Openings: Green Day - “The Art of Rock” @ StolenSpace
Mike Dirnt
AM just got back from the opening of Green Day’s “The Art of Rock” show at London’s StolenSpace gallery (previewed), the night before the band starts a run of sold out dates on the UK leg of the 21st Century Breakdown Tour.
Logan Hicks (interviewed) curated the group show, which consisted of 18 pieces of art inspired by the lyrics of the new album. The participating artists were M-City (Mariusz Waras), Meggs, Peat Wollaeger, Pisa73, Ron English (featured), Sadhu, Sixten, The London Police, Will Barras, Adam (5100) Feibelman, Broken Crow (interviewed), C215 (Christrian Guemy), Chris Stain (interviewed), Component, Dabs (Myla), Eelus, Jeremiah Garcia, Lucamaleonte, and of course, Logan Hicks.
Each artist received the lyrics to a track, but not the tune itself, and produced a piece of art inspired by Billie Joe’s words. Read on for our pictures from the opening and details of a giveaway after the jump.
Logan Hicks
Logan and the band were in town, along with Eelus and Will Barras, and came along to the fun opening, interacting with the mixture of art and music fans. They chatted with fans through the evening, and shared experiences of their own personal art collecting with us.
Will Barras
Eelus
Tre Cool
StolenSpace produced an excellent catalogue of the exhibition including artwork from the show along along with the lyrics, and generously donated a couple of the catalogues for us to give away to Arrested Motion readers. Just post us a comment here including the title of your favorite Green Day tune. The ones that match our favorites the closest win! Contest ends 7pm Sunday UK time.
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- Logan Hicks
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- Tre Cool
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- mike dirnt
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- Eelus
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- Will Barras
Tags: Adam5100, Broken Crow, C215, Chris Stain, Contemporary Art, Eelus, Green Day, Logan Hicks, Ron English, Shows & Events, StolenSpace, Street Art, The London Police, Will Barras
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:49 am
where is billie joe and adrienne armstrong…
October 23rd, 2009 at 4:10 pm
wow, great! When I come around & 21st century breakdown
October 23rd, 2009 at 4:56 pm
These look awesome.
& Peacemaker!
October 23rd, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Going To Pasalacqua and Jesus Of Suburbia ♫
October 23rd, 2009 at 5:55 pm
where is billie joe?
!that art is amazing!
October 23rd, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Awesome interpritations! She!
October 24th, 2009 at 4:41 am
so sad that show’s so far away
christie road!
October 24th, 2009 at 11:29 am
geez, i’m loving those pictures, it’s pretty amazing, congrats!
wish i was here haha.
October 24th, 2009 at 11:34 am
Those were really great! I could really feel the emotion of the lyrics in the pieces and I loved all the different styles of art used.
iviva la gloria!
peacemaker
October 24th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Stuart And The Ave.
October 24th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Wow!! Amazing art!
East Jesus Nowhere and Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?
October 24th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Wish I could be there to see it up close and personal! I really like the dove on the hand grenade.
East Jesus Nowhere, Horseshoes and Handgrenades, Misery
October 25th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Alison and Janne win the catalogues with Going To Pasalacqua and Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?
we’ll be in touch with you directly….
October 26th, 2009 at 2:38 am
Hey ho! I’ll go to Stolen Space Gallery on October 31. I’m from Germany and I’m going to fly to London from October 31 to November 2. My favorite song is Boulevard of Broken Dreams.