![]() “In 1999 I started to paint on the Barcelona streets, during all my career I was travelling and making friends with the same passion around the world. A new Pez piece encountered on the street does demand a smile, that distinctive smile-style does demand you do indeed grin back, yeah, okay, so you could point at the one trick pony street artist thing once again, – get yourself one strong graphic idea, repeated it again and again (and again) on every street corner, have a show in a slick urban art gallery, bring out the coffee table book, but that would be a very cynical way of smiling, and anyway, isn’t the art of repetition a rather fine one? High end brightly coloured pop art? Repeat after me, what’s wrong with that? This show will feature collaborations on canvas, prints and sculptures”. ![]() And it is about smiling – “Pez is now celebrating his 22 years of painting on the streets, sharing it with his street artist friends. “22 Years Smiling with Friends” – the show is billed as a group show and features the work of street art stars such as D*face, Buff Monster, Okuda, FlyingFortress, Cranio, Jauneart, Martin Whatson, PichiAvo, Chanoir, Chicadania, Annahita Hessami, Fark, Fanakapan, Mr Cenz, Mau Mau, Mighty Mo, Otto Schade, Ponk, Eject, Ronzo, Cheeba, Jaykaes, Discreet, Malarky, BRK18 – familiar names, instantly recognisable but really this is a Pez solo show – Pez and friends, smiling together but this is very much a solo show. “StolenSpace is excited to present the new summer group exhibition” so trumpets the East London gallery that you still find at the very top of Brick Lane and just around the corner from the stale smells of the tired old Whitechapel Gallery. ![]() We passed a Pez on the way to the show, pretty hard not to pass a Pez on the streets of London, there’s been a lot of smiling out there, they’ve been documented often enough of these fractured pages over the years. ![]()
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