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BSA Film Friday: 06.12.15

June 12, 2015 Artists

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

Now screening :

1. Born and Bred: The Rise of Street Art in Bushwick
2. Collettivo FX and Their Enormous Wall in Castellarano
3. Lek and Sowat Make an Art Print
4. TELLAS at Altrove, courtesy @BlindeyeFactory
5. Sh*t Brooklyn People Say

BONUS: FAT JOE Performing Live at Bushwick Collective Block Party 2015 Last Weekend

BSA Special Feature: Born and Bred: The Rise of Street Art in Bushwick

It’s all about Joe! While you were looking for a brunch spot or a beard wax or simply at your navel, Joe took an opportunity to connect artists with walls and did more for the “scene” in Bushwick than an L Train full of pilgrims ever could. He cleared the way for a slew of local and international artists and writers looking for an opportunity to exercise their creative speech and courted the press with his local native personal story so often that you can imagine a Netflix series will be next.

In our mind, Joe is just a true cultural worker who probably saved many peeps from taking themselves too seriously. There was, no doubt, plenty of Street Art and graff in the neighborhood for years before he started getting walls for artists but this guy more-or-less opened the flood gates that answered a need many had for a welcoming public space to see and discuss art.

There is no actual “collective” unless you think of the collective audience of old-timers, new kids, and tourists who have been able to participate and contemplate and consider the creative spirit that is alive in each of us and on display here in many different iterations. That is who is called the collective WE.

Collettivo FX and Their Enormous Wall in Castellarano

This is an actual collective called Collettivo FX (Marco AvantGarde Cavazzoni and Emilio Campana) who slaughtered a wall with animals in the municipality of Castellarano, a town of 13,000 in Northern Italy. The drone cam shots and the sound track by Brian Eno are masterful and mature, adding to the scope of the collective’s undertaking.

Lek and Sowat Show How to Make a Print

Lithography enhanced by hand, this is a mixture of 19th century know-how and contemporary art. If you want to know how an art print is made, now you know.

TELLAS at Altrove, courtesy @BlindeyeFactory

You did you see our piece on the Altrove Festival yesterday? – Largely Geometric : Altrove ’15 Delivers Abstract Murals to Catanzaro. If you did you saw the work of Tellas, and this is a spritely video recounting the wall in its creation.

Sh*t Brooklyn People Say

Okay before you get your attitude all snarly, this is just one slice of Brooklyn. Brooklyn has something like a hundred languages being spoken on the streets and in the stores and hair salons and funeral parlors and restaurants and 54% don’t even speak English at home. That’s a fact. But this is still funny. One slice. You gotta better video? Send it to us!

BONUS: FAT JOE Performing Live at Bushwick Collective Block Party 2015 Last Weekend

Shot on the street by Christopher Smith. Lean Back!

Largely Geometric : Altrove ’15 Delivers Abstract Murals to Catanzaro

June 11, 2015 Artists

Mural festivals are blanketing towns and cities with works that run the gamut from eye-poppingly stunning to banal and forgettable. The success of the mix is in the hands of organizers, and not surprisingly, there are many audiences to plan for. One strategy to set your festival apart from the teeming pack is to thematically curate your artists selection and the Altrove Festival in Catanzaro, Italy has settled upon abstraction as an aesthetic principle to organize around.

Ciredz. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Delighting in shape, form, and myriad manners of deconstruction, Altrove’s invited artists steer clear of the figurative and opt instead for patterns, reductive masking, organic forms sheared and overlayed, translucent polygons, optikal graphics, mise-en-scene illusion, paint-chip mosaics, nostalgic early 3D computer rendered graphics, minimalism, and even full-on Matisse like cut-outs and organic forms occupying gridded blocks of color.

Ciredz. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

All considered, the collection hangs together quite well – even though the sophisticated mix is spread out. Without pandering to the merely pleasant, it actually hits one of Altrove’s expressed goals, to “make nearly invisible the boundaries between art and architecture, space and place.

Artists include 108, Alberonero, Giorgio Bartocci, Clemens Behr, Ciredz, Erosie, Graphic Surgery, Sbagliato, Sten Lex and Tellas.

Tellas. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Clemens Behr. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Graphic Surgery. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

108. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

108 . Graphic Surgery. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

108. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Sbagliato. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Erosie. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Bartocci. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Alberonero. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Tellas . 108. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Our sincere gratitude to Giorgio and Lorenzo @BindeyeFactory for sharing their photos exclusively with BSA readers.
Click HERE for more on BlindeyeFactory.

Click HERE for more on Altrove Street Art Festival

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Lee Quinones : The NYC Graffiti Train Storyteller Tells His Own Story

June 10, 2015 Artists

Never Seen Notebook Drawings and Recent Paintings Span 1975-2015

“It was an identity crisis for youth in NYC in the 1970s,” explains Lee Quinones, the whole subway car “bomber” who claims the mantel of aerosol story teller for NYC’s rolling gallery of public art during that nearly dystopian decade. He is sitting on a folding chair before a small crowd of gallery visitors with Glenn O’Brien talking about his youthful creative process during a time when New York was seething with raw emotion, roiling in an identity crisis of its own with social, political, and economic issues all contributing to a perception of pending anarchy.

The occasion is the end of his current show that includes work from two distinct periods: now and 40 years ago. Witnessing one clearly informs your understanding of the other.

Lee Quinones (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“I’m a recovering graffiti artist,” the dynamo LEE likes to say with a wink, and signs of his addiction are framed around the unpolished Chinatown pop-up space to help you see how deep the scars are. Pulled directly from home sketchbooks done in 1975 at the age of 15, these original drawings, some nearly four feet across, belie the level of manic dedication and wizardry his illegal storytelling required in those rusted screeching halcyon days when graffiti tags began to metamorphose into the representational and a certain wilder style.

Lee Quinones (photo © Jaime Rojo)

With personal graffiti influencers on the street like the expressionistic Cliff 159 and the pop-painting Blade lighting his way, LEE says he was searching for a way to break out of the “alphabet soup” of the prevailing lettering and tagging that was enveloping trains and subway stations and burning city walls.

“The small umbrella we were under was too small,” he says as he describes the way he tapped into a superheroes’ courage to fly from the housing projects of Lower Manhattan into social and political themes that took him up and down the number 5 subway line; his own publishing platform that reached thousands, probably millions.

Lee Quinones. Silent Thunder. Whole Car. Detail. 1984 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“I wanted to create storytelling on the subway. Why not address the civil rights movement?,” he asks and you think immediately of the photos and film you’ve seen of the hand sprayed images and text addressing the Vietnam War, economic inequality, environmental degradation, nuclear annihilation, love, death, longing, community, brotherhood, and Donald Duck. A ninja in the train yards, LEE also was a conscience on the rails.

“I wanted to sarcastically address the doctrine that was being thrown at me,” and he did, often collaboratively with four other writers, forming The Fabulous Five. Over that time he estimates he painted many more than a hundred complete subway cars with characters, scenes and public speeches questioning accepted truths and advocating at least a reexamination of them.

Lee Quinones (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The show is a rare opportunity to see these works in person, an illuminating collection of detailed sketches, marker drawings, possible titles, poetry, crossed out ideas, musings, and paint lists. Even in his youth LEE was showing his undying commitment to his art and it’s expression, wherever it lead.

“I feel comfortable being uncomfortable,” he says of the winding route over four decades that now includes a very strong studio practice and shows in major institutions and work in significant collections. He says it has brought a desire to simplify. “On canvasses now I want to say more with less.”

Lee Quinones. Subway Car Montage. Study #2 1980-1983. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Coupled with a smaller collection of recent works, one large monochrome stylized wall tag, and his newest painting, Golpe de Suerte that includes his mother’s hand-written recipe cards and lists collaged and spelling out “amor”, this is a personal show not likely to be seen again.

Including his mother and her lettering style completes a cycle; that’s the same ‘mom’ to whom he dedicated in aerosol many of his trains in the late 1970s and early 80s. Considered as a whole, this show captures a passionate imagination that is still on fire, tempered by experience. Looking at it all, free from the hype, this is the kid who you hoped you would find.

Lee Quinones (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lee Quinones. Crossing Delancy (Basquiat at the Clarinet). 2014. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lee Quinones. The Fabulous 5. 1976. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lee Quinones. In The Yards. Color palette list. 1982. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lee Quinones. Untitled. 1980 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lee Quinones. Golpe de Suerte. 2013-2014 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lee Quinones. Golpe de Suerte. Detail. 2013-2014 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

For more information please contact Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery.

This article is also published on The Huffington Post

Various & Gould Tell a #PublicTale as Scavenger Hunt in Berlin

June 9, 2015 Artists

A new elaborate and inventive public art / scavenger hunt installation in Berlin brings you back inside the combined imaginations of Various & Gould, where you must trust them as they lead you along a colorfully quirky and storied path to find their next installment to continue the story. If art is truly a projection of your internal dialogue, Various & Gould must never sleep, or rather, they possible live in a dream-like state.

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Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

To follow this installation you merely need to stumble upon it on the street and follow the map with directions to the next location. Along the way you are given excerpts from a friendly and riddling tale written to accompany the illustrated collage scenes, which in themselves are each an installation. It helps if you have a sense of adventure, an inquisitive mind, and an afternoon to stroll. It probably also helps if you read and comprehend German, although V&G have thoughtfully translated this story by artist Polina Soloveichik into English.

Gould tells us that it was quite an undertaking to conceive of and create this #PublicTale in studio, and then they had to stick it all up. “It took us seven hours and loads of glue. We were totally exhausted, but happy, when we finished.” They have already been contacted by people who have completed the full hunt, and “So far the pieces and text posters are intact,” he says.

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

The outdoor exhibition is part of a project that V&G completed for BackJumps, a Berlin-based graffiti zine-turned-arts movement that is celebrating 21 years. As part of their new show BackJumps is hosting international and local artists and presenting a series of events this spring/summer that include workshops, lectures, and guided walks, among other activities. Various & Gould had conceived of this project as a public art component of the show and even though they had chosen their ideal locations for the collage illustrations……they confess that they had not actually secured permissions.

“We had chosen the specific spots beforehand and when we went wheat-pasting during day it happened; we encountered people at the locations!” says Various, explaining that they suddenly had doubts about being able to finish. Luckily, they were charming enough to persuade the owners to let them put up their corresponding chapter.

“Three times we had to ask spontaneously to see if it was okay to paste on the respective house/wall/gate, and – to our total surprise – all three times we were given the permission!!” It was a happy ending. Also, says Gould, it was an unusual experience for the duo, “Asking for permission is rather new to us.”

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

One more thing as a point of clarification, and hopefully without spoiling the story or confusing you, dear reader: an actual halted construction project is one of the sites of the art installation and its status as an unfinished project runs parallel to the project in the storyline. Also, the joke told within the story is never revealed, but we have learned that it is actually sprayed upon the wall of that same stalled project. It doesn’t really sound like a “joke” in English; it reads more as a pithy proverb. The text is high upon the side of a building is right next to the famous squat “Köpi”. You can see it also here and here.

Various and Gould have translated it for us.

„Die Grenze verläuft nicht zwischen den Völkern sondern zwischen oben und unten“

or “The border doesn’t run between the nations but between the top and the bottom (or the rich and the poor).

Enjoy this extensive documentation of #PublicTale and check out the hashtag on Instagram.

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Boris Niehaus)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Boris Niehaus)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Boris Niehaus)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Boris Niehaus)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Boris Niehaus)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Tuna Hanging By Tail, Heron By a Leg, ROA By a Heart String in Denmark

June 8, 2015 Artists

Out in the open on an old grain silo in Odense Harbor the urban naturalist ROA has just completed two sides of an enormous former grain silo with suspended fowl and finfish. The hanging animals are a reminder of the wildlife and industry this coastal area of Denmark has been known for historically.

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ROA. Odense, Denmark. June, 2015. (photo © Nicolai Frank)

“The harbor is being converted to a residential area,” says photographer Nicolai Frank, who shares with us these images of the 47 meter high murals. “The building will stay up though as a landmark to remember old industrial times and the main building currently houses temporary exhibitions and music festivals.”

For ROA it is another opportunity, perhaps his largest ever, to draw attention to the often marginalized species we live with, depend on, exploit, and at times celebrate. Here in plain black and white at a scale that can be seen for great distance he reminds viewers of the fish that is now being endangered by commercial over-fishing worldwide as well as a the heralded heron, one of which he saw by a small pond in a park nearby.

ROA. Odense, Denmark. June, 2015. (photo © Nicolai Frank)

We wish to thank Nicoali for sharing these exclusive photos with us. For more photos on this project please go HERE:

BSA Images Of The Week: 06.07.15

June 7, 2015 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Brooklyn is in full effect this weekend with Bushwick Open Studios, Coney Art Walls, and the prep for Welling Court and Northside Art Festival beginning already for next. Go out and stroll, get an egg and cheese on a roll, see a piece by Mr. Toll, and smoke a bowl.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring CB23, Forgive, Hellbent, JR, LMNOPI, One Tooth, Pablo Harymbat, Ramiro Davaro-Comas, She Wolf, Specter, Stray Ones, Thievin’ Stephen, Toaster, and Vexta.

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

Stray Ones (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Thievin’ Stephen (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Toaster for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter billboard take over in Manhattan. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pablo Harymbat in Buenos Aires, Argentina. June 2015. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LMNOPI tribute to the children of Nepal. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ramiro Davaro-Comas (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Forgive (photo © Jaime Rojo)

One Tooth (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Vexta (photo © Jaime Rojo)

She Wolf (photo © Jaime Rojo)

CB23 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Coney Island, Brooklyn. June 2015. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Eine, Hayuk: A Riot of Color at Coney (Update III)

June 6, 2015 Artists

Street Artists continue to bang up walls in the industrial play land by the sea in Brooklyn this week – minus a few days for full-on rain and flash flooding. Suddenly the wind is kicking up and everyone is cold and working as hard at being positive as they are at painting. Anyway, it all about the riotous color right now and here we have two boldly flourescent contributors to Coney Art Walls; London based textual talent Ben Eine style-checking the 70s and Brooklyn hometown gal Maya Hayuk sloshing knee deep through eye popping bands of plaid.

Ben Eine (photo © Jaime Rojo)

As press and photographers are starting to make the trip since the buzz is building, its becoming a bit of a mini-scene – and that’s just to see Martha Cooper! Newly arrived also are Miss Van and Lady Aiko – and there are more on the roster for the next two weeks so keep watching this space – or better yet come have a hotdog and soda and then throw it up on the Cyclone! Look out beloooooooooooooow.

Ben Eine (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Maya Hayuk (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Film Friday: 06.05.15

June 5, 2015 Artists

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

Now screening :

1. 1010 Creates a Crater in Paris
2. Mario Mankey: The World Is Not Over Part 2
3. Giorgio Bartocci from Blindeye Factory
4. Interview with Specter at Vantage Point

BSA Special Feature: 1010 Creates a Crater in Paris

And you thought New York had potholes? Be careful in Paris!

Mario Mankey: The World Is Not Over Part 2

Debuting here, the newest video from Mario Mankey. See him knock out a wall inside Berlin’s former Institute of Anatomy.
The creepiness of this place is possibly the inspiration for the title: “The World Is Not Over: I’m Still Alive”.

Giorgio Bartocci from Blindeye Factory

Interview with Specter at Vantage Point

Happy we were able to bring this guy with us to Berlin in March, and very happy to hear this excellent interview that James and Tom did with him while he was there!

Hell’o Monster and M-City at the Urban Art Biennale in Lille, France

June 4, 2015 Artists

The Biennale Internationale d’Art Mural de Lille from the Collectif Renart is underway in this northern French city of Lille. The international mural festival held every two years boasts artists primarily from the city and region with a handful of artists from other countries.

This years installations continue from May through September, giving a generous leisurely pace without pretense to this program that features myriad styles influenced by graffiti, modern bohemian, D.I.Y., and a variety of fine art practices currently flowing in the larger street art scene.

“The guys who organized this Biennale are really working hard with a sense of generosity,” says photographer and occasional street art writer Aline Mairet of the mood in Lille. She also shares with BSA readers today her photographs of two recent walls from Poland’s M-City and the Brussels collective of Hell’O Monsters.

As it turns out, it appears that both have mined the imaginary monsters that frequent the modern mind, here at large in wooded areas. The invincible M-City is diverging from the industrial-mechanical themes that typically distinguish his massive stencil murals, here going figurative with a light beaming boulder throwing woodland dweller.

The Hell’O Monsters collective of Jérôme Meynen, Antoine Detaille, and François Dieltiens create a scene of two, dipping into mystic-folk-cartoon practices of artful representation on the Hellemme métro station. In other words, we don’t know what is going on here but it is attractive, and possibly frightful.

Learn more about the festival HERE.

Pejac In Hong Kong and Small Acts of Art

June 3, 2015 Artists

When it comes to art in public space it is not always about the enormous mural. Sometimes small acts of art are powerful as well.

After last October’s headlines from Hong Kong filled world press outlets with images of daily marches in the streets by youth, many wondered if this generation would be the one to advance the country toward a more democratic future. Marchers spoke openly of being dissatisfied with what they perceived as the intransigence and impermeability of political structures and a lack of social mobility among other issues.

Many in the West were surprised by the throngs of youth clogging major arteries for days and nights, even setting up camp and conversing with police in a place where dissent is typically silenced swiftly. Along with other types of speech, street art and graffiti are sharply watched according to some artists, and this February the United Nations Inter Press Service reported the results of a study naming China as the most dangerous country for artists in 2014. From this news it is safe to say that Hong Kong is not exactly the best spot to catch an aerosol tag these days, and certainly not a piece with political critique.

That’s why we were interested to see the means of expression Spanish Street and Fine Artist Pejac might employ when he told us he had just made a trip to Hong Kong. He says he thought a lot about his choices. As any Street Art watcher will tell you, context is a major criterion along with placement, and these few small interventions give you an appreciation for how Pejac perceived the tense environment, as well as how pertinent and very personal his messages were.

The Re-Thinker

A small piece made on a window in his hotel bathroom, Pejac says he chose Rodin’s Thinker as inspiration because he felt that locals are not being allowed to think for themselves. He is not sure why he had the impression; perhaps because of the rush on the street and the lack of time and space and the rhythm of the city. He calls the small piece The Re-Thinker.

Tagger

“This piece is located in Hong Kong Central, precisely on Hollywood Road 97,” says Pejac. The use of a blow torch as an art-making tool is pretty impressive, as is the dragon, a well known symbol of strength and power. The difference here is how Pejac interprets the hot-breathed tagger in a docile and pleasing fashion. “This ferocious mythical animal that can cause hurricanes and floods,” he says, “here becomes a domesticated pet.”

Oppression

Pejac’s last small but potent intervention was placed in front of the Central Government Complex of Hong Kong, he says, where last years ‘Umbrella Revolution’ protests were focused.

“The piece features the MSN Hotmail Butterfly trapped in a glass jar,” he says. “It works as a metaphor of the imprisonment of free speech and communication in Chinese peoples’ lives .
The butterfly is not killed but trapped, being able to see and feel, but left to slowly die.”

No word about what happened to the jar.

Last year BSA talked to Pejac about his work and about his tribute piece to Monet, which he painted on the hulk of an abandoned ship on the coast of Canabria in the North of Spain.

This article is also published on The Huffington Post and El Huffington Post

Satirizing the Corporate State with “Hygenic Dress League” in Madrid

June 2, 2015 Artists

Sorry, didn’t mean to drop a caterpillar in your Chablis darling, just wanted to make art that has meaning.

In an era of rapid change, three-card monte, and staged misinformation, satire is one useful art form that can assist you to keep the facts in focus – blowing the PR fog from the room.

It has been a little while since we checked in with Detroit-based conceptual satirists Hygenic Dress League (HDL) and we found that they have landed with a thud in Spain. The public art may appear simple, but the concepts are heavy.

You’ll recall perhaps that this street art duo is actually a corporation and their love for blurring lines between
truth/lies,
corporate personhood/personhood,
art project/social commentary, and
humorous/deadly serious
may make for dissonance in the cranial region.

Even their murals are not called such – they are “advertisements”. That is especially rich now that major brands are hi-jacking organic street art culture and wiggling around local ordinances by calling their advertisements “murals”.

HDL Corp. concepts are so developed that founders Steve and Dorota Coy cannot speak normally any more, preferring to communicate only in the non-personal “we” speak of press releases and “communications” departments. He/She/They can explain the work better than we/you can adequately comprehend so here the HDL Corporation takes the floor for the remainder of today’s Powerpoint presentation.

But first, who are all these eagle-headed figures in the work? “The animal men are basically anthropomorphic versions of our employees – the three represented here are all representing the executive employees from the corporation,” Coy tells us.

“‘Pulling Strings’ represents the idea of seeming like we are free when we are really tied down – attached – under the control of oligarchy. This piece can also be interpreted as the masses doing the work to benefit the few – the wealthy. We appreciate the double read of this piece.”

“‘The Eagle has Landed Part II’ at the LX Factory portrays American capitalism/corporatism and its global impact on cities.”

“This piece presents a new character for our corporation,” says spokesperson Coy. “Just as any corporation would hire models to build their brand, the ‘Gold Face’ characters are just that. They are part of a marketing campaign to represent the elite and make people feel inadequate in their current status,” says Coy.

“‘Gold Faces’ will appear in more advertisements in the future. The seeing eye is also present on the hands and the carnations represent the carnation revolution of 1975 in Portugal which freed them from dictatorship.”

“This piece in our classic gold and black is just an homage to our executives. It is painted on metal and has a really nice aesthetic – a gleam.”

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Bifido and Nemo’s Collaboration

June 1, 2015 Artists

Remember that time you put Sriracha sauce on a stack of pancakes along with the maple syrup and butter? It may have been your wide latitude of acceptable outcomes in the pursuit of creativity or it could have been the hangover you were nursing – but it actually totally worked, right? Who knew?

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Bifido and Nemo’s first collaboration for Mostar Street Art Festival. Bosnia and Herzegovina. May 2015. (photo © courtesy Bifido)

That’s what we were thinking about when looking at this new wall in Mostar, Bosnia and Hersegovina by two of Italy’s current street experimenters who usually work separately with distinctively different styles.

Bifido’s surrealist fairey tales told with photography and wheat-paste evoke fantasy and children’s television specials while Nemo’s near-demensia fever dream illustrations are wracked with worry and regret, and a bit of comedy. As long as you remain in the realm of fantasy, this story can easily work – especially if you make your own narrative. Go ahead, you might like it.

Bifido and Nemo’s first collaboration for Mostar Street Art Festival. Bosnia and Herzegovina. May 2015. (photo © courtesy Bifido)

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BSA Special Feature: Born and Bred: The Rise of Street Art in Bushwick

Collettivo FX and Their Enormous Wall in Castellarano

Lek and Sowat Show How to Make a Print

TELLAS at Altrove, courtesy @BlindeyeFactory

Sh*t Brooklyn People Say

BONUS: FAT JOE Performing Live at Bushwick Collective Block Party 2015 Last Weekend

Ciredz. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Ciredz. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Tellas. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Tellas. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Clemens Behr. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Clemens Behr. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Graphic Surgery. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Graphic Surgery. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

108. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

108. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

108. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

108 . Graphic Surgery. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

108 . Graphic Surgery. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

108. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Sbagliato. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Sbagliato. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Sbagliato. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Erosie. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Erosie. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Bartocci. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Bartocci. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Alberonero. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Alberonero. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Tellas . 108. Altrove Street Art Festival. Italy, May 2015. (photo © @blindeyefactory)

Never Seen Notebook Drawings and Recent Paintings Span 1975-2015

Lee Quinones (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lee Quinones. Silent Thunder. Whole Car. Detail. 1984 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lee Quinones (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lee Quinones. Subway Car Montage. Study #2 1980-1983. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lee Quinones (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lee Quinones. Crossing Delancy (Basquiat at the Clarinet). 2014. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lee Quinones. The Fabulous 5. 1976. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lee Quinones. In The Yards. Color palette list. 1982. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lee Quinones. Untitled. 1980 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lee Quinones. Golpe de Suerte. 2013-2014 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lee Quinones. Golpe de Suerte. Detail. 2013-2014 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lee Quinones. Golpe de Suerte. Detail. 2013-2014 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

„Die Grenze verläuft nicht zwischen den Völkern sondern zwischen oben und unten“

or “The border doesn’t run between the nations but between the top and the bottom (or the rich and the poor). Enjoy this extensive documentation of #PublicTale and check out the hashtag on Instagram.

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Boris Niehaus)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Boris Niehaus)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Boris Niehaus)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Boris Niehaus)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Boris Niehaus)

Various & Gould: Public Tale in collaboration with Polina Soloveichik. Berlin, 2015. (photo © Various & Gould)

ROA. Odense, Denmark. June, 2015. (photo © Nicolai Frank)

ROA. Odense, Denmark. June, 2015. (photo © Nicolai Frank)

ROA. Odense, Denmark. June, 2015. (photo © Nicolai Frank)

ROA. Odense, Denmark. June, 2015. (photo © Nicolai Frank)

ROA. Odense, Denmark. June, 2015. (photo © Nicolai Frank)

ROA. Odense, Denmark. June, 2015. (photo © Nicolai Frank)

ROA. Odense, Denmark. June, 2015. (photo © Nicolai Frank)

ROA. Odense, Denmark. June, 2015. (photo © Nicolai Frank)

ROA. Odense, Denmark. June, 2015. (photo © Nicolai Frank)

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

Stray Ones (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Thievin’ Stephen (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Toaster for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

or “The border doesn’t run between the nations but between the top and the bottom (or the rich and the poor).

Enjoy this extensive documentation of #PublicTale and check out the hashtag on Instagram.