STREET LAB - New in BERLIN

“Street lab meets Berlin” presents a selection of national and international urban artists who expose the urban hinterland instead of simply just “illustrating” it.

The artists’ work has the capability of entertaining without being just another distraction from questioning the complexities of society.

They will provoke and ultimately fascinate you.

“Street lab meets Berlin” is an art festival that deals in a unique way with contemporary forms of urban culture or rather, urban multi-culture. The second edition of streetlab takes place in venues and project spaces across Berlin’s melting-pot districts Kreuzberg and Neukoelln.

A picture of urban culture will be painted through the exhibitions,installations, workshops and the festival’s highlight “Urban Art Circus” in the Heimathafen Neukoelln.

The festival aims to provide a window into the international urban creative scene and to start a dialogue with the people of this city, about their city. As well as its presence on our streets, the last few years have seen street art appearing in museums, cultural institutions and galleries. Urban art has developed its own gravitas–something that just a few years ago seemed unattainable. Its influence can be felt in the fields of advertisement, graphic design and fashion, and it has equally influenced the aesthetics of contemporary art. The development of this culture continues out on the streets, with its utopian desire to stake out space and create room for individual  expression within the urban landscape.

11th - 13th of March, site here.

MARK JENKINS - FAMILY ROOM

Mark Jenkins’ installation at VOLTA NY will transform Booth A1 into an unconventionally furnished family room.

“I’ve been doing a lot of experimentation with resin and fiberglass,” says the artist of this new series, which includes five and a half life-size sculptures and a range of smaller pieces, “finding more original ways to make hand casts and improving structural solidity through new bracing techniques.”

For the first time, Jenkins will present his works within a site-specific environment purposefully created to provide greater contextual authority and definition to his aesthetic and thematic considerations.

“An empty space can feel sterile,” he observes, “as if a giant eraser has removed all context. The works become more like pinned butterflies. I have taken a different approach with (the presentation of) Family Room. This time it’s about creating a place for the sculptures to live in, so, in addition to clothes, I’ve been thrift store shopping for plants, drapes, rugs and chairs.”

Both individual works and the installation as a whole will propose non-traditional commentaries on the institutions of family and home.

Mark Jenkins is an internationally acclaimed American artist and one of the most unique mixed media sculptors working today. His enigmatic brand of hyper realistic conceptualism is playful, innovative and thought-provoking, making him a very important figure in the history of contemporary sculpture and installation art. By placing his works in institutional, urban and environmental settings, he brings cities, landscapes and interiors to life in a new way, transforming the ordinary into the unexpected.

Jenkins’ process involves dry-casting everything from fire hydrants and toy ducks to baby dolls and people, often himself or his assistants, with box sealing tape, the latter often dressed to appear scarily life-like. When placed outside or slipped indoors, announced or otherwise, these sculptures have the ability to both camouflage into their surroundings and elicit spectacular amounts of attention from viewers.

Jenkins has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions in galleries, museums, festivals, art fairs and other cultural institutions throughout the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Belgrade, Vienna, Washington D.C., London, Barcelona, Malmo, Moscow, Tokyo and Seoul. Whether indoors or out, his work engages its viewers and provokes a complex examination of self and surroundings.

AKLEE - DRUNKY SUNDAY MORNING

DRUNKY SUNDAY MORNING preview from Aklee on Vimeo.

EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP IS REAL !

Thierry Guetta gives his first extended interview to the L.A. Times and where he says the film is all true; however, he also says: ”Banksy captured me becoming an artist. In the end, I became his biggest work of art.”

READ HERE.

JR in L.A.

February2011 209, originally uploaded by Lord Jim.

JR, the world famous photographer and Street Artist, appears in L.A. with his global project "The Wrinkles of the City". JR involves 20 secret Los Angeles locations, an astounding feat to be accomplished by next week.

READ MORE HERE and view GOOGLE MAPS HERE.

Galo, 2501, Ottograph - 666 DOLLAR SHOW

The March exhibition at Black Book Gallery is going to be a powerhouse display of three well-established, international street artists: OTTOGRAPH, GALO and 2501, all accomplished in their craft and all bringing their big style and influence to Denver.

March 4th, 2011 @ 7pm.

BRICK LANE IN ART - Movie trailer

STROKE URBAN ART FAIR

"I've wandered around a lot of art galleries thinking: I could have done that, so it seemed only right that I should try. These galleries are just trophy cabinets for a handful of millionaires. The public never has any real say in what art they see." Banksy 2005

For the first time in human history, the majority of the earth's population is living in urban residential areas. The urban environment and the corresponding lifestyle can be counted amongst the fundamental sources of inspiration for contemporary culture. The historical revolution of visual forms of expression, in which the designs of the everyday streetscape, with its graffiti, tags, tattoos, advertising or graphic design found their sustenance, define the progression of contemporary art. The urban environment as the literal and metaphorical platform for this development both inspires and presents the artist and their work.

STROKE ART FAIR 2011.

Graffiti 1 - Sofa 0 (by day)

Graffiti 1 - Sofa 0 (by day), originally uploaded by id-iom.

Info here.

BANKSY in L.A. ?

BANKSY IS IN L.A.

I'VE GOT YOU A DATE WITH BOTTICELLI'S NIECE

Women. The ultimate creation. Women. Pictures of a man’s thoughts.

Alexandros Vasmoulakis visits through his new work the period between renaissance and late 19th century art in order to comment on how woman was treated by the masculine glance and desire.

Inspired by Bouguereau, Botticelli, Titian, Etty and others he argues against the model of woman-object, against the image of a woman being the coveted fruit from a financial paradise.

The artist’s cornerstone is nudity. The nude that once was the absolute expression of faith to human spirit.

This same nude that was confined to the satisfaction a man’s gaze. The Aphrodites, Helens and all kinds of “virgins” of Alexandros Vasmoulakis disclose their body to confirm that nude is stronger than naked, that beauty is objective and not ordered, that a body without clothes is enough to bring out the nature and the spirit of a beauty’s character.

Every female figure of Vasmoulakis’ exhibition has a name and a past. She is delivered from the passivity, which the male-buyer imposed on her and she is now claiming a face, which speechlessly describes in details a vigorous personality. She presents herself as she wishes and through an arrogant and come-hither look she asks of the audience. She is demanding the role that either way belongs to her by nature and in her “defenseless” nudity puts forward the map of the game and outlines its rules.

Man enters this game deprived of his basic advantage, his physical strength. All that is left of him is a bodiless face.

He shows off his manhood with an old fashioned moustache and his obedience to this new female world with his smile.

Alexandros Vasmoulakis, a frequent visitor of the man-woman temple of relationship,

sometimes violent and impetuous, sometimes with faith and respect, with tenderness

and always with his profound and radical sarcasm, this time grimes the sanctified

paintings, he genuflects devoutly before them or repaints them, creating organic

palimpsests ready to go on a new war – or love.

Through the bright smile of his figures, the artist articulates clearly his basic idea - the bliss to be vivid, thriving and free.

I've got you a date with Botticelli's niece

Solo exhibition
February 15 - March 24, 2011
a.antonopoulou.art 20 aristofanous st. 4th floor psyrri 10554 Athens
info@aaart.gr - www.aaart.gr

Alice Pasquini-Melissa P. - VERTIGINE

Alice Pasquini-Vertigine Melissa P, originally uploaded by AliCè.

Un libro di Alicè e Melissa P.

Anna è bella e saggia, ha una cascata di riccioli biondi e grandi occhi comprensivi.

Le amiche la adorano, i ragazzi la corteggiano, ma Anna vuole solo star sola. Vive con una madre inacidita dall'età e dall'abbandono del marito, e non si concede di sognare nulla di più.

Claire è sua cugina. Vive a Parigi ed è un vero ragazzaccio: impetuosa, disinibita, incontenibile.

Suona il basso, è ricoperta di piercing e nasconde un segreto.

Quando le due ragazze si ritrovano, dopo anni di separazione, qualcosa di ingovernabile scatta tra di loro: amore, passione, la scoperta della tenerezza e del sesso.

Ma i segni degli aghi sulle braccia di Claire sono un segnale impossibile da ignorare, per Anna: sua cugina, il suo primo e unico amore, è una tossica.

E lei la salverà, costi quel che costi.

Nella sua prima graphic novel Melissa P. affronta due temi tabù: omosessualità e tossicodipendenza.

Un libro spietato e al tempo stesso tenerissimo che conferma le doti di una scrittrice fuori dagli schemi e svela quelle di un'artista destinata a far parlare di sé.

Titolo: Vertigine

Autore: Melissa P. - Alice Pasquini.

Prezzo di copertina € 18,50 EditoreBUR Biblioteca Univ. Rizzoli (collana 24/7).

OX from Paris (II)

OX, Paris, http://postertime.blogspot.com/

999@LOVE

Love, originally uploaded by 999".

Love is for lovers

Acrylic color on paper.

8 meters x 2 meters about

Italy, Turin

Jan. 2011

BLACK RAT PRESS - PRINTMAKING TODAY

ISTANBUL STREET ART - BR1 IS BACK !

Br1 invades Istanbul with his poster. The artist is the "next big thing" of italian' Street Art scene.

POW NEWS - ARYZ OUT NOW

Aryz is a new signing from Cardedeu, a small town near Barcelona.

He's 22 years old and still at art college, but his draftsmanship is exceptional and he's already gained a reputation for making his mark in a truly epic fashion.

This print is called "Sing It Again".

Three colour silkscreen print

56 x 76cm - Edition: 100 - £90.00

STREET ART POP UP STORE !

Wow ! A Street Art Pop Up store opens in L.A. ! The BOMIT organisation announces a plan to promote artists and their works.

Here the website and here Bomit press release.

EAST EUROPE STREET ART - YOLA

YOLA is an amazing polish artist that combines love for Italian Renaissance and Street Art. Great works, murals with a great sense of humour and great techniques.

Well done.

HERE the blog.

KEITH HARING@CAC Cincinnati

Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati
February 26-September 5, 2011

Opening Celebration: Friday, February 25

Keith Haring ranks among the most iconic, influential and popular artists in the world. Twenty years after his death, this is a rare and in-depth look at the prolific early years that established Haring’s language as an artist, his politics and social conscience, and his open homosexuality. This historic exhibition of rarely exhibited early work chronicles Haring's arrival in New York City (from his native Pennsylvania) and his immersion in New York’s dynamic downtown culture. It explores the vibrant and experimental years when Haring first enrolled in the School of Visual Arts, started a diligent and vigorous studio practice, began making public and political art on the city streets and subway stations, and enjoyed a frenetic social life. Joining an art community outside the institutionalized art system, Haring quickly befriended fellow artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf, as well as many of the most innovative musicians, performance artists and graffiti writers of the period.

HERE. 

ROA in MEXICO

 

A wonderful ROA in Mexico. Other photos HERE.

HOW TO SELL A BANKSY

One of my dreams ...

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SWISS COLLECTION

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Overrun, 1985

Oil, acrylic and metallic paint with colour photocopy collage laid on wooden panel. 203 × 81 cm (80 × 31 7/8 in). Signed, titled and dated 'Basquiat Overrun 1985' on the reverse. This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

ESTIMATE £1,000,000-1,500,000 ‡

PROVENANCE Mary Boone Gallery, New York; Galerie Beaubourg, Paris.

PHILLIPS de PURY Auctions.

VNA MAGAZINE ISSUE 14

SICKBOY, MYSTERIOUS AL, PEDRO MATOS, EVAN HECOX, DOZE GREEN, VOINA and more…

PEZ&KENOR@GALO ART GALLERY

OPEL CORSA GRAFFITI WRITING !

The car-manufacturer charged the two graffiti legends Daim and Loomit to create some advert for the Corsa. Both spray-painted the background wall for the new Opel Corsa Campagne 2011, which is now extensively used to promote not just the car but its creative-to-be label and reputation.

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