That's How It Happened

I was going to do a huge lavishly illustrated post of new works by Invader. He has a solo show at Lazarides in Soho, and is in a group show at Elms Lesters, with Stash, Future, Jose Parla, and Dalek. The problems arrived when I discovered that a VGA mobile phone camera is grossly inadequate for capturing pixelated pictures. When you stand in front of the Rubik's Cubism pieces, you're often unsure what exactly the picture is. Take a low-res grainy picture of it though, and it looks like you took a picture of the original high res image. Only when you blow it back up does the pixelation reemerge. Compare the two images of Richard Kiel below. My favourite piece is still Bub (top right above). For £2000 you buy the tiles on a wall somewhere in London, and Invader makes up its "alias" preserved in perspex. That provides the provenance. It also seems like a uniquely credible way of merging the authenticity of street art, with the commerciality of gallery art.