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‘Crackney’s Finest’ exhibition

East London gets a dressing down street art style.

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Posted 09:55 GMT on November 17, 2010
‘Crackney’s Finest’ exhibition

German street artist Ronzo is holding his Crackney's Finest exhibition at the Stolen Space Gallery on Brick Lane, London, E1 on November 19.

In his first UK exhibition in two years, Ronzo takes us around the imaginary Borough of Crackney using paintings, collages, prints and sculptures.

His work has been commonplace in East London for about a decade now. If you know Shoreditch, you'll probably have spotted his Credit Crunch Monster on Great Eastern Street.

Says Stolen Space Gallery: "It is a dark but funny place inspired by the experience of living in London’s East End borough of Hackney. Ronzo’s vision of Crackney is crawling with surreal characters including crack smoking squirrels an a pizza delivering giant cock roach. The parallel world created here may at times seem a little absurd but many parallels can be drawn to our reality. And hopefully the viewer will discover that things not always are what they seem to be."

No true East London resident would miss this so, if you fit the bill, you've got until November 29 get on down.

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Creative Commons License‘Crackney’s Finest’ exhibition (text) by Liz Seabrook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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