Among the artists brought this past week by Converse‘s Wall to Wall project to Hong Kong is one of my favorites — Alex Hornest aka Onesto. I’ve seen Alex’s playfully endearing characters in Sao Paulo, Brazil – where he is based – and in Bogota, Colombia. I’m thrilled that they’ve made their way onto a huge wall in Hong Kong during the 2013 Art Basel Festival!
Photos courtesy of Alex Hornest
In/Between, Hyuro‘s solo show at ArtRebels in Copenhagen, is on now through June 15th. It includes 19 watercolor and ink drawings of her street pieces. I’m curious what fans will prefer, the watercolors or the street pieces?
Photos by Henrik Haven
Tatzu Nishi, who people probably know best from his Discovering Columbus project in NYC, recently had a work of his performed for 48 hours for Cultural Hijack, “a survey of provocative interventions” in London aka a bunch of street art and outdoor performances with a good budget behind them. Nishi’s Ascending Descending is a Rube Goldberg device of sorts, except nothing ever gets accomplished. Check out the video:
Tatzu Nishi, Ascending Descending from culturalhijack on Vimeo.
Photos courtesy of Cultural Hijack
Olive47‘s latest solo show, bonita bonita, opened a few weeks ago and runs through June 1st at Breeze Block Gallery in Portland. Olive47 describes the work as “a visual dissertation on Joseph Campbell,” but I haven’t read anything by Campbell since high school, so if anyone wants to explain the connections that they catch, please do so in the comments.
Photos courtesy of Olive47
I’m in London this week, and next, so come and find me wandering around Shoreditch. Just a few links today.
Photo by Luna Park
Sorry for the short notice, but Troy Lovegates aka Other has a solo show opening in Copenhagen this Friday the 24th at MOHS exhibit. Shallow Lake opens on May 24th and runs through June 29th. Definitely check it out. Lovegates is one of my favorite painters, indoors and outdoors. He has such a way of capturing people.
In addition to the show inside the gallery, Lovegates painted this mural on the outside of the space:
Photos courtesy of Troy Lovegates
Last month, I wrote about the emerging movement of street art events and projects in South America, the different social dynamics that create a variant dialogue towards street art and community involvement in activities that promote cultural development and accessible art for all. I now present you Elian‘s mural for PUENTE, a public art project organized by Kosovo Gallery in Córdoba, Argentina. Elian took the initiative of challenging ways of creating public space by using street art as a tool that changes urban environments. He says that PUENTE “seeks to reclaim city spaces that are out of condition through the street art, improving street lighting, keeping the space clean, fixing access for people with disabilities and other things related to the environment.” PUENTE will be an on going initiative that will bring many artists from Argentina and other parts of the globe to participate in creating safer places for everyone.
Photos courtesy of Elian
Sonni recently painted this piece in Brooklyn on a Bushwick Collective wall. As you can see in the photo above, it’s right by Gaia’s recent piece for The Bushwick Collective. I’m so glad to see that Sonni is out painting in NYC. His work is so fun and it just makes me smile.
Photos by Sonni
I came across this piece by mobstr yesterday in London near the Bethnal Green underground station. From what I found on Instagram, it looks like The Scribble Wall was installed on Wednesday morning and very quickly got covered by passersby by the time I came across it in the early afternoon. This is one of my favorite ad takeovers in a while. In addition to covering an advertisement, mobstr chained four markers to the billboard, allowing anyone to add their voice (although a few of those voices did end up being advertisements themselves). Most people who I saw walking by the billboard didn’t notice it or didn’t care to stop, but a lot of people did stop to take a look or scribble something of their own. I asked two teenage girls who were writing on the board what they thought it was. They said they had no idea, but that they thought it was really cool. I agree.
As a little bonus, I also came across this mobstr piece in Hackney Wick yesterday evening:
Photos by RJ Rushmore
Sofia Maldonado has quite a presence in NYC these days. Her work can currently be seen in the exhibit Against the Grain at the Museum of Arts and Design on Columbus Circle, at Magnan Metz Gallery in Chelsea and on East First Street in collaboration with Ray Smith and Cre8tive YouTH*ink for Centrefuge Public Art Project.
And tomorrow, May 23, Magnan Metz is hosting a benefit cocktail to support the wonderful work that Sofia and other artists are doing with the young members of Cre8tive YouTH*ink.
