Available in January in the SpaceShop

4000 Guide - SpaceShop

First or second edition ? Was not it you talking about first edition sold out ?
and then the 12 of January Rubik cubism book will be out ( 48 e I think )
invader is making plenty combos at the mo ! 

Prints on Paper was €19 for postage to the UK. Might be same price or a bit more, even though a smaller book as that was over 1 year ago.

So is the signed version you can fold out into a poster going to be on space shop in jan? Looks stunning

How does one enter the raffle?

Book a ticket for the exhibition here - overtheinfluence.com/exhibitions/invader-4000/

1. Turn up
2. Enter the raffle
3. Enjoy the exhibition
4. Wait until draw
5. Be disappointed you didn’t win 😉

I think what Acme Thunderer was like:

01. Book a ticket for the exhibition
02. Turn up
03. Enter the raffle
04. Enjoy the exhibition
05. Wait until draw
06. Be disappointed you didn’t win

As far as I know you need a ticket for the show and you are only able to enter when you show up in person.

No kits in this one, just the 4,000 street pieces (and two in space).

Thanks for sharing. I kind of like how thin are the pages. It reminds me the pléiade books, also the small format. I removed as you said the dust cover. I’m not sure yet but I even will prefer the book in a few times when I will read it and keep in my bag during my FlashInvaders huntings. The « used condition style » will be nice, we will see! 

55min interview (for french speakers) :

www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/affaires-culturelles/invader-chaque-mosaique-est-une-oeuvre-en-meme-temps-qu-elle-est-le-fragment-d-un-meta-reseau-planetaire-8281219?fbclid=PAAabmNU1tL9HDlrHkyoUvDeFxP7TyrrRno1W0cf6nwwGQ0sd7k8VqZACT4dA

well we have to take one hour :-) but I have found this that resume the interview. In fact he spoke almost of the history, motivation, cultural langage about mosaic …

«  On the occasion of the first exhibition devoted to him in a Parisian gallery, entitled "4000" in reference to his 4000th work, the street artist Invader returns, in a long-term interview, to his extraordinary career and takes us into the factory of his sprawling art.

With
Invader urban artist
A French street artist who made a name for himself by installing mosaics imitating the motifs of the famous Japanese video game, Space Invader, on the walls of major international cities, Invader is the architect of a sprawling network of more than 4,000 works, woven for more than twenty years. All are listed on an application created for this purpose, Flashinvaders, designed by the artist two years before Pokemon Go!, which allows the 140,000 subscribers to follow his work and earn points as soon as they come across and photograph one. of his works. Represented by the Over the Influence gallery, the artist has managed to remain anonymous to the general public, appearing masked in an interview. This did not prevent him from exhibiting in the greatest museums in the world and selling his works on the art market at increasingly high prices. However, Invader's work goes far beyond the iconic Space Invaders. It has expanded to other video games, such as Super Mario, passing through cartoons with The Little Mermaid and The Pink Panther, or cinema, with Star Wars, without forgetting pop celebrities such as Serge Gainsbourg, or, in a more literary register, William Burroughs. Inspired by the places he "invades", each of his works is unique and demonstrates the constant reinvention of his visual language. Borrowing from the geek vocabulary, he perceives his approach as a program of invasion of the urban territory, by means of artistic viruses intended to hack the public space. Marked by the encounter between mosaic and pixel, real space and virtual space, Invader's work is thus based on a reflection on the place of digital technology in our societies.

On the occasion of the 4000 exhibition, which is being held until January 22, 2023 at the Over the Influence gallery, as well as the publication of the book which retraces his work like a bible, 4000 – The Complete Guide to the Space Invaders, 1998-2021, Invader returns to the microphone of Romain de Becdelièvre on his long career and reveals his creative process

Crossing time and space
"It took me a long time to realize the strength of this gesture of sticking a piece in the street. I realized that I had found something new since you could see posters, graffiti and paintings in the streets, but no one had thought of sticking a mosaic when it was intended for that in the base. And above all, by the greatest of luck, it was a Space Invaders that I stuck the first time. By analyzing this gesture a bit, I realized that Space Invaders meant space invaders, which is quite extraordinary because that's what I had done […] So I started this invasion of urban space, but also of planetary space since very quickly, I wanted to get out of Paris, so that it would be a planetary phenomenon, not just Franco-Parisian” Invader

“I really feel like I've embarked on an endless project. It would even take me several lifetimes to go all the way because the world is so vast. In Paris alone, I'm already close to 1,500 pieces posed and I could pose as many. Every day I discover new streets, new corners, new potential spots. I try to crisscross the planet as much as possible, but there are still a lot of countries, cities, places where I have never set foot » Invader


The art of "urban acupuncture"
“There is upstream work in the workshop to design the part, make it and then glue it on as quickly as possible. Afterwards, there are no rules, I was able to install some in minutes and others in several hours, depending on their location and size. But the idea is to be as fast and as discreet as possible » Invader

"I play with the places where I work, both in terms of architecture and the memory of the place and the support that will receive the piece"

The art of "urban acupuncture"
“There is upstream work in the workshop to design the part, make it and then glue it on as quickly as possible. Afterwards, there are no rules, I was able to install some in minutes and others in several hours, depending on their location and size. But the idea is to be as fast and as discreet as possible » Invader

"I play with the places where I work, both in terms of architecture and the memory of the place and the support that will receive the piece


“Each piece is unique. I imposed this constraint on myself from the beginning never to reproduce the same mosaic twice. So out of the 4000 mosaics you have 4000 different original works. And I said to myself, to stay in the idea of ​​the video game, that I was going to give them a score ranging from 10 to 100 points depending on the size, the difficulty I had to install it and the place where she is placed » Invader



The 4000 exhibition at the Over the Influence gallery in Paris, from December 10, 2022 to January 22, 2023. About forty works (Alias) are presented, most of them new and unpublished, as well as the leading edition of the book, including 500 copies are available, each signed, numbered and dated. Also, a film of the invasion of Potosi where the 4000th mosaic was placed at 4000m altitude, and a generative video gathering the 4000 space invaders listed in the book.
The book 4000 – The Complete Guide to the Space Invaders, 1998-2021, published in December 2022, can be discovered by Control P editions. This book looks back on more than 20 years of the now legendary Space Invaders project, deployed on the scale worldwide, in 170 cities.
The "Invader Rubikcubist" exhibition at the MIMA (Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art), in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean in the Brussels region, is on view until January 8, 2023. This is Invader's first solo exhibition devoted entirely to Rubikcubism. The term, coined by the artist in 2005, refers to his studio work around the Rubik's cube, a famous colorful puzzle, with which he creates paintings and sculptures.


that’s it !! Ouf 🐶 

Can anyone confirm the release date for space shop? Thanks

Mid January
As the Rubik Book is put in France the 12…
Maybe he will put both together ?
In my bookstore, invader /control P told them that the book 4000 was under the factory presses.
Maybe a second edition then ?
Or just the same ?