2013 – Page 55 – Vandalog – A Street Art Blog

January 14, 2013January 14, 2013

Re+Public’s augmented reality app at Wynwood Walls and Bowery and Houston

From the great minds of T he Heavy Projects and Public Ad Campaign, Re+Public has emerged as the collaborative effort to revision and “democratize” public space through the use of their Augmented Reality app. Two new videos have recently been released which show this technology in full effect: (above) the app reacts to preexisting murals by How & Nosm, Aiko, Retna, and Ryan McGinness at Miami’s Wynwood Walls by turning the murals into giant 3D animations, and (below) the app unveils the timeline of New York City’s Bowery and Houston wall, including the work of Keith Haring, Faile, Barry McGee, Aiko and others who have historically left their mark on the wall.

You can sign up to download the beta version of Re+Public’s Augmented Reality app on their website. Follow them on Facebook for updates.

Keith Haring’s wall depicted in place of How and Nosm’s wall at Houston and Bowery

Photos courtesy of Public Ad Campaign

January 12, 2013

Weekend link-o-rama

Looks like the art world has gotten back on track after the holiday season. Lots of links this week.

Over at Complex.com, I wrote about the 10 (well, actually 12) street artists that I think people should be watching for in 2013.
Rae, one of the artists on that list of mine, has a solo show opening at Signal Gallery in London later this month.
Broken Fingaz are also on that same list, and it looks like they have some new work up in London.
Sten and Lex get up in an ancient church.
I’d never heard of Kraser Tres before, but damn can he paint.
And so can Sokram.
Faile are working on a huge project with the New York City Ballet. It sounds like a bit of a strange collaboration at first, but I’m excited to see the results. It seems like this has given Faile an opportunity to develop new work in a direction that they would have otherwise never gone, and the results that have been teased so far look strong.
2501 has a show opening this month in Bologna.
A lot of Rammellzee’s work is on display now at New York’s Children’s Museum of the Arts.
There’s some great work available in the Iron To Gold/Ashes To Hope benefit auction which will help to fund an artist residency program in Detroit.
Here’s a nice video of Kid Zoom at work.
I might have asked this question before, but can someone please explain the appeal of Barry McGee’s recent Brooklyn mural to me? The first of the videos here has some info about it, but I need more. McGee has previously stated his objections to painting so-call beautifying murals. The only time in recent memory that I can recall seeing anything similar to the Brooklyn mural is the one he painted a few years ago in Miami, but even that piece included a fair bit of traditional graffiti. Plus, the Brooklyn mural was painted by the billboard painting company Colossal. I’ve got no problem with artist assistants or anything like that, but the whole thing strikes me as McGee just saying “Sure, if Cadillac wants to pay me a bunch of money to license one of my images and hire someone else to paint it on a building, I’ll take that paycheck.” And hey, more power to the guy if he can get Cadillac to pay him for that, but is that all that’s going on here or am I missing something? Has McGee’s philosophy about public art changed?

Photo by Tellas

January 11, 2013January 14, 2013

Faith47’s “Fragments of a Burnt History”

Faith47 has a show running now at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, and it looks like an absolutely must-visit. Of course, not all of us are in Johannesburg, so Faith47 has provided plenty of photos and a video. Fragments of a Burnt History was open last year, but the show has been extended and will be open again January 15th through February 9th.

Faith47-Fragments of a Burnt History from FAITH47 on Vimeo.

More photos after jump… Continue reading “Faith47’s “Fragments of a Burnt History””

January 10, 2013January 30, 2013

WK Interact speaks about Project Brave

Back in September of 2011, WK Interact installed a large series of wheatpastes in New York City that paid tribute to the first responders of 9/11. He called this Project Brave. Just this week, a video has gone online with WK and others explaining the project plus some shots of it coming together.

Project Brave – WK Interact from Chris Richter on Vimeo.

Photo by Matthew Kraus

Via Wooster Collective

January 10, 2013January 10, 2013

Chris Dyer and friends

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Chris Dyer is a Peruvian artist now based on Montreal, Canada. Paints colorful murals that might seem a bit scary if there weren’t so many smiling faces, and he’s collaborated with artists like Bue and Labrona.

Chris Dyer, Bue The Warrior & Sam Scarpulla — Chris Dyer, Bue, and Sam Scarpulla

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Old Wagon Burn WEB

Photo by Chris Dyer

January 9, 2013January 9, 2013

YYY in China

YYY of IDT Crew is an artist based in ShenZhen, China. The work is vivid, colorful and fantastical.

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Photos by YYY

January 8, 2013January 8, 2013

Reverse graffiti

This piece is not new, but I only stumbled upon it recently and it seemed too interesting not to share. “Reverse graffiti” is the act of leaving a mark/tag/image by selectively cleaning a surface rather than applying paint. The video above shows Alexandre Orion dealing with São Paulo police who couldn’t make a case when they realized that all he had done was creatively whip away grime. In order to buff his work, the city had to resort to cleaning the whole bridge – a job which clearly needed to be done anyway.

The website Environmental Graffiti posted their top 35 greatest works of reverse graffiti, covering everything from more elaborate versions of writing “clean me” on a dirty car to the large-scale murals of Paul Curtis. Very cool way for street artists and graffiti writers to get their hands dirty (bad pun) without necessarily violating the law.

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Photos by Alexandre Orion

January 7, 2013January 7, 2013

El Tono and Momo’s “Impropables”

El Tono and Momo have teamed up to install 52 of these small sculptures around Besancon, France for a project they call “Impropbables”. On El Tono’s website, there are a few photos showing how they installed the pieces, which shows how they really worked with the space to fit the materials in with few extra tools. The two also produced a zine documenting the project, which is available here.

What’s beautiful about this project is the subtlety of the work. It might not jump out to a lot of people, but I think to come across one of these pieces and realize that it was placed there intentionally would be a really special and thought provoking find.

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Photos courtesy of Momo

Via Graffuturism

January 6, 2013

Kosbe at Woodward Gallery Project Space

There’s a raw elegance to Kosby’s aesthetic that has intrigued me since I first came upon his stickers and paste-ups a number of years back on an array of public surfaces in Brooklyn and Manhattan. It’s great to see it now gracing the Woodward Gallery Project Space on Manhttan’s Lower East Side, where it is visible to so many. Here are a few close-ups from the four-panel installation, Borrowed Time, that officially “opened” this weekend.

Kosbe-close-up2 — Photo by Lenny Collado

Photo courtesy of Woodward Gallery and by Lenny Collado

January 6, 2013January 30, 2013

Entes and Pesimo in Pamplona Alta, Peru

Last month, Entes and Pesimo participated in a grassroots project Alegrarte in Lima, Peru. This initiative stands out to me, particularly because of its focus to exist outside the city’s various arts districts. Alegrarte focused on bringing artists, such as Entes & Pesimo to decorate, revive and uplift Pamplona Alta, a shantytown in the outskirts of Lima. This is the project’s first go, and I’m hopeful that more attention will be brought to areas such as this; areas that do not have a potable water source, roads, or available long term educational opportunities.

Pamplona Alta is home to hundreds of families that settled in the mid to late 1980s, as a response to violence brought by The Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso), a revolutionary group known for its violence and extreme measures of political revolt. This growing township still struggles with developmental and infrastructural dilemmas; thankfully artists and various non-profit organizations aim to beautify the town in more than one way, and as a response I’m hoping to see more attention brought to larger scale problems. Art is powerful, voilà!

Photos courtesy of Entes & Pesimo