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‘Duet’ with Jean Jullien and Jean André – July 7th

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Jean André and Jean Jullien ‘Duet’

Thursday, July 7th, 6pm-10pm

HVW8 Gallery
661 N Spaulding Ave
Los Angeles, CA

DUET- Jean Jullien & Jean André @ HVW8 Gallery

HVW8 Gallery, Almost Skateboards and Cliché Skateboards present DUET, a celebration of art and skateboarding featuring the work of internationally renowned French artists Jean Jullien and Jean André. The opening reception for the exhibition is on Thursday July 7th.
In addition to new original works from each artist, the show will feature a special showing of limited edition skate decks along with other limited items. Only 50 of each limited edition deck will be made.

Jean Jullien is a French graphic artist whose tongue-in-cheek works often have the ability to capture the imagination while making a poignant observation about the subject matter in question. His comical style often captures reflections on everyday life or current events and pokes fun at the mundane, but at the same time is provocative enough to elicit a profound reaction in the viewer.

Jean André is a French artist that often uses the female form and erotic imagery as the focus of his work. His “gentleman art” can often be cited as both pulp and satire that draws on influences from Matisse and Gainsbourg to Drake and 80’s eroticism.

HVW8 Gallery was founded in 2006 with the goal of supporting contemporary art and avant-garde graphic design, and has featured past solo exhibitions with both Jean André and Jean Jullien.

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MAUVAISE RÉPUTATION

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JEAN ANDRÉ
MAUVAISE RÉPUTATION

August 2nd – August 31st, 2015

Jean André’s “gentleman art” balances saucy and minimalistic representations of women, creating images that read as both gentlemen’s pulp illustration and satirical tableaux. His influences range from Matisse to Gainsbourg to Drake as well as erotic magazines from the 80’s.

For Mauvaise Réputation, Jean partners with Paris based tattoo artist Tarik aka The Crayoner. яндекс. The exhibition is inspired by old tattoos made as tributes for beloved women and ‘mauvais garçons’ inked drawings.

Friday July 31st and Saturday August 1st will be dedicated exclusively to tattoo sessions with The Crayoner & Jean André at HVW8 Gallery Berlin.

Tattoos by appointment only – to book please contact: jean@hvw8.com

The exhibition opens Sunday August 2nd, 1 – 6pm with an outdoor barbecue at HVW8 Gallery Berlin with San Miguel Beer. A limited number of hand-drawn black carbon on recycled paper posters and printed cards will be available for sale. Exhibition runs through August 31st.

HVW8 Gallery Berlin
Linienstraße 10115 Berlin Mitte

Jean André Interview

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Excerpt from Jean André Article

by Chris Danforth

En route to HVW8 Art + Design Gallery in Berlin, I was chewing over the years I spent listening to Ed Banger releases. Admittedly, I definitely had a higher level of familiarity with So Me – Jean André’s predecessor as art director at Ed Banger – before speaking with Jean himself that is, who was hosting an exhibition in the intimate gallery setting in the city’s Mitte district. You may expect to receive virtually zero facetime in circumstances like these, given the way that PR people, writers, photographers, fans, and myself, will be pooling around an artist, however, Jean obliged conversations effortlessly, entertaining all those to take an interest in the visual offerings that night. So Me was practically synonymous with Ed Banger at a certain time and presumably following up on his role would entail certain challenges. Jean André seems to have strode confidently into his new position, while bringing a singular and unique approach that would not presently indicate a total overhaul of the French record label’s artistic aesthetic.

Check above in the slideshow for a custom illustration done for Highsnobiety by Jean André.

What’s up Jean? How was Art Basel Miami?

Art Basel was great! Constructing a full exhibition in 4 days in a new city is always a big challenge to me. I had to deal with the furniture we brought, the supplies which didn’t show up because of shipping from Los Angeles, the display of the adidas x HVW8 shoes that I worked on with Kevin Lyons etc… It’s super motivating.

Would you describe yourself as a sneakerhead? What is your relationship with streetwear? 

I think I have like 5 pairs of shoes. I’m not a super fashionista, I do not collect sneakers or any apparel, and I don’t go to fashion week. I wear what fits me, that’s pretty much all I care about fashion. Actually, I have a cool collection of white Apparel T-shirts and Zara pants.

You often work with Kevin Lyons, what is his role in your life?

Kevin is a friend and a great advisor, kind of a brother/mentor. He has a great deal of experience in this crazy art/exhibitions/collaboration game.

What about HVW8 Gallery?

That’s all about Tyler Gibney. He is a great guy, he believes in me and was the first man to suggest that I travel to show my drawings. HVW8 has some great artists that I have followed for years, so I feel great to be part of a cool move like this.

 

Read more HERE

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

November 10, 2014

HVW8 Gallery and adidas Release New Designs By Kevin Lyons and Jean André

Launch Party in LA at HVW8 on Saturday, November 15, 2014

(Los Angeles) Celebrating the intersection of fashion, art and music, adidas and HVW8 announce the release of new artwork on Seely and Adi-Ease styles from two of the design world’s most inspiring minds: Kevin Lyons and Jean André.

On Saturday, November 15, HVW8’s West Hollywood gallery will kick off an international series of events celebrating these collaborations with appearances, artwork, a display of the four new shoes from the two artists and a special music guest.

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“I wanted to create bright, colorful all-over prints. But making sure that they are still very wearable…” says Lyons, “With the Seeley, I wanted to experiment with a lot of the watercolor on paper backgrounds that I have been doing over the past couple of years. I played around with very saturated color mixing that created an analog, thermodynamic Predator-like pattern. I like the moody blue and rich tones that some of the saturations and bleeding make.”

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With the Ease, Lyons saw an opportunity to use some of the color fill drips from his larger mural paintings where he often uses sponges and water-based paint to loosely fill his Monster characters. The drips then often make for interesting compositions of drops and splatters.

“I loved the idea of doing a white shoe that then had the watercolor on it…But it is not meant to look like literal paint splatters – more a fabric design that was made up of those drops and splatters.”

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Jean André

Speaking on his Seeley design, Jean says, “I always wear full color shoes. I’m not into many colors and many shapes. I wanted a special product that looks like something I would wear. I figured out that if you were to stand in a pool of black ink with your white shoes, then it could be a cool look and feel.”

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For his Adi-Ease, Jean looked at an all-over pattern of more sensual shapes and the formal similarities between leaves and women’s lips. Jean adds, “I thought that everybody would expect me to draw girls on the shoes, but I don’t really love figurative patterns. I did, however, want a thugged-out black and white pair that I’d be proud to rock, so I added the girl inside as a signature, last touch.

The November 15 event at HVW8 Art + Design will be followed by an installation at Art Week in Miami from December 3 – 7 and special pop-up galleries to follow in Europe. Both artists and HVW8 want each launch date to be a full-on event. Expect live-paintings, large scale murals, and plenty of great live music.

Saturday, November 15th 2014 – 7PM – 10PM
Exhibition runs through December 28, 2014

HVW8 Gallery
661 N. Spaulding Ave Los Angeles, CA 90036
RSVP : rsvp@hvw8.com

‘Mon Amour’ Book Launch at HVW8 Berlin

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MON AMOUR is the 3rd and final book of the Ladies Collection, after JE T’ADORE and ENCORE.

The aim of the book is to collect the many faces of femininity and lady-ness as a tribute to womankind. With the acumen of a graphic designer and the passion of a 70’s erotic filmmaker, Jean André handles his women with curiosity, reverence and intuition.

André’s oeuvre combines mixed international pop culture with personal childhood references and swirls them into his work, using the female form as a sort of icing on the cake. The artist traces the roles of women from cultural icons to sexualzed bodies to intimate bodies, using his love of women as a lens to make his already private drawings more sensitive. “I make drawings of women for women, I don’t do this to turn boys on.” The meat of his work is contained within the active space of performance between muse and drawer.

All three books in the Ladies Collection are available for purchase at Colette Paris, www.Club75.fr and HVW8 Gallery. Published by Ed Banger, 50 pages black print

Jean André (b. 1986) describes his drawings and paintings as “gentleman art” focused and inspired by the beauty of women. His work as a graphic designer in Montmartre for Ed Banger is just one outlet, while his other work channels themes of the female form in charming paintings. At once minimalist and realistic, he tries to explore all the opportunities the ink offers him. His major influences include Tom Wesselmann, Matisse, Richard Kern and Serge Gainsbourg, among others.

HVW8 Art + Design Gallery was founded in 2006 by curator Tyler Gibney with Addison Liu in Los Angeles, California, with mandate supporting fine-art and avant-garde graphic design. Over the past seven years, emerging and established artists such as Parra, Geoff McFetridge, Kevin Lyons, Hassan Rahim, Mark Gonzales, Cody Hudson, Lisa Leone, Craig Costello (aka Krink), and Jean André have exhibited their works. Further informaton can be found on HVW8.com

MON AMOUR will be the inaugural event of HVW8 BERLIN. After event at LARRY Club – chauseestraße 131, Berlin Mitte

Supported by Zoe and Our/Berlin

HVW8 BERLIN Linienstraße 161, corner Klein Hamburgerstraße
Open Tuesday through Saturday from 12- 6pm or by appointment: (0)30 9836 3691

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HVW8 on Nowness

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From JJJJound Correspondence, HVW8 Gallery, 2013

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New article on HVW8 Gallery and Summer School from Nowness.com

Summer School: HVW8 Gallery

Art Lessons and Dance Sessions in the Californian Desert

From the brazen imagery of Amsterdam’s Parra to the internet-inspired visuals of the Kanye West-affiliated Canadian artist JJJJound, LA gallery HVW8 cultivates an international collision of pop culture and graphic design in a contemporary art setting. “We allow someone that might not be familiar with the artists we exhibit to see them in a lineage of El Lissitzky or Roy Lichtenstein, who to me are examples of fine graphic artists,” says HVW8 co-founder Tyler Gibney. This month the gallerist took psychedelic artists Erin D. Garcia, Teebs, Jean André and Alvaro “Freegums” Ilizarbe on a desert road trip for Summer School, an art and music weekender at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs featuring sun-kissed West Coast bands such as dance-punk duo De Lux. “I grew up with a Bauhaus education and I love the idea of artists teaching and exposing their craft,” says Gibney of the hands-on experience of Summer School’s workshops. Founded in 2011 by LA new music champions School Night and the Ace Hotel, the micro-festival’s inaugural line-up included cult mobile letterpress studio Movable Type, and Chris Johanson of the Mission School art movement. “I approach my drawings as a viewer, I want to understand why a choice is made and the reason behind it,” says Garcia, who took on collage class duties while Cali locals Teebs went cosmic with Japanese tie-dye alongside Ilizarbe’s infinity patterns, and Paris’s André showcased poster techniques. “I think there’s an elegance in a simple idea that’s communicated well.”

Summer School at the ACE

 

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Thank you to everyone that attended this year’s Summer School at the ACE Hotel in Palm Springs. The Gallery hosted workshops with artist alumni including a Shibori Dye class by Mtendere Mandowa (Teebs), Post Cards with Jean André, an infinite pattern making and ‘zine production class with Alvaro Ilizarbe and a collage class directed by Erin D. Garcia. Hopefully more artwork related workshop in the near future.

For further reading :

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Palm Springs Desert Sun newspaper

additional photos on HVW8 Gallery Instagram

New HVW8 Videos

Jean André ‘Gauloise’ interview at HVW8 Gallery, music by Pedro Winter.

adidas Originals and HVW8 presents ‘Bits and Pieces’ at Miami Art Basel featuring Kevin Lyons, Jean André, Erin Garcia and Dam-Funk.

Atiba Jefferson ‘Sorry For Not Showing Art’ at HVW8 Gallery

Kevin Lyons interview during his ‘Shits and Giggles’ exhibition.

Jean André Murals at HVW8

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It’s Paris, California … new murals by Jean André.

Jean André’s ‘gauloise’ opens this Friday, March 14th, 7 – 10pm. Exhibition runs through April 13th.

please RSVP at rsvp@hvw8.com

email info@hvw8.com for art inquiries.

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Jean Andre Opens this Friday

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Jean André’s ‘gauloise’ opens this Friday, 7 – 10pm.

please RSVP at rsvp@hvw8.com

email info@hvw8 for art inquiries.

Jean André (b. 1986) describes his drawings and paintings as “gentleman art” focused and inspired by the beauty of women.  His work as a graphic designer in Montmartre for Ed Banger is just one outlet, while his other work, including a recent show at Colette, channels themes of the female form in charming illustrations and paintings.  At once minimalist and realistic, he tries to explore all the opportunities the medium offers him.  His major influences include Tom Wesselmann, Matisse, Richard Kern, Serge Gainsbourg and adventure magazines from the 50’s. It’s no secret that he is fond of gambling at Canadian casinos online and plans to create new films about this business.

Gauloise is his first solo show in the States and conjures myriad sentiments: as a brand of cigarettes linked to influential French figures as well as an historical phrase describing women in what is now modern day France. Gauloise is also a modern exploration of female portraits and pin-ups and features various paintings and drawings created in Los Angeles with a Français perspective.

 

Miami Art Basel photos

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Thanks you for everyone that come out to HVW8 Gallery and adidas Original’s ‘Bits and Pieces’ Art Basel event this year in Miami. Great artwork and a great time was had by all.

Thanks to the artists Jean André, Erin D. Garcia, Jay West and Kevin Lyons, along with musical invites Dam-Funk, Dj DZA and Them Jeans. Also thanks to Peas and Carrots for hosting and to the Garret in Miami for letting us cover their walls.

A video will be posted shortly, but there are more photos by David Cabrera on the HVW8 Facebook page.

HVW8 Gallery at ART BASEL Miami

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adidas originals and HVW8 Gallery present:

Bits and Pieces

Thurs. Dec 5th, 10 – 2AM.

featuring art installations by
Kevin Lyons (Brooklyn)
Jean André (Paris)
Erin D. Garcia (LA)
Jay West (Harlem)

music by:
Dam-Funk (LA)

Hosted by Peas and Carrots (LA)
with DJ DZA (Miami) and Them Jeans (LA)

The Garret
697 North Miami Avenue
Downtown Miami

RSVP required:
rsvp@hvw8.com