'Essence Of Adolescence'

On the 19th of October me and my regular exhibition group went to Brick Lane for various galleries and random street art.

First off was the Stolen Space gallery with 'Essence Of Adolescence' - By Word To Mother a series of paintings on wooden panels done with mixed media. According to Stolen Spaces flyer the exhibition is an 'enlightening glimpse into the artist's visually obsessed mind. Word To Mother invites the viewer to take a glimpse of his inner mindscape'. He mixes cartoons, typography, tattoo art, more serious illustrations of fears and more emotive thoughts that face him.

Whats interesting with Stolen Space is that the exhibition starts out in the street with a 'statue' of mixed road signs and road lights. I can't really describe it but i actually liked it. A little bit urban messy and I got flashbacks from all the recycle art in Barcelona. The sign for the gallery is a old like cinema sign which has a good retro feeling as well.

Stolen Space is a quite small cubic like gallery with a clean sterile feeling to it. The wooden panels used as canvases differed in size and as you can see on the picture to the right the arrangement is creating a more powerful emotion than all of them hanging in a row.

My first feelings when I saw the paintings of 'Essence Of Adolescence' was that I really wanted to paint one of them wooden panels. Funny enough I actually found a board the day after in Neasden and I have spayed it white and it's ready to use.

Other than that as I said before Stolen Space has quite a sterile feeling to it and because it's small the exhibition doesn't take that long. If that's good or bad is debatable but personally I like taking
my time and get lost in the gallery. 

But even though it was a small exhibition and I didn't have any expectations at all I really liked it. The art itself is similar to how I draw but the concept and everything else is different. Interesting to see how different styles in my own style rather than a really amazing portrait from 100 b.c.

'Essence Of Adolescence' has inspired me to go further with what I do and also to start painting on wooden panels. I have done it in the past and what I remember it is a good feeling. Last but not least it raised my eye for mixed media which is helping a lot for Illustration.

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