the street is our gallery

October 01, 2015 to October 31, 2015

Since bursting onto the art scene in 2007 Bortusk Leer’s happy, childish, neon artwork has been appearing and popping up on streets and gallery walls around the world.

Their sole purpose is to brighten up the viewers’ day and put a smile on their face – brief encounters that distract us from the seriousness of life. The selfproclaimed pioneer of ‘art-comedy’, Bortusk Leer’s philosophy is epitomised by his slogan: Cheer Up You Bastards. Residing in Amsterdam but originally from the UK, Bortusk Leer has exhibited in galleries around the world.

His brightly coloured, painted monsters occupy walls, windows, doors and electricity boxes wherever he can find them – and wait patiently to surprise the next unsuspecting member of the public. But be in no doubt as to whether this is ”Serious Art” or not. As Bortusk himself explains, Art isn’t serious, being dead is serious.

Some of our greatest social critics and philosophers are in actual fact comedians, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce & George Carlin to name but a few. So why not artists?

Bortusk Leer is a master at tackling his subject matter and has been praised as being better at painting colourful monsters than Picasso himself.

LOCATION

Reedprojects.

Salvågergate 10, Stavanger 4006, Norway.

Bortusk official page: http://www.bortusk.com/

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