If you're in London anytime in the next month you might want to get yourself to Brick Lane at check out the Obey show at Stolenspace (temporary place not the Gallery space for the SEEN show). Even if you don't like his work particularly the size and scale of this exhibit will blow you away.

We're talking a huge space with a couple of canvas that would probably fill my entire flat! I've never really liked a lot of Shepard's print work but these are something else - the layers, the details, the textures really can only be appreciated up close and personal.

I definitely have a new appreciation of his work. There's the whole question of whether it can be called "art" just because it's in a gallery when really it's advertising his brand by taking propaganda and advertising images and subverting them is open to debate.

If I have one criticism it's that with the amount of prints Obey have been putting out - practically one a week - a lot of the images a very familiar and used over and over again. This could be tied back to the idea of brand and advertising but to me, it lessened the impact of a few pieces. This was especially true when the same exact images were done as a canvas and as a metal etching, as impressive as they were.

Oh and the minor annoyance of the Joe Strmmer piece that explained he was, shock horror "in the Clash". See, betcha never knew that huh ;)

More pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff_w/sets/72157602856583728/