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Exhibition – Chaz Bojorquez – LA Handstyles – Melbourne

Exhibition – Chaz Bojorquez – LA Handstyles – Melbourne

Last year, the team behind Carbon Festival bought out the legendary Futura to visit, and this year, they’ve kept the bar just as high by featuring the godfather of all that is cholo art, Chaz Bojorquez.

Whether you know it or not, but you’ve seen this mans work – or, you’ve seen the many many adaptations of his iconic pieces throughout popular culture – that stylised skull with the hat on its head? That’s pure Bojorquez. His letterforms have also become the basis for many varying styles, and you can see his influences pervading street culture of all forms.

This is one of those artists whose unique style has inspired, innovated and dominated across the decades, and in this coming show, you have the chance to see it for yourself for the first time in Australia.

“Carbon Festival in conjunction with the National Gallery of Victoria presents Chaz Bojorquez ‘LA Handstyles’. The show will feature a new body of work from the legendary Godfather of Cholo graffiti. Bojorquez has been practising typographic graffiti since the late 60’s, fusing the gang scripts of Mexican-American’s living in LA with the timeless art of Eastern calligraphy he creates beautiful works that are equally delicate as they are threatening.

A true pioneer, his influence on popular culture can not be understated. Bojorquez’s letter forms and their legacies can be found everywhere from skate culture, graffiti, contemporary design, as well as across the bodies of thousands of men in prison who’ve  inked his works on their skin permanently as protective charms.

Bojorquez’s work has been collected by many major institutions the world over, most recently he has contributed work to the Smithsonian, and was a featured artist in LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art’s seminal street art exhibition ‘Art in the Streets’. This is the artist’s first visit to Australia, and Carbon is proud to be a collaborator in this groundbreaking event.”

Seriously an un-missable exhibition, alongside all the other awesome shit that is going on over the weekend – crazy!!

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Who: Chaz Bojorquez
What: LA Handstyles solo show
Where: NGV Studio, The Atrium, Federation Square
When: Show opens 4pm, Saturday 28th April, til 7pm, and runs til May 5th.

Check out Chaz Bojorquezs Facebook page and the Carbon Festival website for more info.

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