Part of our 3 street art works series you should see today. Seth, Miss Van and Aryz.
Seth
Miss Van
Aryz – located in Oslo (Norway)
Jimmy C does David Bowie in Brixton
To coincide with (another) David Bowie exhibition, namely “The many faces of David Bowie” opening tonight at Opera gallery, Jimmy C unveiled a large scale portrait in Brixton, where David Bowie is from. You will have recognised the the iconic Aladdin Sane image here.
Now on to the show at Opera Gallery. We hear that a bunch of artists including street ones will share their visions of the iconic singer. Some of the artists includes Paul Alexis, Joe Black, C215 and Nick Gentry
What – The Many Faces iof David Bowie
Where – Opera Gallery (new bond street)
When – 21 June to 21 july
The exhibition that opens at the New Bond Street gallery on Friday (June 21) will consist of contemporary visions of ‘Bowie Mania’ with one-off masterpieces and tributes with street artists including Mr Brainwash, Joe Black and The London Police.
8-bit street art from Sweden
8-bit type of art is just so simple and so brilliant. It gets even better when it depicts characters we all know such as PacMan and Mario Bros. Enjoy the pics below
Spray cans sculptures
We instantly fell in love when we first saw these little wonders of sculpture. Kresimir Buden 2Fast is the sculptor behind these creations which obviously are graffiti inspired.
The artist is based in Zagreb (Croatia) and use various brands of spray cans from Montana to Ironlak. You will have noticed the Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans version amongst others.
I do not know for you but we particularly like the green one. What about you?
Click on the images below to launch the slideshow
Alex Meade’s 3D made into 2D street art
Meet Alexa Meade. He creates amazing series of living graffiti art but the twist is that he masters the ability of using actual people made to look like they belong in their 2D graffiti background.
No need to say that the level of careful painting and attention to detail is huge here but it works pretty awesomely to turns three dimensional figures into two dimensional figures. All participants are painted in black and white and cleverly get tangled in the explosive and coloured backgrounds and the illusion of they are part of the static art is achieved.
You will see a few examples of Alexa Meade below.
Graffiti at the Jardins de Walter Benjamin, Barcelona
I am now back from Barcelona where I had the chance to enjoy a warm winter sun, delicious tapas but also and above all eye-catching graffiti.
You can see quite a few scattered around the city and especially in the main avenues of the city but head down to the port, look for the maritime museum and you will definitely spot the Jardins de Walter Benjamin, a very formal name for what is a hotspot for so-called underground activity: graffiti.
A selection of best shots is below as well as a map where this spot is located.
JR, Seth and Cranio x Mighty Mo street art
Part of our 3 street art works series you should see today. JR, Seth and Cranio x Mighty Mo.
JR – located in Berlin
Seth – located in Paris
Cranio x Mighty Mo – located in London
Tatsuo Horiuchi | the 73-year old Excel spreadsheet artist
Meet Tatsuo Horiuchi, a 73-year old Excel spreadsheet artist. Yes I know, you must be thinking “Excel spreadhseet, wth?!“. While millions of us would dive into the software and try to make sense of crazy formulas, Tatsuo Horiuchi has turned it into an amazing art generator.
And guess what, it is only just before retiring that he thought he had to do something new in his life and went on buying a computer, discovered Excel and has now mastered like no one the tool to produce pretty eye catching pieces.
“I never used Excel at work but I saw other people making pretty graphs and thought, ‘I could probably draw with that,’” says Tatsuo Horiuchi
“Graphics software is expensive but Excel comes pre-installed in most computers,” explained Horiuchi. “And it has more functions and is easier to use than [Microsoft] Paint.” adds Tatsuo Horiuchi
This artist is annoyingly good at what he does. Back to my formulas for my part.
Have a peek at some of the Excel spreadsheets, it is pretty incredible
Cherry Blossoms at Jogo Castle (2006)
Kegon Falls (2007)
First view on Spoon & Tamago
Video painting at Cordy house, London
Video installation by the creative Brooklyn duo Sweatshoppe. The principle is simple: a LED roller paints video onto a wall. The effect is guaranteed.
Thanks to the programming language called Max/MSP, Blake Shaw wrote a software that makes possible the projection of video visible when it comes in contact with the LED lights on the roller.
The video below is Sweatshoppe at it on top of Cordy House, Shoredith, London towards the end of last year.
SWEATSHOPPE video painting@ Cordy House from SWEATSHOPPE on Vimeo.
Related links
> www.sweatshoppe.org
> http://brunolevy.com/
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_(software)
Codefc in Ibiza
Codefc has just come back from Ibiza where he spent a few weeks (what?!). He obviously took the opportunity to leave his marks on a few surfaces and kindly sent us a few pictures of his work.
