Openings: Green Day – “The Art of Rock” @ StolenSpace

Posted on October 23, 2009 by sven
mike dirnt

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 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

Will Barras

Eelus

Eelus

Tre Cool

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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  • Anne

    where is billie joe and adrienne armstrong…

  • Iris

    wow, great! When I come around & 21st century breakdown

  • thelasthorcrux

    These look awesome. :)
    & Peacemaker!

  • Janne

    Going To Pasalacqua and Jesus Of Suburbia ♫

  • Chelsea

    where is billie joe?
    !that art is amazing!

  • Tara

    Awesome interpritations! She!

  • tre

    so sad that show’s so far away :( christie road!

  • Seavee

    geez, i’m loving those pictures, it’s pretty amazing, congrats!
    wish i was here haha.

  • Aurora

    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

  • milz

    Stuart And The Ave.

  • Alison

    Wow!! Amazing art!

    East Jesus Nowhere and Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?

  • Ivy Ramsbottom

    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

  • http://sleepboy sven

    Alison and Janne win the catalogues with Going To Pasalacqua and Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?

    we’ll be in touch with you directly….

  • E!!i

    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.