An exhibition of work by Slinkachu, an artist who installs tiny figurines around the city, has opened at Cosh Gallery in London.
Scenes created have included miniature dear grazing alongside cigarette buts, a man standing by a cash machine and a tiny woman using a post box, positioned next to the real thing.
Slinkachu modifies and paints figurines made for model train sets before installing them in streets and parks, where he photographs the scene and leaves the characters behind.
The exhibition is open 28 August – 20 September. A book of the designer’s work, entitled ‘Little People in the City’ with a foreword by Will Self, will be launched on 5 September.
Here’s some more information from Cosh Gallery:
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GROUND ZERO: Little People in the City is the first solo show from Slinkachu featuring all new works at Cosh Gallery, Soho, this August. Slinkachu has taken street art to a new scale, painstakingly hand-painting tiny characters that live in a world that’s too small for us to always notice beneath our feet.
His street installations are constructed in all sorts of public spaces, the portrayal of little lives that mirror our own. Working in miniature opens up the city landscapes in unexpected ways and this is explored in Ground Zero where he literally brings you down to a new level.
Ground Zero is both street art installations and photography. The two go hand in hand with thesubsequent photograph uncovering his hidden world. The show depicts the little fears and anxieties of city life and the general feeling of being alone or insignificant in a large city. While the scenes reflect the loneliness and melancholy of urban life there is always an underlying sense of humour and feeling of empathy.
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Posted by Rose Etherington
August 29th, 2008 at 12:54 am
i like it…
August 29th, 2008 at 2:26 am
These are brilliant! Very inspiring work…fun and intellectual at once.
August 29th, 2008 at 3:38 am
some of them are quite fun, but in general looks like a funky idea from a group of friends in a bar!!!
August 29th, 2008 at 6:32 am
great !
August 29th, 2008 at 6:54 am
cute! what a breath of fresh air
August 29th, 2008 at 8:47 am
If carlsberg did street art it wouldn’t be this good!!!
August 29th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Nicely done, bravo
August 29th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Wau! Banksy related, but more something.. Scale is something to play with. More this!
August 29th, 2008 at 9:43 am
so londonish!
August 29th, 2008 at 9:46 am
unique, everybodyCOULD hav done, yet so far, so original. Speaks to me well.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:11 am
This has great quality and humor!
I Like it very much.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:20 am
very good. fresh, inspiring art.
great work
August 29th, 2008 at 10:21 am
cool!
August 29th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Pretty cool
August 29th, 2008 at 10:33 am
haha!! a whole new perspective of proportion! i like!!
August 29th, 2008 at 10:46 am
I loved this – cute, clever, child-like and strangely endearing and subversive. I’m buying the book!
August 29th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
brilliant
August 29th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
simply amazing:)
August 29th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
This is glorious, funny and thought-provoking.. I love it!
August 29th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
LOVE it
August 29th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
funny, cool, nice… great!!!
August 29th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
funtellectual…?
August 30th, 2008 at 9:03 am
this is geniusly quirky! kudos!
August 30th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Brilliant, this is a sweet project. I particularly like the snail with the London transport logo, and the men fighting on the pavement. Plus you don’t realise how small everything is until the camera zooms out.
Nice one.
August 30th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Beautiful!
August 30th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
This is great! I especially like the snail with a tube logo!!! I guess it’s quite ironic..
August 31st, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Beat that!
August 31st, 2008 at 11:44 pm
can not like it anymore……
September 1st, 2008 at 6:57 am
amazing!
September 1st, 2008 at 11:38 am
very very creative.. i really like it.
September 8th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
I am inspired by the art works of Mr Slinkachu. It is perhaps not conducive to effective concentration while driving. Suddenly I find myself more sensitive to all that is going on around me.
Is it that we treat events that do not impact us in a personal and invasive way as small, so small as not to even be real?
This artist’s work has made me more sensitive to all that goes on around me. Every news report, events that affect others throughout this globe that we call the world seems to take on a new and desperate importance.
Thank you, Mr Slinkachu
September 10th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
This is extremely thought-provoking and a great mastery of distorting proportion. I particularly love the snail transport one and the image used on the cover of the book with the man having shot a bee. It brings everything into perspective. Well Done My Slinkachu!
September 10th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Simple, genius idea. Thank you for this.
December 25th, 2008 at 3:11 am
Thank you, Mr. Slinkachu.
I found this book very inspiring! After watching your book carefully, I felt real small in this world, more than ever! But at the same time, I think I can find something in these big cities to feel good about and realize how big we can be, even if our actions seem to be small or insignificant for the rest of the world. There is always someone thinking that our actions aren’t so insignificant at all, and we can fell well about it and move on.