A recent walk through the old Cans Festival tunnel yielded some stunning work from Shok1 and Lovepusher. It must have been fresh as even good work in the tunnel gets battered with in a few days (or hours).
more shok1 on artofthestate. Shok1′s website
lovepusher’s website
If the kids can’t/won’t come to the art, take the art to the kids! Love this! Laura Knowles / New Era Correspondent A nice article on the Susquehanna Art Museum’s VanGo!: Art Museum on Wheels program. The current VanGo! exhibition…
We received the following note from faith47 in Cape Town South Africa and wanted to share it:
“We are facing a new anti-graffiti by-law in Cape Town which takes away the house owners rights to give permission for any artworks on their walls besides a house number.
The new, proposed graffiti by-law makes no distinction between vandalism and public art that is done with the permission of the owner of the property.
Please can you assist us in our efforts to amend this by-law by signing the petition and forwarding it on… As we need to present it to the council during the public participation process.
Here is the link and below are the details of the two points in the by-law that we would like to amend.
http://www.petitiononline.com/art4all/petition.html
To: The City of Cape Town
The new, proposed graffiti by-law criminalizes all forms of public art and violates our personal right to freedom of expression on private property. It makes no distinction between vandalism and public art that is done with the permission of the owner of the property. The by-law will soon be presented for public discussion and these are the two main issues that we feel need to be addressed:
1. The definition of ‘graffiti’ under the by-law is too broad. It classifies ‘graffiti’ as any inscription, word, figure, letter, sign, symbol, sketch, picture or drawing. There should be a clear differentiation between ‘graffiti vandalism’ [e.g. gang tags, scratchings] and public art that is done with permission from the owner [murals, colourful characters and positive, inspiring messages].
2. The by- law removes the legal right of the private property owner to paint anything other than a house number on his/her wall. We strongly believe that the private property owner should maintain the right to determine what to paint on to his/her property without permission from the City.
if you agree with these two amendments please sign the petition on the link above
and hopefully we can adjust the by-law to become a more inclusive one and thus limit the damage it can potentially do to the creative growth of our city.”
From Eva Diaz in New York City:
Speaking of the appropriation of empty real estate for art venues in Dubai and elsewhere, a fascinating mise en abyme is taking place at the former Dia space in Chelsea. Dia pioneered the Chelsea art frontier, then sold the building four years ago …
You can see more of Brian’s work here.
When we opened up our email today and saw this stencil, from Czarnobyl in Berlin, all we could say was – “Wow!” The latest in his “Oldboy” series is 8 colors, 7 separate stencils and is 250 x 150 cm. It took six months to create.
Received this postcard in the mail on Friday. It was the first time in a long time that I was happy to receive a postcard from a gallery. If I’m going out on a gallery walk I always check out…
First up was a trip to see a projection art show by SDNA at one of London’s strangest venues. Shunt is a series of underground tunnels and rooms under London Bridge station and its main corridor is currently taken over to present CINETAXIS – ‘a unique personal insight into the world of insects’. If you’ve never been to Shunt before the entrance is worth explaining. Despite its large size its accessed via a tiny door opposite the Underground barriers at London Bridge station. After going through security (photo ID and bag search) you walk down a long underground corridor to the main venue. Its this corridor with its many dark offshoots that SDNA have taken over with large scale projections of insects busily working away to the accompaniment of an incessant buzzing. Arriving early and walking through the unknown territory on my own I think I felt the full unerving affect of the installation. Maybe the photos below will give you an idea of what to expect (it’s on again this week from the 1st to the 4th April) but to be fully appreciated it needs to be seen in person. more photos of SDNA’s CineTaxi’s here. Earlier a far more relaxed trip was made to Pure Evil‘s gallery for the launch of the ‘Graffiti Argentina‘ book. It’s already been out in the shops a while and been reviewed on artofthestate. The full colour volume has been put together with care and consideration and seems more authentic than a great many recent graffiti books – mainly as the writers get to directly explain their motives behind their work (which includes outright hatred of the train companies)! Also on Friday night was a chance to see End Of The Line’s stunning work on the urban art wall at the John Jones site near Finsbury Park, North London. Bleach, Probs, Hicks, Zadok and Rabodiga have all contributed to create a fantastic panorama full of high quality work. John Jones are famous for their high quality framing and fine art photography services which the content of the panels (a selection of which are below) give a nod to. Finally Saturday night was hardcore heaven and spent in the company of Ipswich’s finest The Stupids and Australia’s The Hard Ons in Kingston. It must be close on 20 years since I last them but both bands still tore up the stage in fine style. I was ‘off duty’ for taking pictures but still couldn’t resist a few snaps. The Stupids Hard Ons
I found out about the “radiology art” of Satre Stuelke from a NY Times article called “The Inner Beauty of a McNugget” but I would have called it something like “Scary, Toxic Looking Chicken McNuggets.”
Stuelke has also done a few McDonalds burgers for his Radiology Art project and they look just as scarily toxic as the McNuggets. Sure, they’re beautiful to look at but they’re probably not something that should be put into your mouth.
The New York City artist’s statement for the project says it is “Dedicated to the deeper visualization of various objects that hold unique cultural importance in modern society, this project intends to plant a seed of scientific creativity in the minds of all those inclined to participate”
He has photographed/scanned toys, food and electronics. My favorites are the toys, especially the wild looking barbie doll and the toy elephant. See them on his Website here.
