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Amsterdam Dances with Graffuturism and Stencil Masters

October 29, 2015 Artists

Amsterdam rocked the decks this month to celebrate urban contemporary art and street art in the Netherlands with visual and music based events giving artists many platforms to shine.

BustArt and Fake for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

Graffuturism, a term and movement coined a handful of years ago to describe an intersection of graffiti, street art, and abstract geometry continues to stake out new territory and here were gallery and street exhibitions proffering some of the current practitioners whose work could be described as such.

The 5^th Urban Art Festival Amsterdam featured their own collection of Graffuturists from Europe, the United States, and South America including Poesia, the unofficial founder of Graffuturism in a show of works on canvas, prints, drawings on paper, murals and site-specific abstract installations.

BustArt for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

Running concurrently was a Stencil Masters show featuring some of the top knife-wielding artists known on the street today along with a few senior early proponents. The diverse program of gallery, street installations and DJs courtesy of the ADE (Amsterdam Dance Event) helped further contextualize the art forms for a wider audience of fans.

Fake for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

Stencil Masters exhibition
ABOVE (usa) – BTOY (es) – BUSTART (ch) – C215 (fr) – CANVAZ (irl) – CZARNOBYL (de) – E.L.K. (au) – FAKE (nl) – HUGO KAAGMAN (nl) – IVES.ONE (nl) – JANA & JS (de) – JAUNE (be) – LIJNE (nl) – MANDO MARIE (usa) – NAFIR (iran) – ORTICANOODLES (it) – OTTO SCHADE (uk) – PIPSQUEAK WAS HERE (nl) – STF (fr) – TANKPETROL (uk) – TERA ONE (de)

Graffuturism exhibition
BLAQK BLAQK (gr) – CORN79 (it) – GRAPHIC SURGERY (nl) – KENOR (es) – LABUENA YLAMALA (es) – MICK LA ROCK (nl) – OKUDA (es) – OVNI (es) – POESIA (usa) – POETA (ar) – SKOUNT & GWION / TVBdesign (es) – VESOD (it) – WOW123 (de) – X-O / THE LOST OBJECT (nl / usa)

Fake for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

XO for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

Skount for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

Markus Gnusius for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

C215 for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

Jana & JS for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

LABUENA YLAMALA for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

Lijne and TerraOne for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

To learn more please go to www.urbanartfestival.com

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Live Stenciling in Berlin with Street Artists for “Cut It Out”

February 10, 2015 Artists

The stencil has been a steady presence on the street since the beginning of graffiti and Street Art. Possibly picked up from commercial or military methods of labeling shipments, machinery, signage, and weaponry – it has remained a foundational technique of creative expression since the early days of the modern graff scene even as it’s use continues to expand stylistically.

The simple one color stencil captures the imagination of many first time artists working in the public sphere because it enables you to quickly spray your message on a wall and run. And replicate it. With time your cuts may become more sophisticated or not but its up to you; it’s not entirely necessary to labor for hours over a stencil for it to have a worthwhile impact, but it can help.

M-City. Urban Nation van. (photo © Nika Kramer)

In the 2000s the Street Art scenes in many cities have been teeming with stencil art, and a number of practitioners have developed the art form into one that expresses high degrees of artistry, complexity, and warmth, as well as conveying the bluntest of sentiments and slogans, with and without irony.

“Cut It Out” is a new exhibition in the Urban Nation Gallery in Berlin that pulls together an interesting collection of folks who have used stencils on the street across mainly Europe and the US and in the case of artists like Jef Aerosol, Epsylon Point, and Stencil King (Hugo Kaagman), across more than three decades, almost four.

M-City. Urban Nation van. (photo © Nika Kramer)

Curated by Olly Walker and Henrik Haven, the international group was on display in Berlin, and many of the participating artists were in attendance – and as is their wont they hit the walls inside and outside the gallery around Berlin, including the Urban Nation van. BSA is happy to share these exclusive shots of the honored stencillists in action = procured to us by Henrik Heaven and shot by Nika Kramer.

”Cut It Out!” features new works by: Above, Adam 5100, Aiko, Alessio-B, Artist Ouvrier, B-Toy, C215, Canvas, Don John, Eins92, Eelus, EismannArts, Epsylon Point, Icy & Sot, Jana & Js, Jef Aerosol, Joe Lurato, Logan Hicks, M-City, Mobstr, Nick Walker, Orticanoodles, Paul Insect, Pisa 73, RekoRennie, Rene Gagnon, Snik, Stan & Lex, Stencil King, Stew, STF, Stinkfish, Tankpetrol and XooooX.

M-City. Urban Nation van. (photo © Nika Kramer)

Jeff Aerosol. Urban Nation van. (photo © Nika Kramer)

Ken. Urban Nation van. (photo © Nika Kramer)

Ken Urban Nation van. (photo © Nika Kramer)

Amsterdam’s Hugo Kaagman, or Stencil King, did his first stencil on the street in 1978. Urban Nation van. (photo © Nika Kramer)

Kurar. (photo © Nika Kramer)

Kurar (photo © Nika Kramer)

M-City (photo © Nika Kramer)

Eismann (photo © Nika Kramer)

Alessio B (photo © Nika Kramer)

Hugo Kaagman (photo © Nika Kramer)

Canvaz (photo © Nika Kramer)

Eins92 (photo © Nika Kramer)

Jeff Aerosol (photo © Henrik Haven)

“Cut It Out” is currently on view and free for the general public in Berlin. Click HERE for further details. To inquire about works click HERE

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Skount & Amsterdam DNA: Dutch Historical Art and an Exploded Prism

November 17, 2014 Artists

‘Amsterdam DNA: Street Art’ at the Jongensbinnenplein of the Amsterdam Museum.

Amsterdam Museum featured Street Artists in their recent Museum Nacht on November 8 as part of an outdoor exhibition called AmsterdamDNA. As Street Art continues to make its way into museum collections, it is interesting to see this work exhibited just outside the door and in the courtyard. The assortment of artists on display in this show curated by Streetart.nl and Roel van den Sigtenhorst were Skount, TelmoMiel, Super A, Laser 3.14, Max Zorn, Bustart & Zaira and Hugo Kaagman.

Here we take you to a corner spot by Street Artist Skount, who created a piece entitled “Implosion, Essence of a Memory” in collaboration with The Visual Brothers, intended to look at the DNA of Amsterdam and Dutch artists in particular. Skount uses symbols and artworks that have become “part of the collective memory”, he says, “reinterpreting them through a kaleidoscopic vision in fragments.”

Within the fragments are symbols referencing the history of the Dutch culture and milestones of fire, flood and plague. Artists and their well-known works that appear include, Van Gogh and “The Starry Night”, Hieronymus Bosch and “The Peddler”, Rembrandt and “The Jewish Bride”, MC Escher and “Eye”, and Rembrandt’s “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp”.

“This installation represents a break into subjective memories, which may or may be, some of the characteristics that determine the nature of an ‘entity’,” says Skount.

“The Peddler” Hieronymus Bosch. Created C. 1494-1516. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Rembrandt. “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp” 1632. Mauritshuis Museum. The Hague, The Netherlands.

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BustArt and Fake for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

BustArt for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

Fake for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

Fake for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

XO for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

Skount for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

Markus Gnusius for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

C215 for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

Jana & JS for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

LABUENA YLAMALA for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

Lijne and TerraOne for Urban Art Festival Amsterdam. (photo © courtesy of UAFA)

M-City. Urban Nation van. (photo © Nika Kramer)

M-City. Urban Nation van. (photo © Nika Kramer)

M-City. Urban Nation van. (photo © Nika Kramer)

Jeff Aerosol. Urban Nation van. (photo © Nika Kramer)

Ken. Urban Nation van. (photo © Nika Kramer)

Ken Urban Nation van. (photo © Nika Kramer)

Amsterdam’s Hugo Kaagman, or Stencil King, did his first stencil on the street in 1978. Urban Nation van. (photo © Nika Kramer)