Last weekend I caught up with Argentinian stencil artists RDW in London and took shots of some live action on the streets - The result was a huge stencil-sprayed portrait of Che Guevara on Great Eastern Street in Shoreditch. Make sure to this out! Some of RDW’s latest stencil artworks are currently part of “Buenos Aires Calling”, the Argentinian street art show at Pure Evil Gallery and could be seen there until September 12th! ...
Last Saturday, Poster Boy hit London for the launch of his book “The War of Art” and to promote his defense fund for urban artists (K.A.R.A.T.E.) at Pure Evil Gallery. The book documents his ad-alterations in New York City’s subway and shows some interesting collaborations with other street artists. It’s highly interesting because it also introduces you to the politically background (keywords are ad-busting, public space and artistic freedom)… The earnings will be used to support the “Kids Are Really Against The Empire” (K.A.R.A.T.E.) defense fund for urban artists. The people behind the idea of helping protect and defend artists working in public space are currently considering applying for 501(c)(3) status, which means to become a non-profit organisation in the U.S.A… ...
Ha, unbelievable! In Matt Groening’s Futurama (series six, episode four) Bender plays the charactere of the street artist Invader, who became famous around the world for his urban tile installations, showing monsters from the old skool Space Invader game. Update: The video is not longer available - Hope I will find a new version soon… The other news, our city’s filthy, urine soaked walls have been desecrated by an mysterious tile-work graffiti artist. Police have no leads as to who’s behind this innovative scourge of public art. (Fox News Entertainment and Earth Invasion Tonite) ...
Last Thursday, the Buenos Aires Calling group-exhibition opened at Pure Evil Gallery, showing unusual, rough street art from Argentina. It’s the first collective exhibition of work from Buenos Aires street artists in London - Naturally I was there and took some photos! Buenos Aires has one of the most active and unusual street art scenes in the world. An economic crash in 2001 acted as a catalyst for a generation of young artists to start painting in the streets. Public acceptance of street art nurtured the scene, giving artists the freedom to experiment at a scale and level of complexity unseen in other cities. (Pure Evil Gallery) ...
Do you noticed the stunning photo-gallery of street artists at work over there on Six Oranges? You should really have a look at! Shafiur Rahman and Harjinder Bahra - ably assisted by Parminder Bahra, Dorota Halewska (camera), Brian Peters, Martina Mosna (camera) - took some wonderful profiles of artists they met for the upcoming Brick Lane documentary, including Blek Le Rat, Dale Grimshaw, Knowhope, C215, Remed, 3TTMan, David le Fleming, Nathan Bowen, Stik, Indigo, Macay, Grems, Zbiok, Dscreet, Sinboy, Joseph Loughborough, Joe Deane, Ben Slow and others. ...
Amazing, famous New York based urban artist and ad-alterer Poster Boy will be in London on Saturday for the “The War of Art” book launch at Pure Evil gallery! Additionally they will officially kick off a legal defense fund for artists called “Kids Are Really Against The Empire”… Kids Are Rallying Against The Empire (K.A.R.A.T.E.) is a grass roots effort we hope to eventually turn into a non-profit organization. Sadly, when dealing with the legal system most artists don’t know, understand, or are intimidated into forgoing their rights. Artists are often poorly represented in court and do not have financial access to proper counsel. K.A.R.A.T.E. is committed to helping artists defend themselves in court for art-related crimes conceived in public space. (Poster Boy) ...
Some of you will may know fine artist Schoony, who is a pro in creating humans out of fibreglass. His latest creation, the “Boy Soldier” is now the main part of an unusual urban art group-exhibition in London! Thirty, well-known graffiti and street artists, including D*Face, Insa, Fin DAC, Part2ism, Liliwenn, Snub23 and Leeks, repainted the thirty pure white boy soldier sculptures, which will be shown in two different venues, in their own styles. ...
South America is like a hidden treasure chest for underground graffiti styles and street art innovations. Maybe it’s because of the far distance between Europe and countries like Argentina, Brazil or Venezuela, but every time I find something about urban art in South America I’m really impressed about their crazy ideas, rough styles and simple solutions for difficult situations. And it seems that there are a lot of other people, having the similar thoughts… ...
It’s always interesting to see the own city from a different view or in a different style, especially when it shows the urban flair and nice details of the local architecture. I already showed you some rather impressing city portraits, like New York in HD or in tilt-shift, Vancouver as a time lapse, Tokyo and Yokohama by night or the street life in London, but today I will show you an fucking awesome tilt-shift video of the sexiest city on earth: Berlin! ...
This Thursday, London’s Pure Evil Gallery will open its doors for a fantastic Buenos Aires street art exhibition presented by “Graffitimundo”! It’s the first collective exhibition of street artworks from Buenos Aires in London and will in addition to artworks by Tec, Chu and Defi, present those by Buenos Aires Stencil, Malatesta, Orilo and Jaz… Buenos Aires has one of the most active and unusual street art scenes in the world. An economic crash in 2001 acted as a catalyst for a generation of young artists to start painting in the streets. Public acceptance of street art nurtured the scene, giving artists the freedom to experiment at a scale and level of complexity unseen in other cities. Ggraffitimundo was set up to promote this extraordinary scene, and supports the artists through exhibitions, events, tours and an online shop & gallery. (Pure Evil Gallery) ...