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[u] 4 March :: DIVERGENCE Jakarta International Stencil Art Exhibition 2011
North Art Space - Pasar Seni Ancol - Jakarta
March 4 at 7:00pm - April 3 at 10:00pm
Above (United States)
Arie Diyanto
Aswino Aji
Btoy (Spain)
Czarnobyl (German)
Farhansiki
Farid Stevy
Goin (France)
Glam Rury (Poland)
JAH
Jinks Kunst (France)
Leckomio (German)
M-City (Poland)
Mathew Curran (United States)
Pisa 73 (German)
Reflect
Sigit Bapak
Stenzila
UBC
At : North Art Space, Taman Impian Jaya Ancol
OUTDOOR : 28 Februari – 3 Maret 2011
OPENING : 4 Maret 2011-- 19.00 WIB
EXHIBITION : 5 Maret - 5 April 2011
Curated : Selo Riemulyadi
Frigidanto Agung
Perkembangan seni stencil di Indonesia belum mendapat pengapresiasian yang baik dalam wilayah seni visual maupun grafis. Hal ini dibuktikannya melalui pameran-pameran yang berskala nasional semisal: Trienalle Grafis, Bienalle dan ajang pameran-pameran. Berbeda dari media lain, perkembangan seni stencil selalu melibatkan publik serta teknologi terapan, yang telah memperluas kemampuan untuk menghasilkan lapisan makna tak terbatas.... Perjumpaan antara medium hingga ruang telah mengubah cara di mana orang memandang realitas.
Stencil World (St. Louis, MO) Approaches
Stencil World: Stencil Art from around the Globe
Reception: 7-11p, March 18
On View: March 17-20
Location: Gallery AM - Art Monster, 2617 Cherokee St., St. Louis, MO
http://stenciltheworld.blogspot.com/
Confirmed Artists: c215 (Paris), Dude Company (Lille, France), Joe Iurato (New Jersey), HAHA (Melbourne), Buxtonia (Vermont) Czarnobyl (Berlin), koleszar (Phoenix), Peat Wollaeger/stenSOUL (St. Louis), a1one (Iran), David Soukup (Chicago), Chris Stain (Brooklyn), Jef Aerosol (Paris), Mat Curran (N. Carolina)and many others.
A large-scale stencil mural will be sprayed on Cherokee Street, featuring stencil from show participants.
25 Feb:: Political Poster Jam (Oakland)
February 25, 2011 8 -11pm
Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak St.
Oakland, CA 94607
The Oakland Standard will honor the history of political posters in the Bay Area, and the Museum's acquisition of the All Of Us Or None (AOUON) collection with an evening of printmaking and conversation.
The Oakland Standard has invited the San Francisco Print Collective, Great Tortilla Conspiracy, and street artist Eddie Colla to host informal drop-in workshops. There will be stencil, linocut, digital, and screenprinting methods on display, and an ample supply of paper, T-shirts, and tortillas for printing practice. The workshops will use imagery that pays homage to the AOUON collection, especially the iconic images of the Black Power movement. We've commissioned local artist-activist Jesus Barraza to create a special poster for the event.
At 9 pm, eminent poster artist and former Black Panther Minister of Culture Emory Douglas, artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez, and archivist Lincoln Cushing will speak with Carol A. Wells, director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. Amoeba Records will DJ the event, with a short set by Favianna. We'll project images and video of historic poster-making and poster-hanging and highlight some Black Power posters from the Museum's All Of Us Or None Collection.
The Dirt Floor
The Art of the Buff in San Francisco
The art of clearing taggers' work in San Francisco
Monday, February 21, 2011
Nobody knows more about graffiti than Joe Padilla. The paint-shop supervisor for the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, Padilla oversees graffiti removal for all of the city's 220 parks.
A San Francisco native, Padilla, 50, was baptized at Mission Dolores and grew up at 15th and Noe streets. He lives in Richmond with his wife of 24 years, Silvana, and has three children and three granddaughters.
This shop spends $280,000 a year on graffiti abatement alone. People tag retaining walls, benches, sidewalks, pathways, curbs, signs, light poles, picnic tables, pump houses, irrigation boxes. Trees get tagged. Yes, we faux-finish a lot of trees.
We're damn good at graffiti removal. Mayor Newsom made an executive order about four, five years ago, saying all departments must deal with graffiti within 48 hours of it being reported. I have eight guys on my crew, and we average about 80 percent for removing graffiti within two days.
Banksy Begins Oscars Media Blitz In LA
Someone randomly told me today that Banksy was up again in San Francisco. Huh? In the wind and rain? This explains the confusion....
Maintaining the Balance: Purchase a Print, Another One (Stencil) Goes Up on the Streets
Maintaining The Balance from Dave the Chimp http://www.davethechimp.co.uk/home.php
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Aim:
To balance the output of street pieces and products for sale
To remain authentic while being commercially viable
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Maintaining The Balance - Project 3
Customers are invited to purchase a print which funds an identical street piece.
The artist produces two identical prints. One is sent to the customer, the other is pasted in the street.
The print includes the customers name. The customer becomes both a patron of art for the community and an accomplice in an act of “vandalism”.
The artist and customer both share the “fame” aquired with “getting their name up”, and the risk involved with the act of doing so.
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Print specifications
Maintaining The Balance - Project 3
Two colour print, Acrylic on 190 gsm paper, 594mm x 420mm
Unlimited edition, though as each print is customised with customers name it becomes an edition of 1. Signed by the artist
30 euros + 5 euros shipping Europe, 10 euros worldwide
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email davethechimp@gmail.com for more details
25 Feb:: Jana and Js "Jeux de constructions" show (Paris)
Solo show "Jeux de constructions"
February, 25 - March, 26
Opening on Friday, February, 25 from 6 pm
Deserted factories, parking lots being demolished, low rise apartment blocks : these elements - among many others - surround and inspire Jana & Js. Their work is nourished by the city they live in, together with its inhabitants and its ever changing architectural landscape. The paintings created by this couple of artists make use of extremely detailed and scrupulously prepared stencils..
Jana & Js raise the question of the individual in large groups of buildings and more widely in the cities, combining portraits and architectural views.
Their street paintings (in France, Austria, Russia, Slovakia, Romania and Spain) also led them to develop an interaction with the environment in which they operate and the public – passerby or spectator – using sets of mirrors as a game in order to create infinities of ways of seeing the city.
Jana & Js are young artists whose work began to take shape only in the mid-2000, and who are today among the most talented of their generation. After having lived and worked together in Paris, they are today between Austria and France.
Jeux de Constructions is the second exhibition in Itinerrance Gallery devoted to them. Combining their love for woodworking, rebuilding their own materials and images composition from their cuts, this exhibition will present for the first time a wide range of their work volume initiated a few months ago.