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Mentalgassi Does Some Good in London

German street art collective Mentalgassi teamed up with Amnesty International. The outdoor pieces will be entitled “Making the Invisible Visible,” which highlight the controversial death row sentence of Troy Davis. He has been on death row for 19 years, despite serious doubts about his original conviction. From head on the piece can only be seen as bars, but from a “new angle” the viewer can make out Davis’ face. There is also a video of Mentalgassi making the piece that is a really interesting accompaniment to the photographs.


All photos courtesy of Brothers and Sisters

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Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada Does Some Good in Spain

Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada and the people of the Delta del Ebro area in Spain has done a huge outdoor piece to bring attention to the raging debate on climate change. The pictorial representation is that of a young named Gal·la, meant to represent the future generations who will have to live with what governments decide how to approach society’s negative impact on the environment.

The piece is part of a larger scale project, called 350 Earth, in which major outdoor public art pieces will be photographed around the world be satellites orbiting the planet. The campaign is led by author Bill McKibben.  More information can be found on 350.org.

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Outsiders at Centre Culturel Colombier

Currently, a photo exhibition entitled Outsiders is a conceptual mixed media art show going on right now at the Centre Culturel Colombier in Rennes, France. The exhibit explores the works of different artists who bring in the materials of their works as the art itself, along with the photograph or video of the work as an installation. I think it is a really daring concept, especially one that many people would not necessarily understand right away. Here are some examples from David Renault who is one of the standout artists of the show.

Murky Swamp »Empty Sign par David Renault

Outrage en drapeau par David Renault
Action / vidéo / installation

Across par David Renault
Action / installation

All Photos via Mute Mutiny

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Sorry for the silence

Silence Is Golden by worldwarwon

Sorry for the silence over the last few days (yes, I realize the irony of saying that and picking the above image for this post). I was celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday with some friends in NYC and was barely online. Now I’m trying to get as much schoolwork done as possible before heading to Miami on Thursday and then it’s time for final exams… Until at least the end of the week, I’ll probably only be posting about Miami Basel and events surrounding that. Luckily, Stephanie has been picking up the slack and will continue to do so while I’m locking myself in the library.

That said, I couldn’t help writing briefly about worldwarwon. I’ve just been introduced to his street art, and he’s been doing some interesting things on the streets of London recently. Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like street art is getting a bit more conceptual. Maybe as a reaction to crappy stencils? Anyway, worldwarwon is a nice example of an artist possibly inspired by Banksy but going a bit more conceptual and using the streets. Okay, as I’m rereading those last three sentences, I get the feeling that I’m almost definitely overthinking and overexplaining things. Simply put, check out worldwarone’s website for some clever street art and maybe a laugh.

Photo by worldwarwon

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Sace tribute by IRAK over McGee’s legal mural in NYC

Looks like the IRAK guys have just hit up Barry McGee aka Twist’s legal wall of tags at Bowery and Houston in NYC and covered it with a massive fire extinguisher tribute piece to Sace aka Dash Snow. As much as I loved McGee’s mural, this piece is damn beautiful and I love that this wall got hit up so massively and illegally. Given that McGee’s mural was a bunch of tags, it only seems right that they spot be covered by something nice and illegal. Sace’s name was put up in the original mural though (see the Sacer by the top left corner in this photo)

If you don’t like it, it’s probably worth pointing out what McGee usually does when someone commissions him to paint murals.

Update: Based on this photo by Dante Ross, it looks like somebody’s already been brought in with a scissor lift to cover up the wall. Pretty useless to try buffing it if you ask me. IRAK will just be back if they want to be.

Update 2: Okay nevermind that first update. Not totally sure what’s going on here anymore, but based on info from Luna Park, photos from Martha Cooper and a photo by EssG (thanks to foodofthefuture for those tips) it now sounds like the wall was painted legally.

Update 3: Kathy Grayson’s blog clarifies things. The wall was repainted with permission. It will last 1 day only (which sucks for me because I’ll be in NYC tomorrow evening) before being completely buffed over, and another artist or artists will be repainting the wall next week.

Photo by Sabeth718

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Weekend link-o-rama

Sticker by Hieronymus

Wow. It’s actually Friday night already? This week went by really fast. I think I’ve been sleeping too much. Well, while I was sleeping, these things nearly slipped me by:

The week’s not up yet though, and I’ve committed to doing at least one useful thing before it is: Tomorrow I’m going to try using my kitchen for the first time since going to university. Wish me luck…

Photo by LoisInWonderland

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Waverly Development Legacy Project

The third installment of the Legacy project, James Rouse is imposed with his own words back onto one of his first development projects in Waverly, Baltimore. Built in 1957, the Waverly development was one of the very first Urban Renewal sites in the United States. Housing stock designated as slum land was cleared for around 300 units and a small shopping center and was originally reserved for white families only.
For more photos of this piece check out this link http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaiastreetart/5187528288/

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Parallels: Alfredo Jaar Part 2

In light of the recent bill board takeover projects curated and organized by Jordan Seiler that we have covered in the past, I would like to a couple different billboard projects by Alfredo Jaar. With Why (2008) Jaar was granted access to various billboards run by clear channel, and rather than provide an alternative to the sale of products, he asks the simply question, “why?” By questioning this format of communication but providing no context or trail to follow, the authorship of the unique artist is nullified. Secondly we have the Rwanda, Rwanda (1994) project which is a series of pieces on street level ads bringing awareness to this war torn country. A simple reminder amongst all the contending issues that suffuse the urban environment.

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WK Interact in Mexico City

WK Interact is in Mexico City right now working on a massive mural. The image above is just one cropped section of the 200 meter long design that WK will be installing on the General National Archives of Mexico City. The mural will be completed later this week and stay up through January 20th. Drago has more info.

Image courtesy of WK Interact