Seripop Comes To Philadelphia

The IBU400 X 2 exhibition at Space 1026 in Philadelphia came down last week and for anyone who missed it here’s your review. The exhibit was a floor to ceiling catalog raisonne showcasing the work of the Montreal-based screen printing collective Seripop. From the exhibition blurb:

Formed in 2002, Seripop is the nom de guerre of Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau, the award-winning creative duo behind Seripop. Based in Montreal, Seripop has earned international attention for its stylistically distinct, silkscreened street posters which have been featured in notable books such as newly published New Vintage Type’, ‘New Masters of Poster Design’ and ‘Print Liberation: The Screen Printing Primer’ among many others. IBU400 X 2 presents a wide range of works created since Seripop’s inception, with posters, prints and books for display and sale.

While that is a concise description it only begins to describe the print-phantasmagoria  produced by this art/design team. There work is very exciting and you can see more of it on their website.

As you can see the show was literally wall to wall with screen prints, some band or event posters others serving more artistic or obscure goals. And they were also piled up for sale; cheap too.

For more pictures of work by Seripop follow the story after the jump.

This opening was like a who-is-who in the philly print world. Can you can spot the print artist in this photos?

In this photos you can see Greg Pizzoli the curator of the show, and in the back is Anni Altshuler of Holly Holly Hobby Hobby Zine and occasional contributor to this fine on-line publication.

It seems they saved their installation work for the a show at solo show No Henge +The Trail at The Baltic Center for Contemporary Arts in Gateshead , UK  (from the Seripop website).

The materials listed for the installation are: screenprinted paper , paste and glue. Wow!