Canemorto (Dead Dog) Across Italy

Canemorto (Dead Dog) Across Italy

April 9, 2013

Gutteral grunts of smeared color across lumpen or attenuated limbs akimbo, eye balls bulging and staring with body language and gestures happily inclusive, the Canemorto trio are grotesquely entertaining many a wall across Italy these days.  Neneboy, Zenop, and Azz the One are three Italian Street Artists “who paint together as a single person” using the name that means “dead dog”.

Canemorto. Milano, Italy. (photo © Canemorto)

Not exactly mannerists like Il Parmigianino, you can still see the painting DNA of a rich cultural heritage inform their freewheeling  hand even as they elongate and distort and recolor, letting the street encourage spontaneity, as it often will. Like a dead dog along the roadside, you may feel a little put off, but you also feel compelled to inspect it nonetheless. And perhaps take a picture. In a way, that could be the intention.

Here we look at recent pieces from Milano at night, a work made in Lodi in collaboration with EmaJons and Cripsta, and a work made in Saronno. A special shout out to photographer El Pacino for the excellent black and white night shots.

Canemorto. Milano, Italy. (photo © El Pacino)

Canemorto. Milano, Italy. (photo © El Pacino)

Canemorto. Milano, Italy. (photo © El Pacino)

Canemorto. Milano, Italy. (photo © Canemorto)

Canemorto. Milano, Italy. (photo © Canemorto)

Canemorto with EmaJons and Cripsta in Lodi, Italy. (photo © Canemorto)

Canemorto with EmaJons and Cripsta in Lodi, Italy. (photo © Canemorto)

Canemorto. Saronno, Italy. (photo © Canemorto)

Canemorto. Saronno, Italy. (photo © Canemorto)

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Stolen Space Gallery Presents: The London Police ‘It’s All Fun & Games Until Someone Gets Hurt’ (London, UK)

April 8, 2013
‘It’s All Fun & Games Until Someone Gets Hurt’
By The London Police
09.05.13 – 26.05.13

They’re comin’ home, They’re comin’ home, They’re comin’, TLP is comin’ home!

And so it’s back to East London again for UK exports ‘The London Police’ for their first solo art show in England since 2009.

This time around the Amsterdam-based lads have themed their show around sports and games and, although they have totally mistimed their sterling effort of jumping on the Olympic bandwagon, the essex born duo have produced a slick show of considered artworks and designer sport products.

http://www.stolenspace.com/section.php?xSec=555

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Follow the NARD STAR from Cape Town to Brooklyn

April 8, 2013

Far from her hometown of Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa, Street Artist Nard Star (or simply Nard) just completed this fox in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn.  With references that include cubism, graffiti, and street art, she often includes characters and animals along with text treatments, always in a defined and precise line style and steady hand. Self-taught as a child, Nard eventually got some formal training as an artist and is hitting more walls than ever as her visual vocabulary continues to refine and define.

NARD at Bushwick Collective in Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NARD at Bushwick Collective in Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NARD at Bushwick Collective in Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NARD at Bushwick Collective in Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NARD at Bushwick Collective in Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NARD at Bushwick Collective in Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Images of the Week: 04.07.13

April 7, 2013

DUDE! We’re on Instagram! http://instagram.com/bkstreetart#.  @BKStreetArt E’rbody Holla! and Follow! Now we can stop this whole wack blog thing, right?

Here’s our weekly interview of the street, this week featuring Billy Kid, Don John, Iced Coffee, ND’A, NYCe, Poster Boy (or some variant), RONE, Trek Matthews, and some slight alterations Al Pacino, Helen Mirren, and Tom Cruise.

Top image > Don John on a Brooklyn door (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Atlanta based Trek Matthews did a new mural on a wall at Bushwick Collective, formerly known as Buschwick Five Points.  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Iced Coffee (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Billi Kid (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tom Cruise sporting some 90s facial hair and an even tan, despite the post apocalypse. We’ll credit Poster Boy, or his minions. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Helen Mirren is red-eyed and sad while Al Pacino has just dropped some acid of some sort. Poster Boy. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rone (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Don John’s show “Darwin’s Finches” is currently on view at Kunsthalle Gallery in DUMBO. Click here for more details. (photo © Don John)

Don John and Faust in Copenhagen. (photo © Don John)

But you’re going to need SOMETHING to wash them down with. Martha Raoli (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gilf! suggests Liberty Kool-Aid (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Manhattan Bridge. Dumbo, Brooklyn. March 2013 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

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Blog Spotting >> OX does Billboard Hijack on the Outskirts of Paris

April 6, 2013

Blog Spotting from “Underground Paris”

Periodically we like to highlight another blog post that has caught our eye and here is a story about a billboard re-purposer named OX who likes to claim in the name of art, and humor.
 

“French artist, OX’s, latest ad takeover at Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, is a site – and weather – specific artwork that was planned for this out-of-town location due to OX’s fondness for displaying his artworks backed by barren suburban landscapes, as well as the changing nature of the Parisian billboard space, which makes it ever harder to find suitable billboards to hijack.”

OX at work on the outskirts of Paris. (photo © Demian Smith)

“This latest work incorporates the billboard stand into the work, which OX knots, and camouflages with the blue Paris sky.”  Click on UNDERGROUND PARIS to continue reading and to see more photos of OX.

OX on the outskirts of Paris. (photo © Demian Smith)

 

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Friday Night it’s “The Brooklyn” A Photograpy Exhibition of the Street

April 5, 2013

A new photography show that captures the street in the borough you love organized by Jim Kiernan and Aakash Nihalani.

Opening tonight at 17 Frost Gallery in Williamsburg, “The Brooklyn” features photography by Barry Yanowitz, Chris Arnade, Jaime Rojo, Jake Dobkin, Jamel Shabazz, Jim Kiernan, Lucas McGowen, Luna Park, Mario Brotha, Matt Weber, Sam Horine, and Timothy Schenck.

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BSA Film Friday: 04.05.13

April 5, 2013

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

Now screening: ROA in Cambodia, MOMO and El Tono Snap Your Attention in France, Conor Harrington in Norway, and Shepard Fairey in London for “Sound and Vision”

BSA Special Feature:
ROA: A Trip to Cambodia

Street Art and Skateboarding – What’s not to like?

Presented by The SK8room, here is a brand new video of Street Artist ROA. Twenty percent of all sales that come from this campaign will be donated to Skateistan, a not-for-profit that teaches empowerment through skateboarding to children in impoverished countries like Afghanistan and Cambodia.

You may remember some of these images from our posting

ROA in Mexico, Gambia, and Cambodia on September 13, 2012

 

MOMO and El Tono Snap Your Attention in France

Experimenting a little with a revolutionary new painting contraption, here are two of the modern minimalists on the Street Art scene today demonstrating how to paint with a snap line in Besançon.

Old Norse: Conor Harrington’s trip to Vardo, Norway

A short poetic film by Andrew Telling documenting Conor Harrington’s trip to Vardø, Norway, with some incidental paintings thrown in to remind you why you started watching. The  sumptous, stunning score by Lucinda Chua leads your mind into a Nordic trance.

Shepard Fairey “Sound and Vision”

In London for the music inspired show at Stolen Space, Street Artist Shepard Fairey introduces you to some of his influences in music and to Z-Trip, the living breathing musical component of the installation. Also, he shipped a thousand of his own records to the show. Dude.  Also, a few street slaps at the end.

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Factory Fresh Presents: “Pufferella’s Boudoir” (Manhattan, NYC)

April 4, 2013

Pufferella’s Boudoir
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

One Day Only – Saturday, April 6th, 2-9pm

Your invited to peek into the secret room of Pufferella and see her greatest adventures with her ex lovers each being remembered forever in fabric. Nestled in a private getaway above the bustling streets of the East Village, Pufferella opens the door to her private Boudoir.

Read her diary, see her latest art works, eat a cupcake and experience the time old tradition of falling in and out of love.

The Lab, 400 East 9th Street – 2B, NYC

http://www.factoryfresh.net/factoryfreshshows_Pufferella.html

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Signal Gallery Presents: TRXTR “Dystopia” (London, UK)

April 4, 2013

TRXTR solo show
‘Dystopia’ Press Release

Private View 18th April 6 – 9pm
Open 19th April – 11th May 2013

The artist known as TRXTR, in his second solo show at Signal Gallery finds himself looking at a world gone mad with excess. For him the problem is that ‘in every way the Genie is out of the bottle and has become so bloated and addictive there is no way it will go back and our wishes are all used up’.

 

http://www.signalgallery.com/events/trxtr-solo-show-1

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Pure Evil Gallery Presents: Deedee Cheriel “Little Spirit and the Infinite Longing” (London, UK)

April 4, 2013

From a previous career playing in seminal bands, Los Angeles based artist Deedee Cheriel has evolved into an acclaimed and sought-after street artist and one of the genre’s few female success stories. Her first solo exhibition in the UK – Little Spirit and the Infinite Longing – utilizes seemingly disparate influences including Indian temple imagery, punk, feminism and naturalism, set within a landscape inspired by a childhood amidst the lush forests of the Pacific Northwest United States.

These unique visual narratives convey an unsettled sense of yearning and the complexities inherent in human connection. The images are created with Cheriel’s signature ‘pop’ multi-colored stripes on canvases and posters, murals and billboards with techniques acquired as a street artist, filmmaker and during her time as a touring musician.
With nuances of East Indian folk art, Cheriel’s use of bold elements – both urban and natural, as well as pop culture – suggest an ability to find commonalities and relationships between self and surroundings. Trees reach down towards woodland creatures, animated by life forces within; life-changing journeys are undertaken with spiritual intent. These are stories of loss, hope and inspiration, profound reminders of the very things that inevitably confirm our common humanity and our ultimate quest for connection.

http://pureevilgallery.virb.com/deedee-cheriel

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Boa Mistura in Panama City say “Somos Luz” (We Are Light)

April 4, 2013

It’s easy to look at the façade of a massive housing complex and forget that there are individual stories inside.

Boa Mistura “Somos Luz” (We Are Light). 2013. El Chorrillo, Panama (photo © Boa Mustura)

From the neighborhood of El Chorrilo in Panama City comes a new face for that kind of building via the work of the five-man Spanish artist collective Boa Mistura. Taking the community aspect of their work to heart, these guys just finished turning a monolithic mass of housing into a vibrant grouping of individual homes, personalizing the scale with a little typography and a lot of color.

The words spelled out on the facade are “Somos Luz” (“We are Light”) and Boa Mistura says, “The message aims to inspire daily – not only the neighbors – but other people who walk by the building every day.”

Boa Mistura “Somos Luz” (We Are Light). 2013. El Chorrillo, Panama (photo © Boa Mustura)

By painting all the hallways, balconies, and landings in an ever-changing abstract color compositions Boa Mistura says they are trying to use participative urban art as a tool for encouragement in run-down communities and a way to work with the local residents in to improve their home environment.

Sponsored by the first Biennial Of The South in Panama 2013 their project is part a series of public works they call “Crossroads”.

Boa Mistura “Somos Luz” (We Are Light). 2013. El Chorrillo, Panama (photo © Boa Mustura)

Boa Mistura “Somos Luz” (We Are Light). 2013. El Chorrillo, Panama (photo © Boa Mustura)

Boa Mistura”Somos Luz” (We Are Light). 2013. El Chorrillo, Panama (photo © Boa Mustura)

Boa Mistura “Somos Luz” (We Are Light). 2013. El Chorrillo, Panama (photo © Boa Mustura)

Boa Mistura “Somos Luz” (We Are Light). 2013. El Chorrillo, Panama (photo © Boa Mustura)

Boa Mistura “Somos Luz” (We Are Light). 2013. El Chorrillo, Panama (photo © Boa Mustura)

Boa Mistura “Somos Luz” (We Are Light). 2013. El Chorrillo, Panama (photo © Boa Mustura)

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