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Dede is a Tel-Aviv-based conceptual artist who utilizes various mediums to communicate within the public arena. He has been displaying his art on the streets of Tel-Aviv and other cities worldwide since 2006.
Meanwhile, across the shores of USA
Icy and Sot (thanks BSA)
John Koleszar (just one)
Peat (just one)
Los Angeles and Oakland, California
Louisiana, South Carolina and Vermont
And in the City by the Bay (thanks to Josh, Josiah, Esmeralda)
>NEW< fnnch
The Mission, Clarion Alley, and on Valencia St.
SoMa, Upper and Lower Haight St., and Around Town
One #blacklivesmatter protest stencil
Happy 2015! Another year of stencil goodness begins...
Part 1 of 2: Stencil submissions and scourings and artifacts from outside the USA (photo in this post is compliments of Itandehui de Mexico)
In Media (Star Wars rebels fight with stencils; thanks Mark)
Germany (just one, but making fun of Neo-nazis)
Spain (just one, but about 40,000 years old!)
more portraits from Ha-Ha
>NEW< Tokolos (South Africa)
Mexico (thanks Itandehui)
In papercutting, I expand upon a historical lineage that arises from Germany, Japan and China. My pieces imbue this art form with a modern narrative and unexpected images. I first illustrate the piece, then painstakingly cut out each line with a knife - in effect, "carving" the paper to illuminate the work. Audiences are often surprised to realize that the entire piece is cut from one single, unified piece of paper.
Regan Tamanui, master stencilist (see his Archive here) and the nicest man on the planet, had a camera follow him around. Spend any time with HAHA and you will hear amazing theories about (sur)reality. While he was here in SF, we had a great discussion about giants, bigfoots, and how sporting events (the 49ers were in the Super Bowl) are feed troughs for aliens. I made sure he saw the UFO murals sprinkled around, and got him a few walls to get up on.
The Funny Man - A short film on HAHA from Artistry on Vimeo.
Props to Brooklyn Street Art for posting this video, along with photos of the work [LINK] Icy and Sot left behind during their travels.
19 November 2014
A journey deep inside Spain’s temple of cave art
In Spain Arts & Architecture By Rachel Corbett, for the BBC
I gasped at my first glimpse of a cave painting: a crude red outline of a deer with one wild circle for an eye. Its iron pigments blazed under the lamplight. The illusion of a breastbone emerged, ingeniously, out of a hump in the limestone wall. After a while, a cave becomes a long black tunnel of sensory deprivation; the sight of this tender image jolted my breath back to life.
“Can you tell you’re in a sacred place?” asked Marcos Garcia Diez, the archaeologist who had agreed to show me some of the most breathtaking rock art ever created. “This cave is like a church and that’s why ancient people returned, returned, returned here for thousands of years.”
Jutting from the base of a mountain about 85km west of Bilbao, El Castillo is one of the world’s most celebrated rock art temples. When Homo sapiens first began their northward migration from Africa to Europe around 40,000 years ago, some joined the Neanderthals here in Cantabria, a region that is home to at least 40 painted caves, including El Castillo. So magnificent are the province’s primordial masterpieces that when Picasso visited, he reportedly declared, “We have learned nothing in 12,000 years.”
To terrorise the powers that be, the tokoloshe emerges from obscurity. It reminds South Africans, young and old, that freedom and justice remain elusive unless we are willing to fight for it.
1xRUN & Inner State Gallery Present Remix by Above
An Entirely New Body Of Work From The Prolific International Street Artist
Click here to preview the exhibition catalog
This exhibition is free and open to the public. The welcoming artist reception will begin Friday November 21st at 7pm and will end at 10pm. The exhibition will be on view in its entirety from November 21st - December 26th 2014
** After spending 2 months immersed in Detroit culture Above was inspired to create a special screen print that we are giving away to the first 20 people that attend the exhibition.
Opening to the public Friday, November 21st from 7-10pm, Inner State Gallery is proud to welcome London-based street artist Above. Created over a 2 month residency at Inner State Gallery’s expansive studio in Detroit, Remix is an entirely new body of work from the internationally recognized public art advocate.
The exhibition introduces a brand new body of work highlighting Above’s iconic arrow that has appeared prominently in a massive public art campaign spanning 15+ year, 100+ cities and 60+ different countries across the globe. Attacking the exhibition like a deejay produces a live set, Above has meticulously dissected and reassembled his latest collection of arrow and targets by creating multiple color palettes and weaving them together to create new seamless works.
