BRUCE(X)PLOITATION - Bruce La Bruce Book launch

The Green Carnation
4-5 Greek Street
London W1D4DD
April 5, 2012. 7pm - late.

Beers.Lambert Contemporary presents the UK book launch of Bruce(X)ploitation, the newest publication by internationally renowned artist Bruce LaBruce. On April 5, 2012, LaBruce and a line-up of his colleagues, friends, and photographic subjects both past and present will be in attendance at London's The Green Carnation bar in the heart of Soho. The event includes a book-signing and brief talk by LaBruce, performances by FrankoB and his band Lullaby for the Abandoned, and up-and-coming band Years&Years, DJ sets by Choronzon and LaBruce himself, and special appearance by cult-celebrity and star of LaBruce's 2010 film LA ZOMBIE Francois Sagat.

www.beerslambert.com/blabx.htm

LA PELLE CHE ABITO

LA PELLE CHE ABITO - Group show at Galleria Pack - Foro Buonaparte 60, Milano 20121
www.galleriapack.com/
info@galleriapack.com

16th February - 14th April 2012

Darren Almond, Franko B, Matteo Basilé, Peter Belyi, Edo Bertoglio, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Ofri Cnaani, Gianni Colosimo, Gino De Dominicis, Nicola Di Caprio, Alberto Di Fabio, Bruna Esposito, Weng Fen, Alessandro Gianvenuti, Robert Gligorov, Fathi Hassan, Zhang Huan, Oleg Kulik, Christiane Löhr, Miltos Manetas, Masbedo, Jason Middlebrook, Bartolomeo Migliore, Andrei Molodkin, Jonathan Monk, Juan Muñoz, Marco Neri, Rafael Pareja, Marina Paris, Giuseppe Pietroniro, Pipilotti Rist, Aldo Runfola, Salvo, Andres Serrano, Eulalia Valdossera

THE FLASH OF NATURE

THE FLASH OF NATURE - Group Show at Salone degli Incanti - Trieste, Italy. 12th February - 9th April 2012.

http://www.retecivica.trieste.it/triestecultura/new/ilfuocodellanatura/default.asp

Ansel Adams (USA), Allora & Calzadilla (USA / Cuba), Darren Almond (UK), Matteo Attruia (Italia), Carlo Bach (Italia), Olivo Barbieri (Italia), Bill Beckley (USA), Gianni Berengo Gardin (Italia), Primož Bizjak (Slovenia), Gabriele Bonato (Italia), Eelco Brand (Olanda), Piergiorgio Branzi (Italia), Monika Bulaj (Polonia), Luca Campigotto (Italia), Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (Cuba), Elio Ciol (Italia), Mat Collishaw (UK), Anton Corbijn (Olanda), Giacomo Costa (Italia), Massimo Crivellari (Italia), Amy Cutler (USA), Arnold Mario Dall’O (Italia), Riccarda De Eccher (Italia), Jim Dine (USA), Fulvio Eccardi (Italia / Messico), Gilad Efrat (Israele), Elger Esser (Germania), Manuel Fanni Canelles (Italia), Paul Ferman (Australia), Giorgia Fiorio (Italia), Franco Fontana (Italia), Jernej Forbici (Slovenia), Franko B (Italia / UK), Daniel & Geo Fuchs (Germania), Mario Giacomelli (Italia), Ugo Giletta (Italia), Antonio Girbés (Spagna), Robert Gligorov (Repubblica di Macedonia), Nan Goldin (USA), Paolo Grassino (Italia), Stefano Graziani (Italia), Renato Grome (UK / Australia), Jonathan Guaitamacchi (Italia), Albano Guatti (Italia), Henrik Håkansson (Svezia), Kenro Izu (Giappone), Alfredo Jaar (Cile), Oleg Kulik (Russia), Irene Kung (Germania), Christiane Löhr (Germania), Robert Longo (USA), Urs Lüthi (Svizzera), Angel Marcos (Spagna), Robert Mapplethorpe (USA), Francesca Martinelli (Italia), Masbedo (Italia), Hiroyuki Masuyama (Giappone), Ana Mendieta (Cuba), Michael Najjar (Germania), Julian Opie (UK), Franco Passalacqua (Italia), Cristiano Pintaldi (Italia), Alfredo Pirri (Italia), Marc Quinn (UK), Francesco Radino (Italia), Sergio Ragalzi (Italia), Robert Rauschenberg (USA), Antonio Riello (Italia), Julian Rosefeldt (Germania), James Rosenquist (USA), Ed Ruscha (USA), Sergio Scabar (Italia), Stefano Scheda (Italia), Luigi Serafini (Italia), Andres Serrano (USA), Mario Sillani Djerrahian (Italia), Janez Vlachy (Slovenia), Santiago Ydáñez (Spagna), Andrew Zuckerman (USA).

Franko B Feature on Art News (Italy) - December 2011

Franko B feature on Art News (Rai Edu) - Broadcast in Italy on 16th December 2011.
http://www.artnews.rai.it/

BECAUSE OF LOVE - press article

Article by Maria Vittoria Berti for Exibart, published 20th December 2011:
FRANKO B - BECAUSE OF LOVE: L’ARTE SI FA CON IL FOUND RAISING


BECAUSE OF LOVE is a new multi-discplinary performance piece currently under development by Franko B. To find out more and support the project, please visit indiegogo.com/because-of-love.

NEW EMAIL ADDRESS

Franko B can no longer be contacted at frankob2000@yahoo.co.uk, since this account was hacked on 5th December 2011. Franko's new address is frankobartist@yahoo.co.uk.

If anyone has received an email saying Franko B is stuck in Madrid and needs money, please do not respond, as it is not from Franko B. Do not give these people any money by Western Union Transfer.

I'M THINKING OF YOU - video

I'M THINKING OF YOU - Performance at Gru, Geneva, 25th November 2011. Video by La Nuit La Nuit.

GLOBE GALLERY AUCTION

www.globegallery.org/

Friday 2nd December 2011, auction starts at 6.30pm
Auction hosted by John Anderson with special guest Chris Donald

Globe's live auction aims to raise funds to support the development of our new contemporary arts venue in Newcastle.
With more than 60 artworks generously donated by artists including Douglas Gordon, Mike Nelson, Mark Fairnington, Jane & Louise Wilson, Franko B, Stefan Gec, Simon Leahy-Clark, Fiona Banner, John Kippin, Fiona Crisp and many others, and with prices for everyone, this is a not-to-be-missed evening.
All proceeds from the sale of the artworks will go towards continuing the development of our innovative programme of exhibitions, projects, artist support, community and school workshops, and our range of award winning volunteering opportunities.

You can now leave silent bids if you are unable to come to the live auction. The auction items can be viewed at the gallery on Wednesday 30th November and Thursday 1st December from 11.30am to 5pm

IN YOUR FACE

IN YOUR FACE - Group exhibition at Show Studio, 1-9 Bruton Place, London W1J 6LT.

Private view 1st December, 6-8pm. Exhibition continues until 4th February. Tues-Sat, 11am - 6pm.

Marina Abramovic, Franko B, Debra Baxter, Luis Bunuel, Nancy Burson, Chris Crites, Stephen Doherty, Leo Gabin, Lucy & Bart, Gao Brothers, Shadarfarin Ghadirian, Douglas Gordon, Fraser Hamilton, IngridMwangiRobertHutter, Patrick Ian Hartley, Stephen Jones, Nick Knight, Little and Whitehead, Nasir Mazhar, Amir Mobed, Polly Morgan, Harold Offeh, kennardphillips, Ed Templeton, Rudolf Schwartzkogler, Santigo Serra, Tim Shaw, Anj Smith, Hank Willis Thomas, Void Of Course

www.showstudio.com

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I'M THINKING OF YOU - reminder

Franko B will perform I'M THINKING OF YOU at GRÜ, Geneva on November 25th. More information and tickets here.
www.grutli.ch

THE SATURDAY ARTS CLUB

The Saturday Arts Club podcast - 19th November 2011

Includes an interview with Richard Smith from Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster, who talks about Franko B's recent solo exhibition, SOMEONE TO LOVE.

Listen here (Richard Smith interview starts approximately half way through).

BECAUSE OF LOVE

BECAUSE OF LOVE is a major new performance piece currently under development by Franko B. We need your support to make the piece happen! Please visit www.indiegogo.com/Because-of-Love for full details. Thank you.

FRANKO B - press article

Franko B interviewed by Luca Pakarov, for Rolling Stone Italia, published 7th November 2011

read it here

PERFORMANCE NIGHT AT THE RCA

PERFORMANCE NIGHT AT THE RCA

3 NOVEMBER 2011

Works selected by contemporary artists Nigel Rolfe, Franko B, Leah Capaldi and Jack Tan will be exhibited in a night of Performance Art at the Royal College of Art.

Following a week-long programme of intensive coaching and development, proposed work by students will be selected for an evening of performance at the Battersea campus of the Royal College of Art. As part of the college’s interdisciplinary initiative (AcrossRCA) students from design, animation, visual communication and fine art will be taken through a process of proposal, development, refinement and selection for Performance Night at the RCA.

The event makes apparent how other disciplines, as diverse as industrial design engineering or textiles, can enter, enrich and inform performance art. Questions are raised about how performance consists as a field of enquiry, its development, and the permeability of its boundaries.

The Performance Night exhibition takes place on 3 November 2011, 6.30pm to 10pm.

Free Admission
Royal College of Art, 15-25 Howie Street, Battersea, London SW11 4AS
Public information: www.rca.ac.uk
Tel: 0207 590 4444

SOMEONE TO LOVE - video

Franko B - SOMEONE TO LOVE - Peter Scott Gallery, 21st October - 12th November 2011.

PERFORMANCE NIGHT AT THE RCA

3 NOVEMBER 2011

Works selected by contemporary artists Nigel Rolfe, Franko B, Leah Capaldi and Jack Tan
will exhibited in a night of Performance Art at the Royal College of Art.

Following a week-long programme of intensive coaching and development, proposed work by students will be selected for an evening of performance at the Battersea campus of the Royal College of Art. As part of the college’s interdisciplinary initiative, students from design, curating, animation, visual communication and fine art will be taken through a process of proposal, development, refinement and selection for Performance Night at the RCA.

The event makes apparent how other disciplines, as diverse as industrial design engineering or textiles, can enter, enrich and inform performance art. How performance consists as a field of enquiry, its development, and the permeability of its boundaries.
The Peformance Night exhibition takes place on 3 November 2011, 6.30pm to 10pm.

Free Admission
Royal College of Art, 15-25 Howie Street, Battersea, London SW11 4AS
Public information: www.rca.ac.uk
Tel: 0207 590 4444

WEBSITE UPDATED

http://www.franko-b.com has been updated (October 2011). New content added to gallery, text and events pages.

SOMEONE TO LOVE - reminder

Franko B's solo show, SOMEONE TO LOVE opens at Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster on 20th October, with an artist's talk chaired by Dr Emile Devereaux on Friday 21st at 2pm. 

More info. and tickets here.


'Franko B is an instinctive and direct artist whose unique consideration of himself and what it is to be human is internationally recognised in a practice that spans performance, live art, installation and sculpture. In a display containing newly commissioned work, Peter Scott Gallery presents an installation that focuses on the fate of animals, who for Franko B “represent the balance of life”. 


There is darkness in the work, a sense of gothic terror and romance, but also a sense of new purpose for the objects and animals on display - they have been saved from demise and given a new lease of life. Furthermore the artist is present, prepared and presented like the other exhibits. Franko draws a line between himself and these animals, and shares their vulnerability in being on display. After all, “What difference is there?” Franko B asks, for whom “humans are animals with an ego and Gucci glasses.”' 


Exhibition open 21st October - 12th November.

I'M THINKING OF YOU

Franko B will perform I'M THINKING OF YOU on 25th November 2011 at the Who's Afraid of Performance Art festival at GRÜ, Geneva.

Information and tickets here.

Bâtiment d'Art Contemporain- rue des Bains 8, 1205 Genève

Théâtre du Grütli

tél: +41 (0) 22 328 98 68

www.grutli.ch

NEON + VINYL

Londonewcastle invites you to

Neon + Vinyl

presented by Plus Art Projects at Londonewcastle Project Space

Time Out First Thursdays Late evening: Thursday 6th October, 6pm
Frieze week party: Friday 14th October, 6pm

exhibition continues until 20th October 2011

Plus Art Projects’ alternative Frieze show ‘Neon + Vinyl’ is exhibiting new art works in neon and vinyl by Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas, Gavin Turk, Franko B, Regina Silveira, Amanda Eliasch, Melville Mitchell, Peter Lamb and Paul Hosking, Alex Baker, Phill Wilson-Perkin, Seamus Farrell, Warren McLachlan, Tim Bromage, Mark Croxford, Morag Myerscough, Luke Morgan, Kim Fielding, Dominic Allan, John Tiney, Jason Davidge, Stik, Marcus Mitchell, Jason Minsky, Giorgio Sadotti, Nick Kennedy, Will Strong, John Close, Will Marshall, The DnA Factory, Peter Ainsworth, Gemma Land, Damien Good, Dingbot McLatchley, David Wood, Craig Robertson, Sarah Blood, Laura Graham, Jonathan Wright, Ken Graham, Jim Woodall, Pete Jones and Amelia Newton Whitelaw amongst others.

The show is unique in drawing together a wide range of creative talent to work with media traditionally associated with street level advertising and industrial processes. We are challenging artists to subvert these media and find new ways to communicate.

Curated and produced by neonist Kerry Ryan, artist Declan McMullan and Jessica Temple, ‘Neon + Vinyl’ is the fourth Frieze week show from Plus Art Projects.

Opening Times: Thursday 6th - Thursday 20th October 2011. Open every day from 10am -6pm. Late viewing by appointment

LONDONEWCASTLE PROJECT SPACE
The Londonewcastle Project Space is a gallery and exhibition space in Shoreditch created by property brand Londonewcastle as a platform for creatives and artists to display their work and further their practice. The gallery is donated to users who might not otherwise have the opportunity to show their work and forms part of the ongoing local cultural discourse.
www.londonewcastle.co.uk

28 Redchurch Street
London E2 7DP
MORE INFORMATION
info@plusartprojects.com
www.londonewcastle.co.uk/#/events/list