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Graffiti Wars: Banksy vs. Robbo
Ha, right after I posted about Banks’s upcoming Antics Roadshow I spotted another hot program tip for this weekend:
Graffiti Wars is an urban art documentary examining street art and graffiti, and the creative tensions and conflicts within this artistic arena. It’s the story of the ongoing Banksy vs. Robbo battle…Just remember the RIP Street Art exhibition Robbo did last year…
At street level a bitter war is being waged between graffiti writers, street artists and the authorities. While graffiti writers face trial and prison sentences for their art, some street artists’ work is lauded and protected behind Perspex.
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Shepard Fairey, Oslo Memorial
After visiting Copenhagen a few days ago, popular propaganda artist Shepard Fairey continues his Scandinavia tour and recently arrived in Oslo. To honour the victims of the terror of July 22, his staff created a huge memorial mural at Kirkeveien 59 communicating peace in bold letters!
I don’t know whether it’s good being reminded of that tragedy every single day by a huge memorial, but detached from that Shepard Fairey established with that massive paste-up mural a new attraction in the city of Oslo.
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Vhils Documentary
When well-known Portuguese-born deconstruction artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils visited Venice in California a short while ago, he was followed by filmmaker Carlos Gonzalez who documented his latest work…
This particular piece was done in conjunction with the European Bailout Show at the Post No Bills showspace and located just on the side of the gallery.
I like the footage and especially the reverse playing and the wired atmosphere. Additionally it’s always nice to see heavy machines in action to create street artworks…
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Shepard Fairey Mural, Copenhagen
Famous propaganda artist Shepard Fairey recently visited one of my favorite European capitals and did something I didn’t suspected! After all this paste-up installations he left behind in almost every bigger city around the world, he yet again painted a massive mural in Copenhagen!
Shepard Fairey and the Obey crew beautify walls in and around Copenhagen. This particular peace dove mural was their first effort and located on Jagtvej 69, 2200 Nørrebro for those in town. (Molotow)
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JR’s Al Jazeera Interview
Although I already introduced JR’s Inside Out project (did you know that 40 to 50 thousand people are already participating?!) to you, I don’t want to withhold the interview he recently did with Bilal Randeree from Arabian news channel Al Jazeera from you…
JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. After winning the TED Prize, he started a new project, insideoutproject.net, that is apparently taking the world by storm.
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Žilda vs. Rö - Assassination of Marat
Recreation or reinterpretation are as well as letters in graffiti integral components of street art, but it’s not usual to create an entire installation by just being inspired by a single painting…
French street artists Žilda and Rö recently reinterpreted L’assassinat de Marat (The Assassination of Marat), a painting by Jean-Joseph Weerts, by creating a astonishing mixed-media installation somewhere in Rennes! Combining wooden objects, paste-ups and fog, the successful collaboration created a somehow scary atmosphere…
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Czarnobyl - Heavy Metal Stencil Art
Last time I visited Czarnobyl’s studio in Kreuzberg, the Berlin-based street artist showed me some test and preparation works for a new series of stencil artworks. Finally he finished a few and uploaded some photos I just stumbled upon. The new series focuses on a great style-mix by combining rough backgrounds with multi-layered greyscale stencils, what makes the it transporting some heavy metal feelings, if know what I mean!?
Czarnobyl is one of Berlin’s most famous stencil artists and describes his style as cyber-punk stencil art. I for one really like his new works, what do you think?
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Ronzo’s Credit Crunch Monster Relocated!
Ronzo’s Credit Crunch Monster, the unofficial mascot of London’s Great Eastern Street and a well-known eye-catcher next to Shoreditch High Street station, had recently to move to another spot! The monument, which was installed in 2009, can now be found on top of one of the UK’s most famous breweries, the old Truman Brewery, at Brick Lane!
The time had come to put a face to the terrifying credit crunch menace. Please welcome Crunchy, the official mascot of the global financial meltdown. (Ronzo in 2009)
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Street Art Strategies
Since I stumbled upon the mega-dope What The Fuck Is My Street Art Strategy? thing over on Ektopia I can’t stop wasting my time by clicking through the great street art strategy advises…
Making up street art strategies so you don’t have to! (about Art-Fag)
If you already did a cutting satire of McDonalds because frankly you’ve always preferred Burger King anyway, you should probably try to do any form of street art with money as your primary motive, or just do something anti-consumerist on your Apple computer because it’ll be fucking hilarious!
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JR’s Inside Out Project
Don’t know if you already heard about it, but the TED Prize and famous photographer and urban artist JR (the 2011 TED Prize winner) developed a nice new project called Inside Out in March 2011. The idea behind this project is that you submit a portrait photo of yourself, which will be printed and send back to you so that you are able to paste the poster somewhere in the city…
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