FAITH 47 ( South Africa) - Female Street art

'land and liberty' cape town

'losing village, finding city' shenzen - china

'commerce, civilisaton and christianity' cape town

'all shall be equal before the law' cape town

'a fair exchange is not blind' cape town

Artist : FAITH47 (South Africa)
web: http://www.faith47.com

Faith47 is a self-taught artist who draws inspiration from her own existential questions. Her art takes on the form of metaphor. Both abstract and definitive in meaning, plucking at our heartstrings as she paints.
Faiths images thrive on broken-down cars and old factories, down dusty side roads of lost towns and inner-city alleyways. Her deep affinity with lost spaces allows her to bring attention to the most humble of environments. Her interactions resonate with our fragility and our elusive relationship with dreams, memory and human interaction.
Initially recognized for her graffiti and street art work, Faith has fast established herself internationally, showing in galleries and participating in projects worldwide. She remains rooted in South Africa, where the soil is red and her blood feels comfortably and peacefully on edge.

photo and bio: courtesy faith 47 

MYMO (GERMANY) - FEMALE STREET ART

 Mymo in Berlin

Mymo in London

ARTIST: MYMO (GERMANY)
WEB: http://mymonstersworld.com/

MYMO @ FEMALE STREET ART ON THE ROOF GROUP SHOW

MYMO *1983. Lives and works in Berlin.
With roots tracing back to graffiti, Mymo developed her own individual style.
The artist constantly develops new possibilities of aesthetic expression with the help of various techniques (from street and canvas painting to collage, from animation films to installations).. Life, with all its ups and downs, serves as a primary inspiration for Mymo’s work, and the artist’s monsters serve as a primary medium for communicating the entire spectrum of human emotions. She has already been displayed in numerous exhibitions, publications and magazines, on fashion etc.

CHRISTIAN KRAMER A.K.A. DOME

ARTIST: DOME (GERMANY) - HTTP://WWW.DOMEONE.DE
LOCATION: URBAN TALES FESTIVAL - FOGGIA - ITALY
SIZE: 700X400 CM
MEDIUM: MIXED MEDIA ON WALL
YEAR:2011

CANDY CORNER - CHUS HITS SEVILLE (SPAIN)

ARTIST: CHUS
BLOG: http://jc-chus.blogspot.com/
Check the full album on: http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-chus/sets/72157627080874170/

SQON HITS PORDENONE

ARTIST: SQON
WEB: http://www.ekosystem.org/tag/sqon

C215 - LETTERS FROM ROME

C215 TRIBUTE TO CARAVAGGIO in Rome

Based on Caravaggio's "Medusa"

C215 / Street Artist from Jerome de Gerlache on Vimeo.

Directed by Jérôme de Gerlache


ARTIST : C215
WEBSITE : HTTP://WWW.C215.COM
photo coutesy C215

M-CITY Hits BOZAR in BRUXELLES

M-CITY @ BOZAR

The Power of Fantasy

Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland

BOZAR ou le Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles
INFO: http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=10343&selectiondate=2011-6-26

24 June 2011 - 18 September 2011

This major exhibition gathers many of the most significant works of contemporary art from Poland by a generation of artists who have made their careers since the fall of communism in the country in 1989. More than 30 internationally renowned artists such as Monika Sosnowska, Wilhelm Sasnal, Piotr Uklański, Katarzyna Kozyra, and Robert Kuśmirowski featured in the show.

Entitled ‘The Power of Fantasy’, the exhibition sets out to show how the fantastic and the magical, the mad and the absurd have been powerful themes in contemporary Polish art. With works of art which explore the full potential of the imagination, the show reveals a culture full of intense visions and strange dreams.

These themes also provide connections between 20th century modern art in Poland and the practice of contemporary artists since 1989. The exhibition puts contemporary artworks in the company of iconic masterpieces by celebrated artists like Tadeusz Kantor, Magdalena Abakanowicz and Bruno Schulz. 
 

In total, The Power of Fantasy features almost 200 works of art, some especially commissioned for this exhibition including a work of wall art being made in situ by street artist, Mariusz Waras (M-CITY). Other major works are being shown outside Poland for the first time. The Power of Fantasy is the most comprehensive exhibition of contemporary Polish art since the end of communism.
 

The artworks are not ordered by chronology, but are organized thematically in different chapters. Key themes include absurdity in everyday life; history and memory; the image of the hero; madness and absurdity; surreal landscapes; the militant imagination; the art of saying no.
 

Fantasy takes a variety of forms. In the work of neo-surrealist painter Julian Jakub Ziółkowski as well as the Baroque filmic fantasies of Katarzyna Kozyra, it is conveyed in feverish excess. For other artists, it is the former socialist environment – much disparaged in the popular imagination – which has power to stimulate the imagination. As art, ordinary towns and streets can become a magic world containing many overlooked possibilities and unfulfilled potential. Concrete housing blocks and public buildings become playgrounds of the imagination in the work of Monika Sosnowska, Julita Wójcik and Jarosław Kozakiewicz.

For this generation of artists, like others before them, fantasy has not been a way of escaping reality but of challenging it. Largely born in the late 1960s and 1970s, they have crossed two worlds: their childhoods and youth were lived in the People’s Republic of Poland, whilst their careers have been made in democratic Poland. Their work is inflected by a contrarianism that cast doubt on both. In this way – artists like Artur Żmijewski and Zbigniew Libera – sustain a tradition of dissent and critical reflection which is deeply-rooted in Polish culture.  

Polish artists are deeply interested in the ways in which history can be folded into the present. Robert Kuśmirowski’s iconic work, ‘DOM’, a C19th graveyard will be recreated in the show. The exhibition also features a room of works of Wilhelm Sasnal – one of the greatest painters of the age – addressing the figure of the hero.  

The fantastic can also be shaped out the ordinary. Hardship, bureaucracy and censorship have not been entirely negative experiences for Poland, at least in the sense that they have stimulated a remarkable resourcefulness in the nation. Poles have a talent of being able to make anything out of nothing. In the 1950s Leopold Tyrmand writing called this capacity ‘Applied Fantasy’. Today artists continue to tap this resourcefulness: Paweł Althamer works with the elderly neighbours and teenage ‘homeboys’ from Bródno, an unloved suburb in Warsaw, to create art or as he calls it a ‘wspólna sprawa’ (‘common task’). A monumental sculptural collective self-portrait, ‘Bródno People’, made by Althamer and his neighbours will feature in the exhibition.  

Other young artists demonstrate extraordinary, even perverse resourcefulness. Jan Simon, for instance, combines approaches technology like a craftsman, making electronic objects from scratch. Maciek Kurak has commented on the talent for ‘Applied Fantasy’ in a piece called ‘Fifty-Fifty’ in which a Polish FIAT car – on its back – seems to drive a sewing machine. 

The exhibition is accompanied by 160 page, fully illustrated book published under the same title from Prestel.

Curators: David Crowley, Zofia Machnicka, dr Andrzej Szczerski

Exhibition organized as part of I, CULTURE – the International Cultural Programme of the Polish Presidency of the European Union Council.

 

more info: click here

interview with curator: click here

8. A number of brand new works have also been commissioned?With a budget for a big exhibition like this, you have a unique opportunity to commission new work. We asked a few young artists who are on the cusp of something very interesting to create some works for specific spaces within the gallery. For example for the circular space at the entrance of the exhibition we asked street artist Mariusz Waras (M-CITY) to create a work in situ. 

Urban painting's Party - domenica 12 giugno ore 19 - La fata verde - Agrate brianza

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Urban painting's party
Domenica 12 giungo 2011
Dalle ore 19 presso "La fata verde"
Via talete, 2 (via offellera) - Agrate brianza
ingresso libero


Live painting con Neve e Orticanoodles
Mostra collettiva di street art
DJ set

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URBAN PAINTING'S PARTY - 12 GIUGNO 2011 - ORE 21 - LA FATA VERDE - AGRATE BRIANZA

URBAN PAINTING'S PARTY

Live painting & street art group show

12 GIUGNO 2011

dalle ore 19 alle ore 2

La Fata Verde- Via Talete 2a - Cascian Offellera - Agrate Brianza 

Ingresso Libero

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Broken Crow & Over Under in Minneapolis

BROKEN CROW & OVER UNDERFOTO COUTESY BROKEN CROW

ORTICANOODLES - Pensando alla morte - in memory of Frida Kalho

ORTICANOODLES - STENCIL ON PAPER
TITLE: Pensando alla morte - in memory of Frida Kalho

STENCIL DETAILS

STENCIL



artist: Orticanoodles
“Pensando alla morte - in memory of Frida kalho ”
 15 different originals
Spraypaint/hand cut stencil on paper 220g
size 70X100 cm – year 2011
number and signed by the artist + COA
AVAILABLE HERE: http://urbanpainting.bigcartel.com/artist/orticanoodles-italy

COA

Pixel Pancho hits Cartagena (Spain)

Artist: Pixel Pancho - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelpancho/
Location: Cartagena (Spain)

Claudio Ethos on Main/5th L.A.

ARTIST: CLAUDIO ETHOS (BRASIL) - http://www.claudioethos.com/
LOCATION: MAIN /5TH LOS ANGELES
Photo Courtesy: Yasuko Fujisawa 

OUT OF SIGHT - Urban Art/Abandoned Spaces

OUT OF SIGHT - Urban Art/Abandoned Spaces

Available from next weekend.
Not all art craves attention, some of it hides in secret places. Some of it is buried treasure, out in the urban wilderness, left scattered in empty rooms of derelict buildings like strange markings left by an unknown tribe. These works are gifts given only to the occasional explorer, found in abandoned factories, warehouses and industrial sites. This is art you have to earn by leaving the designated areas and heading out past the No Entry signs of the urban environment.
A diverse range of artists find themselves attracted to these twilight zones and in recent years something of a movement has come to light, huddled around the idea of urban decay and abandonment as the ultimate canvas. This burning curiosity to see what is behind the fence exists to a greater or lesser degree in most people, but for some it is irresistible.
Urban ruins are like the woods in the old fairy tales, they are the place where the ordered reality of modern city life gives way to the irrational, the ambient and the surreal.
So next time you think about scouting for art, why not look a little off the beaten track? Visibility is good for certain projects but the delightful, terrible intimacy afforded by art found in the urban woods is just begging to be explored.

buy online here: http://www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk/index.php?action=what&subaction=outofsight

M-city hits Wroclaw (Poland)

Artist: M-city Www.m-city.org
Location: Wroclaw (Poland)