So, something special for you in the lead up to the weekend – a few preview pictures for you before tomorrow nights massive swath of shows all across Melbourne, the highly anticipated Multiple Reality Disorder from Bryan Itch.

This is only a very small slice of some of the fucking magic that we’ve seen shaping up over the past few weeks, as Itch has been slowly but surely creating a huge body of work to fill both rooms at RTIST Gallery. 

Master of aerosol, brilliant painter, amazing illustrator. Itch has a way of both viewing the world, as well as visualising it through his art, that allows anyone to tap in to a shared manifold of a hitherto hidden continuum between the real and surreal. This isn’t so much a journey, as it is a black ops invasion of fantasy, fiction and lucid dreaming upon the minds eye.

This show moves amongst a wide variety of avenues, but the central theme of illusion and images within images pervades it – and there is no deviation.

We’ve always loved artwork that involves repurposed artwork, and Itch has carried off this portion of the show with a masterful deftness. Some of our favourites are a mini collection of these repurposed images, like this one below.

There are also quite a few works on wood, filled with various xenofloric life; colourful, enticing and entirely otherworldly.

Then of course, well, then there is the detail. These images are a very small portion of one of the larger pieces in the show – and, well, a photo of this work just couldn’t do it justice –  one of our these two images represent perhaps 5% of the entire work. It’s one of our favourites, and when you see it as a whole, you’ll understand what we mean.

There are over thirty works in Itchs show, not counting the walls he’s in the midst of painting. None of these images event cover  the lightboxes, or the strangely macabre yet beautiful sculpture we saw – or the fact that almost all of these works have hidden aspects within them. This really is a show with multiple realities to it and, well, there’s some magic amongst it all as well.

And, like any kind of magic, it’s something that must be witnessed, not described.Those of you with glasses? Trade them out for the evening, and wear your contact lenses – trust me.

We’ll see you there.

Contact the guys at RTIST Gallery if you’re keen to get a catalogue of the works for the show.