DALSTON SÙPERNOVÆ

I will be having an exhibition exhibition next week showcasing a multimedia experience of Set Design, Props, Costume Props, Photography and Film. Further details are listed in the press release below.

And on the private view night expect to see:

DJ sets from MC Thirsty Kirsty, Precious Metal aka Piers Atkinson and Philip Dunn.

Poetry performance by Sitron with Shy Charles.

Performances by Owen Parry, Lucy Fizz and Alex Clow.

You can RSVP at  https://www.facebook.com/events/444150162286490/

ALUN DAVIES
and
DALSTON SUPERSTORE
PRESENTS
DALSTON SÙPERNOVÆ

EXHIBITION – WEDNESDAY 25TH JULY – SUNDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER 2012
DALSTON SUPERSTORE 117 KINGSLAND HIGH STREET E8 2PB

Alun Davies, art director, known for his other-worldly, off-kilter colour environments showcased in British and Italian Vogue, opens his debut art installation at über-venue Dalston Superstore.

Davies’ spectacular transformative installation, curated by Saskia Wickins, opens this July at Dalston Superstore – where the upper bar and gallery space become a new world of colourful, futuristic landscapes expressed in a multi-media environment of mural paintings, luminous neon sculpture, 3D props, film, photography and sculpted portraits. Davies brings together the elements of his meteoric, multi-faceted career to create a gallery of characters who ‘act out’ the age-old narratives of relationships: love, death, battle and betrayal.

These characters’ costumes form a new collection of work, which is seen for the first time in a gallery context. Davies has drawn inspiration from his own stellar back catalogue of previous work worn by T.E.E.D, Lady Gaga’s Monsterball dance troupe and his high-end editorial/advertising commissions. The exhibition fuses together and includes the fantasy elements previously created in the cosmology of Alun Davies Art Direction, as seen in fashion and pop iconography through the mediums of film, photography, installation and operatic stage shows.

Davies combines the debris of Dalston’s elite with crystal, glitter, Swarovski, mirror and glass in an alchemical process, creating objects that attain the new energies and properties of desirability. His Muses of Metamorphosis are found in the depths (and sometimes alleyways) of Dalston, Berlin and New York: androgynous, futuristic, self-formed characters from another dimension. Friends, lovers and muses contribute their alien DNA, including performer and porn icon Danni Daniels, recording artist Peaches, designer and Vogue Fabrics club owner Lyall Hackarai, milliner and collaborator Piers Atkinson, stylist Kim Howells, fashion photographer Thomas Cooksey, illustrator Rebecca Rice, curator Eleanor Weber, writer Michael Nottingham, poet Sitron Panopoulos and live artist Owen Parry.

At Dalston Supernovae expect to see armored battles, paintings, a photography story by Thomas Cooksey and stylist Kim Howells, a live events schedule and readings.


Alun Davies contributes to editorials in Another, British, Russian, U.S and Italian Vogue, V Man, Fantastic Man, GQ, Metal, I.D and SHOWstudio.com

Credits include stage opera with musician Peaches / British Feature film 'Wreckers' / advertising and commercial installations and costume props for Adidas, A.S.O.S, Charlie Le Mindu, Diesel, House of Organza, Lady Gaga, Net-a-Porter, Piers Atkinson, Universal Music and Waddler clothing. Look books for Lu Flux, Piers Atkinson, Sophie Hulme & Toujouri.

Music videos and press imagery for La Roux, Paper Crows, T.E.E.D, The Good Natured,
Club installation at Glastonbury for Vogue Fabrics, site-specific installations for Charlie Le Mindu at Machine A, store designs for Piers Atkinson. Fashion films for SHOWstudio, Glassmagazine and Vogue Italia online.

Davies’ multimedia style, hyper-colour set designs, outré vision and hands-on craftsmanship approach to art direction has been well received by the fashion, music and moving image industries. Using a mixture of ephemera, objet trouvé and sculpture, Davies’ productions are often sustainable and ethically produced.

Throughout this unique exhibition new energies will be found each day and night by the transformation of the habitual Dalston Superstore.

For more information:
Web: alun-davies.com
Studio: info@alun-davies.com
Press: Ella Dror - ella@elladrorpr.com
Dalston Superstore: art@dalstonsuperstore.com

SUPERREFRACTION The Show

Superrefraction show at Vulpes Vulpes

I had the pleasure of arriving early at the Supperrefraction show at Vulpes Vulpes gallery today, I have to say it is not my forte to arrive early to any Vernisage but it just so happened I had a very busy evening and this was one event that I did not want to miss.

The show featured fifteen pieces of sculptural work spanning multiple disciplines all under the curatorial theme of Super Refraction.

'Super Refraction refers to specific meterological conditions in which the trajectory of electro-magnetic waves are bent in an arc approaching the curvature of the earth

As an unexpected and counter-intuitive property of the heat and moisture content of the atmosphere SuperRefraction plots an arc between the chance happenings of our environment and a deeper understanding of the everyday stuff which surrounds us'

'The exhibition returns consistently to an examination of our shifting relationship with objects. Takin a number of diverse approaches to making - investigative, critical, and playful by turn, the work yakes phusical presence, process and action to explore a number of personal and colective concerns. Thoughout, an ethic of openess and generosity prevails.'






















David Murphy, is it possible that no one has ever seen anyone anywhere, 2010






















Daniel Wallis, Dot, 2010






















Alex Chinneck, Patina's Portal, 2010






















Alex Chinneck, 84, 2010 (Please note this is not the correct title however Html does not allow this)

I personally felt quite refreshed by the show, a good curration of six artists who's work sat well together and yet had a variety that kept you interested. It was a small show however and I would be very interested in seeing these artists progress to larger exhibitions. I think it is time that younger sculptors get more opportunity to exhibit and these guys are taking it into their own hands to create a more interesting show without an indulgent finacial backing. My photographs do not do it justice this is something to be seen in person. The show runs until June 6th 2010.