JAZ
Argentine Street Artist Franco Fasoli aka Jaz will open his 2013 European season with an individual exhibition at the young and quite promissing Artifex Gallery in Anterwerpen, Belgium. Beyond Jaz’s folcloric fighters and cats the new collection of works see a sublime approach to the ‘Battlefield’ where these characters meet.
Artifex Gallery: Oude Koornmarkt 53, 2000 Antwerpen . Friday May 3rd at 6pm
Exhibition Opera Gallery New York
Exhibition From April 19 to May 11 2013
Private View RSVP only Thursday April 18
“Saber & Rostarr”
http://www.operagallery.com/ang/event/index/index/eventId/205/
There are only 4 days remaining until the opening of what has become one of the most anticipated openings FIFTY24SF has seen in years. ARYZ, Barcelona’s favorite large-scale muralist and legendary street artist has been generating a brand new body of work for this show.
From Street Artist and fine artist Maya Hayuk comes this new mural “Melt the Guns” in her signature style on the exterior of Pictures On Walls in East London.
While she had a good time doing the new work, she noted the horrendous weather conditions (” ‘the coldest March on record’ they kept saying”) and the fact that her work had to be nearly completely painted over because it veered out of control due to stylistic demons that took it over.
More on demonic occupation in a minute but first can we address the topic of surprisingly miserable weather: Didn’t we already establish that this was a painting taking place in London? Okay, any other questions?
And now, about the repainting – Even the most experienced Street Artists will tell you that sometimes your painted wall plans can go awry, and Ms. Hayuk needed to take a little more time to paint this one over till she got it right. “I don’t plan out my paintings before I start,” she says of her process, and you realize that reversals and re-painting may also come from her desire to be in the moment.
Hard to imagine and hilarious to hear about, but Maya actually feels like she has to steer clear of certain stylistic influences that may crop up unannounced in her paintings. In fact during her creation of “Melt the Guns” a number of these unwelcome styles were simply lurking, ready to insinuate themselves into her compositions.
Herewith is a shortlist of the marginal, cliché, nauseating, or “very scary” influences that can take over her mind-melting color palette and lead her astray if she is not vigilant:
During this ornery install, Maya says, a combination of many of these stylistic third rails shocked her fluorescently. “Unfortunately, somewhere along the way on this particular painting I WENT THERE,” she laments with some humor in her voice, “I spent days re-painting in a massive un-doing process. Underneath all of the black and white stripes is another entire mural that I painted that included elements from my list and beyond.”
Want to see a picture? “No – I didn’t photograph it! I just ‘black and whited’ over it.”
ART CART NYC PRESENTS HELLBENT AT IDEAS CITY ON MAY 4, 2013
Art Cart NYC is proud to announce its participation in the New Museum’s Ideas City Streetfest, taking place on May 4, 2013 from 11 am- 6 pm on Houston and Chrystie St. on the Lower East Side.
For this year’s festival, Art Cart will present the latest iteration of Hellbent’s Mix Tape series. A continuation of the artist’s desire to incorporate craft and folk culture into urban art, this body of workis characterized by vibrant colors and complex patterns that slash across the surfaces they cover, from paper to public walls. It plays with the conventions of traditional color theory in the way pure pigment and decorative markings are fashioned in electric geometric arrangements. The mesmerizing designs are a contemporary nod to the practice of trompe l’oeil; though the configurations appear to be collaged wallpaper, the ornamental lace motifs are in fact painted to give the flat surface a sense of depth and history.
http://artcartnyc.tumblr.com/post/47866199961/art-cart-nyc-presents-hellbent-at-ideas-city-on
The Superior Bugout presents…
“DISPATCHES FROM THE CRUD-CAKE”
new artwork by TONY BONES
Opening Thursday April 18th 7-11pm
at TENDER TRAP
245 South 1st (btwn Roebling / Havemeyer) in Williamsburg, Bklyn
Tony Bones grew up in Texas. He got his start painting graffiti around his home state and soon moved on to the rest of the country and beyond. Tony made his home in Brooklyn for several years but now lives in a cupcake by the Mississippi River in New Orleans. He has a hedgehog and a pickup truck.
*with Ray Mock of Carnage Zine setting up his zine table
**and music by DJ BOO RAPS of Rap Gang (it’s also his birthday!!!)
Last April 24th we told you about a Kickstarter campaign by a 22 year old student attending Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) who was raising funds to make a film about the early days of Shepard Fairey. We always are supporting artists who are following their dream, and Julian Marshall seemed to have the hunger and talent needed to tell the story about this other RISD student and his personal take on art in the streets approximately two decades earlier.
“One morning I was sitting in my bedroom brainstorming story ideas for my RISD thesis film,” he explained on his Kickstarter page, “and staring me in the face was the Andre The Giant poster that Shepard Fairey had given to me when I worked for him three years ago. It was then that creativity struck. I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be wonderful to tell the story of the conception of Shepard’s OBEY GIANT street art campaign from when he attended RISD in the early 90’s?”
Happily, we can report that Julian raised more than twice the amount he had initially sought and today April 15, 2013, his film Obey The Giant is being released.
Directed by NYC’s Marshall, the film is a narrative biopic about the early life of well known Street Artist Shepard Fairey and the origins of his OBEY GIANT street art campaign. Based on the true story of Fairey’s first act of street art, Obey The Giant tells the story of the young skate punk challenging a big-city mayor, screen-printing his own stickers, and pulling a high-profile wheat-pasting stunt that got him fame and into a lot of hot water.
Congratulations to Julian and all the crew and backers for completing their auspicious goal.
CAST:
Still photography by: Philip Scott Andrews
For more about Obey The Giant, please click this link: obeythegiantmovie.com
periodo espositivo 17 aprile – 30 agosto 2013
-1 art gallery _ Casa dell’Architettura, piazza Manfredo Fanti 47, Roma
Il prossimo 17 aprile alla Casa dell’Architettura di Roma inaugurerà “Cave of Tales”, la stanza d’artista realizzata dalla street artista e illustratrice Alice Pasquini per la -1 art gallery, che festeggia con questa mostra il suo primo anno di attività. A detta del suo ideatore, il fatto che si riesca ogni volta a trasformare il corridoio che conduce ai bagni (la -1 coincide con l’accesso ai servizi aperti al pubblico dell’edificio, n.d.r.) in una stanza delle meraviglie è la prova provata che l’arte può cambiare il mondo.
http://www.casadellarchitettura.it/mostre/cave-of-tales-by-alice-pasquini/
NEWWORLDS, the second solo exhibition at the gallery by renowned contemporary urban artist, Speedy Graphito, will open on May 11 and run through June 8.
Always at the forefront of the cultural landscape, Speedy presents all new work that explores the mutation and perception of the image. In the age of digital over-consumption, myriad channels of communication have transformed the planet into a formidable distribution network, invading the world and our everyday lives on an intimate level. Speedy Graphito will explore these concepts through a variety of different mediums, from sculptures and paintings to installations.
This latest exhibition marks Speedy as one of the major figures in urban contemporary art, with an unparalleled global reach that he has built over the past 30 years. Since the early 1980s, he has imposed a powerful and innovative style that has captured the attention of the art world. He hasn’t stopped evolving, always in step with the times by inventing pictorial languages and codes that are iconoclastic and satirical of society. His works are found in private and public collections throughout the world – across Europe, Asia, and now, North America.
This exhibition for Speedy, at every level, is a turning point in his career. NEWWORLDS will be an immersive experience and his most ambitious show to date, one that reflects his exceptional talent, not only as a painter but as a conceptual artist as well.(Fabien Castanier, April 2013)
http://castaniergallery.com/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions
Masters & Pelavin is proud to announce a group exhibition, titled Legend Tripping, which will be on view from April 18 through June 1, 2013. A variety of media will be shown—installation, mixed-media, painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, collage—and a number of international artists represented, including: Karl Klingbiel, Timothy Paul Myers, Cecilia Vissers, Peter Buechler, Steven Katzman, Vincent Valdez, Jeremy Harris, Jon Rappleye, Julia Randall, Ruth Hardinger, RAE and others. An opening Reception will be held on Thursday April 18 from 6-8pm — this event is free and open to the public.
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