When you talk about Street art and Graffiti in today’s world will get a range of reactions from disgust to praise. Do to the emerging Street art festivals around the world we are able to have our art accepted into Galleries and institutions as they embrace the new generation of artists. What you dont usually get to see is the truest nature of graffiti and its underworld that still is thriving. It is this duality that Good Guy Boris captures as he not only documents but actively engages, Paradigm Shift is a participatory documentation of this other reality. Boris is…
Photo Recap Fillipo Minelli “Nothing to Say” at 886 Geary San Francisco
Silence Shapes from Filippo Minelli on Vimeo. *Update. Here is a set of installation pictures from the installation of “Nothing to Say” Filippo Minelli’s exhibition at 886 Geary Gallery which runs until Feb 7th. We open 2015 with a preview post about Filippo Minelli’s first solo exhibition in the US as well as 886 Geary‘s first exhibition at its new space in San Francisco. 886 Geary is curated by Poesia and Graffuturism focusing 2015 on emerging artists within the Urban and Contemporary art fields. Filippo Minelli arrived in California’s Coachella desert area working in residency for a special project in the desert. He then traveled along California’s beautiful Highway 1 north capturing the California coast all…
Recap RERO solo exhibition by “GATED COMMUNITY…”
Rero Opened his first Solo Exhibition of 2015 at Fabien Castanier Gallery in Los Angeles over the weekend. The exhibition titled “Gated Community” showcased many familiar themes in the artists work as well as some larger installation pieces. A mixed media installation and a sculptural series of book pieces were also exhibited. The press release states that the artist is at the “forefront of an urban conceptual experience,” which would explain the direction takes with his recent work. Leading up to the show I was getting updates of Rero’s insitu installations in the desert and Salton Sea. The photographs documented the artists interventions and interaction with the landscape. …
Moneyless Roma 2015
We talked to Moneyless in the Fall of 2014 about his signature geometric style and what might be in store for 2015. He mentioned a new direction, something he was searching for as well as a move towards something new. Well we now know atleast what direction he is headed with his first mural for 2015 painted this week in Rome. Moneyless has taken to reduction with his signature marks further minimizing an already stripped down aesthetic. Very impressed with Moneyless and his ability to always move first before its too late, progressing as well as deconstructing even the most signature of marks. Bravo GF
SatOne “Melting Point” Chennai India
Mr SatOne starts 2015 with a Bang. This new mural was painted in Chennai India over a train depot. Pushing things to another level SatOne channels his inner wildstyle and creates a dynamic composition on the mural, bringing tremendous energy and a vibrant palette. I am feeling the flow of this new piece as it moves in rhythm along the wall resting at the base of the wall. GF MELTING POINT – SatOne 2015 Chennai / India (fotos by Jaya Kamur)
Preview Optimist Solo Exhibition “Packrat’s Paradise”
Bay Area Graffiti Staple Optimist a respected and important figure in the art and scene will open an important Solo Exhibition at Oakland’s Lequive Gallery. The show titled “Packrats Paradise” captures the artists experience in the Graffiti world at the same time capturing his travels across Asia as well as living in the San Francisco Bay area. The exhibition will feature a complete installation of the artists collection of memorabilia and ephemera, from tags to collected paint and ink the artist surrounds himself with captured items all representing a collective memory of his life. This collecting of memories is also relayed to his canvases which depict moments intertwined together as a stream of …
Preview Clemens Behr “Small Works” at Mini Galerie
Make sure you check out Clemens Behr at the Mini Galerie in Netherlands. The artist opens an exhibition of rare smaller pieces titled “Small Works”. It will be great to see an intimate side to Clemens work as he scales down his work to almost a model scale, compared to his large insitu installations. GF Solo exhibition Small Works by Clemens Behr Mini Galerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 21 February – 28 March 2015 Opening: 20 February 18:00-21:00 — The Mini Galerie proudly presents Small Works, the very first exhibition by Clemens Behr in The Netherlands. Clemens Behr is a German artist who gained international recognition for his grand gestures. Within his site-specific practice Behr creates complex sculptural installations composed of discarded materials and…
Video Unreleased Recorded Interview Rammellzee on Mo’Wax
Probably the Best Interview your going to Listen to for awhile. Its worth the full listen. GF Via Mowaxplease This is something we did not see coming : in November 2014 the Vinyl Factory teamed up with Mo’ Wax to release a record.The most surprising thing about it was that it’s not music. It’s the recording of an interview of Rammellzee that Ed Gill did for Mo’ Wax back in 1995. The tape was lost so it never surfaced, until James Lavelle started digging into his archives for the Urban Archaeology exhibition. The interview was first published in the Mo’ Wax book, and was later available to listen as part of the Urban Archaeology exhibition in headphones. So now that we have full access to it, I thought…
Lek & Sowat ‘Veni Vidi Vinci’ in Roma
For their participation to the Big City Life project, led by 999 Contemporary, Lek & Sowat came to Rome to paint the biggest spelling mistake of the eternal city’s Graffiti history. Inspiring themselves from the famous‘Veni Vidi Vici’ quote, used by Julius Caesar in 47 BC following his victorius Zela campaign, the two artist also wanted to pay tribute to one of Italy’s most famous classic painters: Leonarda Da Vinci. Hense the “Veni Vidi Vinci” which could be another way of saying “I Came, I Saw, I Painted”
Kidghe Walls Update
Here a couple of recent walls from Mexican artist Kidghe. We love how raw these new works are deconstructed renderings, wildstyle, architectural drawings Kidghe is able to capture several of his influences. We are excited to see what he has in store next month for “A Major Minority” a group exhibition that we are curating. GF
Lek & Sowat and Friends “S̶t̶r̶e̶e̶t̶ Art” Hip Opsession
Lek and Sowat collaborated once again for “S̶t̶r̶e̶e̶t̶ ART” as part of Hip Opsession. Lek and Sowat collaborated with a group of artists such as Outsider, Wxyz, Persu, Sebastien Preschoux, Kan, Rayzin, Kazy and the Postman Quartet. We were able to get an amazing set of pictures taken by Pierre Doucin and Sowat. The exhibition will be on view till March 8th in Nantes, France. We suggest you see these impressive installations in person before they are taken down. GF “S̶t̶r̶e̶e̶t̶ ART” (Lek & Sowat and Friends) Graffiti? Street Art? Urban Contemporary Art? Who cares! For their return to Nantes, after having participated in “…
Tanc Solo Exhibition “AUTOMATISM” Galerie Wallworks
Tanc opened his latest solo exhibition in Paris in January, luckily the exhibition is still up and you can see it at Galerie Wallworks. The show titled “Automatism” is self titled in a way, Tanc has taken inspiration from the act of an automatic mark. The minimal monochromatic works allow the mark to take precedence in the work. Whether it is a vibrant colored background or the absence of color with White Automatism focuses the act of the mark in repetition over and over. Like a typewriter that pounds the paper and returns onto the next line, Tanc creates a automatic response with his gesture sometimes coherent other times…