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We’ve been getting a lot of emails from people who couldn’t make it to the Popaganda exhibition for details and prices so I have posted the price list for the show above.
Prices are in Czech krowns so I have included a link to a currency converter below.
Any further enquiries, you can contact us here bruteprop@gmail.com
Show ends July 13th Address: Mad Bar, Plaska 5, Mala Strana, Praha 5 (CZR)
Currency converter: http://www.xe.com/ucc/
The early 80’s was a tense time. The world seemed on the brink of war, youth unemployment was at an all-time high and strikes and riots were commonplace. To reflect this, I began to write and illustrate a series of strips that attempted to address these concerns. The first copy of RAGE! was sold in Bristol, London and Amsterdam and was creating a buzz until its demise soon after the originals for RAGE! 2 were stolen from my apartment in Holland.
Thanks to my brother for digging this one out.
Short mini-documentary on the BRUTE! Popaganda show in Prague this month. Film maker Rory Wilmer and I spent the day walking and drinking along the river Vltava and discussing my work. Also contains scenes from the opening of the show at Mad Bar which features a short speech by yours truly on Popaganda reproduction.
I decided, after several requests, to stage an exhibition of my work at a small bar gallery in Prague’s famous Mala Strana district.
The owners of Mad Bar (Plaska 5, Praha 5), keen promoters of modern art, suggested I use their restaurant to display my Popaganda-themed work. Instead of using the more intense images for which I’ve become known, I instead chose a selection of more colourful creations.
This is also the first time I’ve employed the digital print-to-canvas system and I was very impressed with the results (although it didn’t work so well with the black-heavy prints).
The gallery organiser turned out to be useless so Zuzana, my Czech girlfriend and PA, stepped in to organise the prints and help with the installation while I sent out eVites and set up Facebook events to promote the show.
Installation was pretty quick and glitch-free thanks to a fluid hanging system employed by the architects to protect the heritage building.
A last minute problem with the burning of the showreel led to me missing Gilbert Shelton and Robert Crumb’s talk at the Lanterna across the bridge from the exhibition but there was a healthy turn-out for the event with several skate decks and canvases sold.
Show ends July 13th
I love robots.
Some articles of clothing are so sublime, I find it hard to contain my excitement upon discovering them.
I’ve seen a recent departure from the traditional military/urban jacket to a more multi-purpose, soft fabric workwear, none more so than this two-ply cotton work shirt/jacket from Post O’Alls. Along with the similar Nigel Claiborne gingham shirt jacket, these brands are paving the way for a more purpose-related garment for the modern urban male.
Anyone interested in these shirts should buy me one, size Large.
Many of you coming here will have seen that my main site at bruteprop.com is down. This is due to annual network maintenance. Business will be back to normal as soon as possible.
In the final stages of the tattoo design. Colours have been saturated to give more of a feeling of old skool sailor tattoos to correspond with the dark noir of Chris Lefler’s ‘Street’ tattoo on his other arm.
I imagine there will be more tweaking over the next month with possibly a character change or two (‘Are there too many naked women?’ I ask myself).
