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ON THE RUN WITH #4 : TIKA
“My face is based on lines and has a fat nose. I can be with or without body: Homie, Aztec, Frida Kahlo, Funkeiro, Mermaid, Indio, Gypsy, Geisha, Eski, Heidi, Maharachi, Pharao and much more. With very long arms and legs often folded to complicated knots. Usually I’m alive and sometimes dead. “Dia de los Muertos” inspired, with swirly bones, or just a huge skull by itself, broadly smiling from both sides of the face. Sometimes I’m a tiger, peacock, owl, kolibri, monkey, fox, fish, chameleon or a beaver. Reduced graphic shapes, who add themselves up to animals. Sometimes I’m just an organic heart, locked or unlocked. I’m four letters.
I’m TIKA.
After a cold, grey Swiss winter full of lobstar bombings, the first face was drawn on a bus ride to work in Mexico DF, big nosed and without body. It evolved from the idea that every line in a face closes to a shape. These lines build a grid pattern as it is often used in graphic design. The faces started to spread as hand-drawn stickers holding up signs with words or sentences over Chilangotown and then hopped over to Zurich, Berlin, New York and many other cities. On a remarkable barbeque, the day we bound together as TGS Kru, the heads started to spread, drawn with tagmarkers over Zeecity’s letterboxes, walls and the “fridgeyard” (a street corner where people dispose of old fridges, computers, washing machines, etc.) After a bad angina with antibiotic treatment (in German: AntibioTIKA), the faces got their name: “TIKA”
With open eyes you can meet TIKA in the streets of various cities over the world. Painted in black and white, sometimes brown or yellow, fluorescent red, gold, mint, lilac or what ever colours emerge when the top layer of a surface gets scratched away. Painted and sprayed on walls, doors, wood boards, as well as on floors, ceilings and around corners. Always interacting with the space and communicating with the architecture, integrated with lots of textures and materials found on the street. Also drawn on thin paper, cut out and collaged with other materials, pasted carefully on the place where it’s made for. Quickly but precisely drawn with a marker, or simply as a sTIKA.
TIKAs want to remind of the history that sticks to places. The stories that have lived in buildings and houses standing there before the grey cubes were built. They refer to the stiffness of life when you’re caught in the tight grid of society. The skeletons with their broad smile stand for what the myth of death often does to reputation. The animals will survive humanity. Life is just a break of being pure energy.”
- via ARTE Creative
ON THE RUN WITH #3 : BOXI
“Born 1974 in Kent, England. He completed his studies at the London St. Martins school of art with a BA Fine Arts degree in painting in 1996. Boxi has lived and worked in Berlin, Germany since 2000.
Boxi creates hand cut multi layered life size stencils that he exhibits in galleries and on street walls. It is often their placement within the installation or urban landscape that completes and defines their action, enabling the work to interact with the space. It is within this collaboration that the material boundaries of the work are dissolved, affecting the perception of the image.”
- via ARTE Creative
ON THE RUN WITH #2 : VARIOUS & GOULD
“Various & Gould work in close collaboration since 2005. Mutual interests like their love for paper, the enthusiasm for accidental beauty in the everyday life, collaborations with artist-friends and above all working in the public space, are the basis for their teamwork. Screenprinting and collages are their preferred techniques.”
- via ARTE Creative
ON THE RUN WITH #1 : SWEEZA
“SWEZA lives and works in Berlin and Bologna. In 1990 he began to paint graffiti, around 2001 he discovered the possibilities of street art. Since then he´s doing his installations, posters and stencils around the world. His works are often politically motivated.”
- via ARTE Creative
Write On The Water
Info F.I.G.
Festivalul International de Graffiti/Street Art / 15-17 Septembrie / Timisoara
HARTA locatiilor pentru artisti.
Artistii din afara sunt : MadC, Omsk167, Caparso.
Arstii din Romania sunt : 2EFS, ACHE 77, AITCH, ARTEN, BIEX, BION, BOER, BRANDO, BROM, CAGE, CHILL, CORE, DEADX, DEPH, DOTER, EBOLA, EMCEE, EMZOL, ETAL 180, ETIC, ERSTE, GUESTER 5, HOPA, JONES, KARM 137, KERSO, KESHER 121, KRONE 27, MINISTER, MOKE, MOON PATROL, NAB, NEKS, NONI, NOXER, OKSEN, OMEK, ONES, PIKEONE, PREN, PULSAR, Rodixi, RENO, RSET, RUSTO, SALO, SOUL, SONE, SEISM, SINBOY, SORE, SADDO, SEYR, SKER 2, SMEK, TACK 1, THE FLY, THE ORION, RELAY/FIRCE, WICE, WORE
Felicitari artistilori nostrii!
Pentru mai multe informatii despre F.I.G. clic AICI.
Street Heroes : Cultura Urbana
Un articol despre evolutia culturii urbane in Romania, gasit pe pagina eventului Street Heroes.
“Pentru a intelege de unde a pornit si care este directia culturii urbane in Romania, este nevoie de un scurt istoric. In cateva randuri, filme si poze vei vedea care sunt elementele care compun acest tip de cultura, cand au fost facuti primii pasi si cum se prezinta prezentul.
Romania post-comunista a fost un excelent incubator pentru cultura urbana. Noua generatie se putea bucura in sfarsit de libertate de exprimare si deschidere catre occident.
Primele manifestari au aparut in jurul anului 1991 in sfera graffiti-ului. Primele crew-uri de writeri s-au format in Bucuresti de abia in 1999. Tot atunci a avut loc primul concurs de graffiti in capitala. In anii 2000 – 2001 apar primele graff-uri facute de straini la metroul din Bucuresti. Primul whole car din Romania a fost realizat in anul 2002, iar in 2004 a fost executat primul whole car de tren personal.
In 1999 s-a deschis primul skatepark din Romania, in Brasov. In 2003, Mountain Dew a organizat in Skatepark Herastrau din Bucuresti primul eveniment de sport extrem in Herastrau, la care au participat si artisti de graffiti.
REALITATI
In prezent Romania contine 14 skatepark-uri.
In jur de 200 de copii incep in fiecare an sa practice skateboarding/BMX/streetdance.
Exista aproximativ 300 de artisti activi de graffiti si street art, dintre care cativa sunt recunoscuti la nivel international.
Exista cel putin 22 de magazine de street wear, accesorii si echipamente sportive.
Anual au loc peste 15 evenimente dedicate sporturilor extreme, insa fragmentat pe subculturi si discipline.
In prezent are loc cel putin un eveniment muzical in fiecare weekend.”
Un articol foarte dragut, iar pentru mai multe informatii despre eventul Street Heroes 2011, clic AICI.
Dan Witz’s WHAT THE %$#@?
Dan Witz‘s Street Art Project for 2010: WHAT THE %$#@? (WTF)
Shot and produced by Tiffaney McCannon.
Edited by Josh Schaefer.
With music by Dan Deacon.
Mr. Dheo
“Mr. Dheo always related to Art. When he was three years old he began to copy sentences from newspapers and magazines and drawing on his own. He had no pencil or notebook, just pens and loose sheets of paper. From childhood to his teens, the compulsive need to express himself became a habit. Always rejecting any kind of conection to a school or Art course, he developed his own tecniques, which enabled him to evolved without direct influences. As an autodidact, Mr. Dheo sees Art in a very personal way, were there is no room for rules and limits.
His first contact with graffiti was when he was 15 years old. Without knowing anyone connected to that area or that even shared the same interest, he began drawing sketches exploring innumerous ways of simply writing names. Months later he did his first street painting and started to meet other artists to whom he related and that motivated him to carry on.
Today, after nine years of continuous work, Mr. Dheo is more focused on doing street walls and interior and exterior decoration in all kinds of places and he also collaborates with brands for the personalization of various accessories. Versatile, he is the only street artist in Portugal at the moment, who dedicates himself to photorealistic productions, which, together with the graphic component of his work, give him a very personal and particular style in constant development and improvement. Mr. Dheo also extends his work field to graphic design, mostly as an illustrator, in the creation of corporate identities and advertising images and even in these graphic works, you can always feel his urban influences.”
OTHER : Dusk in the Wind
Also on Vimeo / Facebook Video
“Derek Mehaffey aka OTHER aka Troy Lovegates este un street artist canadian, în prezent locuind în Buenos Aires, Argentina. A făcut cunoștiință cu street art-ul din întîmplare, în timp ce practica skateboarding în anii ‘80, sub forma unor desene, mesaje și taguri realizate cu spray paint sau oil sticks, prin zone obscure și misterioase frecventate de skateboarderi, în spații urbane dezafectate, unde acesti “outsiders” puteau să se simtă “acasă”, în afara societății care ii marginaliza și care-i privea cu condescendență. În această lume, sub aceste influențe, Other a început să picteze pe pereți, pe trenuri, din Canada, prin SUA, pînă jos în Mexic, precum și în numeroase orașe din Europa, America de Sud, Asia, Africa.
Dupa 23 de ani de activitate, lucrarile sale pot fi gasite pe pereți și trenuri din întreaga lume, precum și în galerii și în colecții particulare.
Other călătoreste fără prea multe bagaje, doar un back-pack, un sac de dormit, instrumentele de desenat, și un bagaj greu de amintiri, pe care ar dori sa le impărtășească sub forma expoziției “Dusk in the wind”, și cu oamenii din București.”
OTHER’s “Dusk in the Wind” Exhibition at Home Matasari (Strada Masatasari nr. 17, Bucuresti, RO)
To see more of OTHER’s work, check out his Flickr.
