Alias Arts

Turmkunst 2010 Web Intro from Turm Kunst on Vimeo.

TK #1 THROW UP from Turm Kunst on Vimeo.

TK #2 PREP WORK from Turm Kunst on Vimeo.

TK #3 THE STYLE from Turm Kunst on Vimeo.

This project looks amazing. Next month Sozyone, Flying Förtress, Honet and KR will be painting the exterior of the Bierpinsel in Berlin Flying Förtress will start the adventure, Honet will be runner up, and Sozyone will finish the art work on the red facade, KR will krink the grey stem. There will be some night sessions (with spotlights) and an exhibition by the Vicious Gallery on the third floor of the building.

STEN LEX stencil poster from STEN on Vimeo.

Sara and I have been following the work of Sten and Lex in Italy for many years. We’ absolutel love their latest body of work, created for their current solo show at the CO2 GALLERY in Rome.

They call this recent series “Poster Stencils” because, in essence, they are both stencils and posters at the same time. The video above shows their process of pasting up the matrix of the stencil, cut on paper, on a panel of wood as a poster. They then paint on the matrix in black and when it all all dry they destroy the matrix, letting some parts of the matrix stay pasted to the wood. In this manner the stencil is not reproducible and the matrix “dies” in the work itself.

(Thanks, Jesse)