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The Interrogation of Steve Lowe in the IT

Steve Lowe in the International Times

“”I do truly believe in painting in the 21st Century as an act of subversion. Contemporary society and culture doesn’t want dirty messy paintings full of beauty and simplicity with ever changing complex readings. It wants cold clinical clarity, cleanliness and easily PR’able concepts. Go to any major contemporary gallery or international art fair and you’ll see what I mean. On the whole, they lack love and soul and really don’t want it. That’s far too human and messy.”

Click here to go to the International Times website and read the Interrogation of Steve Lowe, covering L-13 activity, artists & the way L-13 “can cock a snook, while snookering commercialism and hollow art values”.

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Jamie Reid Eight Fold Year book released

Jamie Reid Eight Fold Year dust-jacket

Jamie Reid
Eight Fold Year
First bound edition
L-13 Press of Clerkenwell, 2017

Released on the Autumn Equinox, 21st September 2017

Originally published as a limited edition loose leaf book in association with John Marchant Gallery, 2015 (now sold out).

Paintings, photographs and texts that meditate on the eight festivals in the Druidic calendar.

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NEW Billy Childish Painting Catalogue launched at The Uncorrected Publishers’ Fair

Billy Childish unbegreiflich aber gewiss woodcut cover book front

L-13 will be taking part in a new indie publishers’ fair this weekend curated by Tangerine Press: The Uncorrected Independent Publishers’ Fair will run 22nd-23rd July at the Peckham Pelican, SE15 5PY, 11am-6pm both days.

L-13 will be featuring a colossal new catalogue of every single painting made by Billy Childish between August 2014 and January 2017. 

Available with original woodcut cover or a choice of four giclée dust jacket covers.

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