Category Archives: Street Art
SLEEPWALK : Aitch, Saddo, Sinboy
“SLEEPWALK : Aitch / Saddo / Sinboy” video pe Vimeo sau YouTube.
Pe 10 mai, de Noaptea Alba a Galeriilor, la McCann Pop-Up Gallery a fost vernisajul expozitiei Sleep Walk, unde Aitch, Saddo si Sinboy au expus exclusiv pentru galerie/eveniment lucrarile lor. De la pictura pe pereti, geamuri si alte materiale, la ilustratii, tablouri si decoratiuni, plus live painting.
A fost foarte frumos. Felicitari artistilor!
Glappy : Street Art Mozaicat
Glappy este un artist roman care face niste piese extraordinare de street art folosindu-se de tehnica decorativa, mozaic, pentru a da viata la personajele sale colorate.
Acest tip de arta stradala decorativa este in premiera la noi pe strazi, dar din pacate nu rezista prea mult pentru ca “iubitorii de arta” le dau jos destul de repede. Iar inafara de mozaic, Glappy mai face si stickere cu personaje la fel de interesante.
Lucrarile lui Glappy se gasesc pe Facebook / WordPress / DeviantArt.
A1one a.k.a Tanha
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.
