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May 24, 2013May 24, 2013

Weekend link-o-rama

I’m in London this week, and next, so come and find me wandering around Shoreditch. Just a few links today.

This new mural in London by Roa has to be one of his more intense (but still not bloody) murals yet.
I came across this piece by Sokar Uno the other day just off of Brick Lane. Looks even better in person.
Jaz just painted a really nice wall in Vienna, and he has a show at Vienna’s Inoperable Gallery.
The Agents of Change show at David Bloch Gallery in Morocco with Steve More, Derm, Carlos Mare, LX One, Remi Rough and Jaybo looks great, especially the sculptures by Mare and Derm.
Michael Johansson recently had some of his so-called “real life Tetris” sculptures on display at a museum in Norway.
Loving these new prints from Skewville, featuring their classic boombox image.
And there’s also two new prints from Greg Lamarche.

Photo by Luna Park

May 17, 2013May 17, 2013

Weekend link-o-rama

Today I’m finishing my exams and packing up my dorm. Sunday, it’s off to London. Can’t wait. Here’s what I’ve been distracting myself with this week:

Would you be so kind as to fill out this research survey for a friend of mind about street art, graffiti, and society?
Anthony Lister is getting up in Miami.
HBO is airing a documentary about JR’s Inside Out project.
A painting by Basquiat set an auction record for the artist this week, selling for nearly $50 million.
A prankster/artist is having some fun with that famous Belgian statue of the child pissing into the fountain.
Jaybo Monk, Carlos Mare, Remi Rough, Derm, LX One, and Steve More painted a mural in Morocco.
Tile graffiti (not by Invader or someone whose work is extremely derivative of Invader’s).
Great balance between abstract graffiti and traditional graffiti from Beside, Spielerei and Erosie.

Photo courtesy of Trustocorp

May 4, 2013May 1, 2013

Carlos Mare, Remi Rough and more in Marrakech

David Bloch Gallery in Marrakech, Morocco has a show opening up this month with a group of really interesting artists. Unfolding includes work from Carlos Mare, Derm, Jaybo Monk, LX One, Remi/Rough and Steve More. These artists form part of the Agents of Change collective, and they all come from a graffiti background. Rather than resting on those laurels, the Agents of Change are now bringing the same intensity and drive for constant improvement to their fine art and murals that they brought to graffiti.

Unfolding openings May 10th and runs through June 8th.

Photo courtesy of Remi/Rough

April 7, 2012April 7, 2012

Weekend link-o-rama

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That was a long week. But at least it was a fun one too. For one thing, Jill Cohen was in town for a show at my university. Definitely have a look at her drawings. That’s some crazy skill. Here’s the art news I’ve been reading:

Col has a show coming up very soon at Orchard Windows Gallery in New York.
Shai Dahan, Ollio and Ekta got together to paint in Sweden.
Roger Gastman has directed an upcoming film about the earliest modern graffiti writers (is that term a contradiction?).
Shepard Fairey’s latest print is called Eat The Rich. I hate to be the one to call him out on this one since many will understandably perceive it as hypocritical of me, but can a millionaire artist really legitimately make that statement? I know he is a hard-working guy who has been at this for decades, but then the proper time for that rhetoric was 20 years ago. Not when his art sells for hundreds of thousands to millionaires and his overpriced t-shirts are found in the fanciest clothing stores. Plus, the man is a committed and unashamed capitalist. Thoughts? Maybe he is just using the phrase as an example of a culture he is interested in, rather than as part of an intended propaganda poster?
The Vacuum Cleaner is hilarious!
Agents of Change members Remi/Rough, LX.One, Steve More and Augustine Kofie painted what may be London’s largest mural just across from King’s Cross.

Photo by Kriebel

June 23, 2010

Agents of Change 0.3 and Remi in Santander

Remi/Rough and Jaybo have put together a two-man show in Santander called No Beginning No End. Here’s some of Remi’s work from that show. You can check out the rest of the show on Remi’s flickr.

But that’s not all Remi has been up to. Recently, he and the rest of the group Agents of Change painted a massive wall in Manchester. They made this video, but you can probably skip to 4 minutes in and just see the end result of their work:

I’ve heard people say that Agents of Change’s hands are similar to this piece that Zeus and Eine painted last year (and which Remi coincidentally painted over with the property owner’s permission as part of The Beautiful and The Canned), but Agents of Change have really crushed it in Manchester and I’m not sure if you can claim that any one person’s trademark is painting giant hands (here’s another piece with a series of hands by Run).

Photos by Remi/Rough