August 2015

BSA Images Of The Week: 08.09.15

BSA Images Of The Week: 08.09.15

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You can feel it rippling through the streets, the impact of one strong piece after another beguiling and besting your expectations. And that’s just the organic free-range un-permissioned stuff.

The LoMan Festival is enjoying its first official edition, continuing today so you may want to head to Little Italy to see the Secret Walls battle in the lot and Cosbe surfing across a tidal wave of stickers that he and the 200-strong sticker club have procured. The festival itself is a zany mix of music, comedy, street art, murals, and live performance – you’ll probably dig it.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Apple on Pictures, Dasic, Faith47, Gold Luxe, Hunt, JR, Mint & Serf, Mr. Toll, Olek, Phoebe New York, Sean9Lugo, Solus, The Dingle Lane, and Urban Fish.

Top image above >>> Sean9Lugo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Sean9Lugo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Faith47 in Williamsburg. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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JR (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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JR (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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A well-placed speech bubble in the subway. Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Dasic (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Hunt (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Hot enough out here to fry an egg on the street. Mr. Toll (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Mint & Serf (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Artist Unknown (with an old coming apart piece by Jana & JS on the left). (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Apple On Pictures (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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The Dingle Lane (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Urban Fish (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Gold Loxe (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Gold Loxe (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Olek’s transformation of the Jan Karski sculpture in front of the Polish Consulate in NYC has been a very meaningful project for the artist. It is her goal to draw attention to the work of this WWII war resister and the heroic acts he took to save persecuted people during the Holocaust. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Olek’s transformation of the Jan Karski sculpture in front of the Polish Consulate in NYC. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Phoebe New York is playing with perspectives in a minimalist collage very effectively (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Solus (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Untitled. Brooklyn, NY. July 2015. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

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Sarah Rutherford and Mr. PRVRT “From the Ruins” in Rochester

Sarah Rutherford and Mr. PRVRT “From the Ruins” in Rochester

When we were in Rochester for Wall\Therapy in July we also caught a new mural going up by local artists Sarah Rutherford and Mr. Prvrt, who have witnessed the fall of some of the city’s titans falter and present this overview possessed with sadness and hope. Titled “From the Ruins” the mural depicts a handful of architectural features and landmarks associated with the city which just witnessed the demolition of an iconic building in the “Kodak Complex” downtown.

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Sarah Rutherford and Mr. PRVRT. Rochester, NY. July 2015 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Also included are the Art Deco inspired “Wings of Progress” atop one of the city’s most notable skyline features the Depression era Times Square building by archtitects Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker . The artists intend to pay tribute: “The concept echos what is happening in Rochester, especially the downtown,” says Rutherford, “by taking pieces from the rubble and rebuilding a new structure and city.”

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Sarah Rutherford and Mr. PRVRT. Rochester, NY. July 2015 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Sarah Rutherford and Mr. PRVRT. Rochester, NY. July 2015 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Sarah Rutherford and Mr. PRVRT. Rochester, NY. July 2015 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Sarah Rutherford and Mr. PRVRT. Rochester, NY. July 2015 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Sarah Rutherford and Mr. PRVRT. Rochester, NY. July 2015 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Sarah Rutherford and Mr. PRVRT. Rochester, NY. July 2015 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Sarah Rutherford and Mr. PRVRT. Rochester, NY. July 2015 (photo © Mark Deff)

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Sarah Rutherford and Mr. PRVRT. Rochester, NY. July 2015. CLICK ON PHOTO TO ENLARGE. (photo © Mark Deff)

 

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BSA Film Friday: 08.07.15

BSA Film Friday: 08.07.15

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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening :

1. DAZE at Wall\Therapy
2. Andreas Englund at Wall\Therapy
3. Risk: “Old Habits Die Hard”
4. Esteban Del Valle in Alaska
5. Trance by Slicer

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BSA Special Feature: DAZE at Wall\Therapy

New York graffiti and Street Art golden alum DAZE worked with local graff folks in Rochester during the recent Wall\Therapy event and this video captures the three walls he headlined. An original experimenter with different influences entering his compositions, DAZE works in the moment and is happy to share the experience, sometimes mentoring and allowing others to shine as well in a collaborative spirit.

Andreas Englund at Wall\Therapy

Coming at it from a different angle, Switzerlands Andreas Englund was doing only his second mural ever at Wall\Therapy. Of course he is an established fine artist so his transference was from canvas to brick with a decidedly painterly approach.

Risk: “Old Habits Die Hard”

“Risk was looked at as being an innovator, someone who was known for doing something before other people did,” says Roger Gastman of the west coast graffiti king whom he pays tribute to with this new book.

 

Esteban Del Valle in Alaska

“I just landed back in Brooklyn after spending 7 weeks in Alaskan wilderness as the artist in residence at Chulitna Lodge,” says Esteban.  See him painting in sun and rain a wild scene in a wild part of the world.

NUART Turns 15

And they are throwing da House out the window

…and BSA will be there to tell you all about it.

 

Trance by Slicer

His show at Juddy Roller opens tonight in the Melbourne neighborhood of Fitzroy for local boy Slicer, a graffiti writer turned abstract gestural painter. He says he is exploring interdimensional, hypnotic aspects of the psyche and you can see him here working himself into a sort of trance.

 

 

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JACE Plays Enormous Game of Donkey Kong in Paris 13

JACE Plays Enormous Game of Donkey Kong in Paris 13

JACE has been creating his small figure called Gouzou on walls on streets and roadsides since in 1992 and has a serious set of fans that love to see them in various situations. With the opportunity to go large in Paris he gave his cartoon-like figure a stage to run on multiple stories – one in fact modeled on the video game “Donkey Kong” with the original Mario character substituted with his Gouzou.

Full of ladders, trap holes, sacks of Euros, and a handful of serious dangers, you can see that the platform adventure is really all about getting to the hip-shaking princess. That’s another opportunity to score, as it were.

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JACE with his assistant WOSE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

Another mural in Paris 13 organized by Gallerie Mathgoth, the theme was chosen after conferring with the residents of this social housing complex. Jace wants to thank his assistant Wose and we thank Mathgoth for sharing it with BSA readers.

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JACE with his assistant WOSE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

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JACE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

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JACE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

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JACE with his assistant WOSE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

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JACE with his assistant WOSE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

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JACE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

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JACE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

 

 

 

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Ben Eine A to Z (and then some) in Philadelphia

Ben Eine A to Z (and then some) in Philadelphia

We are texting every day and everywhere these days. Ben Eine appears to be doing it across the entirety of South Philadelphia.

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Ben Eine. Mural Arts Program. Philadelphia. July 2015. (photo © Steve Weinik/Mural Arts Program)

The prolific London artist who is known for his distinctive lettering style sits right at the border of graffiti and Street Art with a nod to both. Now he is firmly also a muralist after knocking out nearly forty letters in his circus font on metallic pull-down shutters for neighbors and businesses here.

“Honestly, we started with me finding Ben about 7 shutters to paint,” says RJ Rushmore of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, “and he just went from there and wound up getting permission for literally dozens more.” The program has a way of uniting artists with community in a holistic way.

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There’s no place like it. Ben Eine. Mural Arts Program. Philadelphia. July 2015. (photo © Steve Weinik/Mural Arts Program)

“It’s a great experience getting positive feedback from the people who live in the neighborhoods I paint,” says the former graffiti writer who might not have asked for permission when he began a couple of decades ago. “When I did graffiti no one enjoyed what I painted aside from a few writer friends. Now days it’s the total opposite. What I paint is pretty happy. It’s hard not to like it.”

The idea to ask Eine to come to the city began when Rushmore and local muralist Shira Walinsky were looking for good ways for the mural program to engage with the neighborhood of settlers from Bhutan, Burma, and Nepal. Many of these folks are refugees and meet at a community arts and resource center here named Southeast-by-Southeast.

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Ben Eine. Mural Arts Program. Philadelphia. July 2015. (photo © Steve Weinik/Mural Arts Program)

While Street Art has been accused alternately of being a tool for vandalism and for gentrification, this mural program had a Street Artist in mind to bring the neighborhood something positive, slowly transforming the feelings of connectedness and even pride.

“We both love seeing shutters painted, and we thought that more painted shutters would be a positive contribution to South 7th Street. As for bringing Ben specifically, we both love his work, and we wanted to see some of it in Philly,” says Rushmore, “We also hoped that having an internationally recognized artist paint near Southeast-by-Southeast would bring wider attention to the community center and the neighborhood’s under-served refugee population.”

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Ben Eine. Mural Arts Program. Philadelphia. July 2015. (photo © Steve Weinik/Mural Arts Program)

What the organizers and the artist may not have anticipated was the enthusiastic support that came from the community once they saw how Eine’s pleasantly poppish letters perked up the place – nor how many excited neighbors would begin requesting them.

“I think it was 39 shutters,” says a newly exhausted Eine with some satisfaction. “That’s the most I’ve painted over the course of four days. Random shutters scattered around a city are cool – but when you paint every shutter on a block you totally change the dynamic of that area.”

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Ben Eine. Mural Arts Program. Philadelphia. July 2015. (photo © Steve Weinik/Mural Arts Program)

“Ben hadn’t planned to paint 39 shutters, but once he got to about 15, it became about painting an entire alphabet, and then he just kept going,” RJ tells us. “It was a marathon. Luckily, the interest from building owners just snowballed. People would come by while he was painting, love what they saw, and offer up their own shutters down the street or around the corner. Ben’s work sold itself.”

Did he find the uneven and rolling surface of the metal grating especially difficult to paint? “It really depends on what I’m painting. Big walls are great for big words. The shutters are perfect for one letter. They are super quick to paint. It almost feels like graffiti,” he says, perhaps thinking of his earlier years of “hitting” and running, can in hand.

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Ben Eine. Mural Arts Program. Philadelphia. July 2015. (photo © Steve Weinik/Mural Arts Program)

They say the project gathered steam after the first people said yes to Ben’s work. Savannah and Julio are a husband and wife team who co-own and run a bodega right in the heart of the neighborhood and they requested that Ben paint their initials on their two shutters.

Rushmore points to their openness and generosity as contributing to the positive buzz. “Once Ben arrived, Julio and Savannah loaned us a stepladder.” Other neighbors got excited and RJ said their excitement fueled him as he kept knocking on more doors.

“There were even a few locations that had initially turned me down, but changed their minds once they met Ben and saw exactly what he was doing. I didn’t hear a single negative reaction from anyone living or working nearby.”

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Ben Eine. Mural Arts Program. Philadelphia. July 2015. (photo © Steve Weinik/Mural Arts Program)

Eine says he feels good that he is leaving behind something that the neighborhood can relate to and feel proud of and he appreciates the restorative nature of programs like Philadelphia Mural Arts.

“It’s important to involve the community in these art projects,” he says, “These are the people who live there. I get on a plane, fly somewhere else, and most of the time I never see my painting again. I always consider who is going to walk past my painting everyday and how it’s going to change their day.”

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Ben Eine. Mural Arts Program. Philadelphia. July 2015. (photo © Steve Weinik/Mural Arts Program)

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Ben Eine. Mural Arts Program. Philadelphia. July 2015. (photo © Steve Weinik/Mural Arts Program)

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Ben Eine. Mural Arts Program. Philadelphia. July 2015. (photo © Steve Weinik/Mural Arts Program)

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Ben Eine. Mural Arts Program. Philadelphia. July 2015. (photo © Steve Weinik/Mural Arts Program)

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Ben Eine. Mural Arts Program. Philadelphia. July 2015. (photo © Steve Weinik/Mural Arts Program)

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Ben Eine. Mural Arts Program. Philadelphia. July 2015. (photo © Steve Weinik/Mural Arts Program)

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Ben Eine. Mural Arts Program. Philadelphia. July 2015. (photo © Steve Weinik/Mural Arts Program)

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Ben Eine. Mural Arts Program. Philadelphia. July 2015. (photo © Steve Weinik/Mural Arts Program)

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Ben Eine. Mural Arts Program. Philadelphia. July 2015. (photo © Steve Weinik/Mural Arts Program)

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Ben Eine. Mural Arts Program. Philadelphia. July 2015. (photo © Steve Weinik/Mural Arts Program)

 

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Street Art Santiago : A Captivating Look and Insightful Read

Street Art Santiago : A Captivating Look and Insightful Read

Street Art Santiago is an in-depth and attractive look at the current dyanamic graffiti and street art scene in this Chilean city, minus the hype.

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Street Art Santiago by Lord K2. Schiffer Publishing. Atglen, PA. 2015 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Using his own sense of discovery and a reporters’ tenacity for uncovering the story, Lord K2 (David Sharabani) scopes the walls for riveting images and first person accounts, digging below the obvious to present economic and social data along with a historical context of murals and their role in political life up to today.

Street Art Santiago adeptly draws connections between the quality of life, a lack of social mobility, and the soulful persistence of artists on the street who interpret the Santiago scene as one with its own distinct voice.

“The graffiti in Chile is mutating. We don’t want to paint graffiti from the Bronx anymore. We want to paint what reflects our Latin roots,” says Wend.

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Street Art Santiago by Lord K2. Schiffer Publishing. Atglen, PA. 2015 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

With many accessible interviews and photographs of the artists you can understand a communal connection despite natural competition; a mutual respect for other artists and of the graffiti tradition that now evolves into what is called Street Art. There also is a belief that this means of expression makes an impact that is potent and meaningful to a city.

“Persevere in you technique and style, apply color, strength, and identity to your work,” says an artist named Vision.” Deliver messages. Put up on a wall the things that you have seen and liked. Make the world vibrate.”

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Street Art Santiago by Lord K2. Schiffer Publishing. Atglen, PA. 2015 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Street Art Santiago by Lord K2. Schiffer Publishing. Atglen, PA. 2015 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Street Art Santiago by Lord K2. Schiffer Publishing. Atglen, PA. 2015 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Street Art Santiago by Lord K2. Schiffer Publishing. Atglen, PA. 2015 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

Street Art Santiago by Lord K2. Schiffer Publishing. Atglen, PA. 2015

 

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REKA Completes His Largest Mural in Paris 13

REKA Completes His Largest Mural in Paris 13

July always brings out massive public artworks in the northern hemisphere and this year you can add this one, his largest, by Australian street artist REKA in Paris  which he completed last week. Tracing his surrealist abstract pop composition diagonally to the upper right corner of this multi-story building, the Melbourne-now-Berlin based aerosol artist labored for five days laying his flat shapes across this brick façade in the heart of the city.

 

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REKA. Galerie Mathgoth. Paris, July 2015. (phot0 © courtesy Galerie Mathgoth)

The building is a few blocks from Le Seine and Université Paris Diderot in a district called Paris 13 that is now known for massive murals by street artists from around the world. The wall and opportunity was organized by Gautier Jourdain, director of the Galerie Mathgoth and this mural is being followed closely by an equally expansive piece by artist JACE.

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REKA. Galerie Mathgoth. Paris, July 2015. (phot0 © courtesy Galerie Mathgoth)

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REKA. Galerie Mathgoth. Paris, July 2015. (phot0 © courtesy Galerie Mathgoth)

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REKA. Galerie Mathgoth. Paris, July 2015. (phot0 © courtesy Galerie Mathgoth)

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REKA. Galerie Mathgoth. Paris, July 2015. (phot0 © courtesy Galerie Mathgoth)

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REKA. Galerie Mathgoth. Paris, July 2015. (phot0 © courtesy Galerie Mathgoth)

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REKA. Galerie Mathgoth. Paris, July 2015. (phot0 © courtesy Galerie Mathgoth)

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REKA. Galerie Mathgoth. Paris, July 2015. (phot0 © courtesy Galerie Mathgoth)

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REKA. Galerie Mathgoth. Paris, July 2015. (phot0 © courtesy Galerie Mathgoth)

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REKA. Galerie Mathgoth. Paris, July 2015. (phot0 © courtesy Galerie Mathgoth)

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REKA. Galerie Mathgoth. Paris, July 2015. (phot0 © courtesy Galerie Mathgoth)

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REKA. Galerie Mathgoth. Paris, July 2015. (phot0 © courtesy Galerie Mathgoth)

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REKA. Galerie Mathgoth. Paris, July 2015. (phot0 © courtesy Galerie Mathgoth)

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REKA. Galerie Mathgoth. Paris, July 2015. (phot0 © courtesy Galerie Mathgoth)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 08.02.15

BSA Images Of The Week: 08.02.15

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Did you see the blue moon over New York Friday night? Looked to be more crimson actually. Welcome to August and the hot sticky band of dirty grit that comes with it. Escape from New York if you can, even if it is just on a lawn chair in a park. NYC parks have a lot of free movies this summer and a huge array of free concerts all through the remainder of dog days. Naturally there is great deal of artful expression on the streets available on your way to and from the venue, very dramatic in its own way.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring $howta, 52, Brolga, BustArt, Esteban Del Valle, Dain, Dasic, Don Rimx, Droid, JR, Julien de Casablanca, KFA, LMNOPI, London Kaye, Ron English, Rubin415, Sokar Uno, and Willow.

Top image above >>>  London Kaye. This is perhaps the artist’s largest piece and, as is the artist’s practice, it was made entirely with crocheted yarn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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London Kaye (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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London Kaye (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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KFA (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Ron English. Hot Pink Temper Tot. Zephyr. For LoMan Art Fest 2015/L.I.S.A. Project (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Dain for LoMan Art Fest 2015/L.I.S.A. Project (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Rubin415 . Dasic (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Esteban Del Valle . Don Rimx (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Bikismo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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LMNOPI. Portrait of Indian girl Dongria Kohnd. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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LMNOPI. Portrait of Iranian kid. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Willow. Portrait of Rwandan child with Emu turban. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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JR. Migrants, Ibrahim, Mingora-Philadelphia. For Mural Arts Program “Open Source” Series. (photo Steve Weinik. Courtesy Mural Arts Program).

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Sokar Uno (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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52 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Julien De Casabianca (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BustArt and shades of Lichtenstein in Basel, Germany. July 2015. (photo © Bustart)

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BustArt. Basel, Germany. July 2015. (photo © Bustart)

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Brolga goes skinny dipping to beat the summer heat (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Ben Felis traces flight patters with tape (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Ben Felis (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Droid (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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$howta (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Baphomet (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Untitled. Flying over New York State. July 2015. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

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Barlo and Andrea Casciu and “The Dance” : Housing, Squatters, Art

Barlo and Andrea Casciu and “The Dance” : Housing, Squatters, Art

Barlo and Andrea Casciu did a summertime mural project in Bologna last week as a metaphorical commentary on machinations and struggles happening during the current housing crisis in Italy. It is an awkward, tormented series of movements in concert with and against partners entitled “The Dance”.

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Barlo . Andrea Casciu. Bologna, Italy. July 2015. (photo © Barlo)

Not enough places are available for people to live so squatters have been taking over abandoned or unoccupied ones. The government has been passing legislation to widen options of affordable housing but restricting illegal takeovers. Add to this certain elements of anti-immigrants, racism and ongoing corrosive attacks on the social safety net, and you understand how tensions run high.

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Barlo . Andrea Casciu. Bologna, Italy. July 2015. (photo © Barlo)

The figures in conflict here in the new mural symbolize the forces at odds – and a contested 9,000 square foot settlement from the political collective Làbas in the former Caserma Masini symbolizes all of it. The collaborative illustration itself is located in “Làbas centro sociale” (Labas Community Center) in “an occupied structure very active in community activities related to the housing emergency in Italy – in the city center of Bologna,” says Barlo.

No angry slogans, no marches, no eggs were thrown; It is good to see art being used to depict powerful struggles underway in the heart of a disputed space.

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Barlo . Andrea Casciu. Bologna, Italy. July 2015. (photo © Barlo)

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Barlo . Andrea Casciu. Bologna, Italy. July 2015. (photo © Barlo)

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Barlo . Andrea Casciu. Bologna, Italy. July 2015. (photo © Barlo)

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Barlo . Andrea Casciu. Bologna, Italy. July 2015. (photo © Barlo)

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