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Friday, 26 September 2008

Ben Frost, Crapitalism

Last night i was invited to the private view of the first uk solo show by
Ben Frost, which was represented by No Walls Gallery. For those of you who have never heard of Ben Frost.

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He is artist from Sydney most well known for his confronting and often controversial Pop Art paintings. Using a ‘collage’ style of unlikely juxtapositions, his dynamic paintings are complex mash-ups of popular culture that savagely critique our media and advertising obsessed society.

Some of you may have heard of his
now infamous 2000 exhibition and art prank ‘Ben Frost is Dead’ which saw him fake his own death and was branded ‘tasteless’ when the art world and national media actually believed his demise.

(some text taken off his website www.benfrostisdead.com)

Some pictures from the exhibition

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Overall i very much enjoyed the exhibition and recomend anybody who has some free time over the next few days to go down and check it out, the weathers good so no excuse.

Opens officially 26th - 30th September (which is today) Opening times 11am-7pm
collated at

Dray Walk Gallery,
The Old Truman Brewery,
91 Brick Lane,
London, E1 6QL


Thank you very much to Alice at Idea Generation for the hook up.

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