BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1023@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160730T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160813T170000 DTSTAMP:20160719T110820Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/art-at-41-chester-dirty-hans-han s-goes-pop/ SUMMARY:ART AT 41: ART AT 41 Chester: Dirty Hans: Hans Goes Pop DESCRIPTION:ART AT 41 Chester\n30th July - 13th August (Launch night 29th J uly 6pm)\n\nART AT 41 presents a two week exhibition dedicated to one of t he most exciting up and coming British Pop artists\, Dirty Hans. Dirty Han s: Hans Goes Pop will be the first British exhibition dedicated to the art ist\, exploring the iconography within his contemporary urban forms.\n\nBo rn and raised in Liverpool\, Dirty Hans directed his hyperactive and disru ptive tendencies into his art. However\, it was only after viewing Roy Lic htenstein and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec’s work that this cathartic passion became a serious\, all consuming career for Dirty Hans. It is clear to see how these pioneering Pop artists are ever present in his work. Dirty Hans battles against concepts of high art by utilising images of popular icono graphy: Audrey Hepburn\, comic book characters\, musicians\, fictional fil m characters\, politicians\, and even the Royal Family. Dirty Hans taps in to the endless supply of Western visual cultural history and turns these t ropes on their head to fit his personal narrative and twisted sense of hum our. Dirty Hans has recently made the transition from acrylics\, collages\ , and spray paints to digital based art. This allows for a freedom in Hans ’ approach to digital art\; the screen is a physical canvas that he can manipulate\, adding both relief and depth to what is a strictly two-dimens ional surface.\n\n2016 has undoubtedly been the breakthrough year for Dirt y Hans. With Instagram and Shopify sites originally serving as the only ve hicle for his unique message\, it was his presence in the physical space o f ART AT 41 that has steadily seen the demand and value for his originals and signed limited editions increase. This commitment to giving online ind ependent artists a physical platform to promote their work has become cent ral to the new ART AT 41 philosophy of discover\, promote\, and develop. H owever\, regardless of this new found success Dirty Hans insists on keepin g the majority of his edition numbers as low as 40\; an exclusive and anti -establishment mentality\, the reverberations of which can be felt in his sometimes jarring and individual pop stylings.\n\nDirty Hans has exhibited in Antwerp\, Brussels\, Toronto\, Paris\, Berlin\, and Miami. Building on the success of their Sir Peter Blake Exhibition of September 2015\, Dirty Hans: Hans Goes Pop is a distinct and progressive change in direction for ART AT 41. With an in-house DJ as well as award-winning cocktails provide d by the local boutique bars The Suburbs &\; At The Hollows\, this laun ch night reflects their new mission of becoming the prime destination for exciting\, urban contemporary art in the North West.\n\nLaunch night start s at 6pm on Friday July 29th. With numbers for the guest list strictly lim ited. The exhibition will run for two weeks. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2016/07/iron-man-updated-.png LOCATION:ART AT 41\, 41 Hoole Road\, Chester\, Cheshire\, CH2 3\, Cheshire\ , United Kingdom GEO:53.199772;-2.878036 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=41 Hoole Road\, Chester\, C heshire\, CH2 3\, Cheshire\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=ART AT 41:geo:53.199772,-2.878036 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20160327T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR