Last Saturday, March 27th, Art Brut Barcelona saw nearly twenty artists from three generations of the Barcelona graffiti and street art scenes come together to spend the day painting six walls at the Tres Chimineas park. Gustavo Osorio was on hand to capture some beautiful moments from the event. No New Enemies members Ripo, Tara Tiel aka Ovni, and Boris Hoppek were all in attendance along with Sixe, Zosen, Aryz, Mister, Debens, Dios, Hawaii Computers Crew, Lolo, Sosaku, Villas, Kafre, and Sakristan. The walls will all stay on view until time takes its toll. Read on for more photos and also check out Gustavo Osorio's full photo report on his website: silvergelatine.com
The Dutch artist Ap Verheggen has installed an unbelievable metal sculpture inspired by Inuit Dogsleds on an iceberg in Greenland. The sculpture will shift and eventually fall into the ocean, showing the visible effects of climate change. Ephemeral, enormous, site specific, and calling to attention an important global issue. We love it. Check out more (and follow the progress of the piece via webcam) on their website: www.coolemotion.org
We just received some really nice paintings in our emailbox and just had to share with you. Check out more of George Morton-Clark's work on his website: www.gm-c.co.uk
We mentioned to you a few weeks back about Dale Grimshaw's upcoming solo show, 'Arcana' at Signal Gallery in London. Well the time is near. This Friday, March 9th the show will be up and open for all to see. This is his third solo show at Signal Gallery and promises to be his best yet.
Labrona has been keeping busy these days. As well as having recently shown in NYC with Carmichael Gallery he's been hitting the streets. Here are two new pieces he sent our way.
Ed Templeton's two-week-only photo show, 'Drinking the Kool Aid,' opens today, April 6th at Elms Lesters Painting Rooms in London. The show will see a selection of his photographs from the past 15 years. He will also be on hand for a book signing event on Saturday, April 10th, between 12 - 2pm.
Holz 51 is the name of the upcoming exhibition by our friends from 44Flavours and Klub 7 in Berlin. After a series of projects at work and after work, they are preparing the opening on saturday at Neurotitan Gallery in Mitte.
Roa just dropped us this fantastic video of the decaying process of one of his animals. He'll be dropping a lot more on London this Thursday, April 8th with his solo show opening at Pure Evil Gallery.
Jessica Albarn opens a three-day pop up show at Nelly Duff Gallery in London. The show is only open from April 8-10th, and will be accompanied by a pair of new print releases, so plan accordingly.
Escif's work always hits us where it should. It's deceivingly simple while at the same time making some very poignant remarks and... how do I put this? It's fucking beautifully done. So needless to say we're happy to hear he'll be opening a major solo show, 'Around The Wall,' at Pictures On Walls in London next Friday, April 16th.
The Swatch Ticket To Ride tour announces their first design contest: You are invited to crteate the trophy for this event. The trophy above was designed by Marc Landwehr.
The trophy winner will be announced at the "Art Rules!" event, held alongside the Swatch TTR General Assembly on the 21st of May 2010, in Barcelona, Spain. Check out the competition rules on www.artrules.swatch.com , get your colors out and start designing!
Besides that, you will receive a two week creative vacation to Shanghai, including transportation and accommodation costs plus pocket money will be handed out.
Everyone is invited to participate! The competition is now open and ends on April 25th 2010.
Artaq, the 1st International Urban Art Awards, are still taking applications until the end of the month. Check out their website for more info: artaq.eu
This Saturday, April 17th the howie's shop in Bristol will be opening up the Deckades show. While it's not anything groundbreaking, a show of vintage and hand painted skateboards, what we've seen of the hand painted boards so far looks sick. Jim Phillips, Will Barras, Mr. Jago, Geoff Mcfetridge, Danny Wainwright, Pete Fowler, and plenty more all have pieces in the show. All of the boards will be sold on an online auction to benefit Unicef as well. You can already check out some of the pieces on howie's website here.
Dale Grimshaw's show opened last week at Signal Gallery and from the sound (and look) of it it lived up to all expectations. We got a few nice shots sent to us including one of the outside wall that Dale hit up while in the midst of the madness. The show is up through May 1st, so get your ass down there if you haven't already.
Just got a report from David Shillinglaw who's been an artist in residence at HeadSpace in Nara, Japan for the past few weeks. He's been busy setting up his exhibition for the HeadSpace Event in Osaka this Saturday, April 17th, painting walls in Tokyo at Design Festa Gallery, and keeping an online journal of everything. It's got it all: paintings, walls, booze, noodles, funny signs, and girls flashing peace signs.
Textureculture features everything from drawing, clothing, architecture and toys...not just another Blog, but high-quality entries by Eric and Bayu. If your interested in the Indonesian output, check that one out.
The renowned ArtThiess Gallery (Munich) will show SKORE183's latest exhibition on Thursday, 15 March.
The focus of this exhibition will be on classical graffiti writing featuring photographs, art print and typographic studies on canvasses.
Check out some more artworks below...
After seven straight years of the Kosmopolite Festival bringing the streets to the, uhh, streets, it's time to take it all on the road. Starting May 7th the Kosmopolite Art Tour will kick off in the European Capital (and apparently also the Capital of Crime), Brussels, Belgium. Over the course of the week over 70 artists from all around the world will be taking part in painting murals, exhibitions, film previews, and a few parties. We've got all the details for you here.
We're happy to let everyone know (especially those in Barcelona) that next Thursday, April 22nd Herbert Baglione will be opening his newest solo show, 'Last Chance for a Slow Dance' at Iguapop Gallery. He's hands down one of the most talented artists to have come out of Brazil and one of our favorite artists period. Needless to say we're damn excited to see what's in store.
Kenor just sent us this beautiful video, 'Cualquier Lugar, Un Dia Cualquiera' (Any Place, Any Day) from inside an abandoned building. Just look at how he starts the piece and what he can do with a single can of black spray paint. The editing compliments it all perfectly.
Just stumbled upon this clip from ViceTV - i watched the whole 14minutes and i don't know if i shall laugh or cry, but this guy is definetely a freak! Sorry, it's in german...if someone finds a translation, send it to us!
"Ich pinkel, esse und trinke, um wieder zu pinkeln - das ist Kunst!"
A new artspace, Art and Design Barcelona, has opened in the Ciudad Condal. They're hosting a lightning round of six-day exhibitions for the first three months of opening and we're happy to see a very familiar name on the list, our friend Mike Swaney. His show opens next Tuesday, April 27th and will only be up through May 2nd. We won't miss it.
Roa's got his major solo show open at Pure Evil Gallery right now and has obviously been hitting the streets there. We just got this great pic in the mail. Also found a report on the show from RJ from Vandalog. Read on for the video.
This Saturday, April 24th Factory Fresh will be hosting a benefit silent-auction with work from 60 artists. The auction will benefit the art mentor program, Free Arts NYC. They'll also be celebrating the launch of the 'Street Art New York' book, by Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo from BrooklynStreetArt.com. It promises to be a big evening.
featuring
Faith47
Black Koki
Murray Turpin
Kudzanai Chiurai
Louis Minnaar
Hein Coetzef
351073
Linsey Levendall Of Bison
Ree Treweek (Black Heart Gang)
Paul Senyol And Andrew Breitenberg
Dathini Mzayiya
The Gugulective
Thierry Furger's 'Buffed Paintings' show opened last month at Galerie ArtSeefeld in Zurich. He's done a great job at translating the aesthetics and concepts behind working in the streets into high quality works in a gallery setting, something that we've seen a lot of other street and graffiti artists struggle with when moving their work indoors.. Ruedione got a great slideshow up of the show, check it out here. The closing is this Saturday, April 24th. If you haven't made it yet go check it out.
Our good friend Galo is the taking the plunge and opening his own art gallery in Torino, Italy this coming Thursday, April 29th. The Galo Art Gallery will open with a bang, Galo's own 'Tamango Times' solo show. Whether you think you know Galo or not you cannot miss this brand new report on the man himself over at No New Enemies.
This Friday, April 30th ATM Gallery opens Czarnobyl's new solo show of stencil works. We remember first seeing his unbelievably intricate stencils years ago on sites like Stencil Revolution and he has obviously continued to push it since. He'll be showing a selection of all new works.
A few months back Kid Acne hit up Munich and left with a massive wall under his belt, claiming Das Ist Narren Sicher (This is Foolproof). He's back there this Friday, April 29th to open his newest show at Helmet Gallery.
on the 10and5 blogare some of jordan metcalfs new works...
for a show in chicago at the oh no doom gallery...
jordan... do a show in cape town next.... please...dont be shy... we love your work..
Above and Blek Le Rat have both released videos of their studios ahead of the opening of 'Faces in the Mirror' and 'Transitions' at White Walls Gallery in San Francisco. We're not sure why Above claims he's never sold his artwork to the public before (we've announced a few of his print releases right here), but this will be his first official gallery show. Both shows opens May 1st.
Nomad has just created the world's biggest wishing well on the island of Gran Canarias. Now it's just up to the Guinness people to realize what they're missing. No New Enemies has some wonderful words first about the simple wish of painting this piece as well as the wish come true with a lot more photos of it completed.
