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Felice Varini was born in 1952 in Locarno, Switzerland. and currently lives in Paris.[…] The paintings are characterized by a single vantage point from which the viewer can see the complete painting usually a simple geometric shape such as circle, square, line, while various ‘broken’ fragmented shapes are seen from various other view points. Varini contends that the work exists as a whole — the complete shape as well as the fragments. “My concern,” he says “is what happens outside the vantage point of view.”
Understanding the Urban Visual Landscape
With illicit forms of self-expression, it’s hard to logically explain why I’m such a proponent when clearly it’s both illegal and will need to be removed at the taxpayer’s/owner’s expense. Especially now, as I am training to be a conservator and taking a masonry conservation/architectural restoration course, I find it more and more difficult to justify my passion for an inherently illegal and aesthetically damaging mode of expression to my colleagues.
Challenging Urban Disassociation: How Swoon’s Paper People Create Community « Understanding the Urban Visual Landscape
Although she has partaken in numerous projects since her arrival on the street art scene, it is her life-sized wheatpaste newspaper prints and intricate cutouts that initially gained the attention of the art world. Swoon’s prints can most frequently be found in the forgotten corners of otherwise obvious public spaces. Despite this, she picks her spots carefully, exploring neglected space and walls with interesting textures. Her backdrops include abandoned buildings, rundown warehouses, and broken-looking walls. Because she is interested in the history and texture of the wall, this feature is not hidden, but rather enhanced by the thin newsprint paper. Also, with her cutouts, the figures are intricately cut to reveal the wall that they rest on. This opens up a dialogue between the artwork and the wall, as it works to reveal the wall’s material and history (previous tags and works).
Willem de Kooning and Wildstyle
Essay: Willem de Kooning and Wildstyle – News – 12ozProphet.com
Most movements in all the arts go through this progression. In graffiti it happened within a mere five to ten years, because of the immediacy and speed of the subways to share the work with a whole city of young artists the very next day after it was created. There were no studio visits to schedule, no galleries to organize shows, no hiding the work from prying eyes. It was in your face the day after the artist painted it. This sped up the process of transition towards complexity.
The Feral Diagram illustrates these connections with a 2-D info-graphic, charting the revolutionary change in Fine Art History as Graffiti and Street Art became the most relevant movement(s) throughout the world, as evidenced by their popularity and influence. As time has passed, because of the successes of the Pop Art movement as well which allowed for the acceptance of the movement into the art world in the first place, Graffiti and Street Art have continued to grow in acceptance and popularity, becoming the most relevant movement of the late twentieth century and at the start of the new millennium.
Essay: Willem de Kooning and Wildstyle – News – 12ozProphet.com
Last Monday, the once-in-a-lifetime retrospective, de Kooning, closed its doors at the MoMA. The 12ozProphet crew squeaked in at the last minute on Sunday to check out the two hundred paintings by the Abstract Expressionist/Action Painting Master. He and the other painters of his generation actually have more in common with graffiti than you’d think. Much like the Wildstyle masters of the late twentieth century into the new millenium, de Kooning had impeccable drafting skills; professional experience as a house painter, sign painter and designer; considered himself a working class artist; and explored full-body gestures, improvisation, and deconstruction of form. When he painted he totally bugged out and shredded reality.
via Essay: Willem de Kooning and Wildstyle – News – 12ozProphet.com.
JR’s TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out
JR’s TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out.
Working anonymously, pasting his giant images on buildings, trains, bridges, the often-guerrilla artist JR forces us to see each other. Traveling to distant, often dangerous places — the slums of Kenya, the favelas of Brazil — he infiltrates communities, befriending inhabitants and recruiting them as models and collaborators. He gets in his subjects’ faces with a 28mm wide-angle lens, resulting in portraits that are unguarded, funny, soulful, real, that capture the sprits of individuals who normally go unseen. The blown-up images pasted on urban surfaces – the sides of buildings, bridges, trains, buses, on rooftops — confront and engage audiences where they least expect it. Images of Parisian thugs are pasted up in bourgeois neighborhoods; photos of Israelis and Palestinians are posted together on both sides of the walls that separate them.
HERE IS LINK TO MY SUBMISSION: Future, Hope, Fear
JR’s most recent project, “Women Are Heroes,” depicts women “dealing with the effects of war, poverty, violence, and oppression” from Rio de Janeiro, Phnom Penh, Delhi and several African cities. And his TED Prize wish opens an even wider lens on the world — asking us all to turn the world inside out. Visit insideoutproject.net …
“I would like to bring art to improbable places, create projects so huge with the community that they are forced to ask themselves questions.”
JR, Beaux Arts Magazine
Public Space! Intervention of Hearts at the Vancouver Art Gallery | NowPublic News Coverage
“intervention of hearts” painted by Vancouver Public Space Network. The VPSN are a local organization devoted to the appreciation and celebration of public space in the city and are to thank for a raucous ongoing programme of events including roundtables, community consulation on issues as diverse as Eco-Density, surveillance, and public art. Go, VPSN!
Continue reading at NowPublic.com: We Love You, Public Space! Intervention of Hearts at the Vancouver Art Gallery | NowPublic News Coverage http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/we-love-you-public-space-intervention-hearts-vancouver-art-gallery#ixzz1j50Xn1vw
FLUXO » Dead Drops
‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. Everyone is invited to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your favorite files and data. Each dead drop is installed empty except a readme.txt file explaining the project. ‘Dead Drops’ is open to participation. If you want to install a dead drop in your city/neighborhood follow the ‘how to’ instructions and submit the location and pictures.
via FLUXO » Dead Drops.
Dead Drops ‘How to’ – NYC from aram bartholl on Vimeo.
FLUXO » appropriation of public space
FLUXO » appropriation of public space.
appropriation of public space
Urban intervention project from Epos 257 in Prague: The appropriation of public space with no apparent intent
Duration: 54 days (September 04 — October 27, 2010)
Location: Palackeho square, Prague — the so-called ‘Czech Hyde Park’ — allegedly the most liberal spot in the country, approved by the authorities for holding any unannounced public gatherings.
Have we grown accustomed to having our living space curbed by just anyone? Is public space a mere myth?
In the current society, our living space is defined by legal norms and regulations, the same way as fences demark the choices of our free movement.
Only by attempting to cross those boundaries, we learn how limited the space we live in really is — that we are not as free as it may initially seem. We are getting the sense that the individuality of today is destined to an existence amidst restrictions.