Shoreditch Mushrooms

17 Oct , 2014 Uncategorized

If you’re coming to The Dictionary you need to promise me that you will ask one of the receptionists to point out a Shoreditch Mushroom for you. The Shoreditch Mushrooms is not the official name for them, it’s just what I like to call them and everyone will know what you’re talking about if you mention them.

So what are these so called Shoreditch Mushorooms?
They’re big art installations made by the South African artist Christiaan Naagel. He makes them of Polyurethane, the same material that usually is used to fill in gaps in walls and things alike. If you have a stroll around Shoreditch you will without no doubt spot at least one of them, they are everywhere.
Naagel decided to make mushrooms since they remind him of street art in general. You can walk down a street one day and the next day that same street can have an amazing piece of art covering a whole wall, it is the same mushrooms they can show up from nowhere, are transient and sometimes just disappear as quick as they came.

In August Naagel launched a big solo exhibition at Hoxton Gallery (right across the street from The Dictionary) which in addition to the mushrooms also showed his brand new concept that he has decided to call “The Fi Of The Underworld”.

“It’s an exciting, but unknown and bizarrely strange time for mankind. The Fi of the underworld is the first sign that we are entering the spiritual world. The Fi are shoals of fish that appear in great numbers, hundreds of thousands. They swim vertically from deep below the ground and trust their way through the earth’s surface.” – Christiaan Nagel

Kisses,

Kim