HuskMitNavn & Lydia Fong The Last Night

25.03.2010 – 28.04.2010
For this 37th exhibition at ALICE gallery, and for the very first time, Danish artist HuskMitNavn and American artist Lydia Fong will be presenting their latest work together. These two artists have built their reputation in the street, before being recognized by the art world. An East meets West get-together that’s been long awaited by many artists around the world. If HuskMitNavn shines by his talent, the American behind Lydia Fong is a true living legend, however pretentious this might seem to the non initiated.

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Elzo Durt Echec Scolaire

21.01.2010 – 27.02.2010
Elzo Durt is an artist who uses serigraphy as a medium. His works translate the distress and desires of young adults; this mental confusion towards the complexity of everyday life translates into pop colours on surrealist collages.Elzo is inspired by music and vice versa. From rock and electro to hip-hop, the wacky world of Enzo is a rebuttal to the social and moral order, expressed throughout independent music. It’s a relationship where the world of music and graphic design work together through the creation and organisation of album covers or concerts. On one side you have an exhibition of works inspired by bands known by the artist.On the other, it’s a concert that brings forward 6 of these bands who’ll be playing on the 22nd of February at the Magasin 4.

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Pica Pica Adventures, Research & Cycling

29.10.2009 – 23.12.2009
The name Pica Pica comes from the latin name ‘ the talkative magpie’, a beautiful common bird found in the wastelands around Liège. This well-chosen name sums up their artistic reasoning. Discover thebeauty in the ugly. I.E. in a cheap decorative pattern, in the façade of a pre-build house, in a dumb, in an old-fashioned vase,… Their work glorifies these elements unwanted by the aesthetic canons. The 3 artists from Pica Pica produce all the paintings, drawings, photographs and installations jointly. They have worked together since 1999, first within the ERS collective and as Pica Pica since 2007.

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Cleon Peterson The Unconsoled

12.09.2009 – 17.10.2009
"A psychiatrist once bought one of my paintings, and he said I must be mad at my mother (laughs). Maybe, I don’t know. I’d say that part of what I’m painting are things that I feel like I’ve experienced – when I was at the low points in my life; when I was living on the streets, and a junkie…" Cleon Peterson is an LA based artist whose chaotic and violent paintings show clashing figures symbolizing a struggle between power and submission in the fluctuating architecture of contemporary society. Cleon's paintings are monochromatic while channeling at the same time the fashion sensibility of the early 80's, complete with skinny ties and day glow colors.

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Maya Hayuk A Path For The Light

11.06.2009 – 22.08.2009
Maya Hayuk is a muralist, photographer, printmaker, designer, curator, player of records, writer, performer, collector, brainstormer, painter, videographer, documentarian and lover of life who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Maya Hayuk’s work shows a great diversity of media because she likes to mingle with artists and musicians alike. Maya Hayuk’s paintings and installations are aglow with lights, colours and abstract motifs with the occasional brute line through which her work communicates vitality, echoing her spontaneous attitude.

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Ephameron Out of Sight

11.06.2009 – 22.08.2009
The art Ephameron makes is sensitive: with images and small texts she tries to recreate everyday feelings and thoughts, to capture moments in life with her art. Recurring themes like hands, birds and girls live in her fantasy world of emotions, colorless backgrounds and huge black tape drawings. Her award-winning website www.ephameron.com has been an ongoing art project since 2000.

For her exhibition at A.L.I.C.E., she gathers memories from travel diaries and reworks them into a brand new art installation, with pieces created specifically for the Gallery's Project Room's portraits and typography are intertwined like a map of the places she's visited and the people she's met. Ephameron graduated in fine arts and illustrative design. Now she's a freelance illustrator, curator, zine maker and designer. Previous clients include AverbodeWeekend Knack, , , , Modart The Bulletin, Flanders Today, BlackpoolBriesMekanik Strip, BuzzworksBrooklynNike SB, Nokia, Nespresso, Levi’sLonsdale. In her free time Ephameron likes to organize and contribute to worldwide exhibitions in a.o. Italy, China, Australia, France, Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Luxemburg, the United States and Belgium. Ephameron's a proud member of the No New Enemies network and she’s working on her first comic book, to be released in the fall of 2009. Her second monograph Found+Lost just came out with Bries (Antwerp).

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Sixeart + Antoine Bouillot + Olivier Kosta-Théfaine Batalla Perdida

24.04.2009 – 25.05.2009
Alice Gallery presents new works of these three brilliant artists.

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So me, 2shy & Cream Triple Trouble

12.03.2009 – 11.04.2009
Separated for far too long, the three brothers with silly nicknames, Cream, 2Shy and So Me, are finally reunited in, however ironic it may seem, their father's city of birth, Brussels. The story goes that on his deathbed, their father told each of them about one part of a map that leads to Barbarossa's treasure. He then swallowed the map and died. This meant that only the 3 of them TOGETHER could find the mythical treasure. The bad boys expect to see you at Alice Gallery to admire the works born from their fruitful union. They worked the old-school way, a bit like Disney from back in the days. The tall one traces the contours, the skinny one colours inside the lines and the little one is in charge of the framing. It's a rare synergy in our time, but one that transpires a sense of both love and pain with every stroke of the crayon Triple Trouble is the unexpected reunion of three kids with big hearts.

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Steve Powers Semaphores Of The Soul

29.01.2009 - 07.03.2009
Steve Powers is a pop artist in reverse. Instead of using the current modes of expression associated with advertising industry, he draws from an earlier era of words and images. The bygone idiom of the handpainted sign. Powers strives for authenticity in reviving this artisan's pursuit, employing the richly vibrant, albeit highly toxic, One Shot sign painter's enamel in his artistic endeavors. The feel of Powers' painting is simultaneously "now" and "then". A clever balance of traditional graphic styles and methods of application with a narrative sensitivity that is decidedly of the moment.

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