Your chance to WIN a total one-off screenprint to commemorate the launch of EXIT

The beautiful screenprint is the only one on the planet. Handfinished and signed by Stuart!

How to enter…

Download your copy of EXIT from iTunes HERE

Then print out one of the giant prints for your wall and email a photo of it in situ to hello@stuartsemple.com *

We’ll pop the best images on the website and the most creative entry will the signed special edition.

Winners will be announced on the 31st May

Good luck!

* your photo should look like this! (to scale)

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click the image above to explore Stuart’s latest collection of work available exclusively on iTunes

EXIT is the first artwork made available worldwide to own via iTunes LP.

click here to watch a recording of the live webcast where Stuart announces the project:

www.stuartsemple.com/exit

   The EXIT Art LP contains:

 HD video art piece
Interactive comic book
Art gallery
Book
Giant print at home art
Behind the scenes audio
Standard 4 track audio EP

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NOTE:
This iTunes LP is only for use on a Mac or PC with iTunes 9 or later
Interactive experience not compatible with iOS devices (iPhone/iPad)

What is EXIT?

Exit is an allegorical take on an artist’s escape from an introverted artworld into the real world. The story unfolds by following the coming of age of a young girl who plans her escape from a suburban enclave. The girl creates banana slippers (a technological tool that give her the ability to run from her confines). She carries the nostalgia of her youth with her in a little wooden box, however it quickly becomes obsolete.

With her new found freedom comes a huge responsibility and a dialogue between adult responsibility and childhood naivety ensues. This is characterized by her headdress, at once beautiful and attention grabbing, whilst also being a burden on her adventure.

The piece progresses through the dark ages of hedonism, where her playful freedom seems to last forever, yet ultimately has no end. Finally it concludes to deal with the issue of ownership and objectification. Our lead (now a woman), becomes owned by the world she was desperate to attain. We view a death scene, where she becomes a ‘cut-out-and keep girl’, literally becoming a static artwork as a human canvas. An object created only for ownership, she is an art object in her own right. It’s a direct statement about the art image, who owns it, how it’s contained, how it’s transmitted and ultimately how reproduction in normal cases reduces it’s power.

The work ends with a hopeful liberation as the girl sets fire to her headdress at the edge of the earth, she stares out to sea and forever is a possibility.

SUMMARY:

In essence the work is about the art object seeking ways to liberate itself. It questions who created it. In a spiritual sense it asks if there is an element of free will or pre-determination between ourselves and a creator. It begs the question of what would happen if the art object were set free from it’s usual distribution mechanisms and commercial shackles.

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Join Stuart for a live webchat from his studio this coming Monday at 8pm GMT (3pm EST) Where he will announce his latest project EXIT.

Chat here: http://stuartsemple.com/exit

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STUART SEMPLE

10 APRIL – MAY 31 2012

UNO+UNO
Via Ausonio, 18 – Milano +39.02.8375436

http://www.galleriaunopiuuno.com/

We are pleased to announce that Stuart is the new arts editor of Phoenix Magazine
an internationally distributed, independent magazine representing London’s vibrant fashion and culture scene.

Pheonix is the only magazine published to coincide with London Fashion Week and Graduate Fashion Week.

The latest issue is out now on Newstands.

In this issue, Stuart examines Damien Hirst, the London riots, David Hockney and the resurgence of kitsch watercolors.

And Graham Taylor catches up with New York artists Ghost of a Dream.

More info: http://www.phoenixmag.co.uk/

Click here to download the catalogue

It’s Hard to be a Saint in this City
17th February – 16th March 2012

The Space
210 Hollywood Road
Hong Kong
+852 2291 0006

http://www.thespace.hk/events/

Stuart Semple discusses his new exhibition It’s Hard To Be A Saint In This City

It’s Hard to be a Saint in this City
17th February – 16th March 2012

The Space
210 Hollywood Road
Hong Kong
+852 2291 0006

http://www.thespace.hk/events/