Category Archives: Street Art
Lego Bridge
Cool looking Lego bridge in the town of Wuppertal, Germany, painted by graffiti artist MEGX.
Romanian Papergirl #3
Papergirl este un proiect de arta in cadrul caruia, in stilul baietilor care distribuie ziare in SUA, lucrari de arta sunt rulate si distribuite de pe bicicleta pe strada, in mod aleator, trecatorilor.
Proiectul se desfasoara in 3 etape: colectarea lucrarilor, expozitia si distributia acestora. Incepe prima etapa a proiectului, iar romanian papergirl asteapta lucrarile voastre pana la 1 septembrie 2012.
Anul acesta proiectul a ajuns la a treia editie si isi propune sa stranga cel putin la fel de multe lucrari, ca in anii trecuti.
“Credem ca arta este pentru toata lumea”
Detalii in plus despre proiect, click AICI.
Here Comes The Neighbourhood
HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD is a Short-Form Docuseries exploring the power of Public Art and innovation to uplift and revitalize urban communities. The Pilot Season revolves around the Arts District of Wynwood Miami, featuring an array of internationally acclaimed and locally respected Street Artists, Graffiti Writers and Muralists.
In 2009, Urban Visionary and Placemaker Tony Goldman partnered with Jeffrey Deitch (Deitch Projects Soho and now director of MoCa Los Angeles) to create the Wynwood Walls.What began with a series of parking lots, loading docks, and drab rundown factory buildings, became a curation of high caliber murals from Futura, Shepard Fairey, OS Gemeos, Kenny Scharf and others. The Walls opened for Art Basel 2009, and now two years later the collection has expanded to include over thirty artists from around the world, becoming a “Town Center” in a district that has grown into one of the largest concentrations of commissioned murals in the World.
This year Artists, many of whom have not shown work in the United States before, were selected by Tony Goldman, Goldman Projects Arts Manager Meghan Coleman and Art Consultant Medvin Sobio of the Visual Arts Collective Viejas Del Mercado. 33third Los Angeles, Mid City Arts, and Montana Cans worked together to provide paint for the project’s ambitious expansion.
HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD explores a unique juncture in history as a new community emerges and evolves. A progressive urban revitalization campaign is examined in the first person, using this year’s new Artists and their commissions as a lens to explore a neighborhood in transition. The Series is framed by colorful overview and concluding episodes, providing the scope of past, present and future. Each episode is accented by images from legendary Documentary Photographer Martha Cooper, who has been capturing The Walls since they began in 2009. Her Photographs will also appear in a Special Edition Art Book “The Wynwood Walls and Doors” set to be released at Art
Basel 2011.
For more information on the artists and history of the Wynwood Walls visit thewynwoodwalls.com
ERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Directed By: Jenner Furst
Produced By: Ben Solomon
Supervising Producers: Julia Willoughby Nason & Daniel B. Levin
Created By: Jenner Furst & Tony Goldman
Executive Producer: Tony Goldman
A CINEMART Production
In Association With Goldman Projects
Coordinating Producer: Meghan Coleman
Consulting Producer: Medvin Sobio
Solidaritatea
Pe peretele unui bloc din cartierul Botanica din Chişinău poate fi admirată o pictură murală având ca temă mişcarea poloneză „Solidaritatea”, semnată de artistul polonez Rafał Roskowiński. Scopul proiectului, iniţiat de Institutul Polonez din Bucureşti şi Primăria Municipiului Chişinău, este revitalizarea cartierului şi promovarea artei urbane.
Pictura îl înfăţişează pe Lech Wałęsa, liderul mişcării „Solidaritatea” din Polonia anilor ’80, pornită la Gdańsk, şi face referire la schimbările anului 1989 în ţările din Europa Centrală şi de Est.
Rafał Roskowiński a fost asistat la executarea lucrării de tânărul pictor Wojciech Woźniak, unul dintre adepţii Şcolii de Artă Murală din Gdańsk, precum şi de artistul Alberto Şveţ, din Chişinău. Realizarea picturii a fost susţinută de Institutul de Cultură Urbană din Gdańsk şi de producătorul de vopsele Caparol.
Rafał Roskowiński (n. 1966) a absolvit Şcoala Naţională Superioară de Arte Plastice din Gdańsk. Din anul 1992 creează şi promovează arta murală. A realizat, printre altele, lucrări pe pereţii Şantierului Naval din Gdańsk, ai Hotelului Ikar şi Muzeului Insurecţiei din Varşovia. Este iniţiatorul Galeriei de Artă Monumentală din cartierul Zaspa din Gdańsk, care cuprinde în prezent 33 de lucrări executate pe pereţi de blocuri. În anul 2010 a înființat Şcoala de Artă Murală – o instituţie în care tineri artişti învață tehnici şi principii de execuţie în arta monumentală, cu scopul creării unui nou stil de artă.
Arta murală începe să câştige un potenţial aparte în oraşele din Europa Centrală şi de Est graţie arhitecturii specifice din cartierele de locuinţe. Un bun exemplu îl reprezintă Cartierul Zaspa din Gdańsk, un cartier muncitoresc obişnuit, cunoscut doar pentru faptul că în anii ’80, într-unul dintre blocuri a locuit Lech Wałęsa. În urma înfiinţării Galeriei de Artă Monumentală, cartierul a devenit o atracţie culturală şi turistică a oraşului, precum şi un loc de întâlnire şi creaţie pentru artişti din diferite domenii.
The Dark Knight Rises Street Art
Posterul filmului The Dark Knight Rises desenat pe calcanul unei cladiri, realizat de Dan Cohen (Art FX Murals).
Si de asemenea si o varianta realizata din creta.
- via TOR / Geek Art Gallery
Brandalism
The Brandalism project saw 25 artists from 8 countries coming together for the biggest subvertising campaign in UK history. Over five days a team of guerilla installers travelled to Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Bristol and London and put up artworks that seeks to confront the ad industry and take back our visual landscapes.
Check out the Brandalism gallery, HERE.
Nights Off Brasov +
Daca va aduceti aminte postam cu ceva timp in urma o mica interventie a artistului The Orion in orasul Brasov, de unde a rezultat Nights off Brasov.
Acum The Orion revine cu un nou clip Nights Off Brasov + (chiar daca poarta aproape acelasi nume, este o versiune mult mai imbunatatita), cu toata activitatea sa din Brasov, comprimata in aproape 3 minute de hardcore-aleala stradala!
Si pentru mai multe detalii si poze, va invitam pe pagina lui, clic AICI.
Check it out!
Ecole Maternelle Pajol
German City Starts Preserving Street Art!
Should graffiti be preserved? In the case of Blek le Rat’s Madonna masterpiece in Leipzig, the city says yes and what begun back in the early 1990s as a true love story, has now become an original precedent!
Several years ago, Blek le Rat – who nowadays is regarded as a stencil art pioneer – spray-painted a Woman with Child on an apartment building in Leipzig. He dedicated the Madonna to Sybille, the woman he was in love with. Today, they are already married for 20 years and the stencil art piece is still there and it will stay there for at least the next decades!
The reason for that development is that the piece is now on Saxony’s state list of historical monuments! It’s a German precedent – whereas Great Britain (with Banksy) and Switzerland (with Harald Naegeli) already started preserving street art, in Germany nobody would have ever thought to classify certain street artworks as culturally valuable…
Typically, only bygone eras are represented on such lists, and it can take a long time for a monument to be chosen. But Le Rat’s Madonna was granted protected status in just three months. It’s not enough for a work to be recognized as high-quality art, it also should be representative of the time period it comes from. (dw.de)
In my eyes, this is a great story and although preserving street art works against the temporary character of street art, this Leipzig precedent could open more possibilities for artists to become more accepted in common opinion. It’s a perfect chance – we just need to use it!
- via Urban Art Core
