Nobulo and Taxie Gallery present a new project called ADDA, a pop up gallery with different artist from around the world. 24 October, the first show will be an exhibition with Mark Bode presented at:
103 rue Saint-Maur
Paris
Opening 24 October 2015
It
is with great excitement to present the first Bode Gallery show of its
kind in Paris France. Vaughn Bode visited Paris in the mid 70s before
his death in July of 1975 and loved the city and its people and met and
became friends with many of the great cartoonists of the time such as
Tardi, Moebius, and Drulliet.
Vaughns’
style of bubble lettering and characters became New York City's very
first inspiration to the earliest graffiti writers on the subway cars
that ran in the 70s and 80s in NYC. The Bode style has since influenced
countless artists in Hip Hop and Graffiti culture around the globe and
is touted as the very foundation of the spray can art movement. Mark
Bode is the heir to this legacy his father trained him as a young boy to
think of the Bode characters as real and the worlds as a place to share
and visit. Mark has faithfully carried on the family style and finished
many of the projects Vaughn never got to finish in his short time with
us. Mark continues to build on the Bode legacy and art in his own right
as well as continue to build onto the families legacy in comics and art.
"Le
Monde Erotique de Mark Bode et Vaughn Comics pour Graffitis" the focus
is on the voluptuous and sexual Bode Broads and the characters made
famous by the Bodes and the street artists they inspire. Many of
Vaughns’ classic original drawings will be on display as well as his
personal sculptures and memorabilia. Mark has done 30 new paintings on
canvas and NYC subway maps adorned with his and his fathers beloved
characters to be seen for the first time at the show. Also a very
special night it will be as the premiere of “THE BOOK OF ME BY CHEECH
WIZARD” will be released to the public for the first time express mailed
straight from the printer—a 150 page full color hard cover book
featuring the complete Cheech Wizard stories by Vaughn, photographs and
new comics and stories by Mark. This is the first Vaughn Bode hardcover
book to come out since the Erotica #1 in the early 1980s!! There will
be only 50 copies signed and numbered by Mark for the first collectors
through the doors.
