SEACREATIVE - ZINE SKETCH 01

Zine Sketch:

Size A5. (closed), 15 signed and numbered

copies.

Engraved cover, 14 pages (photocopied + tracing paper)

for info: seacreative@seacreative.net

STREET ART IN JAIL !

As LA’s MOCA tries to give graffiti and street art their moment in the Southern California sun, in New York LA II, aka Angel Ortiz, and in Los Angeles, Revok, aka Jason Williams, are in jail for doing the art they love.

While LA II, who is best known as a collaborator of Keith Haring, has quietly languished at Riker’s Island prison, Revok’s arrest and subsequent sentencing has been accompanied by a vocal outcry from his comrades and fans, including Shepard Fairey, who issued a poster last week to raise money for his legal defense fund.

The debate about graffiti and street art and its role in a democratic and free society is sure to rage on as the artists associated with the art form continue to make waves by openly challenging vandalism laws.

The whole phenomenon is strangely reminiscent of the emergence of hip hop in the 1980s and 90s, when artists (and their handlers) often parlayed criminal charges into more publicity and fame for the artist.

The largest question is do artists have — or should they have — a right to create art on public property or the property of others.

LINK HERE and HERE.

NEW BANKSY'S RAT IN LONDON !

A new artwork believed to have been created by the artist Banksy has appeared on a wall in Fitzrovia, central London during Easter Monday.

The work in blood red paint features the stencilled rat which has appeared in many of his creations.

CONTINUE.

SEACREATIVE - a new blog !

A friend of us, the artist SEACREATIVE, launches a new blog "DAILY NEWZ".

Click here to move on it.

"I have a new blog with more news and many new works"- said SEACREATIVE !

SPACE INVADER ARRESTED IN L.A.?

The Los Angeles Police Department caught and arrested two French nationals vandalizing buildings with “buckets of grout and pieces of tile” near the LA Museum of Contemporary Art’s Little Tokyo gallery this past Friday.

One of the vandals seems to be the famed French street artist Space Invader, reports the LA Times.

Space Invader is known for installing his little icons, replicas of aliens from the early Space Invaders video game, on buildings all over the world. But this time, he seems to have invaded the wrong space.

The LA Times writes, “The pair were released while the investigation continued, and Richter said officials were checking with federal immigration officials to see if they had flown back to Paris.”

So the alleged Space Invader was arrested and his marks found on other buildings in the area, including on the Geffen Contemporary, but the artist is possibly out of the country already.

READ ARTICLE HERE.

CIRCLECULTURE GALLERY - KATRIN FRIDIKS

At the end of this month, the Iceland native artist Katrin Fridriks will exhibit her first solo show at the Circleculture Gallery in Berlin.

Have you ever had this odd feeling that they do not tell us everything, that some elements of the story are deliberately hidden? Either the lie is too big to be swallowed or the truth is so well concealed that the affair is known a long time after, thanks to people who have led an investigation, decoding messages and in many case have fought against a system. This is what “Leak of Information” means and with what it deals. The bells are ringing: (public) awareness!

The exhibition “Leak of Information” takes place from the 28th of April to the 28th of May 2011.

Katrin Fridriks, born 9 August 1974 in Reykjavík (Iceland), is a conceptual painter. Having spent many years in several countries, on different continents gave her a certain open-mindedness and cultural wealth which can be felt on the canvas: a clever mix of the wilderness of her native Iceland, abstract expressionism, minimalism - spearhead of the Bauhaus -, a combination of calligraphic work, tribute to the expertise of the Far East, graffiti, a controlled and thorough pop culture colorimetric.

Her passion for architecture inspired her to create conceptual installations still using canvas and paint. Beyond her resolutely modern pictorial expression, Katrin Fridriks is continuing her research into matter and color with the avowed intent to place technique at the service of artistic expression. Creating new perspectives, her work brings an innovative dimension to abstraction.

Dott. Porka's P-Proj - Enjoy the Poverty

Giovedì 20 aprile 2011 presso SPAZIO CONCEPT in via Vincenzo Forcella, 7 a Milano a partire dalle 18:00 si terrà l’inaugurazione di XD 01.User Designer.

I Dott. Porka's P-Proj saranno presenti con il manifesto in grande formato "Enjoy the Poverty".

Torino, 19 aprile 2011 - XD 01.User Designer coinvolge una sorprendente quantità di temi e oggetti, dalla cibernetica agli ombrelli, dall’etica post-fordista ai trickster, con un'unica certezza al proprio attivo: il futuro è essenzialmente una questione di pluralità di costruzione e configurazione dei corpi, degli oggetti e dei pensieri.

XD si propone come uno strumento per orientarsi nella quotidianità e nei canovacci verosimili o immaginabili del mondo presente.

Non poteva mancare il contributo dei Dott. Porka's P-Proj , da anni impegnati nell'esplorazione della no man's land che separa fotografia e street art attraverso scatti ibridi, mutanti, barbari, che riescono a racchiudere, compressi e pronti a esplodere senza preavviso, tutta la rabbia, la marginalità, lo slabbrato di questo mondo in frantumi e sull'orlo del collasso.

About Dott. Porka's P.Proj

Attivi con questa identità dal 2002 - anche se i primi lavori di street art e fumetti underground risalgono al 1995 - i Dott. Porka’s raggiungono la notorietà con L’Ultimo Giorno dell’Ekomostr0, la street-photo performance ambientata nel cantiere sequestrato di Punta Perotti a Bari prima del suo abbattimento. Nel 2010 partecipano al 13° CinemAmbiente di Torino mentre nel 2008 rappresentano con successo la Puglia alla Biennale dei Giovani Artisti d’Europa e del Mediterraneo, sezione Architettura. I loro lavori compaiono nel libro antologico Future Images a cura di Mario Cresci (2009, Motta Editore).

ART IN THE STREETS - a review

Why “Art in the Streets” Was Impressive and Why This is a Bad Thing

BY LAUREN LICATA

If you haven’t yet made it out to MOCA‘s Art in the Streets, think twice before going based off of its advertisement as a “street art retrospective.”

As a whole, the exhibition lacks a clear exhibition catalog or map, exists without any sort of coherent spatial organization, and places faulty emphasis on its composition of “street art.”

Its ability to impact visitors is based upon enormity and celebrity alone, capitalizing upon the recent urban art trend with little else to offer.

We’ll say it up front- if you’re looking for a glowing recommendation, Shelley Leopold’s version in this week’s LA Weekly should do the trick.

While Art in the Streets does deserve recognition as perhaps the largest institutionalized display of graffiti and urban art to date and Jeffrey Deitch certainly deserves acknowledgement for the prominent names brought together under one roof, the exhibition fails to submit any sort of insightful or reflective dialogue, with the exception of a microscopic timeline and vacuous wall text.

The show offers no historical context and imparts nothing at face value.

Colossal names and expansive art groupings provide considerable examples of the urban movement’s visual language, but their significance goes unexplained, leaving novice viewers an assortment of historical imagery alone, and even intermediate attendees the unaided task of piecing it all together.

Taken as a whole, the show embodies the “Tumblr” of museum exhibitions- a collection of pretty pictures, a vague assertion of their significance, and minimal content. Bottom line, don’t expect to leave this exhibit more knowledgeable than when you came in.

LINK HERE.

ART IN THE STREETS - LINK&OPINIONS

Opinions and links from ART IN THE STREETS !

A post from Vandalog here and with many links. An opinion of Sebastian Buck (UNURTH) here.

MOCA - ART IN THE STREETS



ART IN THE STREETS at MOCA Los Angeles is a milestone for Street Art movement.

Another "goal" for Jeffrey Deitch and his crew.

HERE articles from Juxtapoz Magazine and from BSA blog !
IMAGES HERE.

VHILS in CINCINNATI

Check out the new mural by artist Alexandre Farto-aka Vhils-on the side of Mainstay Rock Bar.

Vhils photographs people in the community where he is working and then chooses one for the giant chiseled mural, turning everyday neighbors into epic heroes.

This is the first of several public art projects we are doing around town during Keith Haring:1978-1982, made possible by the generosity of The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation.

BR1 in Rome !

BR1 | billboard in roma from BR1 on Vimeo.

"Fresh study of decollage realized in Rome in Porta Maggiore.

The advertisement was previously teared out in order to create a street decollage.

In a second phase I have pasted up my poster on billboard. but, inexorably, the installation will be covered by the next advertising campaign.

Duration of installation: three days".

Br1.

MALEVENTUM@Rising Love

maleventum, originally uploaded by biodpi.

Maleventum

Naf-mk

Korvo

Biodpi

@ RisingLove Roma

QAIS EL HILELI - R.I.P.

Today we want write a post about the lybian graffiti artist Qais El Hileli, killed in Bengasi.

If you have images and news about Qais please send a mail at darioujetto@gmail.com .

Street Art - Contemporary prints from V&A Museum

Friday 15th April - Friday 29thth April 2011

at Black Rat Projects - Arch 461, 83 Rivington Street

London, EC2A 3AY

PREVIEW EVENING: Thursday 14th April 6-9pm

Since 2007 BRP has been marking our artists’ developments in drawing, painting, printing and collage with the editions that we publish. Yet printmaking holds a unique status for those artists who work on the street: it serves not only to mark progress but it is also integral to the art making itself.

It is through large-scale printing, etching, screen-printing and stenciling that artists who choose to work in the urban environment have been so prolific over the last couple of years.

As street art and the artists who use the city walls as their canvas become increasingly recognized as contemporary artists by the mainstream museum infrastructure, many of our prints have found themselves in the archives of national arts institutions, namely the Tate and the V&A in the UK, who also want to understand and mark the story.

At Black Rat Projects in April things take on a cyclical form as many of the prints BRP have published return to the gallery as part of the V&A’s collection of street art prints.

We are delighted to host the exhibition curated by Riikka Kuittinen.

FAME FESTIVAL 2011 - RE_OPENING

A message from Grottaglie ...

Big news is : FAME 2011 is going to happen.

Bigger news is : we’re fucking serious.

After the first two years we’ve spent struggling to make it work, the third year it worked so well that it just got immediately boring.

People in town were happy, we’ve had a great response from outside and everybody had a nice pretty smile for us.

Nonsense.

We’re not decorating the city, we don't want to make anybody happy (at least not on the short term).

We just want to make shit happen, destabilize, possibly destroy.

More infos soon.

89.24.24 GENERAZIONE SENZA MITI by GEC

Torino 2011, originally uploaded by gec-art.

The Pop-icon Marilyn Monroe as an employee in an italian call center ? The last provocation of Gec involves the theme of the precariousness and lack of myths.

"Si tratta di una rivisitazione di Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol prese una ragazza (Marilyn) e la fece di diventare un' icona, un mito degli anni '60, qui viene fatto l'esatto opposto, si prende il mito per eccellenza (Marilyn) e lo si fa tornare ragazza normale, senza trucco, a lavorare in un call center come tanti. Una rivisitazione del passato che racconta i tempi moderni".

ART IN THE STREETS - THE LIST !

The L.A. Weekly revelead the ART IN THE STREETS list of Artists:

Alexis Ross, Andre, A-One,Barry McGee, Bear 167, Bill Daniel, Bill Ray, Blade, Charlie Ahearn, Chaz Bojorquez, Coco144, Cost, Craig Costello, Craig R. Stecyk III, Crash, Dan Murphy, Dash Snow, Daze, Delta, Devin Flynn, Don Leicht, Dondi, Drugs, Ed Templeton, Eine, Erik Brunetti, Estevan Oriol, Fab 5 Freddy, Freedom, Futura, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gusmano Cesaretti, Haze, Henry Chalfant, Howard Gribble, Hugh Holland, Invader, Irak, Iz the Wiz, Jamie Reid, James Prigoff, Jane Dickson, Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Ahearn, John Fekner, Jon Naar, Josh Lazcano, JR, Kaws, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Kiely Jenkins, Koor, Lady Pink, Larry Clark, Lee Quinones, Loomit, Malcolm McLaren, Mare 139, Margaret Kilgallen, Mark Gonzales, Martha Cooper, Miss Van, Mister Cartoon, Mode 2, Neckface, Noc, Os Gêmeos, Patti Astor, Phase 2, Rammellzee, Retna, Revok, Revolt, Revs, Risk, Roa, Robbie Conal, Ron English, Saber, Sharp, Shepard Fairey, SJK161, Snake 1, Spike Jonze, Stelios Faitakis, Stephen Powers, Steve Grody, Swoon, Taki 183, Teen Witch, Terry Richardson, Todd James, Toxic, Tracy 168, Zephyr.

We define this list AMERICANOCENTRIC ...

A CATALOGUE OF STREET ART TECHNIQUES

Wow ! Two italian guys from Barcelona are cataloguing italian Street Art and urban culture. We'll investigate about this project ... 

"A Catalogue of Street Art Techniques is a project curated by The G. Canyon in a Crack, born as a support of the 2011 edition of Public Design Festival, organized in Milan by Esterni.

A Catalogue of Street Art Techniques aims to spread the knowledge over certain kinds of urban art with which we face during our everyday experience in the urban context, as well as to push the citizens to assign the right value to well-crafted works, in order to promote the diffusion of valuable expressions of street art in the daily life of our cities.

In the attempt to involve citizens in the experience of an interactive, open air art museum, spread to the whole urban pattern of the city, A Catalogue of Street Art Techniques does not want to create anything new, but rather to give value to what is already present".

SITE HERE.

ELFO + GEC ...

ho finito il color----i finished the colour---bologna---link---2011, originally uploaded by http://www.flickr.com/photos/elfostreetart/.

"Ho finito il color" - "I finished the color"
Seen near Bologna ...
ELFO + GEC !
That's hot guys !

MADRID STREET ADVERTISING TAKEOVER !

From MASAT web site:

MaSAT (Madrid Street Advertising Takeover) is the second international street ad takeover project, and the third in a series of civil disobedience projects intent on changing our expectations of public behavior in our shared environments.

For this SAT project we targeted Cemusa bus shelters in 4 heavily populated locations around Madrid.

This time, at the request of our Madrid based collaborators, participants were asked to submit only text based works.

This fantastic idea allowed us to open up the submission request process to a wide range of individuals including sociologist, teachers, lawyers, gallery owners and anyone with a concern for the curation and participation in public space. Each of the 106 individuals were asked to submit one sentiment they wished to see exhibited on the streets.

The result is a variety of unique visions of public dialogue and a glimpse at the possibilities available when we open up our public environment in a truly public way. While I was personally worried about working in a country where I do not speak the language (well), the incredible efforts of the Madrid based organizers, NEKO and A.

De Pedro, made the entire process possible and far exceed my expectations.

A special thanks to C100, Nuria, Jaime Alekos, Dos Jotas, Luzinterruptus, Sue, Rosh, Clara Urra, 3ttman, Emile, Falansh and Giovana Ordonez Pari.

SITE HERE.

EIKONPROJEKT 347

EikonprOJeKt 347

di Omino71 Mr. Klevra & Jessica Stewart

a cura di NUfactory.

Dal 18 aprile al 19 maggio 2011 @ Palladium

Piazza Bartolomeo Romano, Garbatella, Roma

ingresso libero negli orari di apertura del teatro

Vernissage: lunedi 18 aprile 2011 ore: 19.00 – 22.30

Cobram Deejays: selezione musicale

Palladium Shop: T-shirt, Libri, Serigrafie, Poster, Wall Sticker

info@nufactory.it  http://www.nufactory.it/

URKA - Esperimento Post.Atomico

Urka – Esperimento Post.Atomico

Prove tecniche di sopravvivenza bellica.


Istallazione temporanea
Dal 10 al 16 aprile 2011
Ingresso Libero
PAO - Osteria&Arte
Lungomare Viale Trieste, 9
San Benedetto del Tronto (AP)

GALO ART GALLERY RE-OPENING

After traveling to Denver and San Francisco for some Galo art exhibitions and meeting and finalising upcoming shows for 2012 with some American based artist the Galo Art Gallery will reopen its doors with a solo show by the youg artist Pixel Pancho.

Originally from Torino, Pixel Pancho is what we would consider an up and coming artist.

His concept that originated with a simple robot has evolved in to a complex and detailed style that is full of imagination and skill.

We would like to invite you to come and see his new production of art works during the inauguration on Friday the 8th of April between 17:30 and 21:00 at the Galo Art Gallery.

B2F - STENCIL CONTEST

You know B2F through its music – now discover its art side.

Music has always been a source of inspiration for art, and vice versa.

This age-old tradition is being given a 21st century twist by Claude Monnet as he invites you to interpret his B2F sound through the medium of street art.

Over the coming months, Claude’s BackToFundamentals site will begin to host original graffiti stencils created by fans around the world, inspired by the latest releases on the French maverick’s B2F label. Listen, think, create and design – then post your street stencil on Claude’s website for the rest of the world to see.

The three winning stencils, as well as scooping a huge raft of prizes (check site for full details), will be released to the public in the second stage of the competition for real-life street use.

The results will again be hosted online and from the wealth of talent sent in, a further three winners will be chosen, in the process bagging themselves a handsome collection of street art and music prizes.

Phase 1 of the competition launches today (March 28th) until April 17th, with voting from April 18th to April 24th.

Phase 2 will run from April 16th to May 15th, voting running from May 16th until May 30th. For all prize details and full terms and conditions of entry please visit Backtofundamentals.