BSA Images Of The Week: 05.17.15

May 17, 2015 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Shout out to all the great Swoon fans we met last night during the artists talk with her. All the seats were filled so it was standing room only in the back but yet it felt so intimate. Ya’ll are stupendous and smart and handsome and beautiful and we were honored to be with you.

Shout out to the family of American blues institution BB King who passed on this week. His music and talent influenced so many. Sending love and condolences to his family and friends.

Let’s see what Jeffery Deitch has in store for Smorgasburg Coney Island starting this week in preparation for the Memorial Day weekend opening – published reports have the roster of street artists at 15 but we’re hearing closer to 25 will be hitting up temporary concrete walls in this outdoor gallery he is doing in partnership with a large real estate firm to promote the new Coney Island. Some names you’ll recognize are old skool 70s-80s train writers like Lee Quinones, Crash, Daze, Lady Pink, Futura, and new people he has been reaching out to from the 2000s and 2010s scene who we bring you regularly like How & Nosm, Skewville, Steve Powers, possibly even ROA . This list will surely grow as word gets out and artists besiege Mr. Deitch to participate. The full installation is to last a month and will be surely caught on film and timelapse video.

Meanwhile, here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Alexis Diaz, Alka Murat, Appleton, Marco Berta, Blaqk Blaqk, City Kitty, Creepy Creep, Dain, Dasic Fernandez, Duke A. Barnstable, Elsa Sauguet, Eva & Adele, Ever, Goldman Rats, Ines Maas, JR, Penny Gaff, Robert Janz, Sebastian Reinoso Salinas, Seikon Stav6, and Swoon.

Top Image: Alexis Diaz (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dasic for Welling Court in LIC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Appleton (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Swoon (photo © Jaime Rojo)

An unknown artist created this installation of a suspension bridge in Chelsea and we dig it! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Front view of the suspension bridge in Chelsea by an unknown artist. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A scene from Nicolas Romero AKA Ever in Buenos Aires, Argentina in collaboration with performers Elsa Sauguet, Sebastian Reinoso Salinas y Ines Maas and sculptor Marcos Berta (photo © Ever)

About the show, from Ever:

” ‘头部 (The Head)’ is an art installation based on the analysis of Chinese Communist posters. When the posters represent the ‘idea’, people are always down the picture and the Mao Tse Tung portrait always floating in heaven, protecting that theory founded in the Russian winters. When they want to describe the pragmatics, Mao is cultivating flowers, going to visit schools, etc.

The idea with ‘The Head’ is to think why the “communist theory” fails in its application to reality, and this is because many times the idea has to be corresponded o taken through a body, a body that exercises the idea, that exercises power. That’s why, part of the installation that we present here, invites people to get into the head, so we all can have the feeling that we are not loyal to the theory; the idealization is as dangerous as it is obsessive.”

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dain (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Stav6 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy Creep (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Blaqk Blaqk in collaboration with Seikon in Greece. (photo © Alka Murat)

JR from his Walking New York series. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Penny Gaff must be warming up for the Faile arcade show coming to Brooklyn Museum in July. War games…lethal. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Robert Janz (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Goldman Rats already has selected the next president. You may now return to your regular scheduled programming. Enjoy! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

It’s lilac season! Duke A Barnstable is feeling poetic (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

City Kitty (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Art in the streets as Berlin based performance artists and fine artists Eva & Adele are seen here “performing” some last minute ensemble adjustments before hitting the art fairs – as is their wont. Chelsea, New York City. May 2015. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Swoon “The Road By Walking” and Artist Talk with BSA

May 16, 2015 Artists

An Inside Look at The Imagination and Energy of Swoon and “The Road By Walking”

This is how the road is made. Swoon invites you to take another step with her.

It’s been an enormous success this week for Street Artist Swoon as she launches her Heliotrope Foundation to bring the values and vision of her long-term community-based projects under one roof. Beginning with a packed private opening Wednesday with enthusiastic guests clamoring for a new print and to see a large selection of drawings, visitors also poked their heads around intricate small scale models of her centerpiece projects and into selfies with Swoon and Heliotrope board member Swizz Beatz.

Swoon. The Road By Walking. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Since the earliest days of seeing Swoon’s wheat-pasted cutouts on New York streets passersby could tell that these waters run deep and are full of stories and a committed sense of our collective inherent responsibility to uphold our neighbor and to seek to re-balance.

The Road By Walking show allows you to personally contemplate the baseline commitment the artist is making to the fate of others whose lives have been struck by disaster – whether natural, as in the case of the earthquake in Haiti or the hurricane in New Orleans, or the man made economic disasters that leave communities worldwide suffering in their wake, as in the de-industrialized town of Braddock, Pennsylvania.

Swoon. The Road By Walking. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Without lecturing or preening, Swoon consistently demonstrates how using your talents, whatever they are, can transform – first through imagination, then through boots on the ground. With very dedicated teams of volunteers and talents alongside, in front of and behind her, Swoon keeps making new roads.

The Road By Walking, which is again open today and free to the public, allows fans of street art and social activism an opportunity to come face to face with how small scale artistic interventions can plant and nurture seeds of lasting change.

Swoon. The Road By Walking. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA is proud to invite you to meet the artist today as The Road By Walking culminates in an Artists Talk with BSA and Swoon at a special reception tonight, where we’ll be learning about her plans for Heliotrope Foundation and specifically about Braddock Tiles, The Music Box, and Konbit Shelter.

We can’t wait to meet you! It is a free event and space is very limited so please RSVP so we’ll know you are coming.

(Please see all the links at the end of this post, including the RSVP button and online bidding)

Swoon. The Road By Walking. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Swoon. The Road By Walking. Maquette for Braddock Tiles Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Swoon. The Road By Walking. Interior view of maquette for Braddock Tiles Project in Braddock, PA. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Swoon. The Road By Walking. Maquette for New Orleans Music Box Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Swoon. The Road By Walking. Maquette for New Orleans Music Box Project. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Swoon. The Road By Walking. Maquette for Knobi Shelter Project in Haiti. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Swoon. The Road By Walking. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Film Friday: 05.15.15

May 15, 2015 Artists

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

Now screening :

1. Miss Van, Victor Castillo, Easo Andrews in LA
2. Rallitox Invites You to Walk Over Immigrants for Free.
3. Kinetoscope: Angelina Christina x Ease One
4. Cranio in Breda, Netherlands for Graphic Design Festival
5. Michael Beerens: Captivity and Freedom
6. ICY & SOT Interview in Berlin for Vantage Point

BSA Special Feature: Miss Van, Victor Castillo, Easo Andrews in LA

This costume shop in Los Angeles got very lucky this spring when Barcelona based Miss Van visited and asked them if they would like their facade freshly painted. Along with local talents Victor Castillo and Easo Andrews, Miss Van created a bit of costumed magic that will undoubtedly increase sales.

The video is directed, shot, and edited by “Birdman”.

Rallitox Invites You to Walk Over Immigrants for Free.

A social experiment in Berlin this March by Street Artist Rallitox invited passersby to walk on top of Immigrants. A politically and socially charged topic in many countries today, Germany is struggling to strike a balance about where it stands on immigration. It is surprising how many people were willing to try it out, and how many nervously smiled as an upswelling of conflicting emotions were undoubtedly released in all participants, including those who watched.

Kinetoscope: Angelina Christina x Ease One

Slab City is sometimes billed as an isolated desolated off-the-grid sort of place in California so it was an adventure for Christina Angelina and Ease One discovered the remains of this abandoned water tank and transformed it into a circular mural. They call it The Kinetoscope.

Cranio in Breda, Netherlands for Graphic Design Festival

Sort of odd for a festival with this kind of name on our site but we clearly acknowledge the continuum of creativity extends beyond labels today. Brazilian street artist Cranio here provides a look at his technique with cans for creating his instantly recognizable figures.

Michael Beerens: Captivity and Freedom

Icy & Sot Interviewed on Vantage Point in Berlin

In March we were in Icy & Sots’ room in Berlin for the recording of this interview and it was great to watch. Check out the full interview below and go to their main site to hear more interviews as well (including one with BSA)

https://soundcloud.com/vantagepointradio/ep-037-icy-and-sot

BIFIDO’s Surrealist Fairy Tale on a Wall in Bologna

May 14, 2015 Artists

Children inhabit a world full of possibilities that inexplicably contains winged animals, adults, ghosts, candy, race cars, dancing in circles, Angela Merkel, Prince Charming, spiderwebs, sidewalk chalk, Beyonce, and the ability to fly without a plane – all coexisting together in harmony in the same story.

Bifido understands.

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Bifido with young fans. (photo © Courtesy of Bifido)

The Italian Street Artist may need a little more explanation to describe his new installation of photographic characters and elements on the wall of this children’s school for the CHEAP festival in Bologna, but you are welcome to interpret his wheat-pastes in any many you like. “It’s my tribute to a child’s world,” he explains.

Bifido (photo © Dario Alejandro Barletta)

With shots taken by him and scenarios drawn from imagination and some current events, his surreal disregard for proportion, singularity of symbol and how they seem to levitate in air – may make you think of Magritte as you walk past this brick façade.

What is most striking about the composition could be that the addition of empty space between the characters effectively creates a dialog between them as if they are rationally related. Because they are realistically rendered, it is becomes difficult to separate the real from the imagined – with the exception of the headless adults, which of course are real.

Bifido (photo © Dario Alejandro Barletta)

Bifido (photo © Pierfrancesco Lafratta)

Bifido (photo © Dario Alejandro Barletta)

Click HERE to learn more about Cheap Festival. Bologna, Italy.

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The Trades: Hendrik Beikirch (ECB) Traces Moroccan Faces

May 13, 2015 Artists

Street Artist ECB is introducing you to the trades of Morocco by painting the faces of current practitioners whom he has met on the street. By now we are familiar with the storytelling role that artists can fulfill with their portraits of individuals who live in a region, town, or neighborhood and Street Artists such as the Parisian C215, Canadian Fauxreel, and the American desert dweller Jetsonorama come to mind as well as more recent Brooklyn social activists like LMNOPI and Tatiana Fazlilazadeh.

We have been introducing and recounting Street Art stories for years online and in front of audiences and we find that it never fails to intrigue people to learn that many faces on the street are those of a community.

Hendrik ecb Beikirch. “Trades” Portrait of Oulad-Bouzid-III, a street barber. The streets of Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

German Street Artist Hendrik Beikirch aka ECB has been known on the scene in recent years for his massive portraits of people – sometimes subjects known to the artist and other times from his imagination. For his new project in Morroco ECB returns to a social/anthropolical ethos – a route he says has energized his work by focusing on occupations and trades of his subjects. In doing so he hopes to preserve something more about their professions and culture; street barbers, shepherds, even the guy who writes a letter for you.

Hendrik ecb Beikirch. “Trades” Portrait of Oulad-Bouzid-III on the streets of Brooklyn. (photo © Leanna Valente)

“I am seeking to capture their ‘aura’ in this work series,” he tells us, “with the goal of making these people immortal in the process.” Calling his series “Trades – Tracing Morocco” he explains that he has made the trip 10 times or more from his home in Koblenz, Germany to this one in the Maghreb region of North Africa to meet locals and speak with them. As he captures their image and shares it on streets he says he hopes to preserve and elevate the stories of a people in trades that are disappearing.

“I want to transform people from the anonymous to the iconic, while paying tribute to trades that might be gone in the near future.”

Hendrik ecb Beikirch. “Trades” Portrait of Oulad-Bouzid-III on the streets of Brooklyn. ECB documenting his work. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

During his initial visit to Jardin Rouge/Marrakech in the summer of 2014, “I was immediately fascinated by the diversity of this country, its rich history and the contrasts in peoples faces that are somehow created by the environment they live in.”

Supported by the Foundation Montresso/ Jardin Rouge, Hendrik says that he strives to impart a humanity of the people he has met that passerby can connect to through his paintings. “It is a country with hard working people, many of whom are living a tough life, but with so much pride and happiness.”

Right now ECB is working on creating an exhibition in October with the foundation and he will be publishing a book focusing on the “Trades” series on Éditions Eyrolles.

Hendrik ecb Beikirch. “Trades” Portrait of Oulad-Bouzid-III at the studio in Jardin Rouge/Marrakesh. (photo © Nils-Muller)

Hendrik ecb Beikirch. “Trades” Portrait of Fadma Tafza a traditional tattooist for women faces. The streets of Arce, Italy. (photo © Hendrik Beikirch)

Hendrik ecb Beikirch. “Trades” Portrait of Fadma Tafza on the streets of Arce, Italy. (photo © Dante Corsetti)

Hendrik ecb Beikirch. “Trades” Portrait of Fadma Tafza at the studio in Jardin Rouge/Marrakesh. (photo © Hendrik Beikirch)

Hendrik ecb Beikirch. “Trades” Portrait of Ahmed-Kartawa a shepherd. The studio in Jardin Rouge/Marrakesh. (photo © Hendrik Beikirch)

Hendrik ecb Beikirch. “Trades” Detail of Ahmed-Kartawa’s portrait at the studio in Jardin Rouge/Marrakesh. (photo © Hendrik Beikirch)

Hendrik ecb Beikirch at work at the studio in Jardin Rouge/Marrakesh. (photo © Nils-Muller)

Hendrik ecb Beikirch. “Trades” Portrait of Mohamed-Bouhir. A writer/reader for those who are not literate. The studio in Jardin Rouge/Marrakesh. (photo © Hendrik Beikirch)

Hendrik ecb Beikirch. “Trades” Portrait of Elhachemi-Kartawa a pushcart trucker. Studio in Jardin Rouge. Marrakesh (photo © Hendrik Beikirch)

Hendrik ecb Beikirch. “Trades” working on Oulad-Bouzid-III portrait at the studio in Jardin Rouge/Marrakesh. (photo © Nils-Muller)

Hendrik ecb Beikirch. “Trades” Portrait of Rakouch-Timallizene, a traditional potter workshop. Germany. (photo © Hendrik Beikirch)

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This article is also published on The Huffington Post

Human Sticker, Human Behavior in Berlin with Rallitox

May 12, 2015 Artists

You may be familiar with artist such as Maurizio Catelan and Marina Abramović who have featured live humans suspended from the wall as part of gallery or museum installations, and street artist Mark Jenkins creating lifelike sculptures in public space. The effect can be shocking and if done effectively, causes the viewer to review our role as humans when observed at the crossroads of performance, plastic arts, and sociology.

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RallitoX. Human Stickers. Berlin, May 2015. (photo © RallitoX)

Street art experimenter Rallitox treads the fine lines of art and sociology and behavioral studies – often provoking passersby into participating in his works even passively – like staging a crime scene with a grocery store chicken and some ketchup on a sidewalk, or inviting people to walk across the backs of 8 people lying on their stomachs as a free opportunity to walk on immigrants. If it doesn’t delve into sensationalism, this kind of work has the power to focus the view on your role as participant only by virtue of inhabiting a public space.

Rallitox’s latest sociological experiment in Warschauer strasse, Berlin is to transform a friend into a sticker – or rather – to stick a friend to a wall with duct tape. Static images here give part of the story, but nothing compares to the smallest movements of a head or a hand when you walk by, suddenly realizing this inanimate “sticker” is neither a sticker nor inanimate. “Im so interested in using people as an artistic tool to express what I feel, “ he tells us, “Especially when I get to create confusion and to break mental patterns.”

RallitoX. Human Stickers. Process shot. Berlin, May 2015. (photo © RallitoX)

RallitoX. Human Stickers. Berlin, May 2015. (photo © RallitoX)

…and a very brief teaser…

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External Combustion: How & Nosm with Tristan Eaton in BK

May 11, 2015 Artists

Murals sometimes need to be refreshed, and springtime is good time to do it before the weather in NYC gets too punishingly hot. We last showed you this wall in Williamsburg in 2011 when Tristan Eaton finished his piece next to How and Nosm. (Street Artist Tristan Eaton Goes Biblical)

For this “refresh” the guys decided to integrate their work entirely with one another rather than confine neighbor pieces to a color palette for continuity. The collaborative serpentine outcome is a densely patterned panoply of imagery and symbolisms that provide a multitude of departure points for your imagination. Here is an example of a meeting of styles that resulted in combustion!

Tristan Eaton and How & Nosm collab on their previous spot in Williamsburg. The beginnings. Outline by Tristan. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton and How & Nosm collab on their previous spot in Williamsburg. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton and How & Nosm collab in Williamsburg. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan posing behind his stencil in Williamsburg. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton and How & Nosm collab in Williamsburg. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton and How & Nosm collab on their previous spot in Williamsburg. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 05.10.15

May 10, 2015 Artists

Today we celebrate Mother’s Day in the USA and Mexico and about 70 other countries. Cheers and thank you to all the mothers of the world.

If only we would stop paying lip service to the foundational importance of motherhood; if millions of mothers would know that tomorrow they will have food to feed their children, that they could live without fear of violence, could take off time from work to care for their families, were paid a living wage equal to a that of a man, could feel loved, protected, supported, respected and cherished.

Let’s all work to make sure that more mothers experience love and a peace of mind. Even if your mother is not alive and here with us today, we can support someone’s who is.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring $howta, Anthony Lister, Brolga, City Rabbit, Gualicho, Hot Tea, JR, M*Code, Mr. Volpe, Nina Kunan, No More Lies, Pablo Harymbat, Phoebe New York, Pyramid Oracle, Swil, Tristan Eaton, and Willow.

Top Image: Brand new work from Willow and Swil in Brooklyn. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Willow and Swil (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Willow and Swil. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pyramid Oracle (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Phoebe New York (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Brolga (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR from his series Walking New York. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton at work on his mural for The L.I.S.A. Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton. Detail of his mural for The L.I.S.A. Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton for The L.I.S.A. Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The phrase in Tristan’s new mural inspired by the Grandmaster Flash and Furious Five song from 1983, “New York, New York”.

New York, New York
Big City of Dreams
and every thing in New York
ain’t always what it seems.

Pablo Harymbat AKA Gualicho and Nina Kunan. Collaboration in Buenos Aires, Argentina. CLICK on photo to enlarge. May 2015. (photo © Gualicho)

A phrase from a song by Against Me! called “Baby I’m Anarchist”. Thanks to Rhiannon for alerting us! Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

M*Code (photo © Jaime Rojo)

City Rabbit (photo © Jaime Rojo)

$howta (photo © Jaime Rojo)

No More Lies (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Someone made a cat fish sculpture out of tires and wrapped it around a lamp post. If it is not Yong Ho Ji then it is an admirer of his work. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lister behind the fence. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lister with Hot Tea on the fence. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

This wall keeps changing again and again and we like seeing it each time. Various artists. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Spring 2015. New York City. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Cyrcle: Never Alone in Brooklyn

May 9, 2015 Artists

We got half a Cyrcle in Brooklyn last week flying solo, but you know you are never never alone in this Street Art scene. The gents have had a lot of opportunity to travel since BSA first began presenting their work for you – primarily in Los Angeles, as far back as 2011. In the last couple of years their polished representative and text based works have taken them on adventures to Sweden, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Vienna, Detroit, Montreal, London, Miami…and it has helped them to evolve their body of work and meet many new fans and collaborators. It was a great pleasure to get them this wall ans to see Cyrcle on the streets of Brooklyn, where of course we think everyone belongs eventually.

Cyrcle. The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Film Friday: 05.08.15

May 8, 2015 Artists

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

Now screening :

1. Shepard Fairey: OBEY This Film
2. El Paso X Juarez: Border Murals by El Mac
3. Paint PHX 2015
4. DULK in Rome

BSA Special Feature: Shepard Fairey: OBEY This Film

This almost a year old but it is also sort of timeless when you see how Shepard Fairey’s continous re-evolving of his philosophies about art and its place in our lives has come to such cogent arguments. It’s a short film, a genuine distillation of the larger themes that we have seen at work in the life and the career and public person.

Shot by a guy whose primary focus up until this point was nearly exclusively about skaters and skate culture, Brett Novak says he was pleasantly surprised to learn that Fairey was likeable and had a lot of good information to impart. “I was not aware at how incredibly inspiring Shepard would turn out to be.”

El Paso X Juarez: Border Murals by El Mac

These sister cities that straddle the line between Texas and Chihuahua continue to highlight the tumult that exists along the southern border of the United States – a heady mix of commerce, severe economic disparity, xenophobia, racism, family love, dreams, violence, the drug trade, aspiration, honesty, hope, and corruption. In this first part of a series of videos highlighting the street artist / muralist El Mac, you get a taste of the the caustic militarized state of this zona and what it may feel like to live in it or pass through it.

“Last December I painted murals in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuaha and El Paso, Texas as a sort of independent binational mural project that I’ve been planning for a few years with my friend David ‘Grave’ Herrera,” says El Mac in his description of the project. ” In 2012 I photographed participants in the Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity (Caravana por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad) when it passed through El Paso. The caravan was made up of people who lost family members to the violence, corruption and injustice that has plagued Mexico for the last near-decade.”

Paint PHX 2015

Yep, its a Street Art festival in Phoenix. This is their video with some interviews with participating artists like Caratoes from Hong Kong, Kahi Beamer from Hawaii, Joerael Elliot/Gang the Wolf, and Yatika Fields as they describe how they think of their work and this Arizonian city.

DULK from Blindeye Factory in Rome

You saw the shots a few days ago when we wrote Dulk Illustrates Out on a Limb in Rome, but now you can hear it set to music!

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We Love Paris In The Spring Time! New Shots of Street Art.

May 7, 2015 Artists

When Cole Porter wrote “I love Paris in the Springtime!” in 1953 he probably was thinking of showgirls and their suitors and the wickedness of the Montmartre dance halls in the 1890s, but when photographer Sandra Hoj was in Paris last week she was thinking of aerosol paintings and paste-ups, and her enthusiasm was equal or greater to Porters.

“Five full glorious days in one of my favorite cities,” she writes when talking about her excursions into the Paris Street Art scene, saying, “Noticing street art is a party, not a job. It’s time to dance.”

Now back in Copenhagen where she blogs and writes about infrastructure, urban planning, bike parking, and trees, Ms. Hoj happily shares her newest Paris findings with BSA readers, and we thank her for it!

“I miss Paris already,” she adds.

“The Outings Project; a cool participative art project, moving Renaissance museum art into the streets. It is spreading all over the world. I caught this one in Paris, before I even knew that it was part of something bigger,” says Sandra.

A few links about the artists from Sandra:

Jo Di Bona (https://instagram.com/jodibona/ and https://www.facebook.com/popgraffiti)

Vinie (http://www.viniegraffiti.com/)

Zag et Sia (https://fr-fr.facebook.com/ZaG47)

ThyM’arengo (https://www.facebook.com/thymarengo)

We wish to express our heartfelt gratitude to Sandra for sharing with us her findings in Paris. Make sure to visit Sandra’s blog called Classic Copenhagen

Avalon Jazz Band – I Love Paris

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Barcelona Dispatch : A Street Art Survey From a Fan

May 6, 2015 Artists

By his own account Lluís Olivé has been shooting images in the city of Barcelona for about 50 years; street scenes, demonstrations, parades, architectural details, tiles, iron work, doors, doorknobs, windows, and of course, graffiti and Street Art. Calling himself an amateur, Señor Olivé nonetheless has captured a lot of Barcelona’s changing Street Art scene in the last decade and shares a handful of his favorites from the 2,500 or so street art images he has shot in the city.

“My experience shooting graffiti began in 2005 when I discovered an aerosol painting of the face of a girl and I was so impressed by it that I began to look for more,” he says, describing how he was first bitten by the bug. “I started to tour around different neighborhoods and even though I lived 150 kilometers from Barcelona at the time, I took trips there as often as I could to take pictures of the graffiti and Street Art.”

Since 2010 he has moved much closer to the city and thanks to the friendships he has formed he says that artists have reached out to him to come and shoot their new work. He favors murals, portraits and faces, illustrations, photorealism and fantasy. Since he now lives closer to the art he has adopted an approach that is methodical. “I research on the internet, search certain hashtags, and check my email – I usually follow more or less known weekly ‘routes ‘,” he explains.

Unfortunately for Street Art fans like Olivé, the city has taken serious steps to limit organic street art in recent years. Areas of the city that once burst with thousands of murals, pieces, stencils, and wheatpastes had begun to attract tourists to an art scene that outshone many major cities but according to many artists the city and real estate industry saw new development opportunities and smothered a scene that had inspired books, websites, videos, galleries, and related cultural events.

While the city’s clean-up efforts have spawned a criticism in certain quarters that the organic nature of the street art scene has been cynically expunged in favor of commercial retail stores and corporate dullness, municipal advocates respond that the city has also created “zones” for individual creativity to be expressed with little restriction.

Señor Olivé believes that both parties have a point. “Since I began taking photos in Barcelona I have seen a huge change from when I started – the amount of Street Art has decreased due to new municipal policies high penalties. But the city has also created 8 or 10 ‘approved’ zones for graffiti and the quality is often very good.”

One of his favorite sanctioned spots to shoot is in a park inaugurated in the 1990s where a light and power station once operated and where three tall chimneys from the previous century still tower as a reminder of the history of the city. “Jardines de las Tres Chimeneas” (Three Chimney Park) provides a number of paved skateboarding spots and walls specifically reserved for an ongoing graffiti exposition that is renewed weekly. The park has events including skateboard competions, electronic music performances and exhibitions of hip-hop and break dance.

He is retiring from his regular job this July and plans to take a trip to a number of cities in the US to celebrate with his wife, and to take photos. He has a post-retirement photography plan already. “Starting this October I am planning a new project for myself to do a one-year weekly documentation of the ‘Tres Chimeneas’,” – perhaps to present in a gallery or some other formal venue.

And of course, there is still plenty of the unsanctioned stuff to shoot, it just may be a little harder to find…

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