Here’s something a little bit different from your average mural. Andreco and Erica il Cane collaborated together on this wall in the Saraha Desert of Morocco.
Photos courtesy of Andreco
Erica il Cane show and murals in Ghent
Erica il Cane recently painted three sides of an artists’ studio space, Het vogelnest vzw, in the Belgian city of Ghent. He will also be showing his work inside the space on the 19th-20th of May and there is a “street art night” on the 19th with lectures by Sarah Rombouts, Peter Bosschaert, Harlan Levey and Javier Abarca, and a screening of Exit Through the Gift Shop. For more info on those events, check out the studio’s website. You can see all Erica il Cane’s murals after the jump… Continue reading “Erica il Cane show and murals in Ghent”
Draw The Line: Erica Il Cane, Sten and Lex
Draw The Line, the mural festival in Campobasso (Italy), finished up recently. Here are the final two murals for the festival. The above wall is by Sten and Lex, and Erica Il Cane’s is below.
Photos courtesy of Draw The Line
Weekend link-o-rama
A day late, but here’s the link-o-rama. Let’s just say it feels like I’ve been competing, exactly one year on, with Ben Eine for the title of having had the strangest week. Here’s what I’ve missed:
- The NYTimes has an article about Taki183, an update of sorts on their article from that original article from 40 years ago I guess.
- A video and images from that show of graffuturism in Glasgow.
- Kid Acne’s museum show in Sheffield has opened and Arrested Motion interviewed the artist.
- Don’t Panic interviewed Pablo Delgado.
- Insa’s just done a new Gif-itti animation.
- Lots of updates from FAME Festival: Boris Hoppek, Erica Il Cane, Blu and Aryz.
- And if you need more Italian political street art, you can check out the latest short film from Six Oranges.
- Shok-1 painted a mural in China, but now the government wants it removed.
- Vhils is getting up in LA.
- A politician in Bristol wants to find a way to protect (extremely valuable) street art. I’m not saying I oppose the idea, but the article does read exactly what something I’d expect to find in The Onion.
Photo by Sabeth718
Photos of the Week
Here are just some of the week’s best works Vandalog has come across on the Interwebz:
Photos courtesy of Blu, Phlegm and Walk This Way Festival
Erica Il Cane at FIFTY24SF
Erica Il Cane has a show, We Were Living in the Woods, opening in San Fransisco next Thursday at FIFTY24SF. Should be an interesting show. I go back and forth on Erica Il Cane’s art, but when I see his watercolors in person, I tend to fall in love with it all over again. Here’s a teaser:
Photos courtesy of FIFTY24SF
Weekend link-o-rama
It’s been a crazy week in London. Moniker and all that. But here’s what has been going on with street art elsewhere:
- Okay, so I will mention one thing about Moniker: Graffoto seems to be the first to post a review, and what a review it is. Doubtless, Vandalog will be posting something in the coming days, but in the mean time, check out Graffoto to see all that Moniker goodness.
- Mudwig is part of the Meta Snout show opening today at High Roller Society in London.
- NYC graffiti legend Cost collaborated with the folks at Supreme on some t-shirts. They are available online now.
- Erica il Cane and Lucy McLauchlan painted a huge wall in Lisbon.
- JR is getting up at the Shanghai Biennale.
- Bumblebee’s first solo show looks really great. Way better than I had expected.
- I’ve tried twice to see Word To Mother’s solo show at Stolenspace, but they always seem to be closed when I am near the gallery. Photos look great though and I’ve only heard good things.
- Microbo is part of a two-man 2-person show at Galo Art Gallery.
- Old-school graffiti writer Duster UA has a solo show coming up in December at London Miles Gallery. Tickets are on sale now for a special event at the gallery during the show.
Photo by unusualimage
Ericailcane at Fame Fest
I really like Ericailcane’s new murals for Fame Fest. He always does some of the best work there, in my opinion. See his 2009 walls here (my favorite) and here.
If you want to see more, I’ve posted some more photos of these new walls, plus a video of him working in Studiocromie, on tasj.
– Elisa
Images via Fame Fest.
Nuart 2010: Landmarks
Stavanger’s Nuart festival is well under way right now with some huge walls finished or in progress. This year’s Nuart is called The “Landmark” Series, and artists are not taking the challenge lightly. While in Stavanger last year, I thought that the city had been pretty transformed by street art, but now things are getting bigger than ever. A few weeks ago, Elisa posted here about Dotmasters’ Toy piece, but that’s just the start of what’s been going on.
And I mentioned this piece by Blu and Ericailcane a while back, but didn’t actually post photos, so here are some photos of it:
Photos by kalevkevad
Playing catch-up: It’s a link post!
Been in NYC for the last few days. Besides being busy, it seems like the hotel I was at still hadn’t quite figured out the concept of wifi extending to all rooms in the hotel… So now I’ve got a lot of stories to post about. Here’s what I missed while I was away, though you may have read about it elsewhere:
- I’ve actually been meaning to post about this for a while. Ken Harman from Arrested Motion and the Hi-Fructose Blog, just curated one of the better group shows I’ve seen. Some artists of particular note would be Emory Douglas (a major influence on Shepard Fairey and important propaganda-maker in his own right), Dabs, Myla, Mike Shine and Monica Canilao. A Decade With No Name is open on Saturdays and Sundays through September 12th at 54 Washington St. Oakland, CA. My Love For You Is A Stampede of Horses has photos of Monica’s installation, and Spoke has photos of everything else and is where you can purchase the artwork.
- Papergirl NY is bringing Germany’s Papergirl concept to the USA. Basically, artists get together to distribute a bunch of free art to members of the public by riding around on bikes. Their YouTube video shows what happens in a bit more detail. Papergirl NY events are taking place in New York City this week. On Tuesday and Wednesday they will be at the DUMBO Arts Center, and then Papergirl will move to The Armory where you can find them Friday through Sunday.
- Mobstr hasn’t been around forever, but his humor can already rival Banksy.
- Blu and Ericailcane are in Stavanger for Nuart, and their wall is one of Blu’s boldest political statements yet (after all, Stavanger is an oil-funded city, and oil money from taxes pretty much funds Nuart). Nice stuff.
- I’m loving Shepard Fairey’s portrait of Johnny Ramone at Signal Gallery’s Beyond Punk show.
- Graffiti in New Orleans after Katrina.
- Luzinterruptus has made some “urban nests.”
- I’m hoping to post some more about this in the coming days, but Jordan Seiler as written on his blog about his experiences at Living Walls.
- Once5 aka Jeffrey Pena has a solo show coming up at My Addiction Gallery in Tucson, Arizona. Pena has a nice timelapse on YouTube of him putting up a large paper-cut in Brooklyn.
So that’s it for now, but I should be back to daily posts now.