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WOT THREE WORDZ

Dave Buonaguidi

Jealous East

11 Nov 2021 — 28 Nov 2021

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Jealous East is pleased to present Dave Buonaguidi’s ‘WOT THREE WORDS’; an enticingly provocative new show coming to our Shoreditch gallery this November. In this collaborative exhibition between the artist and the audience, Buonaguidi seeks to expose the three human vices that inhabit each of us, through his use of wordplay combined with passport photo portraits provided by willing participants.

The exhibition explores Buonaguidi’s playful theory that people can be defined by three simple things; our passions, our favourite food/drink and our guilty pleasures, in generating them in the form of random (sometimes X-rated) words through the pull of a leaver on the artist’s bespoke fruit machine. Now it is the audience’s turn to be the face behind Buonaguidi’s iconic screenprints. For a limited time only, with the use of a vintage photobooth in the gallery, customers will have the chance to create a unique commission featuring their personalised vices. Expect to find the Shoreditch gallery filled with a selection of Buonaguidi’s artworks which reveal his love of vintage photography. These examples of ‘WOT THREE WORDS’ portraits display the classic Hackney Dave use of vibrant colour typography printed over the years-old collection of photographs. This humorously random exhibition aims to show the connections we share as humans, and how we all have our own vices.

Expect to find the Shoreditch gallery filled with a selection of Buonaguidi’s artworks which reveal his love of vintage photography. These examples of ‘WOT THREE WORDS’ portraits display the classic Hackney Dave use of vibrant colour typography printed over the years-old collection of photographs. This humorously random exhibition aims to show the connections we share as humans, and how we all have our own vices.

With one pull of the leaver, the slot machine will look into your soul and present a combination of three words. The words will then be screenprinted by Buonaguidi onto your passport photo to cherish forever… so put in a penny in the machine to see what three words you are made up of. Will it be INSTA, PORN, PIES - ART, SMACK, PIZZA or perhaps CATS, YOGA, BRANDY!

Dave Bonaguidi

Hackney based artist

Dave Buonaguidi, AKA Real Hackney Dave is a Hackney-based artist who combines the visual and verbal language of advertising and propaganda with unique imagery and materials of found objects and ephemera.
Dave employs a reactive approach to his art, combining print making with his bold typographic approach to push the boundaries of creativity and respond to cultural subjects and events in almost real time, as if a publisher going to print. Through his considered juxtaposition of known and unknown, he hopes to incite an emotional connection or reaction with the viewer.
Before becoming an artist, Dave worked in advertising for over 35 years, co-founding several creative agencies including St. Luke’s, 4Creative and Karmarama.
In 2003 he created the iconic MAKE TEA NOT WAR poster for the anti-war march. It now is part of the collection at the V&A and hangs in the Trento museum of modern art. He also played cricket for Italy.