Close Eyes To Exit – An exhibition and launch by LE GUN and Bare Bones

After some adventures in mainland Europe, LE GUN are back with the launch of Close Eyes To Exit, an exhibition at Red Gallery in London.
Including a collaboration with Rough Trade for a night of live bands (April 8th) and the launch of their eagerly awaited LE GUN 5 which is “set to grace lavatories, boutiques, bars and bookshelves far and wide.”

The main attraction, claim LE GUN, will be the Unknown Room, which will show life-size drawings of the bizarre based on the contents of George Melly’s Briefcase.

“Melly, the trout tickling, dada loving jazz pirate, provided the source of inspiration having purportedly left his briefcase in the basement closet of the LE GUN curiosity shop. Created by LE GUN’s core artists Neal Fox, Robert Rubbish, Chris Bianchi, Stephanie von Reiswitz and Bill Bragg, the black and white installation is filled with pictures showing scenes of the city of Legundon, James Ensor’s Belgium, an outlandish Interzone and an ancient lost civilization".

LE GUN 5 is set to include contributors such as the Polish graphic artist and long-time contributor Andrzej Klimowski. Nick Blinko the outsider art artist, writer and front-man of anarcho punk/Deathrock band Rudimentary Peni. Emma Rendel, the spearhead of Swedish surrealism, provides Aquiring Success in Your Professional Career Through the Science of Personal Achievement. James Unsworth presents his Ninja Turtle Sex Museum and watch out for camp taxidermy from Hernan Bas, more bizarre scenes from Charles Avery’s Imaginary Island, the macabre tableaus of Laurie Lipton and writing from Hunter S. Thompson of Hartlepool.

Imagine the weird and wonderful, including tarot interpretations, tattoos, haunting portraits, a lot of monochrome, and of course, limited edition prints and pulp.
Bare Bones “the promiscuous mutant sister of LE GUN” No.6 will also be out, independently published with paper funded entirely by it’s contributors. Distributed free – it is an outlet for artists and writers to say and do what they like.

Private view 1st April 2011, 6pm till late

Exhibition from 2nd April – 18 April 2011, Red Gallery, 1-3 Rivington Street, London, EC2 3JL

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