Part of our 3 street art works series you should see today: Dzia, Nychos x HRVB & Virusvirujo.
Dzia
Nychos x HRVB
Virusvirujo
Jaybo Monk – I need a dollar
This is this kind of event which propels creativity to the next level, this is when a collaborative effort becomes Art.
American R&B artist Aloe Blacc, musician and music-maker Mihalj “Miki” Kekenj and artist Jaybo got together and put on a what have been an amazing night at Berlin’s creative space MADE.
Aloe Blacc´s original music was interpreted by Miki and his string-quintet which transformed the soul and funk style of Aloe into classical music compositions. Jaybo got involved and took his inspiration from the lyrics of Aloe’s song “I Need a Dollar”and converted it into his own visual interpreation – one of the best piece of art I have seen so far this year!
Jaybo’s painting was put on dispolay for the first time during the event at MADE where Aloe and Miki’s quintet performed a bunch of aloe’s repertoire. The film below shows this performance and tell us about the project.
Hats off to MADE for pulling such a great show where great talents from different art disciplines get together for everybody’s delight.
A 97 year old, nearly blind man who works wonders with MS Paint
His name is Hal Lasko, his nickname Grandpa. What he did for living is something we will probably never see again – he was a graphic artist back when everything was done by hand. He then had to retired and his caring family had the genius idea to introduce him to the computer and especially to Microsoft Paint.
Since then Grandpa spends ten hours a day moving pixels around his computer paintings. Some would call his work pointillism, others 8-Bit art but it might be a bit of both.
Anyway, another inspiration that is Hal Lasko, The Pixel Painter. We have included below a video interview of the artist plus a few examples of his works.
Smug, Etips and Smithe street art
Part of our 3 street art works series you should see today. Smug, Etips and Smithe.
Smug – located in Limerick (Ireland)
Etips – located in Boston (USA)
Smithe – located in New York ( USA)
Franz West dies at the age of 55
The artist Franz West has died. For those familiar with the artist or keen on sculpture, this must feel like the art world has lost one of its valuable creative thinker. The trademark of Franz West’s work was largescale bursting with colours sculptures often querky in their shapes and defintely surrealist.
West’s artwork would be made out of plaster, papier-mâché, wire, polyester, aluminium and other, ordinary materials. He had a go at paintings first but rapidly turned his interest to collages, sculptures and in particular portable sculptures called “Adaptives” or “Fitting Pieces”, environments and furniture.
“It doesn’t matter what the art looks like but how it’s used” Franz West.
As a tribute, we have included picture of his most iconic sculptures. Franz West was definitely original with hus approach to sculpture and our pavements and park will be more sad now.
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
Crunch 2010 – The Art Festival at Hay: book the date
This year, Crunch: the art festival at hay will bring the same mix of thought-provoking debates, incisive talks and late-night parties. For one magical weekend in November, an eclectic set of artists, gallery directors, art critics, authors, academics, philosophers, film-makers and musicians will congregate in Hay to debate the big question: what’s the point of art? Continue reading Crunch 2010 – The Art Festival at Hay: book the date
WD, Berst & Kaser street art
Part of our 3 street art works series you should see today: WD, Berst & Kaser
WD – located in Crete
Berst
Kraser – located in Athens
Dance & 3D – Le mouvement de l’air
3D technology which once was promised to succeed (back in the 80s) completely disappeared (or almost) as a medium for any artistry around but this is changing. 3D movies have been a regular hits at the Box Office while 3D gaming is booming.
3D and dance?
Meet Adrien M and Claire B, pioneers in embracing and using multimedia in their choreographies, present us with a fascinating and reactive projection-mapped performance. The Movement of the Air, now a video, is bond to bend they way you usually looked at dance.
How does it work?
Collaborators Rémi Boissy, Farid-Ayelem Rahmouni, and Maëlle Reymond manipulate tornadoes, columns of smoke, and lively geometric shapes in real time.Unlike normal projection mapping, which relies heavily on pre-planning a show to fit every contour and crevice of a surface, Adrien M and Claire B let shapes and patterns emerge in response to the people on stage.
Plus the dancers move to the rhythm of live music, adding one more layer of irreplicable humanity to the show.
I still don’t get it, pls clarify
No one better than the artists themselves may be able to shed some light on the technicality of the use of 3d and dance. Here is what they said to The Creators Project
The set is inhabited by a 3 face structure: two vertical panels of white gauze and a white dance oor are asymmetrically combined to create an immersive projection system. This « living light » is produced by video projectors and generated in real time by a set of algorithms.
It is a mix of control room operated human interventions and onstage sensors data that outlines a precise writing of motions and generative behaviors. They are generated according to physical models and therefore remind everyone of their own real life experience and imaginary of motion.
Ronzo’s cockroaches and secret walls win
We bring you our encounter with Ronzo‘s secret walls appearance at Streefest, street culture festival showcasing live art, which happened last May in East London.
We have also included pics from the Whitecross street party whose Ronzo was one of the thirty artists taking part on the event. His now famous cockroach figure could be seen lurking on building roofs.
