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We presented the contemporary artistic duo Neue’s “We never use frames to show our work. For us, the raw exhibition back in October 2012. Nicolas Choyé and Esteban feeling of photographs directly nailed on a wall is much more Gonzalez met 9 years ago and ever since have been organic” explains Esteban Gonzalez. “We want visitors to feel developing ways to express their art through unexpected close the art, not intimidated by it.” Exclusive to The HUB, mediums. For their exhibition at The HUB, Neue exhibited Neue produced unique skateboard decks using an argentic photographs, drawings and paintings through the eyes of photography development process, as well as series of found objects. postcards.

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Parisian duo MMav (“Mon Moulin A Vent” / “My Windmill”) illustrations highlighted by a symmetrical pattern; two dyptics presented their exhibition at The HUB in January 2013. Rey on skateboard decks and a 1m by 1m hand drawn and Mutt, the two masterminds behind MMav, created a new transparent plexiglas piece. The exhibition also presented a !"#$%"&%'"()%#*Y,*#%!$%-.*/(%0/1,2-3(*%2*0-.*-/4%*05*4/266$% series of original artworks by each artist, including three for The HUB. The two worked together on a series of three pieces that will be used by DC Shoes for a Curated by The kakemonos applying their intricate technique to the HUB capsule collection in Spring 2014.

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The Hit Ups is a Bristol (UK) based 5-piece band with a stage many iterations and developments of who we are, individually craft that is meticulous in its chaos! We have been following and as Team THU, it is too personal to announce so easily. If their music for a while, and we will soon have the chance to people work it out, they’ll work us out. We’re going to have welcome them at the DROP IN studio. to think of some kind of initiation for those that get it...

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