Tuesday, 30 March 2010
OS GEMEOS : FOUND FOOTAGE
12ozProphet Presents... Found Footage: 1997 Brazil Graffiti with Os Gemeos, Raven & Sonik from 12ozprophet on Vimeo.
NIce little archive film from 12ozprophet of Os Gemeos, Raven and Sonik getting up in Sao Paulo back in 97.
Sunday, 28 March 2010
STREET ART NEW YORK
Nuart friends and partners in last years Brooklyn crime Jaime and Steven, have produced what looks like a fabulous book on their cities glorious street art.
About the Book
Street Art New York, by Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo, with a foreword by Carolina A. Miranda, published in April 2010 by Prestel Publishing (Random House).
The authors of the successful Brooklyn Street Art book (and founders of BrooklynStreetArt.com) expand their scope and take readers on a fast-paced run through the streets of New York, along the waterways, on the rooftops, and up the walls of today's ever-morphing vibrant Street Art scene as only NYC can tell it.
With an introduction by noted cultural journalist Carolina A. Miranda (C-Monster.net) putting Street Art in the context of the personal experience of a New Yorker, readers will be taken aback by this compelling portrait of the state of urban art featuring work on the streets of New York from 102 artists from around the world. With a collection of aproximately 200 images by exciting new comers as well as beloved "old masters" such as New Yorkers Swoon, Judith Supine, Dan Witz, Faile, Skewville, WK Interact, LA's Shepard Fairey, Brazil's Os Gemeos, Ethos, Denmark's Armsrock, France's Space Invader, C215, Mr. Brainwash, Germany's Herakut, Belgium's ROA, London's Nick Walker, Connor Harrington, and the infamous Banksy.
About the Book
Street Art New York, by Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo, with a foreword by Carolina A. Miranda, published in April 2010 by Prestel Publishing (Random House).
The authors of the successful Brooklyn Street Art book (and founders of BrooklynStreetArt.com) expand their scope and take readers on a fast-paced run through the streets of New York, along the waterways, on the rooftops, and up the walls of today's ever-morphing vibrant Street Art scene as only NYC can tell it.
With an introduction by noted cultural journalist Carolina A. Miranda (C-Monster.net) putting Street Art in the context of the personal experience of a New Yorker, readers will be taken aback by this compelling portrait of the state of urban art featuring work on the streets of New York from 102 artists from around the world. With a collection of aproximately 200 images by exciting new comers as well as beloved "old masters" such as New Yorkers Swoon, Judith Supine, Dan Witz, Faile, Skewville, WK Interact, LA's Shepard Fairey, Brazil's Os Gemeos, Ethos, Denmark's Armsrock, France's Space Invader, C215, Mr. Brainwash, Germany's Herakut, Belgium's ROA, London's Nick Walker, Connor Harrington, and the infamous Banksy.
More on Streetartnewyork.com
Saturday, 27 March 2010
HUSKMITNAVN/LYDIA FONG
HuskMitNavn - interview by ALICE gallery
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HustMitNavn video interview from Alice Gallery
Great little video of Barry McGee/Lydia Fong from 2008.
Lydia Fong and HuskMitNavn opened this friday at Alice Gallery in Brussels. Show will run until 24.04. Check it out here
THE LOCKSLEY SHEA COLLECTION
"With you I want to live"
Haven't heard mention of this show, looks like a very interesting collection. Includes pieces by Nick Walker, Banksy, Swoon and Blek Le Rat.
"The visionary collection of Gordon Locksley and George T Shea, on exhibit at the Museum of Art in Ft Lauderdale, Florida, is presented in this review. This daring collection features fifty years of cutting edge art; from early Pop Artists and Minimalists like Andy Warhol and Donald Judd, to contemporary Street Artists like Blek le Rat, Nick Walker, Swoon, and Banksy. By juxtaposing the extremes of style and content, the exhibition creates unique visual harmonies that enhance the work and highlight the value of visual art"
Friday, 26 March 2010
33 TRICK FLICK
A good buddy and Nuart supporter Frode Goa, founder of Shit Skateboard's put this little flick together to celebrate his 33rd..Check the massive David Choe and DVS-1 mural as well as a nice throw up from Chris Stain in the background. Skating's not bad either !
Check out the last few NuShit Decks here.
STEN & LEX's POSTER STENCIL'S
STEN LEX stencil poster from STEN on Vimeo.
Love this description from Sten & Lex, I added the last sentence through artistic license so maybe the quote marks shouldn't there..but feeling quite poetic this morning.
"We call this technique "Poster Stencil" because the work is both a stencil and poster at the same time. As you can see in the video, we pasted up the matrix of the stencil (cut on paper) on a panel of wood as a poster, we then painted on the matrix in black, when all is dry we destroy the matrix leaving some parts still pasted to the wood. In this way the stencil cannot ever be reproduced and the matrix dies when the work is born, each piece, like a person, becomes unique"
Thursday, 25 March 2010
OS GEMEOS.
Wow, just wow ! Brazillian twins Os Gemeos on top form and proving once again that this scene can match and better anything contemporary art land has to offer.
To see what else is inside the box. Go here and scroll along
DAVID CHOE CURATES JUXTAPOZ
Nuart09 brother and fellow former prisoner David Choe is as busy as ever. Not only is he having a massive solo show in Beverly Hills this April, but he's also been busy curating the May issue of our favourite mag Juxtapoz.
5 different covers
1 huge pullout poster,
art,photos, and writings with everyone from harry kim to sasha grey to DVS-1 to Die Antwoord.
Check out images of Choe's work for Nuart in Stavanger here (Scroll down to Sept 15)
Monday, 22 March 2010
Sunday, 21 March 2010
VANDALISED CHOE
Apparently the shopping centre that owned the wall that this Choe sat on asked a company to remove the tag that had appeared on it over night.
Having failed miserably to remove the tag, the guy went on to blast everything, after 2 days of water jetting the wall, they destroyed the Choe and left the tag.. idiotic. Almost as idiotic as having Choe's tag painted over the day after the piece was finished.. errm, excuse me.. that's the artists signature !
Friday, 19 March 2010
NEW FAILE WORKS
Still a few new Faile pieces available on the website, love the classic remix of the Ten Ways, $2000 Edition 23.
See more here
Thursday, 18 March 2010
STREET ART NORWAY
Street Art Norway from Kontur Forlag on Vimeo.
New book with hefty features on Dolk, Pøbel etc. Out today.
NICK WALKER IN PARIS
Nuart cohort Nick Walker just put this great new piece up in Paris. Great to see he finally found a decent spot for it. Titled "Le Corancan" the work is an obvious commentary on the banning of the muslim Hijab whist at the same time promoting...oh well.. you know what we mean..
SIGN OF THE TIMES
Martyn "NU" Reed's "Sign of the Times". Steal this piece of street art then..go on..
NUART'S "ELOQUENT VANDALS" OPENS EURODOC
Here at Nuart we're renowned for being last with the news, particularly when it's about our own stuff. Yesterday Nuart's documentary "Eloquent Vandals" opened Oslo's annual European Documentary Festival, Eurodoc 2010. If you wanted to see it, it's too late, sorry, our PR department should be fired, or at least get up a bit earlier in the morning and check their mails.
The good news is, the film will be available shortly on DVD, but I guess you've heard that one before right ?
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
LOWLIFE STREET CRED
Pøbel and Atle Østrem's fabulous made to measure "Streetcred" piece for the Lowlife show. We didn't quite fit in !
NUART PA SYSTEM
"Mamma said knock you out !" The kick ass Nuart sound system on opening night.
THE ROSEMALE RIOTS
So, we had this crazy opening night on Friday for the "Lowlife" show at Stavanger Kunstforening, over 500 people crammed into the house over three hours and experienced one of Norway's first shows dedicated to outsider, street and lowbrow art. What a night, everyone from kids to skate punks to millionaire collectors and a rag tag bunch of lowlife artists.
We had a great night, a riot of a time.
Big Thanks to everyone who made it out. The show is up until April 11 so do go check it out.
More images on my flickr, I'll post more here as and when I get the chance.
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
KELSEY BROOKES
Kelsey Brookes Feature from TheCreativeLives on Vimeo.
We like Kelsey Brookes here at Nuart towers, we also like the look of "The Creative Lives". Terrific to see them coming together on this short doc. Kelsey Brookes is a fine artist based in San Diego, California who is featured in this fresh documentary by filmmaker Gavin Lewis Heslet of The Creative Lives.
"The Creative lives is a website dedicated to bringing you inside the lives of today’s contemporary artists. Starting in March 2010 we will be launching new documentaries every Monday on the lives of Kelsey Brookes, Mark Dean Veca, Megan Whitmarsh, Porous Walker, Barry McGee, and more. We will also be releasing outtakes and some of the super8 film shot on location."
Saturday, 6 March 2010
EYEWRITER
Great to see two of Nu's friends and colleagues getting together for a project, seems that GRL and Co's "Eyewriter" project, which debuted at last years Nuart, is set to win the inaugural Futureeverything Award. Voting finished late last night and the screen shot shows the Eyewriter project ahead by 1%.
Some of you may know Futureeverything through our Numusic projects with E.C.A.S/I.C.A.S, terrific festival based in Manchester formerly know as Futuresonic. If only our own local politicians could muster a little of the same visionary approach to festival strategies hey..but that's another story.
The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people who are suffering from ALS with creative technologies. It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.
More info here : Eyewriter
Futureeverything Awards
The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people who are suffering from ALS with creative technologies. It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.
More info here : Eyewriter
Futureeverything Awards
Thursday, 4 March 2010
BEYOND THE STREET. THE 100 LEADING FIGURES IN URBAN ART
Finally looks like a terrific and content based publication based around Street & Urban Art is being released. And we don't just say this because we're in it !
Beyond the Street
The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art
Editors: Patrick Nguyen, Stuart Mackenzie
Release: April 2010 Available Soon!
Price: € 49,90 / $ 78,00 / £ 45,00
Format: 24 x 30 cm
Features: 400 pages, full color, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-89955-290-4
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Beyond the Street is comprised of interviews with 100 key players in street and urban art from around the world, each of which is richly illustrated with inspiring images. Its impressive list of participants, as well as the unique diversity of their perspectives, makes the book an authoritative manual on these genres. For the first time, this 400-page tome brings together the direct points of view of leading artists and the most important sales outlets for street art as well as key commentators, collectors, and enthusiasts. Combined, these separate and distinct outlooks create a uniquely authentic collective portrait of street and urban art that is captivating, informative, and entertaining.
More Info
Street art has established itself as an integral part of the art world in the last few years. The crossover from subculture to high culture is illustrated by the recent attention that this work has been given by renowned institutions such as the Tate Modern and Fondation Cartier as well as by auction houses like Sotheby’s. The topic is discussed in art magazines and the cultural pages of leading newspapers and is featured in the syllabuses of art and design schools. As interest soared, the need for information about street art grew. But, until now, there was no insightful view into the thought and work processes of a reticent, heterogeneous scene whose would-be members often don’t even identify with the label.
Comprised of interviews with 100 key players from around the world, Beyond the Street offers a comprehensive examination of street and urban art. Insiders Patrick Nguyen and Stuart Mackenzie question each of their subjects on every conceivable aspect of the genre – from the past to the future, from the artists’ ideals to their daily lives, from working in complete freedom to working in the art and commercial worlds. The thought-provoking range of answers make the 400-page book an incomparably extensive source of direct, unfiltered information.
Beyond the Street features interviews with leading artists such as Shepard Fairey, Swoon, and Os Gemeos. The book also offers the views of representatives of the most important sales outlets for street art including Jeffrey Deitch and Jonathan LeVine Gallery. In addition, curators from auction houses such as Christie’s and Phillips de Pury comment on the development of street art in a classical art context. Interviews with key commentators, collectors, and enthusiasts such as Martha Cooper, Wooster Collective, and Agnes B. provide further insight. Brought together, these separate and distinct perspectives create a uniquely authentic collective portrait of street and urban art that is captivating, informative, and entertaining.
Each interview in Beyond the Street is richly illustrated with photographs of an inspiring collection of work. In addition to presenting outdoor work, the book also features the pieces that the artists have created for exhibitions and other indoor spaces. The commercial aspect of the street art movement is rigorously documented for the first time. Among the photographs featured are a number of images of the artists’ studios or the artists themselves at work, providing a rare glimpse into their methods and environments.
Features: 12ozProphet. Aaron Rose. Agnès B. Akay. Alexandre Farto (a.k.a. Vhils). Alëxone Dizac. A.L.I.C.E. Gallery. Andipa Gallery. Anthony Lister. Bast. Beejoir. Black Rat Press Gallery. Blek le Rat. BLK / MRKT Gallery. Blu. Boris Hoppek. Boris Tellegen (a.k.a. Delta). Brad Downey. Carmichael Gallery. Christie’s. Circleculture Gallery. Conor Harrington. Dan Witz. Dave Kinsey. David Choe. Deitch Projects. D*Face. Dolk. Doze Green. Dzine. Eine. Elbow-Toe. Ericailcane. Escif. Faile. Futura. Gaia. Galerie L.J. Galerie Magda Daysz. Galleria Patricia Armocida. Herakut. HuskMitNavn. Iguapop Gallery. Invader. Jonathan LeVine Gallery. José Parlá. JR. Judith Supine. Juxtapoz Magazine. kennardphillipps. Know Hope. Labrona. Lazarides Gallery. Logan Hicks. Lucas Price (a.k.a. Cyclops). Lucy McLauchlan. Mark Jenkins. Martha Cooper & Henry Chalfant. Matt Small. Miss Van. Mode 2. Momo. N2 Gallery. New Image Art. Nick Walker. Nuart Festival. Nuria Mora. Os Gêmeos. Other. Patti Astor. Pedro Alonzo. Phillips de Pury & Company. Retna. Ron English. Saber. Sam3. Shepard Fairey. Sixeart. Slinkachu. Sotheby’s. Souled Out Studios. Speto. SpY. Stelios Faitakis. Stephan Doitschinoff (a.k.a. Calma). Steve Powers (a.k.a. ESPO). StolenSpace Gallery. Studio Cromie / FAME Festival. Subliminal Projects Gallery. Sweet Toof. Swoon. Tate Modern. Titi Freak. Todd James. Tristan Manco. V1 Gallery. WallKandy Art Forum. Walter Nomura (a.k.a. Tinho). WK Interact. Wooster Collective. Zevs.
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
LOWLIFE SHOW !
So we decided to have a little show this month. Having been invited by Stavanger Art Society to come up with an exhibition for them, I thought what better than to bring a bunch of low brow lowlifes into this august institution. The show opens on March 12 at kl1900 and features new work and installations from Dolk, Pøbel, Atle Østrem, Line Osmundsen, Muskelpust, Richard Bentley and yours truly, Martyn Reed. Yes, that's right folks, I'll also be joining the fun with a few canvasses.
We've only had around 8 weeks in between working on other more important stuff to get this together. I say this only so you don't get your expectations up. In saying that, I think we'll manage to put on a fun and respectable show. To entertain you, we'll be bringing in live music, dj's and go go dancers. Basically anything to detract you from looking too closely at the art.
If like us, you think the local art scene could do with a shot of adrenalin, then do try and make it to the opening night. Below is a silly little press release. Feel free to copy and pass it on to anyone who doesn't usually go to exhibitions or have any interest in the finer arts. We think they'll like it.
Preview : March 12 kl1900 til late
March 14-April 11
Stavanger Kunstforening
Organised by Richard Bentley and Martyn Reed
“Lowlife “ opens on Friday March 12th with a bang.. and closes April 11th with a whimper. The show will feature a vast array of traditional works on canvas as well as various objects including doors, kiddy cars, riot shields, children’s toys, skatedecks, surfboards and maybe even the human body..
*The opening night will feature various events including dj’s, film screenings, live music, fun fair rides, burlesque dancers, a tattooed and bearded lady, live body painting, an introductory speech and live duet by Mick Jagger and Bjørk plus various other subversive “happenings”. More importantly, there’ll also be a bar where you can purchase alcoholic drinks.
Martyn Reed, curator says:
"On March 12th, we’ll be curating Stavanger's first show of, dare we say, Outsider Art..Yes we dare. Well, actually, it’s not strictly Outsider Art in the truest sense, just artists who prefer to work outside the archaic visual arts “points system”, what is that about ?
This dynamic group show featuring the likes of Dolk, Pøbel, Richard Bentley, Paul Ariel Hoffstad, Atle Østrem , Muskelpust, Line Osmundsen and yours truly, amongst others.. Will take place at the renowned premises of Stavanger Kunstforening. One of the oldest art societies in Norway. We'll be breathing a little life into the usually more conservative place. Think CSI finding the corpse of Mickey Mouse in a Tattoo parlour meets a run down themepark in fancy dress with waitresses serving Molotov cocktails. .only done on the cheap.
Also, as we like to think we’re a bit “Counter Cultural”, we thought it would be a good idea to have a “Shop” on opening night where you can buy stuff. A sort of “counter culture “pop up art shop, with obligatory moody assistants. And of course, a counter. Renting a Visa card machine is, ironically enough, beyond our budget, so please bring cash.
Some of our ideas may have been stolen, but theft (or as we like to say, appropriation), is a feature of the show.
As Jean Luc Godard once said …
“ It’s not where you take things from, it’s where you take them to”
We hope to see you there.
* Most of this isn’t strictly true, but the last sentence is.
Monday, 1 March 2010
JR "WOMEN ARE HEROES" VIDEO
OFFICIAL VIDEO of JR's Paris show
more info : www.womenareheroes-paris.net
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