This coming Thursday, Galo Art Gallery will be opening The Italian Job, a solo show from The London Police. Galo Art Gallery is Galo‘s relatively new gallery space in Torino, Italy. For me, this is probably the most interesting show that Galo has hosted so far.
I’m looking forward to what Alexandros Vasmoulakis does at Nuart, so in the meantime it’s nice to be able to share some of the other things he’s being doing lately. The piece above was commissioned by an historic concert hall in Ljubljana and painted in collaboration with Paris Koutsikos. Here they are at work:
I’ll need to ask him for a close up because I can’t see the rhinestones he mentions are on the paper. That’s a nice touch.
This second piece is located in the Dafen Painting Village and was commissioned by the Dafen Art Museum. It’s a funny place for it to be, but it’s a nice piece. Faith47, Hitnes, Sonik, Run and others also took part in this project. I’ll have to look out photos of what they did.
– Elisa
After the international book launch of Poster Boy’s The War of Art in NYC, LA, and London last weekend, one of the members of the collective got up in London and put up a few pieces that veer away from the NY based artist’s usual work. The Mary Poppins, and Nick Walker tribute, is right below the Banksy car on Brick Lane which a found the day after it was posted, and the second is on the corner of Whiston and Kingswood roads. in the Leake Street Tunnel. More photos can be seen at No Lions in England.
Photos by Steph Keller and No Lions in England
That’s right. Steve Powers’ latest project is a continuation of his A Love Letter For You project. This time, he’s painting in Syracuse. It looks like A Love Letter to Syracuse has just begun in the few days, and Steve’s crew will be painting a total of three train bridges with messages similar to those in A Love Letter For You. Unurth has more info and more photos of the bridges so far.
There’s not much to say about this yet, but Os Gêmeos posted a video on their blog earlier this week called It’s Snowing:
Okay, so it’s kind of a cool video. Not on the level of Blu or Erica Il Cane’s work, but at least something a bit different. Nonetheless, I probably wouldn’t be posting about it except for this news from Arrested Motion: It’s Snowing is really just a teaser for a larger animated feature from Os Gêmeos. If that’s true (and I would guess that it is), then that is going to be something truly special.
Today I have to break my usual rules for posting on Vandalog. I’m trying to stick to cover “street artists” and not “urban artists,” but I have to make an exception for this. It would make no sense to ignore Matt Small’s upcoming solo show at Black Rat Projects. That I May See is a show based on Matt’s trip to the Robert Shitima School in Kabwe, Zambia and it opens next Thursday (September 9th). Matt, Swoon, Mike Snelle (who runs Black Rat) and I spent some time at the Shitima school earlier this year. You can check out my video of the trip here, but Mike’s post about the trip on Arrested Motion is probably the best place to learn about what we did and where we were.
Since getting back to London, Matt has been painting portraits of students that we met in Zambia, and those will be shown for the first time at That I May See. This is a really special show to me, because my mother and sister are very involved with the Shitima School and having visited myself, I have seen just how vital their work is. Anyone who has met Matt knows what a kind person he is, so it should come as little surprise that Matt and Black Rat Projects have kindly decided to donate 40% of the proceeds from sales to the school. Unlike a lot of charity art shows where a hodge-podge of artists donate work that has been sitting around their studio for a year or two, this really is a proper solo show from a talented artist, and it happens to also be supporting a great cause.
If you’re in London next Thursday, I hope you have a chance to check out this show.
I just posted about Andreas’ new show on the tasj blog (which is where I am when I’m not here), but I wanted to share a sneak peek with Vandalog readers, too. I think that big piece is amazing.
Here are the details in case you’re in Zurich:
Andreas von Chrzanowski aka case
Sex, Drugs and Dusty Pages
ARTseefeld
Seefeldstrasse 301a
8008 Zürich
Opening Reception: September 3, 6-9pm
Thanks for sending the photo, Andreas!
– Elisa
So after posting about Da Mental Vaporz’ kickass recent wall in London, I found out that part of the crew makes up the three-man show Dibujar Mata Violente at Ras Gallery in Barcelona. Bom.K, Dran and Sowat make up nearly half of DMV and (at least to my knowledge) are the more active members of the crew when it comes to painting indoors (but my knowledge of that is pretty limited to what has been shown in the UK, so feel free to correct me) Update: Thanks to people who know more about DMV than me, I’ve been informed that there are 9 artists in the crew and that they all have both outdoor an indoor practices, so I was right to worry that I might be misinforming people. Sorry for any confusion. This is definitely something to check out.
Photos courtesy of Suben
There are three big book releases coming soon that I should be talking about. Today I want to just mention two of those.
KAWS’ 250+ page monograph actually won’t be released until November, but The Aldrich Museum (site of his recent solo show) is already selling an signed edition of the book for $45. UNFORTUNATELY, I think you have to live in the USA to purchase anything from The Aldrich’s online store. If you are living in the USA though, you can buy the book now for $45 and it will ship in November.
And there is a similar book coming out from Faile. Faile: Prints and Originals 1999-2009 is pretty much what it says in the title. I recently had a very brief chance to flip through a copy of this book, and it is just about the most comprehensive catalog of Faile’s work you can imagine. So, if you like Faile, it’s a must have, but if you don’t this obviously won’t be for you. This book should be available in stores or online any day now, but the one place you can definitely go already is Paper Monster. They are selling a “studio edition” of the book today for $69. This version of the book comes signed, stamped and embossed by Faile. But as much as you may want to go out right now and buy this book from Paper Monster, there’s something holding me back. Paper Monster notes that Faile will be releasing an “artist edition” of the book sometime in September, and that will be limited to 200 copies (no word on how many copies the “studio edition” is limited to).
Via The Art Collectors and Hi-Fructose
Photo courtesy of Papermonster
The other day, Gaia posted about Toronto Street Advertising Takever (TOSAT). Because this is such a cool project and I have a lot of respect for PublicAdCampaign, the event organizer, I wanted to just post a view more photos from TOSAT. For more about what exact TOSAT is, check Gaia’s post.
These pieces by Imminent Disaster, Ox and Sean Martindale were some of my favorite billboards from the event.
Photos courtesy of TOSAT and by Martin Reis
