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UK///LONDON’S SPACE INVASION…

October 9th, 2007

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French artist SPACE INVADER finally brought his 8-bit style street art indoors when his first solo show in London, “Space Invasion & Bad Men Part II” opened at the tastemaking LAZARIDES GALLERY last Friday. Divided into two halves, the first part, “London Invasion,” documents the artist’s extensive street work in Fogtown through a series of photographs chronicling 100 individual applications of his iconic ceramic tile appliqués on city walls and monuments. The second half, “Bad Men Part II,” located in the gallery’s dungeon-like basement features all new 3-D works depicting Hollywood bad guys like Freddy Kruger, Scarface, and Frankenstein, in large-scale tiled panels exemplifying his trademark “Rubik Cubist” style. Love it or leave it, TAKE A PEEK:

All photos by our boy SICHI

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