This article in La Repubblica magazine called XL was written by artist and art critic David Vecchiato when I visited Rome last year to make an exhibition at Mondo Bizzarro Gallery.

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Marie Xeme filmed this really cool video of the Miodi Festival in Milan, Italy , where Firehouse made an exposition with Malleus, Steuso and Kabuto.

The show was hot hot hot with Ufomammut, Lento, Amen Ra and Gandhi’s Gunn. The show was amazing fun!

Jerom from Geneva (in the band Knut and a great poster designer) surprised me – he’s in the film for a second with Ron. And also for a second you can see Marco Teatro talking with me – he’s the graffiti painter – he’s the amazingly cool artist that invited us for some of Firehouse’s first big shows in Italy. Marco Guasco and Ciccia showed up, as did Stefano Calori – Stefano helped me more than I can even mention, when I made my Milan studio at Centro Sociale Leoncavallo – and we rocked out.

Ufomammut played their new album “Eve” in it’s entirety. What a great night!

Paolo Prospero took these photos below

Chris Hopewell sent me his design for the Jacknife Firehouse art show – “Spring Forward” – coming this Thursday, March 11, 2010 at Artrock Gallery, 893 Folsom Street in San Francisco. It’s a Jack of Diamonds printed with trademark Firehouse metallic green and is cut to a playing card shape.

“Spring Forward”

Jacknife / Firehouse art show

Artrock Gallery 893 Folsom Street in San Francisco

March 11, 2010

Edition of 75

4 colors on archival cream paper

approx. 22″ x 33″

Signed & numbered

Available Thursday 3/11/2010 at Artrock Gallery

Spring Forward

Poster Show Featuring British Poster Artists

from Jacknife Poster Collective of Bristol

with Firehouse of San Francisco

Ron Donovan and Chuck Sperry of the Firehouse Kustom Rockart Company met Chris Hopewell from Bristol, England at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas in 2005. In 2007, while conducting a silkscreen print demonstration at Flatstock poster convention, Chuck and Ron spoke at length to Chris about getting started with his own print studio. Inspired by the demonstration, Chris Hopewell went home to the United Kingdom and opened a silkscreen print studio with partners and called it Jacknife.

By the time Firehouse toured the United Kingdom in 2008, Mr. Hopewell and the Jacknife print collective would have dozens and dozens of cool rock posters under their belt. Since 2007, Jacknife has been spreading art of rock to Great Britain – most notably by producing posters in the open air at the Glastonbury Music Festival.

Jacknife posters have a bold style informed by a punk aesthetic. Using surprising imagery, Jacknife pares their posters down to a clear, direct statement. They design and print their unambiguous, rebellious posters with a hands-on silkscreen process that informs their art.

Come and celebrate our San Francisco joint show as we get ready to go together to SXSW in Texas and later to the Glastonbury Music Festival in the UK.

Opening:

Thursday, March 11, 2010

7 pm

Artrock Gallery

893 Folsom Street in San Francisco

The show will last for two days – Thursday and Friday – March 11 & 12, 2010.