Month: March 2009

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ABOVE Print Release

Yesterday, ABOVE (of those arrows stuck to walls everywhere) released a new print called “Trying 2 Put 2 and 2 2gether” for only 44 euros (and an edition of just 40!). You can buy them on his website. I would have thought this would be a print to jump on, but IMHO it just doesn’t live up to the version of this image that ABOVE painted on the street. See for yourself though, since if you like this print (or the AP you can get for just 99 euros), it’s practically stealing at these prices.

Here’s a video with the original piece in it:


SouthCentral Tour (Part 3 of 4) from ABOVE on Vimeo.

And the prints:

2 and 22 and 2 AP

Photos from ABOVE’s website

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The Sotheby’s Parlá

Those following urban art auctions closely have probably heard about the José Parlá original on board that was estimated by Sotheby’s at only $8,000-$12,000 (image can be found here). Nobody I spoke to could understand such a low estimate. The piece is quite big a 48 by 86 inches (about 1.2m x 2.2m), and it’s beautiful. It’s not like Parlá is the sort of Banksy derivative artist whose work is having a tough time selling in this market. I’m pretty sure that if Elms Lesters had another Parlá solo show next month lines would still be out the door.

Well, this evening lot 236 sold for $51,250 including Buyers Premium. I still don’t know how Sotheby’s could have have gotten the estimate so wrong, but I’m glad the rest of the world saw this gem and realized what it is actually worth.

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Lou Reed Gets All Torn Up

If you’re not familiar with Supreme, they are a clothing company who seem, at first glance, pretty hip or whatever. Unfortunately, they are also known for being big fans of flypasting. Their advertising campaigns always seem to consist of photos of celebrities wearing their clothing. These adverts get stuck up in locations which also happen to be perfect for street art or graffiti (often times even going over street art or graffiti).

This practice has caused artists like Gaia to speak out against them or go over them. Recently, other street artists have picked up on this idea rather creatively. This most recent campaign has been a photo of rock legend Lou Reed. Within days of the campaign starting up, Faile were out changing around the ads to their liking. Now, another artist/artists (probably PosterBoy and Aakash Nihilani) have gotten involved:

brooklyn_street_art_aakash_posterboy_mar09

Photo by Steven P. Harrington

Via Brooklyn Street Art

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Work To Do in Brooklyn

In what looks to be the mother of all group shows, perhaps the MuTATE Britain of Brookyln (yes, I’m a bit prone to hyperbole, but so are most blogs), Work To Do is a show opening March 26th at 112 Green Street Studio in New York. Work To Do has work from a few dozen artists including Royce Bannon (the show’s curator), Robots Will Kill, Stikman, Hush, Aiko, Matt Siren, Bast, Ellis G., Cake and many more.

Perhaps the coolest thing about Work To Do is that the show is not a traditional gallery exhibition with lots of work for sale but instead every artist involved will be painting the walls of the space, and only some will end up selling any work.

Work To Do Flyer

For slightly more information, check out The Combine’s website

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The Free Zulu Project

A few weeks ago I posted about The Treatment Rooms. In that post, I briefly mentioned the Angola 3 and Kenny Zulu Whitmore. They are prisoners in Angola Prison who have spent over 30 years in solitary confinement. Their stories are really terrible, and you can learn more on Wikipedia or Zulu’s website.

The Free Zulu organization is trying to get justice for Zulu and raise money for his legal defense fund (currently, Zulu doesn’t even have a lawyer). Their efforts are largely funded by art projects. Right now they have “OBEY” style tshirts for sale and some tiles from The Treatment Rooms. Later this year, Matt Small will be painting a portrait of Zulu, and hopefully more artists will get involved in the future.

These are the sort of things that make me really glad I’m involved in street art and really upset that I’m from America, but at least we can do something to help.

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PosterBoy Show Next Month in NYC

Some pretty exciting news from New York. One of New York’s newest art galleries, Eastern District, is having a show with PosterBoy opening April 3rd. Information is limited at this point, with just a few lines on Eastern Districts website. The show is presented by Public Ad Campaign, a really cool blog. This show is going to be one of my first stops when I visit New York next month. I bet it is going to be amazing. Other than the piece photographed below, these should be PosterBoy’s first works in a gallery.

The Neocons

Photo from PosterBoy’s flickr

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Herakut and War Child Reception at Philips de Pury

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Tuesday night is the opening reception for the Phillips de Pury Saturday Sale featuring a brand new work by Herakut which will be sold with proceeds going to the charity War Child. And of course, the auction is on Saturday and has work from all the usual suspects in street art plus a couple of cool toys.

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Anthony Lister Solo Opens in Italy

Anthony Lister Wall

Nine times out of ten, Anthony Listers’ work leaves me absolutely blown away. That’s why I was so pleased to hear that he has a solo show called “The Pain of Feeling” opening tomorrow at KGallery in Italy. The above photo is from a wall that he’s painted at KGallery.

KGALLERY
IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE
“THE PAIN OF FEELING”

THE ITALIAN SOLO EXHIBITION
OF ANTHONY LISTER,

FROM MARCH 7 TO APRIL 11, 2009
The show will present new, unreleased works by the artist
Born in Brisbane 30 years ago, based in New York for 3 years, Anthony Lister comes back to Italy with new works.

After the 2007 edition of Allarmi in Como, the group exhibition entitled Kick off at KGallery in 2007 and the solo exhibition “God’s got a plan to kill me” in April 2008, the new Lister’s exhibition entitled “The Pain of Feeling” open in KGallery, Legnano, on March 07 (until April 11, 2009).

Anthony Lister, indeed one of the most sensational contemporary artists, paints on large canvas taking inspiration from street art as well as ordinary life. Superheroes are revisited and deformed through an almost minimal style. A style that becomes absolutely individual and recognizable, 100% original despite the overexposure of the icons. “The work is about sexual content online – Anthony Lister says about  “The Pain of Feeling – and the drive for young women to behave like their misguided rolmodels”

Lister’s solo exhibitions in the past months, scattered all around the world, from London to New York, from Melbourne to San Francisco, from Miami to Los Angeles, have made some of his works true relics, at the center of discussions in the world  of collectionism.

ANTHONY LISTER

The Pain of Feeling

07 March – 11 April, 2009

Legnano (Milan), KGallery

piazza Europa 15

Opening hours: from Thursday to Saturday, from 16.30 to 19.30

And on appointment

www.kgallery.it

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