KNOW HOPE, NEW BOOK

Know Hope install for Nuart

Nuart friend and participant Know Hope has a brand new "artists" book out. If it's anything like the first one then it will be well worth having.

From Know Hope

'Bound By The Ties'

The book is composed of a collection of drawings, writings, photographs and other side-seen moments, some from the recent past, and some from very close to the present. I sewed, folded and mended, retrieved and recited; tried to understand how we got to where we are now (sunken/sunken/sunken)

This is a book that contains a narrative that speaks of being born into debt, being overwhelmed in a heartbroken world and finding and recognizing eachother in these complexities.
It attempts to document our rituals-how and why they were created. It is a folk tale of some sort, collective memories compiled like a time-capsule, or fireworks in a jar.

So, here are the details:

The book is independently published in an edition of 1000 and is comprised of 160 full-color pages.

There is a limited edition of the book that have handmade covers; meaning that they bear hand-sewn drawings, photographs and collages, making no two books the same. This edition is signed and numbered and is an edition of 75.

The prices of the books are $35 and $120, respectively.

The book will be released at an event taking place here in Tel Aviv on March 10th.
The event will include an installation of all the original drawings, photographs and texts used in the book allowing an organic and tactile experience of the books content.

The book will be available at the event, and on at www.thisislimbo.bigcartel.com the very day after.

SMALL ACTS OF RESISTANCE

What looks like another great little show opening tonight at Black Rat Projects in London. Nice that it features a batch of previous Nuart artists and also includes our very own producer extraordinaire, Dotmasters !

SMALL ACTS OF RESISTANCE
Thursday 4th November 2010 from 6pm - 9pm
Black Rat Projects, Through Cargo Garden, Arch 461, 83 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3AY

In ‘Small Acts of Resistance’ Black Rat Projects brings together six international contemporary artists whose work bears the stamp of both the artist’s aesthetic vision and the activist’s world changing ambition. Works by Peter Kennard, our very own DotMasters, Matt Small, Know Hope and Armsrock will be on display from Thursday 4th November –Tuesday 30th November 2010. In addition to this, there will be a large-scale site specific installation created by Swoon.

KNOW HOPE & SHOW AND TELL

I first stumbled across my first Know Hope in Palestine back in 2006, a small paste up on the side of the road next to the wall, and though I was surrounded by large scale works from Banksy, Blu, Swoon and numerous other internationally recognised artists, it was this small A2 paste up of a character holding his heart out to the wall that really struck home, it was also the reason we invited him to participate in the following Nuart Festival.

Know Hope - There Is Nothing Dear (There Is Too Much Dear)

Show & Tell Gallery is pleased to welcome the Israeli artist known as Know Hope to his first solo exhibition in Canada.

Know Hope is best known for his street art, in which he depicts characters through several different story lines. The predominant theme within his work is the need for momentary connection in daily reality. Or, in other words, the everyday human struggle.

This exhibition examines the idea of the collective memory in comparison to the personal memory. Through the growing but steady vocabulary of imagery in his work, Know Hope attempts to research how and why we tend to hang on to memory, despite it having an inevitable ephemeral nature.

Know Hope has exhibited his art interenationally in galleries, art fairs, and on the streets around the world.

EVOL / KNOW HOPE NUART 2010

Work by EVOL, originally uploaded by kalevkevad.

Love the way Evol has integrated this old Know Hope tag !