Wednesday, 30 November 2011
UNDERBELLY PARIS
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| C215 |
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| Conor Harrington |
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| How & Nosm |
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| Will Barras |
Paris has a deeper and stranger connection to its underground than almost any city, and that underground is one of the richest. The arteries and intestines of Paris, the hundreds of miles of tunnels that make up some of the oldest and densest subway and sewer networks in the world, are just the start of it, now Underbelly have made this Parisian network of tunnels even richer.
Following on from their 2 year project in NYC, Pac and Workhorse have just unveiled their latest incarnation of the project, this time in Paris.
Read the full story on Huffington Post. Makes for fascinating reading.
Keep an eye out for future posts on Underbelly's remarkable project including the exhibition about to open in Miami.
Photo's by Ian Cox courtesy Underbelly
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
OSLO STREET ART
Apparently went up in Oslo last month, quite a rarity for the city of Zero Tolerance. Has a look of C215 to it who we know was in Oslo recently too.
More work from Alice here
TAKING LIBERTY'S WITH THE DOTMASTER
For all you Londonites, our man the Dotmaster has a bunch of these stencils in the above show for a recession busting 40 quid. Top quality on brushed aluminium, arrive early if you want to nab one.
Check out the full series here.
Monday, 28 November 2011
INCOMING, KAWS EXHIBITION
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| Courtesy Kaws Studio |
KAWS
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Texas.
December 11, 2011-February 19, 2012
3200 Darnell Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107
The work of Brooklyn-based artist Brian Donnelly, who makes his art under the moniker “KAWS,” is the subject of the first Focus exhibition for the 2011–2012 season. KAWS’s vast body of work includes graffiti (early in his career), murals, paintings, and sculpture. Following along the continuum of Pop art, his work critiques contemporary consumer culture, blurring the boundaries between it and the art world. Building an artistic language, which includes altered forms of familiar animated characters, such as Mickey Mouse, the Michelin Man, and SpongeBob SquarePants, his cartoonlike hybrids are often depicted in various states of the human condition.
MORE HERE
EVOL AT POW
Great to see Evol as the featured artist at Pictures on Walls annual Xmas show. If you're in London we highly recommend you check it out.
Check out his work for Nuart here
NEW FROM FAITH 47
Just received this terrific image from Faith 47 of a new piece in Johannesburg titled "Power and enlargement".
HERBERT BAGLIONE IN MEXICO
I have a lot of difficulty on painting in the streets for no reason. I end up creating thousands of barriers that prevent me from doing something just for the pleasure. But, since my last trip to Europe I have noticed the power that the streets have, and I’ve forgotten. The communication with the people in the neighborhoods is a very valuable thing.
After one month there, I’ve stayed a few days in São Paulo, breathed my daily carbon monoxide and traveled to Mexico so that I could give death a kiss.
You know that feeling when sometimes you need to be in another place to see where you came from and what made you happy? It was that kind of feeling I had in Oaxaca. I can try to describe it saying that I died and there they gave me a new opportunity to reborn.
At the party of the Dia de Los Muertos I felt all the passages of the soul. In the color and simplicity of the people’s houses I saw similarities with the Brazil I like.
I’m far from being mystical, but I feel that in many places I’m not there by chance.
Strangely, the stone streets, the wind and the lights reminded me of the places that I consider the best to paint in São Paulo. Parque São Lucas, Vila Ema, Vila Prudente, Ipiranga and Mooca (neighborhoods in São Paulo) are the places that I miss and every time I go there, my heart beats differently.
I remembered some paintings I did with Boleta and Vitché, our wanderings and endless conversations.
It’s different when you are invited to paint with another artist that you don’t have the intimacy, and your work flows so naturally that scares. So it was with Lakra.
The first thing I admire about someone, regardless of their art, is their simplicity in life in general. I identified immediately with him and this was a safe step for our work. In fact, in this kind of experience, the least important thing is the result. The process is priceless. The people who passed by, the conversations during painting, a child dressed as Spiderman seeing everything with curiosity, filming and photographing friends. All those things show that it meant something else other than what was recorded on the wall. —Herbert Baglione
Check out Herbert Baglione's work for Nuart Festival here
Herbert Baglione Web
Post via The Citrus Report
WYNWOOD WALLS, WHERE ART GOES TO DIE OR ?
HCTN VOL 1.1 INTRODUCING THE WALLS from Here Comes the Neighborhood on Vimeo.
HCTN TRAILER from Here Comes the Neighborhood on Vimeo.
HCTN VOL 1.2 GAIA from Here Comes the Neighborhood on Vimeo.
RJ at Vandalog has just blogged a rather interesting post on the Wynwood walls project in Miami which gave us pause for thought, what with Woosters "Curated" Street Art Calanders, and to a certain extent our own development and product. When capital becomes the primary force behind the creation of art, what does it lose. Maybe nothing to the street art tourist and the general populace, maybe nothing to the MOCA/Deitch/Goldman combine. Damn, it would be nice not to worry about this shit on a Monday. Do the means justify the ends or the ends justify the means. Having initially snuck past the two bastions of cultural and economic value, the museums and auction houses, has Street Art now been hijacked by the private sector and all we're left with are novelty street art erasers, calendars, ipad cases and cemeteries for Murals.
READ VANADALOGS POST HERE
BUY OUR BOOK HERE. (#notthatconflictedhey)
Friday, 25 November 2011
SWOON FOR TIMEOUT
As part of her Murmuration installation at Shoreditch's Black Rat Projects, the New York-based artist takes Time Out to the streets and pastes up one of her latest pieces. Show opens next week, more info here.
Check Out Swoon's work for Nuart here
NEW FROM ALEXANDROS VASMOULAKIS
Just received these from our friend Alexandros who was over for Nuart 2010.
"I am dealing with a new series called “Pseudo-Advertising”, where I focus upon the relationship between today’s muralism and the contemporary outdoor advertising. Combining imagery from both fields and creating works that could be described either as ads or street art pieces, my main goal is to create a dialogue about what does or does not make murals distinctive.
The latest piece "Untitled" is the 3rd part of the series and is located in the OCT Loft area of Shenzhen, China".
Check out his work for Nuart here
JOSE PARLA VIDEO
Jose Parla: The Concord Project from inkblot media on Vimeo.
José Parla video with timelapse and interviews from his Toronto Mural project we covered back in January.
via Juxtapoz
INVADER. ATTACK OF THE SPACE WAFFLES
Attack of the Space Waffles By Invader
1st December–24th December 2011
Private View: Thursday 1st December6–9pm
The Outsiders gallery, 8 Greek St, London W1D 4DG
‘Attack of the Space Waffles’ is out-there, surreal, and suitably seasonal. Invader’s ‘Space Waffle Machine’ will be in operation, dispensing hot waffles throughout the exhibition for the gallery’s Christmas guests. Pre- made waffles preserved in vacuum packs will also serve as one of the many editions available at the show. An unused ‘Space Waffle Machine’ will also be for sale.
Many unique ‘Alias’ versions of some of Invader’s most compelling recent street pieces make up the bulk of the exhibition. The mosaics are presented upon slim black Perspex boxes, with the identity cards specifying the details of the original outdoor work that inspired them inside.
An ‘Invaded Disco Ball’ forms the exhibition’s primary installation, casting celestial visuals and interplanetary vibrations across the gallery’s main show space. A twenty-minute documentary ‘In Bed with Invader’ following the artist round one night’s work in Paris will screen in the gallery’s video room. Vending machines crafted by Invader himself will dispense fifteen all-new stickers. New print editions will also be available at the show and on theoutsiders.net. These mondo marvels and stellar souvenirs will crush everything in their path this Christmas at ‘Attack of the Space Waffles’. Plus the gallery will smell really cosy, too.
Invaders website Here
Check the full Press Release Here
NEW BANKSY IN LONDON
Published a couple of days ago and probably old news on the blpogoshpere by now, but having seen these close ups, there's no doubt in our minds that it is indeed a new Banksy. Shop til you drop, a wry comment on Xmas consumerism ? or something more ?..
photos via fragile
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
SWOON @ BLACK RAT, OPENS DEC 1
One we'll be checking out for sure.
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| sneak peak via @blackratprojects |
Swoon
Murmation
Black Rat Projects
Opens Dec 2
From the Press Release
Black Rat Projects is excited to announce that our next exhibition is a large scale installation by New York artist Swoon. ‘Murmuration’ is Swoon’s first London solo exhibition and she has spent three weeks transforming the gallery space into a world populated by giant sculptural figures and delicate paper cuts. Swoon has recently shown at the Boston ICA, Museum of Contemporary Art LA and the Museum of Modern Art New Orleans and an opportunity to see one of her installations is not to be missed. Murmuration opens on December 2nd with a preview evening on Thursday December 1st. Invites to the preview will be sent this week.
We also have several very small hand painted editions available by Swoon. Please email info@blackrat.com if you would like to receive details.
Check out her work for Nuart here
EL MAC MURAL FOR MONTANA
El Mac @Montana Factory from POPCRANC on Vimeo.
Fresh from El Mac, also news of a new print. Check out details on Graffuturism
Monday, 21 November 2011
BLU IN BUENOS AIRES
New mural by Blu in Buenos Aires. It features hundreds of figures with their eyes covered by one endless blindfold in the colours of the Argentine national flag watched over by a dark figure in a presidential sash. The Disappeared ? what disappeared ?
Photo's via BuenosAiresStreetArt
Sunday, 20 November 2011
Friday, 18 November 2011
HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD
HCTN TRAILER from Here Comes the Neighborhood on Vimeo.
HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD is a short-form Docuseries exploring the power of Public Art and innovation to uplift and revitalize urban communities. The Pilot Season revolves around the Arts District of Wynwood Miami, featuring an array of internationally acclaimed and locally respected Street Artists, Graffiti Writers and Muralists.
HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD explores a unique juncture in history as a new community emerges and evolves. A progressive urban revitalization campaign is examined in the first person, using this year's new Artists and their commissions as a lens to explore a neighborhood in transition. The Series is framed by colorful overview and concluding episodes, providing the scope of past, present and future. Each episode is accented by images from legendary Documentary Photographer Martha Cooper, who has been capturing The Walls since they began in 2009. Her Photographs will also appear in a Special Edition Art Book "The Wynwood Walls and Doors" set to be released this year at Art Basel 2011.
For more information on the artists and history of the Wynwood Walls visit thewynwoodwalls.com
Thursday, 17 November 2011
HERBERT BAGLIONE AND DR LAKRA
Herbert Baglione and Dr. Lakra in Oaxaca Mexico from mrevelli on Vimeo.
One of Brazil's and Mexico's finest young muralists came together on Dia De Los Muertos of the year 2011 to paint together for the first time. This is a small clip of some of the time they spent together creating the mural.
Check out Herbert Baglione for Nuart Festival here
FRESH VIDEO FROM INTI
INTI, Cityleaks Cologne 2011 from CityLeaks on Vimeo.
During CityLeaks Festival, a large wall at Vogelsanger Straße became home to one of Chilean street artist INTI‘s enigmatic ninja figures.
Check out more of his work here
EVOL GETTING BUSY IN LONDON
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| Photo courtesy PowLtd via twitter |
Check out Evol's work for Nuart Festival.
HOW & NOSM IN RIO
New York street artists HOW and NOSM explore and beautify the neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with their unique style of graffiti and street art, featuring striking murals that show off their signature black, white and red patterns.
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
SEGO IN MEXICO PT 2
SEGO IN MEXICO Part II from Filmaciones de la Ciudad on Vimeo.
Fresh in from our Mexican friend Mamutt is Pt 2 of the Sego saga. You can find part 1 here
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
NEW SHEPARD FAIREY PRINT
SHEPARD FAIREY
THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN
Title: The Future is Unwritten (Edition 100)
Medium: Prints, Digital Print
Year: 2011
Size: height - 42 in, width - 30 in
Markings: signed, and numbered, in margin.
Edition: 56/100
Foundry/Publisher: Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
This year, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation launches its ‘Artist as Activist’ print project, based on Bob’s history of creating artwork for issues which mattered to him. In carrying on that tradition, RRF has chosen Shepard Fairey to create the inaugural ‘Artist as Activist’ print.
Proceeds will directly benefit the Coalition for the Homeless (www.coalitionforthehomeless.org). The Coalition for the Homeless provides housing, food, job training, crisis services, and children’s programs to thousands of New Yorkers each day. Since 1981, we’ve fought successfully for lasting solutions to homelessness through our renowned advocacy efforts.
Seventy prints from the edition of 100 will be offered for sale exclusively through artnet Auctions. Prices for this signature work by Fairey will start at $1250.00 and escalate in price as the prints sell with the final 15 selling for $2500.00.
Buy here
ESCIF KEEPS ON GIVING
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| Photos Nokydesign & EricSurmont |
This may have been already published and discussed around the blogosphere, if it has apologies, hadn't see it before. Now, I think I'm kinda smart, not easily impressed, a bit world weary, read it, seen it, done it all type. You know, a bit annoying and cocky. Then I see something like this.. and it just stops me dead. The simple genius that is Escif. In all the years and eras of mark making, all the lectures, books and exhibitions, and I've never come across the concept. The highlight leaving the form to form the ghost of the deceased leaving a shadow. Mind boggling genius. Simple really.
Thank you Escif.
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