Following up on the 501secure CCTV camera in the last issue of Modart (designed by kennmunk.org), the Modart crew is in Berlin to help celebrate Local Heroes and the relaunch of the Levi’s flagship store. Since generally we prefer to leave the flags burning behind us, we brought the pirate Danny Sangra with us. He didn’t bring his patch or pipe, but has been keeping the staff and customers entertained by taking his flames to the windows, and giving a new dimension to the standing ad campaign.
Reminder: TONIGHT! Mr. Jago's new exhibition "Cloud Talk" will be on show at StolenSpace Gallery in London. The expo promises to take the artists' work to a new direction, with art on canvas, silk, wood and installations as well as the release of two new limited edition screenprints.
After travelling the Americas throughout the year for several projects and shows, The Love Movement is now settling down for the coming few weeks with solo show "These Colours don't Run" at Amble Gallery in Philadelphia, one of our favourite hangouts! Be there for the opening tomorrow, Saturday September 13.
Slightly late notice on this one but if you're on your toes you can catch Tonight's opening of the 4 Geezers show at Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn. The globe-trotting trio The London Police, Pez, and Flying Fortress have been joined up this time by Eine to bring down the house in the good ol' US of A, Bushwick to be exact.
Sabotaz USA has been up to a lot over summer. As fall stands by to overwhelm us with its Indian summer days and stonecold nights, the spraypaint company launches its line of bucket paint to match the can colours and also organises a monthly showcase, where a couple of artists paint live in Brooklyn, NY!
After years of selling limited shirt designs and other goods to a small in-crowd, straight from their backpacks, plastic bags and the trunks of borrowed cars, Dutch art collective Antistrot is proud to announce its brand new webstore...
We missed posting about her last show with Sighne at Open Space but won't make the same mistake again. Gaetane Michaux has made a name for herself with her intricate puzzles and collages based on her interactions and friends within the street art community. This October 10 her newest productions will be unleashed alongside the works of a few other photographers upon a very expecting Brooklyn crowd at the newly opened Factory Fresh Gallery.
Brasil has been massively inspiring artistically for years now, but most of us have been focusing on its street art, graffiti, and pixacao scenes. Some months ago I was shown by my friend Ethos a whole different group of Brasilian artists/craftsmen who have been working outside the limits of the law for decades now. The Baloeiros have taken the ancient craft of small paper hot air balloons to a level you can't believe, and in the process have had their craft outlawed due to the enormous fires they can and have caused when things go wrong. After the jump you can see a documentary made (only in Portuguese) nearly 20 years ago about the Baloeiros movement.
Launched with huge success in 2007, THE FUTURE CAN WAIT was devised as a museum scale exhibition for leading emerging to mid-career artists. Situated in a spectacular 22,000 sq ft industrial space in Brick Lane's Old Truman Brewery the exhibition will feature 48 London-based or educated artists working in painting, video, performance, sculpture and installation.
Last Saturday the much awaited Fame Festival, organized by Studio Cromie, opened to the public in an old ceramics factory and on the streets of Grottaglie, Italy. This small town in the south of Italy, famous for its rich ceramics history, was not immediately accepting of the idea of this huge exhibition with some of today's biggest names in the street art game. But once the quality of the work was proven to them art triumphed and the town joined together in this artistic celebration.
The evil geniuses behind Diesel and their viral marketing campaigns have got us, this one's too good to not post. This is what happens when people understand that porn really shouldn't be taken seriously.
The skies of Los Angeles are being invaded as we speak with a hugely diverse and talented mix of artists and artwork coming in to the Carmichael Gallery from the North, South, East, and West. Brooklyn wheatpasters Gaia and Imminent Disaster, Brazilian couple Vitché and Jana Joana, Labrona and Produkt from Canada, and the exciting newcomer Kay2 from South Korea are all going to be taking part in the upcoming show Raw Skies opening this Saturday, October 4.
The 4th Illustrative forum about illustrative imagery and design from contemporary aesthetics to experimental avant-garde is about to take place. From October 18th to 26th, Zurich is the place to be...
The normal Modart crew weren't able to make it to Pictoplasma in NYC this past month but thanks to Malena from Jonathan Levine for putting us in touch with the illustrator Fernanda Cohen. She did a great job reporting on the event. Be sure to read on.
After presenting his work in Los Angeles Merry Karnowsky Gallery brings Kent Williams' newest works over to Berlin this October 18th. In a subtle yet slightly aggressive style Kent Williams disects us and puts us back together, exploring the human body, emotion, and our environments.
The 8th Licht Feld catalog is out! Fredy Hadorn, a Basel-based curator and organiser has done his best to gather some of the most interesting contemporary artists again, check out "more information" for a sneak peek.
