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Michael De Feo

Best known in the street art movement for his ubiquitous flower image, Michael De Feo has been creating illegal works on the streets of international cities for over twenty years. Not limited to the streets as his canvas, his work has also appeared in galleries and museums around the world.

We now give the chance to win a Vinyl Flower Stickers pack. Silk screened on all-weather vinyl then die-cut. Six colors per pack.Each cut sticker measures approx. 2 x 4 inches (5 x 10 cm).

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REVIEWS

Brett Amory at The Outsiders: waiting on the line

Brett Amory The Outsiders | Art-PieIntentional Abstractions is Brett Amory first UK solo show and first show of the year at The Outsiders

The works on display are part of the ‘Waiting’ series Brett Amory started back in 2001 in which he depicts morning commuters transiting via BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) stations around San Francisco.

Here is what he says about it –

“I started the ‘Waiting’ series in 2000. I was working in Emeryville and living in San Fran, so I was commuting via bart. I became really interested in how people looked in the morning especially on Monday after the weekend. I noticed how everyone seemed to be somewhere else, not at all in the present. I also started noticing a disconnect. The bart would be packed shoulder to shoulder but there would be no communication and minimal eye contact.”

In his latest series and in this one on particular, the composition is minimal, the environment seems to fade away. The artist is trying here to give some emphasize on the guy waiting, to hopefully make him come across as something more than a waiting guy

The minimum composition in Amory’s works certainly makes you focus on the character, on the commuter. Look at it 3 feet away from the wall and it is difficult to fully realise what is going on, get closer and find out loads of details you just missed earlier, see the commuter differently. Amory’s works appear like some sort of mirages or hazed slices of personal stories, stories of these people in the morning waiting for their mean of transport, our story for most of us.

The show runs until Saturday 12th February 2010

Related links
> Brett Amory’s website
> The Outsiders

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Brett Amory at The Outsiders
Brett Amory at The Outsiders
Brett Amory at The Outsiders

REVIEWS

HORFE at CELAL gallery

To celebrate the release of Beats&Drips 2 boxset, Sofarida has invited Horfé to Celal gallery for their 1st solo show in France.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chasingghosts/sets/72157626310867397/

The shows runs until tomorrow so hurry.

Also included, a teaser video of Horfé’s first solo exhibition in Paris, Celal gallery, jump

Music « Beaten thursdays » by Prefuse 73

Beats&Drips Part2 // HORFE : Passage

Where: Celal gallery

Opening: until 09.04.11

galeriecelal.com
sofarida.com
chasinghosts.com

STREET ART

Brazilian street art takes on the football world cup

The 2014 edition of the football World Cup has now been on for almost a week and it has already been labelled as the better edition of the last 20 years.

While most of us have been enjoying great goals from the safety of our couch, brazilian street artists have taken their art to the city walls of Brazil, mainly Rio De Janeiro and Sao Paulo to remind us of the dark side of the Great game as they put it.

Artist: Paulo Ito
Where: Sao Paulo
The mural shows a starving, crying child with only a football on his dinner plate serves to highlight the vast expense of hosting the World Cup when the money for food, schools and hospitals is needed so much.

“There is so much wrong in Brazil that it is difficult to know where to start,” Ito said. It seems the beautiful game has a dark side.” says Paul Ito

Paulo Ito | Art-Pie

FIFA is not the most welcome and loads of artists ask the football association to go. Cranio is one if them it would seem. One of his mural shows a suited man throwing a sack labelled “public money” down the toilet.

Cranio | Art-Pie

Cranio | Art-Pie

Cranio | Art-Pie

Artist: B.Shanti from the Captain Borderline crew
What: Anti Copa Mural Project organized by Colorrevolution and Amnesty International
Where: Rio de Jainero (Brazil)
Dedicated to all brasilians who lost their home during the brutal eviction.

Anti Copa Mural Project organized by Colorrevolution and Amnesty International | Art-Pie

But not everything is negative, take a look at this street view project from Google showing you panoramic views of (happy) street art from Rio De Janeiro and Sao Paulo amongst others.

> https://www.google.com/maps/views/streetview/brazils-painted-streets?gl=us

DIGITAL ART

Sound painting – get your own today

I have not been felling so excited like this for a while. Steady, I am talking here about the concept of sound painting. I know what you are thinking right now – “How does it work?”. Read on.

Right, the gear you need first – a camera with a flash, a loudspeaker unit, plastic sheeting, electrical tape, paint (ideally poster paint), and a laser trigger (if you happen to have one).

So what is it really? “captured images of specific moments when paint is propelled into the air by sonic vibrations.” <- that sounds good to me – literally.

The pictures below are the work of  Martin Kilmas, German born artist,  who spent some time to get the right shots, the moments that are truly moving. I am sure you will agree?

Hands on – head over to www.thecreatorproject.com blog where all the steps are break apart. But first have a look below and see what you could achieve.

What is really remarkable with this concept is what you actually get – A spontaneous and ephemere somewhat  abstract visual of whatever tune you have decided to blast out. Awesome.

Pictures and initial read from www.thecreatorproject.com

Miles Davis - "Bitches brew" by Martin Kilmas
Miles Davis - "Bitches brew" by Martin Kilmas
Kraftwerk - "Transistor" by Martin Kilmas
Kraftwerk - "Transistor" by Martin Kilmas
STREET ART

Street Art London by Frank & Steam156

London has become one of the capital of street art if not THE capital of it. Big names such as Eine, Mobstr, Obey, Roa, or Mr. Brainwash, having made the cover of that book, have sprayed the walls of the capital.

Street Art London is focused on the latest and best of London’s many street artists. Plenty of comments and quotes from many of the artists are also included here. A must-read and must-have for street art enthusiasts.

There is an opportunity to meet some of the artists featured in the book at Signal gallery this Thursday 2nd May 2013. Don’t miss it.

Street Art London | Street by Frank & Steam156

 

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