Dark Nouveau
Malleus, Alan Forbes,
Dave Hunter and Firehouse
at
VARNISH Fine Art Gallery
77 Natoma Street at 2nd Street
MALLEUS, the artist collective of Urlo, Poia and Lu, the remarkable poster design team from Italy, will be unveiling their new works and limited art prints at 7 pm on Friday, October 23 at VARNISH FINE ART GALLERY in San Francisco.
Alan Forbes, Dave Hunter and Chuck Sperry / Ron Donovan of the Firehouse will exhibit with MALLEUS - each presenting art prints specifically designed for the event.
The show will last for two days - Friday and Saturday - October 23 and 24, 2009.
Join us Saturday, October 24 for a live concert of MALLEUS' rock band UFOMAMMUT with ACID KING - doors at 7 - show at 8:30 pm
DJ Evil Justin will round out the evening providing choice punk and rock and roll.
Advance tickets are $12 / $15 at the door. www.chucksperry.net
The event is a celebration of "DARK NOUVEAU," a return to the roots of poster creation.
DARK NOUVEAU evokes equally the fin de siècle style of Toulouse-Lautrec and 1960's San Francisco Psychedelia - and operates here as a manifesto of reinvention and revision - aimed at connecting to the poster movement of the Decadent Period to the Belle Epoque and folding it into the Psychedelic Period to the present modern global silkscreen movement.
DARK NOUVEAU art installation at VARNISH FINE ART GALLERY • 77 Natoma Street in San Francisco • opens at 7pm • Friday, October 23 • Show runs October 23 through October 24, 2009 • MALLEUS • Alan Forbes • Chuck Sperry and Ron Donovan of the Firehouse • Dave Hunter
very nice exhibit great to see these posters up-close, Malleus, Sperry ( hi Chuck did not have much time talking with you and the other usual suspects)
ReplyDeletePrinting technic of these guys is flawless. Saw a special edition of the Malleus Sleep with gold specks ink to die for ($800 Ouch)
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