The fantastic Horfée’s recent solo show in London, Imaginarium, looks like a real hit. Hooked has plenty of photos of the show, and turned me on to a great video of Horfée made by Hypebeast in which he discusses the Imaginarium. Check it out:
Photo by Hooked
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Hendrik ‘ecb’ Beikirch recently opened a show in Cologne, Germany and painted a large mural to accompany the show. Beikirch’s show, Transsib – Greyhound. Paintings from train and bus rides, is on now through May 19th at Ruttkowski:68 in Cologne, but I want to focus on his beautiful new mural.
To learn more about Beikirch and his process for this body of work, check out this video:
Hendrik ‘ecb’ Beikirch, “Greyhound – Transsib”‘, exhibition video (Ruttkowski;68, Cologne/Germany) from Ruttkowski;68 on Vimeo.
Photos by Nils Müller
I missed last week’s link-o-rama because I was in Boston for the Barry McGee show at the ICA Boston. So worth the trip (more on that soon), but for now here’s what I missed:
Photo courtesy of Rowdy
Dissidents looks like a really exciting group show opening soon at Open Walls Gallery in Berlin. It will feature work by BR1, Just, Vermibus, Alias, Emess, Giacomo Spazio, and Negative Vibes. Dissidents opens April 12th and runs through May 11th. More info on the Facebook event page.
I’m especially excited to see what Just and Vermibus make for this show. Just is one of the great contemporary graffiti photographers, and Vermibus has done some absolutely killer ad disruptions. Luckily, Open Walls Gallery have sent over this preview of a piece by Vermibus…
Photo courtesy of Open Walls Gallery
You know those amazing identical twin artists who do a lot of work outdoors and create work about an invented world? No, not them. The ones who live in NYC. No, not them. The ones who work with shoes, Skewville. Well, they might not be the best-known pair of identical twin street artists, but they are pretty awesome in my book. The folks at White Walls Gallery in San Fransisco seem to agree, because Skewville’s latest show opens there on April 13th. Amusement includes a mixture of 2D and 3D work and is pretty much guaranteed to make you smile. Definitely check this one out. The show runs through May 4th.
Photos courtesy of White Walls Gallery
I’m going to be visiting London in a few months, so I thought I’d catch up on who’s been getting up on the street there. I found all of these pieces on Unusualimage’s flickr.
Continue reading “An update from London”
KATSU, one of my favorite writers of all time, has had quite a week. I was just going to throw these things in the weekend link-o-rama because other blogs have covered the events so well, but then stories about KATSU just kept piling up. So, here they are:
Photo by Dani Mozeson
Last year while Above was in Cape Town, South Africa, he completed a project that he has titled Ubuntu, after the South African philosophy that says that to be human is to be part of a community. With this project, Above reminds us that even relatively simple interventions in public space can be extremely powerful if done right. Okay, this one did require that Above get up on a lift for the installation, but the piece was made by local children out of old car tires. The tires went from trash to community artwork. Now, every child who helped Above has a stake in that sculpture, which serves as a physical reminder of the stake they each have in their community. Plus, it got a lot of kids painting, which is always good.
Here’s a video of the project:
You may notice that the video does not include a shot of the finished piece, but it kind of doesn’t matter what the piece looks like. What matters is that it was built by a community.
Photo courtesy of Above
