iam Gallery Presents: REMED y Okuda “Just Mad” An Art Exhibition. (Madrid, Spain)

February 11, 2013

JustMad celebra este año 2013 su cuarta edición, habiendo logrado en pocos años consolidarse como una de las más importantes del circuito de Febrero en Madrid.

Ubicada por segundo año consecutivo en el Hotel Silken Puerta de América, se celebrará entre el 14 y el 17 de Febrero.

iam Gallery Madrid tiene el placer de participar con un stand propio en su primera incursión en las Ferias de Arte, en este nuestro recién cumplido primer año de vida en la galería de la Calle San Blas.

Por ello, quisimos contar con dos artistas que desarrollan sus fructíferas carreras de forma individual, pero que dada su profunda amistad y sintonía vital, decidieron un día unir su creatividad frente a una hoja en blanco: Remed y Okuda.

iam Gallery Madrid en JustMad con Remed y Okuda

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Mighty Tanaka Gallery Presents: Nathan Vincent “DON’T MAKE ME count to three!” (Brooklyn, NYC)

February 11, 2013
Opening on Friday, February 15th is a show that will blow you away! Crochet artist Nathan Vincent is wiring the gallery with fiber “explosives”, transforming Mighty Tanaka into a virtual tinder box. DON’T MAKE ME count to three! explores the roles that we play in society and our necessity to break through the barriers placed in front of us. You won’t want to miss this immersive experience into the mind of Nathan Vincent!

Mighty Tanaka presents: DON’T MAKE ME count to three!

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Street Artist RUBBISH for Le M.U.R. in Paris

February 11, 2013 ,

Rubbish, the French Street Artist who can work for endless hours to finely cut paper as intricately as lace, is taking his turn at the Le M.U.R wall in Paris right now.  Still pretty new to the scene, the Besançon based artist has a meticulous cutting method influenced by painting, mythology, even Art Nouveau. Recent portraiture subjects have been poets from the Beat Generation like Burroughs, Kerouac, Ginsberg, but he is more of an emotional romantic than they were.

Rubbish (photo © Laurence Pierrain-Mateudi)

With his first solo show in November at Le Cabinet d’Amateur, this guys’ work may remind you of Swoon’s paper cutting in the late 2000s and his portraits have a forlorn quality found in the subjects of French stencilist C215.  Whatever his influences, he is clearly still exploring and he happily covered selected regions of this 8 meter x 3 meter wall with with a certain organic symmetry in placing these large works of cut paper on a cold late January day. According to Jean Emmanuel Voltz, who curated this choice, this kind of Rubbish is a “Good discovery”.

Rubbish. Detail. (photo © Laurence Pierrain-Mateudi)

Rubbish. Detail. (photo © Laurence Pierrain-Mateudi)

Rubbish (photo © Laurence Pierrain-Mateudi)

Rubbish. Detail. (photo © Laurence Pierrain-Mateudi)

Rubbish (photo © Laurence Pierrain-Mateudi)

To learn more about RUBBISH’s work click here.

To learn more about Le M.U.R. click here.

 

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Images of the Week: 02.10.13

February 10, 2013

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Allen Ruppersberg, CB23, CYFI, Danielle Mastrion, Elle, False, KO, Left Handed Wave, Matt Siren, Spud, Stikman, and Tomek.

Top image > Stikman (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Stikman (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Allen Ruppersberg “You & Me” at The High Line Park, Manhattan. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

CB23 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Matt Siren . Elle (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Blood Money (Artist Unknown) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Left Handed Wave (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Spud at 5Pointz, Queens. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Danielle Mastrion at 5Pointz, Queens with a portrait of Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

CYFI.KO at 5Pointz, Queens. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tomek and False in the snow. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A tribute to the recently passed. RIP Nekst (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Wings of Desire (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Manhattan, February 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Specter in Puerto Escondido, Mexico

February 9, 2013

Today New York and most of the northeast US is completely clobbered and somewhat paralyzed with snow from a giant blizzard so we thought we’d show you photos from a surf town of 26,000 residents in Mexico called Puerto Escondido where their annual Carnaval started yesterday. Brooklyn based Street Artist Specter is working in the 85 degree temperature in blasting sun to put up the occasional piece and here he is stencilling on a rectangular outcropping on the side of modernist building.

Says photographer Lauren Besser, Specter is not far from the surf in these shots from the west coast Oaxacan town. “He installed a painting on the home of local artists in La Punta where the best waves come in. The piece is a nod at traditional cultures that are often forgotten by beach-side tourists,” she says. This new one looks similar to one he did recently in Mexico City featured in a recent “Images of the Week”.

Specter (photo © Lauren Besser)

Specter laying out the stencil pieces (photo © Lauren Besser)

Specter (photo © Lauren Besser)

Specter (photo © Lauren Besser)

Specter (photo © Lauren Besser)

Specter (photo © Lauren Besser)

 

 

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BSA Film Friday 02.08.13

BSA Film Friday 02.08.13

February 8, 2013

 

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

Now screening: UNO: Forever Young, JR: Blow UP, ABOVE: Blood Diamond and KYLE HUGHES-ODGERS: A Thousand Lights From a Hundred Skies

BSA Special Feature:

UNO: Forever Young

JR: Blow UP

ABOVE: Blood Diamond

KYLE HUGHES-ODGERS: A Thousand Lights From a Hundred Skies

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Remixing The Face in a Stinky Underground Subway Hallway

February 7, 2013

A walk through the neglected and crumbling grime-caked subway stations of New York City, with their epically peeling paint and the smell of smeared human feces rushing you through hallways to your next train, can be a nauseating and dispiriting.  Mayors come and go, but rats and garbage remain, helping New York to “keep it real”.

Poster Boy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Thankfully, despite continually rising Metrocard rates you are now treated to ever more advertisements on ever more walls, and the occasional ad-remixing prankster appears to keep things in focus, or disarray.  You may not have money for the admission to museums, but here you can take in this publicly curated interactive aspect of the expanding commercial gallery, and even affect the conversation.

In the connecting walkway between 6th and 7th Avenue on 14th Street you can usually hear some good music because of the enclosed reverberating tunnel effect that is free of of train disruption. Right now on display are a series of promotional posters for another TV program involving attractive people judging  others on their attractiveness.

In this locally targeted remix of the campaign, a blade-wielding passerby has given them a facelift. It’s a simple matter of switching selected portions of sticky vinyl, a technique that was popularized by a Street Artist/collective named Posterboy a couple of years ago. Sometimes it is effective. Other times, it fails. Either way, it catches your eye as you hold your nose.

Poster Boy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Poster Boy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Poster Boy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Poster Boy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Poster Boy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Cat People and Dog People ; Street Artists Bring Trusted Friends

February 6, 2013

Street Artists are just as attached to their pets as anybody else, and given their reputation for being sort of secretive loners, maybe more. It’s not common but the appearance of cats and dogs on the street without leashes happens once in a while in carefully rendered drawings, illustrations, paintings, stencils, wheatpastes and stickers.

C215 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Whether it’s the formal portrait studio quality of C215’s cat stencils, Tazz’s red-nosed glowering dog stickers, or the plump and wide eyed feline hunter wheat-pastes of QRST, these animals are an important aspect of the autobiographical nature of today’s Street Art scene.  It is said that observing a pet gives you a good idea about an owners disposition. If so, what would you say about the artist who uses an animal, whether as portrait, amulet, or metaphor – to tell their story on the public thoroughfare?

C215 wiht lil’ brother on the bottom by LMNOP. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

P. S. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jaz and Cern collab. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

QRST (photo © Jaime Rojo)

QRST. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Blu Dog (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Raemann (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Elbow Toe cat got some company from KUMA. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Elbow Toe (photo © Jaime Rojo)

C215 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Le Raoul (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LNY (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Faile. Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A happy flying kitty at the High Line Park. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

W (photo © Jaime Rojo)

WK  Interact. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Red Nose aka Tazz (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Red Nose aka Tazz (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

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Liqen and Nantu Shipwrecked in Equador: A Girl, The Ocean and Her Hair

February 5, 2013

Street Artists Liqen and Nantu just finished this wall in Tosunpa, Equador on the side of a small storefront. Using primarily black paint and paint brushes, the two create a reposed nymph looking skyward, her head surrounded by rolling waves, a somewhat tumultuous adventure on the high seas with dolphins, a whale, and a troubled vessel. For a necklace she wears a short string of small heads. Liquen says it is “an aperitif; an abstract idea about the ocean, a female, and the shipwreck in her hair.”

Liqen in collaboration with Raul Ayala AKA Nantu. “Oceangirl” Tosunpa, Ecuador.  January 2013. (photo © Liqen)

Liqen in collaboration with Raul Ayala AKA Nantu. “Oceangirl” Detail. Tosunpa, Ecuador.  January 2013. (photo © Liqen)

Liqen in collaboration with Raul Ayala AKA Nantu. “Oceangirl” Tosunpa, Ecuador.  January 2013. (photo © Liqen)

Liqen in collaboration with Raul Ayala AKA Nantu. “Oceangirl”. Detail. Tosunpa, Ecuador.  January 2013. (photo © Liqen)

Liqen in collaboration with Raul Ayala AKA Nantu. “Oceangirl” Tosunpa, Ecuador.  January 2013. (photo © Liqen)

Liqen in collaboration with Raul Ayala AKA Nantu. “Oceangirl”. Detail. Tosunpa, Ecuador.  January 2013. (photo © Liqen)

Liqen in collaboration with Raul Ayala AKA Nantu. “Oceangirl” Tosunpa, Ecuador.  January 2013. (photo © Liqen)

To view more of Liqen art click here

To view more of Raul Ayala art click here

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Signal Gallery Presents: “Two Plus Two” Bael, Joe Iurato, Michal Janowski and SPQR. (London, UK)

February 4, 2013

 2 + 2
Private View 21st February 6 – 9pm
Open 22nd February – 16th March.

2 + 2 = four very talented and contrasting artists and styles. Two being stencil artists alongside two more traditional painters. Also two of the group are well known to fans of the gallery, while the other two are new. As normal, we curate our group shows to demonstrate the range of work that we show, as well as breaking down the barriers between artistic labels such as ‘Urban,’ ‘Street,’ and ‘Fine’ art. We have given the artists a free reign to produce work that is currently exciting them and the result will be a dynamic mix of ideas, techniques and approaches.

http://www.signalgallery.com/events/two-plus-two

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Reed Projects Gallery Present: Vandals Valentine “Pop-Up” Special. (Stavanger, Norway)

February 4, 2013

A VANDALS VALETINE
Feb 1st-Feb 16th

In a desperate move to shift product related to public holiday’s, Re-Jects Gallery attempts to employ the same strategy of more cynical corporate retailers by pushing out work related to love and affection. Or giving you a guilt trip as it’s more commonly known. Expect to see exclusive works holding you to ransom from DOT DOT DOT, Dotmasters and Dolk. (We have a thing about D’s) as well as secondary market pieces from Banksy, Josh Keyes, Jeremy Geddes, David Choe, JR and many more…

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Stolen Space Gallery Presents: “Write & Repeat” Group Exhibition. (London, UK)

February 4, 2013
‘Write & Repeat’ Group show
21.02.13 – 10.03.13

A visually compelling show formed solely from text and pattern based pieces, Write and Repeat is a modern exploration of the two much celebrated forms.

Patterns are all around us. The repetition of shapes and colours form our environment, our natural and manmade landscapes. Even the landscape of our minds are built upon patterns and repetition; the habits and rituals, the ‘rites’ that we perpetuate.

 The use of text in art has drastically evolved over time, and has been used as a purely visual element, as a more direct form of artistic expression, a political tool, and as an art form in its own right. From blatant slogans to seemingly meaningless shapes, text in art offers a unique opportunity for expression.
By combining the two exclusively, we hope to create a visually and mentally captivating collection for January 2013.
Featuring:
Arth Daniels, Charlie Anderson, Chloe early, Cyrcle, D*Face, David Bray, Eelus, EINE, Hayden Kays, Jim Houser, Josie Morway, Julie Impens, Kai & Sunny, Lucas (Cyclops), Maya Hayuk, Mobstr, Nylon, Pete Fowler, Ryca, Sylvia Ji, Shepard Fairey, Tilt, Usugrow, Will Barras, Word To Mother and more.
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