has created fabulously surreal settings which interpret the unique personalities of each car.”

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Popshot Magazine Print Shop

Popshot Magazine Print Shop

“A selection of Jacob’s favourite illustrations from the magazine’s two year history as beautiful 550mm x 675mm giclée prints.”

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Ryan McGinley, Somewhere Someplace

Ryan McGinley, Somewhere Someplace

“Continuing his progression from naked kids in urban New York to naked kids in the wilderness, über-hip photographer Ryan McGinley‘s latest show displays an increasingly cinematic feel to his work.”

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Studio Job & The Groninger Museum

Studio Job & The Groninger Museum

“The pair were commissioned recently by the Groninger for a spectacular new reception and the Dutch institution already possesses the largest international collection of their products.”

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Stevie Gee 'Dead Clams', at Hoxton Bar & Grill

Stevie Gee ‘Dead Clams’, at Hoxton Bar & Grill

“A bizarre fantasy land of mutant surfers, amorous lovers, tattooed thugs, sharks and vampires; all in Gee’s utterly distinctive style.”

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La Selva: RGB Black Series; Carnovsky

La Selva: RGB Black Series; Carnovsky

“Expect exuberant, colourful and dense foliage with animals transforming on the walls, ceilings and bar of the popular Shoreditch watering hole.”

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Zimoun + Hannes Zweifel at Mnac, Bucharest

Zimoun + Hannes Zweifel at Mnac, Bucharest

“Sounding like soothing rain pattering on a windowpane, this unique display comprises of 200 prepared dc-motors, with mechanical tails, that sporadically slap the 2000 cardboard elements.”

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Shades Down In Tokyo Town

Shades Down In Tokyo Town

“Set to tour London, Gothenburg and Stockholm during 2011, HEDMANKLING’s wonderfully unique celebration of experimental eyewear is one to watch.”

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Art In The Streets at MOCA, Los Angeles

Art In The Streets at MOCA, Los Angeles

“From the ridiculously detailed recreation of an 11 year old installation at New York’s Deitch gallery, through to a hand-painted car by the iconic Keith Haring, this mind-blowing exhibition is simply the most powerful collection of graffiti and street art that there has ever been.”

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Thom Thom's Billboard Street Art

Thom Thom’s Billboard Street Art

“French street artist, Thom Thom, reworks billboards, hacking and dicing his way through them, before realising his mosaic like reinterpretations.”

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Sol LeWitt: On the Walls of the Lower East Side

Sol LeWitt: On the Walls of the Lower East Side

“On the Walls of the Lower East Side consisted of 666 photographs that documented the urban decay and dilapidation of the area of New York in which LeWitt lived and worked.”

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If I Had A Heart I Could Love You

“If I Had A Heart I Could Love You”

“The elaborate, childlike scene has been composed with a wickedly tongue-in-cheek sense of surrealist humour.”

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Wear Me Out; Erwin Wurm at Middelheim Museum

Wear Me Out; Erwin Wurm at Middelheim Museum

“His surreal and expressive works transform the grounds of this unique outdoor gallery into an acid-dipped fantasy world.”

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Matthias Heiderich

Matthias Heiderich

“Exploring the complexities of colour in minimalist architecture, he brings out a new and aesthetically wondrous side to a well-know city.”

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Mariel Clayton

Mariel Clayton

“The first one I did, with Barbie committing suicide in the tub, was more a visual ‘gag’ – something I thought was really funny.”

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Moneyless' Floating Graffiti

Moneyless’ Floating Graffiti

“Moneyless has appropriated very ‘fine art’ thinking to a practice so often steeped in rude-boy swagger.”

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MÖBIUS; Federation Square, by ENESS

MÖBIUS; Federation Square, by ENESS

“This ingenious amalgamation of sculpture and stop-motion animation really does make for one fabulously innovative and engaging example of how diverse public art can be.”

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