Tuesday, 31 August 2010
NEW BANKSY'S PT 2
A few more Banksy pieces, nice that these get the chance to see the light of day before they're discovered and covered by the local council with perspex or Team Robbo with tags. No sure which is worse.
Looks like the bear pays homage to stencil artists Arofish, the chap who first hit up the Palestinian/Israeli wall and who's tag is strikingly similar. But chances are it isn't hey. Nice thought though.
NEW BANKSY'S
Banksy just updated his website with a couple of fun video's of street installs and pranks, there's also a few new works on walls from both Hastings and Glastonbury
Monday, 30 August 2010
TRESPASS
Always interested in what Carlo McCormick has to say about art and culture. Here he joins forces with Woostercollective's Marc and Sara and editor Ethel Seno for a in-depth look into the phenomenon we've come to know and love as Urban Art.
Trespass. A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art
The last outlaw of visual disciplines
Graffiti and unsanctioned art—from local origins to global phenomenon
In recent years street art has grown bolder, more ornate, more sophisticated and—in many cases—more acceptable. Yet unsanctioned public art remains the problem child of cultural expression, the last outlaw of visual disciplines. It has also become a global phenomenon of the 21st century.
Made in collaboration with featured artists, Trespass examines the rise and global reach of graffiti and urban art, tracing key figures, events and movements of self-expression in the city's social space, and the history of urban reclamation, protest, and illicit performance. The first book to present the full historical sweep, global reach and technical developments of the street art movement, Trespass features key works by 150 artists, and connects four generations of visionary outlaws including Jean Tinguely, Spencer Tunick, Keith Haring, Os Gemeos, Jenny Holzer, Barry McGee, Gordon Matta-Clark, Shepard Fairey, Blu, Billboard Liberation Front, Guerrilla Girls and Banksy, among others. It also includes dozens of previously unpublished photographs of long-lost works and legendary, ephemeral urban artworks.
Also includes:
• Unpublished images of street art by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Unpublished photographs by Subway Art luminary Martha Cooper
• Unpublished photos from the personal archives of selected artists
• Incisive essays by Anne Pasternak (director of public arts fund Creative Time) and civil rights lawyer Tony Serra
• Special feature: exclusive preface by Banksy
About the author:
Carlo McCormick is a pop culture critic, curator and Senior Editor of Paper magazine. His numerous books, monographs and catalogs include Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture, The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984, and Dondi White: Style Master General. His work has appeared in Art in America, Art News, Artforum and many other publications.
About the curator:
Marc and Sara Schiller founded Wooster Collective in 2001, a website that celebrates and plays a crucial role in documenting otherwise ephemeral street art. Based in New York City, the collective curated most of the contemporary images in Trespass. Its "Wooster On Paper" series presents the work of international artists in limited edition books.
About the editor:
Ethel Seno received her BA in the College of Letters from Wesleyan University before teaming with TASCHEN, where she worked with William Claxton on Jazzlife and New Orleans 1960, and David LaChapelle on Artists & Prostitutes and Heaven to Hell. Having grown up in Tokyo, she feels most at home in urban environments and currently resides in Los Angeles.
Look inside and buy here
Sunday, 29 August 2010
MUTATE BRITAIN AT GLASTO
Brilliant little video from The Mutate crew at Glastonbury this year, nice to see the original pre acid house rave crew still keeping the spirit well and truly alive.
Mutated into Mutate Britain these days and great to see them back on form, back in the day, alongside the likes of Spiral Tribe, these guys were responsible for some of greatest madcap parties of the 20th century, not to mention artworks.
Pure entertainment, if you wanted to forget your past or invent your future, Mutoid was and still is by the looks of things, the place to be. The recent deplorable shifts in UK politics will hopefully see this culture blossom once again !
Note the 2007 Nuart T-Shirt feat Eine, Dolk, M-City, Arofish, Herakut, Nick Walker etc.. wonder who the mysterious chap wearing it is ?
Saturday, 28 August 2010
DOTMASTERS NUART 2010
DOTMASTERS NUART 2010
Originally uploaded by Nuart 10
Nice little timelapse piece of Dotmasters piece going up. Also a link through to more images on Juxtapoz here.
cheers Bardia
Thursday, 26 August 2010
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
DAVID CHOE BOOK SIGNING
Last years Nuart star David Choe with Book signing.
Friday, August 27, 2010, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
GR2
2062 Sawtelle Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90025
gr2.net
Giant Robot is proud to host a reception and book signing with artist David Choe to celebrate the release of his 288-page, self-titled monograph published by Chronicle Books.
Raised on comic books, affected by street art, and inspired by crime, women, and music, Choe has developed a unique and restless style that is effortless yet meticulous and focused yet dirty. Since the artist contributed his first illustration to Giant Robot magazine in 1997, he has gone on to become an international fixture in the worlds of street art and indie comics, and has had hugely successful solo shows in high-end galleries in Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles (not to mention all three Giant Robot locations).
In addition to signing his brand-new book, Choe will be autographing his newly released Munko figures, which are based on his whale paintings and made by Japan's Good Smile Company.
Giant Robot was born as a Los Angeles-based magazine about Asian, Asian-American, and new hybrid culture in 1994, but has evolved into a full-service pop culture provider with shops and galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City, as well as an online equivalent.
The signing will take place on August 27 from 6:00 - 8:00.
Friday, August 27, 2010, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
GR2
2062 Sawtelle Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90025
gr2.net
Giant Robot is proud to host a reception and book signing with artist David Choe to celebrate the release of his 288-page, self-titled monograph published by Chronicle Books.
Raised on comic books, affected by street art, and inspired by crime, women, and music, Choe has developed a unique and restless style that is effortless yet meticulous and focused yet dirty. Since the artist contributed his first illustration to Giant Robot magazine in 1997, he has gone on to become an international fixture in the worlds of street art and indie comics, and has had hugely successful solo shows in high-end galleries in Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles (not to mention all three Giant Robot locations).
In addition to signing his brand-new book, Choe will be autographing his newly released Munko figures, which are based on his whale paintings and made by Japan's Good Smile Company.
Giant Robot was born as a Los Angeles-based magazine about Asian, Asian-American, and new hybrid culture in 1994, but has evolved into a full-service pop culture provider with shops and galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City, as well as an online equivalent.
The signing will take place on August 27 from 6:00 - 8:00.
REACH FOR THE SKY !
Love this shot, kinda epitomizes the risks attached to getting the work up. Found the scaffold in a friends yard, dug it up and voila ! You can see there wasn't quite enough to make a hand rail on the top bar, was shaky as hell. Think we'll be retiring it after this job.
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
NEW BANKSY. HASTINGS.
A new Banksy piece or a very good copy just appeared in Uk seaside resort Hastings. Is it a Banksy ?.. well.. the placement, shading and topic all lean very much towards a big... yes !. Not to mention it was Eine's birthday over the weekend and he lives there.. jeez.. beginning to sound like a gossip columnist.
Monday, 23 August 2010
BLU/ERICAILCANE NUART 2010
Blu and Ericailcane's finished piece. An immense piece of work and an absolute pleasure to have around.
More images here
DOTMASTER NUART10
Dotmaster finishes up his self explanatory piece, Teddy's not ashamed of getting up his first piece.
BLU & ERICAILCANE
Blu side of the wall just finished !
(feel free to borrow and spread around the globe)
DOTMASTER NUART10
The crew rigging a shaky old scaffold dug up in the rain from Tomas's garden for Dotmasters new piece. An entertaining day that attracted a small crowd waiting for someone to fall. Think this scaffold rig will be retired after today.
More images here
BLU & ERICAILCANE NUART10
This is one side of the tower that Blu & Ericilcane are working on, the tower is visible for several kiliometers as sea traffic enters Stavanger harbour. At the moment Stavanger is hosting ONS, one of the worlds largest oil festivals, ironically enough, ONS are also part financing and presenting the pretty sterile international art & climate change exhibition "Rethink" at the city's main Museum of art.
Having attended the "grand" opening of "Rethink" and seen the work, I have to say, I think Blu & Ericilcane have achieved with a flight ticket and a few buckets of paint what the exhibition and 100's of thousands of kroner patently fails to do. That is, to draw our attention to corporate irresponsibility and the nature of profit over everything else.
More images here
Thursday, 19 August 2010
EXCLUSIVE. "WOMEN ARE HEROES" TO NUART
JR - EXTRAIT "WOMEN ARE HEROES", Kibera, Kenya
Uploaded by JR. - Discover more animation and arts videos.
I can't express how happy we are to have secured a premiere of this film for this years edition of Nuart. Thanks to JR, Emile and all involved !
There'll be three screenings at Stavanger's main cinema and nuart partner Sf Kino, provisionally on the 15/16 & 17 September.
Women are Heroes.
Tickets will be quite limited and sold on a first come first served basis. Ticket info will be posted on our facebook site as soon as they become available.
Official selection for 63rd Cannes.
Original music by Massive Attack and Patrice.
THE FILM
Women Are Heroes (working title) is the first film directed by JR. It tells, in images, the surprising human and artistic adventure of the three years of work around the “Women are Heroes” project.
AN ADVENTURE FILM
The film follows the extravagant adventures for which the happy end is never sure: from the presentation of the artistic project to the inhabitants of small villages in Liberia to the organization of a posting in a favela with fragile walls, from the exhibition on houses being demolished in Cambodia to the wrapping of the train that crosses a shantytown in Kenya.
A FILM ABOUT WOMEN
Women Are Heroes is a tribute to women which dignity is underlined by posting their portraits on the walls of their village and of the whole world. In the film, women express their difficulties in a world dominated by men. In front of the camera, their share their nightmares to exorcise them, but their also offer their joy and radiate their energy …
A FILM ABOUT THE MEDIA
Women Are Heroes is filmed in places only featured by the media when « something » happens. When JR goes there, it’s not to amplify the message of the media, nor to contradict it, but to show a reality hidden by the outlook for something sensational. And it’s in the context of an ignored normality that the inhabitants of these places take the initiative and invite the media to show what they have built, not what they have suffered.
A FILM ABOUT MANKIND
Women Are Heroes asks without answering fundamental questions. We meet people who switch from tears to laughter, who bear a dark past and want to build a bright future. When we find what is common in the gaze of these women, we get closer to what is universal: the human factor.
A FILM ABOUT ART
The multiplication of images, their instant proliferation and the globalization allow the artists to reconsider their work. JR opens an original way: the participative art. With communities, he creates ephemeral art pieces which are then enriched by comments and reactions. Old women become models for a day, kids are artists for a week, students play the art critics. Participative art, questions the process, the objectives and the status of art.
Original Music
Massive Attack and Patrice Bart Williams
THE FILM
Women Are Heroes (working title) is the first film directed by JR. It tells, in images, the surprising human and artistic adventure of the three years of work around the “Women are Heroes” project.
AN ADVENTURE FILM
The film follows the extravagant adventures for which the happy end is never sure: from the presentation of the artistic project to the inhabitants of small villages in Liberia to the organization of a posting in a favela with fragile walls, from the exhibition on houses being demolished in Cambodia to the wrapping of the train that crosses a shantytown in Kenya.
A FILM ABOUT WOMEN
Women Are Heroes is a tribute to women which dignity is underlined by posting their portraits on the walls of their village and of the whole world. In the film, women express their difficulties in a world dominated by men. In front of the camera, their share their nightmares to exorcise them, but their also offer their joy and radiate their energy …
A FILM ABOUT THE MEDIA
Women Are Heroes is filmed in places only featured by the media when « something » happens. When JR goes there, it’s not to amplify the message of the media, nor to contradict it, but to show a reality hidden by the outlook for something sensational. And it’s in the context of an ignored normality that the inhabitants of these places take the initiative and invite the media to show what they have built, not what they have suffered.
A FILM ABOUT MANKIND
Women Are Heroes asks without answering fundamental questions. We meet people who switch from tears to laughter, who bear a dark past and want to build a bright future. When we find what is common in the gaze of these women, we get closer to what is universal: the human factor.
A FILM ABOUT ART
The multiplication of images, their instant proliferation and the globalization allow the artists to reconsider their work. JR opens an original way: the participative art. With communities, he creates ephemeral art pieces which are then enriched by comments and reactions. Old women become models for a day, kids are artists for a week, students play the art critics. Participative art, questions the process, the objectives and the status of art.
Original Music
Massive Attack and Patrice Bart Williams
The Film here
The Book here
BÅST AT LAZARIDES
BAST's first solo show with Laz Botulism opens tonight at the Lazarides Rathbone Gallery and is shaping up to be spectacular, we've just seen the preview sheet and the work is looking as dirty and as raw as ever but also is pushing in a slightly new direction..
From the press release
Bäst has been an intricate part of the street art scene for the past 10 years throughout New York and Europe gaining cult status and recognition from fellow street artists. Hailing from Brooklyn, Bäst is an elusive character whose work centralizes around the art of collage.
Little is known of his work outside of what the public sees throughout New York’s urban environment but since 2003 his work has evolved and been exhibited in various exhibitions: Faile Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade at Lazarides, London (2010), Graffiti at Galerie du Jour - Agnes B, Paris (2009), Beach Blanket Bingo at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York (2009), This is China at BLVD Gallery, Seattle (2008), Ridiculousnessofitallshow at New Image Art, Los Angeles (2005) and Fancy Faile and Bast at Galerie Neurotitan, Berlin (2003).
Apart from showing in Japan, LA, Colorado, New York, London, Paris and Berlin, he’s also released a limited edition book, Revolucion De Papel, the only publication to bring his many works on the streets of New York together.
Bäst : Botulism
20th August 2010 - 30th September 2010
Open: Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 7 pm.
Lazarides Rathbone says farewell to Summer 2010 with our first solo exhibition by Brooklyn's most infamous collagist Bäst. Entitled Botulism, the show will feature all new work, developing past preoccupations in an exciting new direction, curious??
Inspired by the early punk flyers of London and New York, Bäst's work plays with a variety of 21st Century icons, appropriating imagery from all types of media. Food Packaging, 50's newspaper clippings and brand logos all form the backdrop to his vibrant, brilliantly coloured works.
His latest acrylic paintings have developed the colourful repetitive patterns so often seen in his collages. For Botulism expect myriad unprecedented works with that classic Bäst flavour.
For more information please read the full press release.
Lazarides Rathbone | 11 Rathbone Place | London | W1T 1HR
0207 636 5443
Open: Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 7 pm.
Lazarides Rathbone says farewell to Summer 2010 with our first solo exhibition by Brooklyn's most infamous collagist Bäst. Entitled Botulism, the show will feature all new work, developing past preoccupations in an exciting new direction, curious??
Inspired by the early punk flyers of London and New York, Bäst's work plays with a variety of 21st Century icons, appropriating imagery from all types of media. Food Packaging, 50's newspaper clippings and brand logos all form the backdrop to his vibrant, brilliantly coloured works.
His latest acrylic paintings have developed the colourful repetitive patterns so often seen in his collages. For Botulism expect myriad unprecedented works with that classic Bäst flavour.
For more information please read the full press release.
Lazarides Rathbone | 11 Rathbone Place | London | W1T 1HR
0207 636 5443
Open: Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 7 pm.
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
AGAINST THE WALL
Happy to see this finally published, having been over and added our own little piece of inane Nuart graf to the wall, good to see that someone has documented the movement properly. Look forward to receiving our copy.ISBN: 9780745329178
Extent: 192pp
Release Date: 10 Jun 2010
Size: 260mm x 195mm
Format: Paperback
Illustrations: Approx 120 pictures
Press Release
This stunning book of photos captures the graffiti and art that has transformed Israel's wall into a living canvas of resistance and solidarity.
Featuring the work of artists including Banksy, Ron English, Blu and others, as well as Palestinian artists and activists, these photos express outrage, compassion, and touching humour. They illustrate the wall's toll on lives and livelihoods, showing the hardship it has brought to tens of thousands of people, preventing their access to work, education and vital medical care.
Mixed with the photos are portraits and vignettes, offering a heartfelt and inspiring account of a people determined to uphold their dignity in the face of profound injustice.
About The Author
William Parry is a London-based freelance journalist and photographer who has published in the Guardian, the Independent and elsewhere. He has worked and travelled extensively in the Middle East.
Available here
LOCAL HEROES ...
Great to see some quality local street work going up in Stavanger these days, really liking the direction and concept behind these pieces we've been spotting this week. ... Dot Dot Dot, or Ellipsis for the pedants out there. Had our eye on the black paint splash location for an age, should have got our act together and hit it. Choice spot. Well done Mr Ellipsis
FAILE TEMPLE
The Faile boys have just posted up a dedicated site to the Temple piece created for Portugal Arte 10 in Lisbon. Interesting to read the concept description, brings another level to the debate currently circulating about Street Art and the general lack of serious critique on the movement. Hopefully the detractors will be mollified.
Concept:
From 16 July to 15 August 2010, the Brooklyn-based artists Faile will display “Temple,” a full-scale church in ruins in Praça dos Restauradores Square in Lisbon. The installation was made in conjunction with the Portugal Arte 10 Festival and will tour abroad. While Faile is well known by now for their arresting, advertising and Pop inflected prints and sculptures, “Temple” marks the duo’s migration from a more strictly visual medium into the realm of site specific environments. While its structure is the ruin, Temple should not be read as a memento or celebration of decadence but instead as one of collaboration and renewal.
In retrospect, such a project seems inevitable: much of Faile’s recent work, from customized Buddhist prayer wheels to an American flag reworked with Pueblo-inspired linework, relies on re-imagining sacred objects on an increasingly grand scale. This year’s Deluxx Fluxx, a functional arcade bedecked in Faile’s trademark commercial iconography and vibrant palette, was a foray into immersive spectacle. Nevertheless, building a church from the ground up in an Iberian country is a symbolically freighted choice, and one that ups the ante considerably. Not only is sacred architecture deployed here as an artistic medium, it is forced to intermingle with the exotic and profane: Brooklyn-style window bars, new prayer wheels, and sculptural relief depicting Faile’s own idiosyncratic archive.
One might object that Faile’s use of religious objects devalues them by making them simply one more signifier in a visual system, divorced from their power and specificity. But the logic of Temple is neither the trivialization of pastiche nor the critical distancing of appropriation. Faile’s process is more aptly described as 3-D sampling, in which seemingly disparate pieces are brought together and reconstituted as something wholly other, but still animated by the energy, the spirit, of the original. In this case of course, the source material is 15th c. Florentine sculptor Luca Della Robia, not George Clinton. The result is a new site of public communion that recognizes religion as the social artifact that it is, but reminds us again of an underlying desire for unity that is often occluded by our urban edifices, be they cathedrals or skyscrapers.
In any case, it was from the shores of Portugal that Christendom first made its way across the oceans, from Goa to Benin and Bahia. Along the way, it syncretized fluidly with local traditions, resurfacing as Candomble and Santeria. Temple extends this tradition of dynamism and reinvention by returning Faile’s vertically-integrated vision of the church to the metropole, rooting its new permutations in the Portuguese cityscape. Like all ruins, Temple reminds us of the fragility of our most timeless institutions even as it lays the groundwork for its own sort of Renaissance.
Check the website here
Sunday, 15 August 2010
INCOMING : HERAKUT
Nuart friends and family Herakut getting things ready for their next solo show, Lebasse Projects in CA. LeBasse have been putting on some great shows this past year including Alexandros Vasmoulakis who'll be joining us here at Nuart in the next couple of weeks.
Herakut show opens Sept 18th 7-10pm, if you're in the area be sure not to miss.
Photo courtesy of campbarbossa
Friday, 13 August 2010
OS GEMEOS & FUTURA IN NYC
There's been a lot of talk and images of the work in progress these past few days, looks like the Os Gem & Futura piece is finally finished. The piece is on 320 West 21st St. NYC.
From Os Gemeos via Unurth
"The idea was to bring a ‘Gigante’ to NY, as we’ve done in Greece, Holland, Lisboa, London and Sao Paulo.
The concept behind the flags (with the colors completely altered from their originals) signifies unity, a world without borders, combined to form 'one world one voice'”.
Os Gemeos
Futura
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
M-CITY & OZMO GDANSK 2010
Looks like a street art version of Metropolis, and what a great soundtrack ! M-City is really flying these days and this collaboration with Italy's Ozmo is one the best works we've seen all year. M-City will be in town for Nuart early September, we're currently in the process of lining up some great walls. Watch this space.
JR : WOMEN ARE HEROES.
No real reason for posting this again other than it exemplifies everything that is positive about Street Art and art in general, there's a debate over on Vandalog about the worth of Street Art in general and particularly the lack of critique by the numerous blogs dedicated to the subject.
Whilst it's interesting to occasionally read and engage in critical debate on the merits of Street Art, one of the joys of this artform and perhaps the reason it's captured the public's imagination, is that for most part, the work speaks volumes for itself. Personally, I think the above work is one of the greatest visual art projects ever created, if this blog leads to just one other person seeing this particular film, then for us, our job is done.
More info on JR here
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
JR : VIDEO FOR PATRICE, AINT GOT NO (I GOT LIFE)
Was surprised to see this a couple of weeks back, JR video for Patrice, love the original Nina Simone version and not sure this cover is really warranted, but fuck it, great video and if you weren't aware of the original version of the song, then not bad.
More JR here
Saturday, 7 August 2010
BEN EINE GOES BIG
The UK's Ben Eine and previous Nuart participant has been receiving long overdue interest from both the mass media and street art flippers these past weeks, mainly due to the British Prime Minister gifting Obama an Eine canvas.
Here Ben explains what his latest piece is all about in his usual laid back fashion. What is it good for Ben ?
THE ART STREET JOURNAL
Our good friends over at The Art Street Journal are having a launch party this evening, if you're in LA be sure you call in. If not, be sure to check out the website and take out a subscription. It's one of the few periodicals that's attempting to cover the broader aspects of the scene.
From the press release.
Volume II Issue I
Release Party
Saturday, August 7 2010
7 - 9 PM
Please RSVP to rsvp at theartstreetjournal dot com
Carmichael Gallery
5795 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
Vol II, Issue I of The Art Street Journal is now out!
This improved and expanded edition of the journal is printed on more archival paper stock, features four interior color pages and at 24 pages in total, is the longest, most comprehensive issue of tasj to date.
There will be an issue release party at Carmichael Gallery on Saturday, August 7th, from 7-9pm. Come for a drink, pick up your free copy of the journal, and check out all the great shows opening in Culver City that night.
If you can't make it to the party, sign up to receive your free copy in the mail http://www.theartstreetjournal.com
Please spread the word and read on to find out what's in this issue!
The Art Street Journal (tasj) is an international art publication mailed and distributed free of charge from our base in Los Angeles, California to homes, museums, galleries, cafes, bookshops, schools and other locations around the world.
Vol II, Issue I includes:
- Cover pages by Boogie and M-City
- NEW Calendar of International Shows and Events
- Interviews with Boogie and Escif
- Features on Viva La Revolucion at MCASD, Ian Francis at Lazarides, M-City at Carmichael Gallery, Wangechi Mutu at The Art Gallery of Ontario, 108 at Fame Festival, Ben Eine's Strangest Week and EuroTrash at Lazarides, Beverly Hills.
- Reviews of Charming Baker in New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat at Fondation Beyeler, Yoshitomo Nara at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Nina Pandolfo at Galeria Leme, Hush at The Shooting Gallery, Ai Yamaguchi at Mizuma Art Gallery, Guy Denning at Brooklynite Gallery, SHRED at Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Herbert Baglione at Iguapop Gallery, Ericailcane at POPUP! Festival, Dan Witz at DFN Gallery, William Kentridge at Jeu de Paume, Marlene Dumas at Fundacao Serralves, Marcel Dzama at Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal and Simon Birch's conceptual circus in Hong Kong.
- Auction Report: Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips de Pury Spring Sales in New York and London
- Art Fair Coverage: Art Rotterdam, The Armory Show, Hong Kong International Art Fair and Art Basel
- Our Unurth.com curated street art photo page - newly expanded to a two page spread
- The tasj bookshelf page, featuring the best in art books, magazines and other publications
Contact us if you would like to be a distributor or advertiser at info at theartstreetjournal dot com
Tuesday, 3 August 2010
BLU. GLOBAL WARMING
Another incredibly precise and to the point piece from Blu, this time in Berlin. Not many artists, designers and craftspeople, whether street related or not, can achieve such impact in such and concise manner with what always looks like minimal effort. Line work is impeccable and message hits you where million dollar campaigns often fail. This is the glory and value of art and artists. Thank you Blu !
Monday, 2 August 2010
ESCIF WALL
Escif just sent us these great images of a wall just finished in Valencia. The more we see the more more we like. There's something wonderfully understated and human about his work.
Check out more of his work here
ESCIF SHOW
Escif, one of our favourite Street artists opened his solo show at Barcelona's Montanna Gallery last night. Check out the novel approach to displaying the work here. The show runs until Sept 12th so if in the area make sure to check it out.
Against The Wall
"Against the Wall" highlights the need to open doors, imagine ways, open spaces with free accessibility, invent bridges and relationships, in a formal and conceptual way. Tear down walls of the cities, but especially those that limite our heads,
our dreams, our wishes. Let it go by intuition and improvisation. Escape the logic and linear reasoning. Scramble to find to set
new orders. Questioning the absolute and let be surprised by the magic of the error. Addressing contradictions as transit areas; validate the process as a result and banish arrogance of findings and coordinates. "
Exhibition from 30 July to 12 September
Opening Thursday 29 July from 19h30.
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