CRAZE
International Art Show bringing Rebellious Innovators from London to Los Angeles.
London is an eclectic hub of international artists who flock to this Metropol to explore, to find their voice, to create and to inspire culture. This vibrant city has made a name for itself with high quality art and it’s been recognized as the global center of emerging culture and trends. Street Art is one of the most prominent and influential art forms to be found in London; this ever changing canvas of subversive ideas has become the biggest artistic movement of the 21st Century, attracting international visitors, art professionals and fellow artists.
Street art has given artists a revolutionary way of communicating and expressing their views and commentary. Work that promotes social change and makes radical thinking accessible for big audiences. Street art has proven to serve as a powerful tool to raise awareness and create social resistance. And social media has amplified this, allowing people to spread the work and interact with the artists.
Craze will bring the latest and best work of these artistic trouble makers to Los Angeles. It will showcase the rebellious, the innovative, the political, the provocative and the critical. We invite you to experience an art show of freestyle creativity and feel the London vibe from up close and to become part of this exciting conversation.
A SELECT CAST OF REBELS
From the sardonic statements of Mobstr, to Edwin’s scrawled freehand slogans and drawings, and Aida Wilde’s poster campaigns, these artists disrupt the directional communication of billboard advertisements and road signage.
Against wider societal and global concerns, stand the politically informed group portraits of Helen Bur and Wasp Elder, newsfeed assembled compositions which seek to make the daily migrant tragedies and rising nationalism stand out from the screen.
To the surrealist, Bosch-esq imagination of PANG, whose work expands from detailed water-coloured paintings to wall sized graffiti renditions of Renaissance masterpieces, ironically being erased.
Or the advertising styled illustrations, products and installations of Darren Cullen, whose children’s toys, pop-up shops and poster campaigns unpick the techniques of social propaganda, be it the EU referendum, the use of fossil fuels or the military industrial complex.
Curator
Meryem Dipdere
3 artist (Edwin, Helen Bur and Wasp Elder) will be flying over to LA, there will be opportunity for interviews.
