CHAPTER ONE

Day 2 of CARNIVAL

2010-01-26T13:34:00.001Z

Hype Williams have been playing and jamming this morning, and now Marlon Rabenreither has turned up with some collaborators and the second day is in full swing!

Carnivals Day One

2010-01-26T12:43:00.004Z

Monday saw the launch of the week long residency by Ceylan projects and Sweet & Sound in Chapter One.
Henry Mackay Bull started work on his largest sculpture to date in the back, the interior of upstairs was turned into a Ceylan temple, with some great work being made - especially Dario Utreras google earth carnival piece. The day culminated in a performance piece around Carnaby street featuring hooded characters and culminating in a shadow boxing match in the gallery.
A true spirit of collaboration and creation was felt and nobody who came along failed to be inspired...Carnival continues all week with different artists each day - please come by!
Every day is being filmed for a documentary to be shown friday night.
Visit this blog as well to keep up with everything!

Jammer Freestyle at ChapterOne!

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NEXT SHOW! MONOCHROME RAINBOW!

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NEXT WEEKEND!

2010-01-21T16:39:00.001Z

So next week is Ceylan projects and sweet & sound presenting 'Carnivals' Then its the Eternal Truth launch...

ETERNAL TRUTH AFTERPARTY!

2010-01-21T16:35:00.001Z

Next weekend sees Chapter One launching ETERNAL TRUTH and to celebrate there will be an afterparty at Hoxtons DREAMBAGJAGUARSHOES and will feature none other than Deerhoof! SICK!

MURKLEMAN AT CHAPTERONE!!!! YESSS!!!

2010-01-19T12:04:00.001Z

Teaser...

2010-01-19T12:02:00.001Z

A Tease for next weekend until Rory delivers us the flyer! The launch of a great new zine at Chapter One - Next weekend!

January 2010!

2010-01-14T15:02:00.002Z

WOW! 2009 has been and gone...and what a whirlwind! Opening the gallery, putting on some great exhibitions, immense stress, Hype Williams playing live in the gallery, celebrities, hangovers, laughs, snow and more...but what of 2010?
Well,lots!
French's ISOLATED MAGICK has been extended and its last day is Saturday the 30th. Sweet and Sound magazine are still taking over the ground floor, but are taking down the photos that are currently on display and putting on a live event in association with the always great Ceylan projects ...and present 'Carnivals'!

Roll press release...

'Ceylan Projects and Sweet and Sound are pleased to present CARNIVALS, a five day residency curated by Aliina Astrova and Shane Connolly at Chapter One gallery.
Another example used in contemporary philosophy is the idea of a carnival - when the established system of authority is suspended, but not from above, as in the case of emergency, which only reinforces sovereign power that suspends law in this way, but from below, when kids begin to harass adults and so on.
For this project the gallery has been opened up to a group of artists from different disciplines to use over the last week of January. The space then becomes a platform for these artists to work on their own projects, collaborate with others in the space, set up performances, screenings or readings, record music or play open jams; no limitations are set.
The residency will have no final exhibition. What the curators are interested in is the very process that lies behind creating work both on your own and in collaboration with other people, the kind of process that does not lead on to goals or fulfill expectations: “What we are trying to do with this project is to allow the creative process to be visceral and honest. It is interesting to see how people can create work for no particular reason, without an authority of a gallery or an exhibition organizer, just this big chaos. This will be a space full of creative activity where people can feed of each others' ideas, collaborate on set projects or just rip each other off.

CHAPTER ONE GALLERY
33 MARSHAL STREET
W1F 7ET LONDON

The residency is open for public MON - FRI 11 - 7 and during evening events to be announced soon.

The closing ceremony will take place on the 29th of January at 6 PM.

STEFAN MARX

2009-12-16T17:01:00.002Z

Stefan Marx...one of the artists from GENESIS (our first exhibition) has dropped a seriously jaw dropping new exhibition in Hamburg...how does he keep up such greatness???

Stefan Marx, Pleeease, 2009
Installationsansicht Kunstverein Hamburg
Fotos: Fred Dott / Kunstverein

www.kunstverein.de
www.galerie-karin-guenther.de

Pleeease
Stefan Marx
19. Dezember 2009 - 28. November 2010

HYPE WILLIAMS AT CHAPTER ONE

2009-12-11T15:03:00.001Z

HYPE WILLIAMS

2009-12-10T18:13:00.005Z

We're busting our live experiance cherry next wednesday night with East Londons finest HYPE WILLIAMS performing as part of the Sweet & Sound exhibition 'NEW MOVES'.
Wednesday night...FREE ENTRY...CHEAP DRINKS...from 7-8pm...UPSTAIRS AT THE GALLERY

COME!

Private View video

2009-12-07T17:56:00.003Z

Private view video of 'New Moves' & 'Isolated Magick' by Adedotun Adesanya...Thanks Adedotun!

Chapter One Gallery/Sweet & Sound Present - New Moves photographic exhibition from Adedotun Adesanya on Vimeo.

NEW MOVES

2009-11-26T17:38:00.001Z

So in December FRENCH is downstairs but upstairs is NEW MOVES curated by Sweet & Sound magazine...showcasing new photography. Private view is the 3rd (next thursday!) so come along!!!

YYYEESSSSS!!!!

2009-11-25T13:31:00.001Z

In the Dungeon...NEXT WEEK

ISOLATED MAGICK SNEAK PEEK

2009-11-25T13:04:00.001Z

French's blog has a sneek peek look at his amazing work for next weeks ISOLATED MAGICK exhibition...THURSDAY 3RD DECEMBER 6-8.30pm at the gallery then afterparty by TERRORIZER MAGAZINE!!! TOO AWESOME!
PS Thanks to Carhartt!

Lewis

2009-11-18T14:51:00.003Z

A good friend of ChapterOne is Lewis, who runs a great zine imprint BETTER OFF DEAD and also runs the must check MP3 site FERVENT MOON.
We have the entire back catalogue of BETTER OFF DEAD at the gallery, and they will be uploaded to the shop soon, but pop by the gallery in person and pick them up

Also check out FERVENT MOON, an MP3 sharing site where guests are invited to select 7 MP3s that are available only for 7 days, then they are taken down...look out for my very curated section soon - featuring new york punk and desert psych!

FERVENT MOON

OUR ENDS PRINTS

2009-11-17T17:25:00.003Z

With Xmas coming what better gifts could you give other than the gift of fine art?
Head over to the Chapter One shop for some prints from the current show OUR ENDS, where some of the artists have dropped some fantastic (and very affordable) prints.

New Stefan Marx solo show

2009-11-17T15:59:00.000Z

New Stefan Marx show!

The New Old Group
Stefan Marx
Opening: 27. November 2009
18 h Galerie Karin Guenther Admiralitätstr. 71 20459 Hamburg

www.galerie-karin-guenther.de

Me in The Daily Telegraph

2009-11-17T15:00:00.002Z

I was recently in the Daily Telegraph, in regards to leaving a steady 9-5 job to pursue a dream...in my case starting a gallery...attached is the spread

MATT SEWELL

2009-11-17T13:04:00.003Z

All round Ace dude Matt Sewell stopped by to check out OUR ENDS on the way to Brighton to take part in the amazing looking HEAD exhibition (well done Pinky!)...and during his visit he showed us his new wooden birds which are a must have and available on his website. Also on his website is the essential heavy psych mix he did...Sewell...good to have you back!
MATT SEWELL WEBSITE

OUR ENDS Photos now up!

2009-11-17T12:27:00.003Z

For thos who can't make the exhibition OUR ENDS, we have now put the photos on our Flickr account HERE.
If you have any photos of the opening please email us at info@chapterongallery.com

'Isolated Magick' By French

2009-11-17T12:23:00.001Z

In the Basement of Chapter One over December is going to be an exhibition of acclaimed illustrator French, bringing his usual darkenss to the xmas season...below is a sneak peak...(the ground floor gallery will host Sweet & Sound magazines 'New Moves'). Private View 3rd December!

Russell Maurice Chapter One exclusive 'GHOST CROW' Print

2009-11-16T14:44:00.002Z

NOW ON SALE AT THE SHOP!!! LESS THAN 30 EDITIONS FOR ONLY £30!!!

James Pearson Howes

2009-11-07T14:29:00.002Z

Good friend of Chapter One and all round dude about town, James Pearson Howes has a piece in the next Philips De Pury auction...well done James!
See some of James newest work this week at Chapter One as OUR ENDS is launched (thursday 12th)

My Black Heart

2009-11-06T18:23:00.003Z

My Black Heart stopped in today and dropped of his latest zine which is now available in the shop

Russell Maurice

2009-11-05T15:45:00.002Z

EXCLUSIVE! Russell Maurice is dropping this super HOT A3 Riso Print next week for OUR ENDS...very affordable, very cool...

Dan Has Potential

2009-11-03T12:12:00.006Z

Today we got some copies of Dan Has Potentials new minimal zine 'Zeen'. Limited to 20 copies it is in a visual style similar to Yuichi Yokoyama.For those who don't know Dan has Potential, he is a London based artist who draws, paints and makes music videos...below is some of his work.

Michael Swaney on Spanish TV

2009-11-02T16:27:00.001Z

LAST WEEK TO CATCH MICHAELS WORK IN LONDON .... ONLY IN 'GENESIS'!

GENESIS EXTENDED

2009-10-29T14:02:00.002Z

Due to overwhelming demand we have extended GENESIS for a week, so now the last day to see GENESIS will be Sunday the 8th of November.
OUR ENDS pv is the 12th of November!

OUR ENDS

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Sweet and Sound

2009-10-23T17:48:00.002+01:00

One of the perks of working in Chapter One is the high volume of cool people that come in and say hi. Todays awesome visitor was Shane who runs Sweet and Sound, something that had been going off on my radar for a while now...and so i want to use this blog to show you guys the good work Sweet and Sound is doing...

Now in London it seems that everyweek there is a new blog or magazine (who said print was dead?) intent on plunging the nail into Vices coffin...however amongst all the hordes, only the strong will survive...and Sweet and Sound is as strong as they come.

With a slant heavy on content, and a simple (almost too simple for some) design, the focus of this is, in my words...good shit! good articles, good photography...what more do you want?

Sweet and sound also organises parties, have their own tv channel and has some great things in the pipeline...so consider yourself warned! but more importantly, i feel with Sweet and Sound, they are another reason why London is slowly coming alive again...

Sweet and sound is an online site but with a printed magazine...and we have some copies in the gallery for £3...and they will be going online on monday in the shop

OUR ENDS V.2

2009-10-21T16:20:00.002+01:00

Earlier i posted the gallery flyer for our next exhibition OUR ENDS...and after some surfing i found two of the artists (Michael Willis & Linsey Gooden) have created an alternative image - equally as awesome...follow their twitter or their blog

REBEL zine

2009-10-21T16:11:00.002+01:00

Today Samuel Francois kindly sent us some rare deadstock copies of a 2008 group show catalogue he was in called 'REBEL'.
The theme of the work in 'REBEL' is unsurprisingly based around the concept of rebellion and the characteristics of being a rebel.
Featuring Aurélien Arbet, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Claire Decet, Jérémie Egry, Morgan Fortems, Samuel François, Joe83, Olivier Kosta-Théfaine, Stefan Marx, David Meier, Justin Morin, Nano4814, Patrick Perrin, Gregory Wagenheim.

19x25cm
Edition of 300
ISBN : 978-2-9531409-1-0

We have 5 copies in the shop, and this publication was hard to find when it was just released...so this is perhaps you very last chance to grab a copy!!!

OUR ENDS

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COMING REAL REAL SOON....

DONT FORGET GENESIS IS STILL ON!

OUR ENDS

2009-10-20T21:23:00.003+01:00

Images are starting to come in for our next show OUR ENDS...and below is a sneek peek at Michael Willis & Linsey Goodens contribution...a collection of new images printed on mirrored paper...OUR ENDS...coming soon!
PS DONT FORGET

Raymond Teitsma

2009-10-20T17:25:00.005+01:00

I first met the awesome Raymond Teitsma last year when i was in Poland for a group show and he was giving GENESIS artist Merijn Hos a lift in his and his girls awesome van. In the back of the van was some of his framed works and this turned it into a mobile gallery. He had driven from the Netherlands and was heading south to Greece and not only was i in love with the idea of an European artistic easy rider-esque journey but i was instantly blown away by his work....Bold, colorful, playful, warped...instant great pop art with a punk twist - minimal childlike/naive/scary faces show scenes of brutality highlighting the evil and violence rather than softening them...i was hooked! Today i came into the gallery and he had sent some zines for the shop..and these zines are so good (below are some images)...needless to say - a must have!
Get them here!

For more of Raymonds work, please click here

Samuel Francois

2009-10-14T12:00:00.006+01:00

Today we got a bundle of these awesome Samuel Francois posters!

As ever, photos suck...and the detail on this poster is incredible - look below at the skeleton - bet you didn't see that first time you saw the poster? Up close there are loads of little stickers and details that make this poster a must have...now up in the shop!

Also in the package was a copy of the ever great French magazine CLARK. In it is a fantastic 4 page feature on Samuel Francois (...looking fresh in the photo S'!), which goes to prove that we're not full of shit when we say that Samuel is an amazing talent and is rightfully blowing up in a big big way - remember 'you snooze you loose'...

Stefan Marx Screenprint

2009-10-08T23:05:00.002+01:00

Just a heads up, these Stefan Marx screenprints are shifting and at only 50 prints made, if you want to get your hands on an exlusive and very rare iconic piece of the Master, Stefan Marx..then you better head over to the shop as soon as possible or be prepared to be very dissapointed!
I want to say, if you can, pop down to the gallery and see this beauty in person...its stunning in the flesh - with the print detail and vivid poppin' colors...yes i am biased but these prints are really special!

Zine Round Up

2009-10-06T14:59:00.005+01:00

As well as selling original artworks, Chapter One also aims to bring to London some of the finest zines and periodicals from around the world.
Today we put online what is currently available on the desk (which is our temporary zine home...)...BUT some of these zines are in real limited numbers and we have already sold out of some titles before we have had a chance to put them online, so if your in the area pop in and see if theres any new titles before they are gone...and to those online - keep checking back as these zines are honestly flying out!
We have some great stock on its way so keep your eyes peeled!

And we're OPEN!

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Last night Chapter One opened it's doors to the masses, and if my hangover is anything to go by, the evening was a massive success. Three hundred friends, old and new filled the gallery and surrounding streets to enjoy some fantastic art and free booze.

Despite the usual technical hitches our mandate to re-vitalise London's contemporary art scene seems to be on track, with visiting artists Erosie and Stefan Marx flying in to meet the crowds and get drunk. We had a road-block crowd including Mudwig Dans, Pinky, James Lavelle, Miquita Oliver, Matt Sewell, Kyle Goodhood and Dave The Chimp!

After clearing up about two thousand empty bottles and glasses the party headed on to the player bar where we drunk every beer, wine and spirit known to man. Good times.

Big thanks to The Player bar, and our lovely drinks sponsors Vodka O, Estrella Damm and Fish Hoek, as well as absolutely everybody who came by to show love and support!

Anyone who missed the opening must come and check out the show! And for those of you not in the country, we will be uploading full images to our Flickr very soon.

Right. I need a bacon sandwich and a Lucozade. See you soon!

GENESIS Catalogue

2009-09-29T20:27:00.002+01:00

Fresh from the printers is our beautiful (and limited to 500 copies...ahem...) Die cut cover catalogue for our inaugural show GENESIS.
Featuring exclusive artwork and interviews from the featured artists - Stefan Marx, Erosie, Mudwig, Michael Swaney, Merijn Hos & Samuel Francois..this catalogue will be available at the private view on thursday and on general sale from Friday

Erosie Interview

2009-09-28T16:02:00.012+01:00

GENESIS is almost here and for the exhibition we will be releasing a limited edition catalogue featuring exclusive artwork and interviews with the artists involved...including Erosie. Erosie's interview was fantastic but due to limited space in the catalogue we couldn't print all his answers so below are some questions that were omitted, but are exclusive to Chapter One!

On your website you say that you ‘try and get away with it’…what have you ever done that has remained a secret until now – either artistic or illegal, that you have got away with ?
In a way doing graffiti for years in general is like a visual celebration of “getting away with it”. But what I meant was slightly different. It says: “Next to that I have absolutely no clue what I'm doing, but try to get away with it anyway.” It has to do with walking a path that has a very unclear direction in the long run; doing art and making money, for instance. Well, doing art in general! If it's even art that I'm doing to start with. The doubts and struggles that comes with it for instance. So it's referring to that flipside.

After the excesses of street art in 2008, do you think that the contemporary art market is changing? And if so, what do you think to – something better?
I think those excesses really started around 2002/2003 and never really ended strangely enough. On top of that you are probably referring to London, and that is like a very different story to what I am used to in the Netherlands.

Funny thing is that it never really became clear why people that do things in the street should be in a gallery-space to start with, especially when showing the same work...it's two completely different worlds really. Exactly that difference could make it more interesting.

Maybe this whole street-thing peaked too fast, got hyped too easily. And will fall down just as quick. That's a pity in a way because so many good things have been done by so many artists. Hopefully it will just take time for things to settle and develop different directions, get more mature and varied. Personally I think it should not be about “street”, people should dare to look through things and question it's quality in a bigger picture, instead of slapping a genre on it and start applauding for the applause itself. If you look into the history of not only graffiti from NY but art in general, “streetart” is not something from the past 5 or 10 years but has been happening all along. So why is it so special now? It can only be special or different because it is about now and not about something that happened 30 years ago, and in a way a lot of “streetart”is. Every age has different topics and specific interesting problems and situations that should be considered just to make it relevant to start with. I try to look at it like that.

You are showing at the inaugural show of Chapter One…what would be the perfect gallery to you and what three artists would you show – living or dead?
From what I heard until now Chapter One seems to be near perfect! And I would be the worst person to select 3 people because I could never satisfyingly select three people since there are so many combinations and so many good artists...especially dead ones. It's like asking for my three favorite colors...or ice cream-tastes...it changes all the time...sorry, I tried!

Also don't forget that we are releasing an exlusive screenprint by Erosie on wednesday...only 50 released in our onlineshop or at the gallery.