Asbestos‘ latest exhibition (which opened last Thursday) is a series of paintings of the faces and hands of boxers from Ligoniel Amateur Boxing club. Each portrait was done on objects found in the skips and streets of Belfast.
The show runs through the 11th of December at Safehouse Gallery, 25 Donegall Street, Belfast 028 9031 4499 .
You can see the whole series here.
“when I make graffiti in the street I don’t write my name. I developed a way to draw characters with one line, as a kind of tag that is a character and not a name. I decided to make a stop-motion animation piece of these “tags” as a way to show the movement of them being drawn. each frame was hand painted on a large sheet of paper, taped to my flatmate’s bedroom wall. the final animation was shown at my solo show (“Searching For The Perfect Line”) at Vicious Gallery in Hamburg, alongside the paper the animation was painted on.”… Dave The Chimp
I did this painting last night – was sorta depressed – and maybe hopefull, too.
Interesting … I seem to “own” the phase “iphone paintings” in Google – but with the Google Search Wiki in play – it’s hard to say how much weight rankings will have down the line as Social Media Commentary is factored [...]
(mural by M-City)
URBAN PAINTING is an amazing street art show managed by the municipality of Carugate and curated by Luigi Mauri and his wife Tatiana Belluzzo. Similar to our 11 Spring show, the idea of Urban Painting was to do a great street art show without any sponsors for two days with no advertising. Inside at ATRION IN CARUGATE original artwork from more than 35 artists around the worlld was displayed.
You can see a full set of photos here.
