Went to Elms Lesters on Thursday for the opening of Ron English’s first UK solo show, and I was pretty impressed. Although I’m not as big of a Ron English fan as some people, there were definitely a few pieces that stood out for me.
And if you like that image, check out the almost life sized toy version.
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Last year’s FAME Festival by Studiocromie was probably Italy’s street art event of the year, and on September 19th it will be back again with an equally impressive group of artists.
Last year, the artists did some amazing work on the street (like this JR piece below), so hopefully that trend coninues.
If I were putting together a street art festival, this is pretty close to my dream line up. To name just a few of the highlights, Erica La Cane did very impressive work on the street at FAME last year, SAM3 and Blu always impress me with their unique styles, Mark Jenkins is one of the top artists when it comes to disruptive realism, and Vhils and Judith Supine are just plain awesome.
I’m looking into flights to Italy for this September.
Remember this jerk? Blago? He’s Illinois latest disgraced governor who tried to sell Obama’s senate seat and cut funding for a children’s hospital when its head guy didn’t donate to Blago’s reelection campaign? Sorry if I sound bitter, but I’m originally from Chicago, so he’s kind of besmirched my home state.
Well, there have been some stencils popping up in Chicago lately featuring the ex-governor running away.
Photos from craynol
I was walking around Shoreditch the other day to kill some time, and I came across a few new bits on the street that caught my eye.
I went by the RareKind Gallery last night for their opening, and was very presently surprised with the quality of work. Their Chrome and Black crew have been doing great work throughout London lately, but this sticker confused me. I mean, it’s a sticker that says believe in the spray can. They couldn’t at least stencil that?
This mural was always very nice, but I guess Sickboy thought the spot needed an update. Can’t say I mind though, this new piece is pretty nice as well.
No idea who this is by, but the concept is awesome. It’s wheatpasted photos of a piece by Klone that was recently up in the area. I’d like to see more of this, but I’m scared to see them show up for sale next month in the Brick Lane Gallery or somewhere.
Brazilian street art is just plain cooler than street art anywhere else in the world. For a bit of evidence, check out this work from Cena7. His paints some beautiful characters, and I can’t imagine him being from anywhere else. It’s exactly the sort of work I would love to be surprised by one day walking around town.
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Photos from Cena7
Am I the last person in street art to hear about this, or has it just been kept very quiet? This is a last minute post, but this is something I only heard about an hour ago.
Eine is doing a one night show THIS THURSDAY NIGHT at Nelly Duff Gallery. It’s going to be all about that insanely complex new print he attempted. Here’s the PR stuff:
I’m just in the middle of watching this video myself, but I’m liking it. Marc and Sarah Schiller of Wooster Collective did a talk at the Tate Modern (a similar one I think), and I was devastated to miss it, so this video was a very exciting find for me. It’s their recent talk from PSFK:
I’ve got a few bits of Ron English news today.
First of all, his crazy new print. It’s a lenticular silkscreen. I have no idea how this works, but it sounds cool. The image is his Abraham Obama design that he made for the election.
Edition: 7 Unique Colors, 10 Red White and Blue, 30 Silver Text, 157 Gold Text
Unique Colors: $600
Red White and Blue Text: $600
Silver Text: $500
Gold Text: $500
You can buy them from Jetset Graffiiti.
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Inkfetish has recently made some updates to his website, and as I think Inkfetish tends to do some very interesting and different work that brightens up the London scene, I suggest you check it out. Okay so this is actually like a week old, but it’s new-ish, and Inkfetish still does nice work.
For those who don’t know Inkfetish, here’s a piece he recently did outside of Cargo.
Only about 2% of Vandalog’s readers are in Germany, but those 2% (and I suppose anybody else in the area between now and August) have the chance to see what promises to be one of the year’s best street art exhibits.
From May 16 to August 30th, the Reinking Collection is showing part of their street art collection at The Weserburg, a modern art museum in Bremen, Germany. Artists in the show include Banksy, Os Gêmeos, Zezão, and Shepard Fairey. Rik Reinking has one of the world’s best collections of street art, so I’m really excited to see a museum doing something so large scale with it.
The press for this exhibition is actually really interesting and worth reading even if you can’t make it down:
Urban Art is everywhere. Unsolicited, it leaves its traces and signs in urban space. It conquers public space with stickers, posters, extensive murals, and stencil graffiti. It’s galleries are the world’s streets. What began as graffiti in the large cities on America’s east coast forty years ago has since experienced a decisive development. Even if the majority of actions continue to be produced anonymously and illegally, it is no longer exclusively a phenomenon associated with youth culture. Many of the protagonists have emancipated themselves from the pictorial language of graffiti writing and experimented with new forms of expression. With their subtle and humorous, occasionally offensive interventions in the urban landscape they attempt to force open familiar visual habits. As a rule, they are not concerned with damaging the urban infrastructure but with participating in a dialogue with the public.
There is a variety of Urban Art. Temporary actions, unusual objects and sculptures, lettering, and characters are woven into the visual flow of the city as stumbling blocks. The possibility that many of the passers-by take no notice of these interventions is consciously taken into account. Thus they comprise a subversive counterweight to the constant presence of advertising, whose blinking images and seductive buying options dominate everyday life. It is not only in this respect that Urban Art is the expression of a critical examination of the social, cultural, and economic dimensions of the city, which in the age of globalization is rapidly and sustainably changing.Urban Art has recently experienced a downright hype. Numerous galleries and museums around the world have organized exhibitions, and works by the most well-known representatives of the genre have gained premium prices at auctions. What some accuse of being commercialization, the loss of authenticity, and the betrayal of original interests is viewed by many artists as a new chance. By transferring their themes and methods in the protected space of the museum, they develop very new and surprising approaches. But what kind of art is this that leaves its ancestral terrain? Do the works not require the city as a resonating space, as an immediate opponent? And is one of the essential features of Urban Art not its impermanence, its spontaneity? The Weserburg will be devoting itself to these questions in a large-scale exhibition centered around works from the Reinking Collection.
Via SlamxHype
