14 Sep 2011

NUART 2011 Presents: TOU SCENE & Stavanger City Streets (Stavanger, Norway)

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NUART FESTIVAL 2011: PROGRAM

TOU SCENE OCT 1 – NOV 1

OPENING OCT 1, 19.00

DAN WITZ (US), DAVID CHOE & DVS1 (US), VHILS (PO), HERBERT BAGLIONE (BR), DOLK (NO), LUCY McCLAUCHLAN (UK), HERAKUT (DE), TELLAS (IT), ESCIF (ES), HYURO (ES), PHLEGM (UK)

12 Artists from 9 countries tackle over ½ kilometre of wall space at one of the worlds leading contemporary urban art exhibitions. In addition, we present our most extensive support program yet.

Join us for an up close and personal series of artist presentations, panel debates with leading professionals, artist workshops and lectures.

Nuart in association with SF Kino are also proud to have secured two exclusive must see European Premiere’s of the years greatest street art documentaries. Lights, Camera Pichação and Vigilante, Vigilante:

EXCLUSIVE EUROPEAN FILM PREMIERES

Lights, Camera Pichação (100mins BR)

A ground breaking documentary about the often misunderstood street culture of Rio de Janeiro’s “PICHAÇÃO. told in their own words. It asks of us an important question, what came first, the clean white wall… or artistic expression? Who got in the way of who ?

http://www.luzcamerapichacao.com.br/

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Sf Kino Fri 23.09 and Sat 24.09, 16:00 Tickets 60kr

Vigilante, Vigilante (86mins US)

A new breed of crime-fighter now stalks the urban landscape. Two filmmakers go undercover to expose anti-graffiti vigilantes who stop at nothing to rid their neighbourhoods and cities of street art, stickers, tags, and posters.

http://www.vigilantefilm.com/

Sf Kino: Fri 30.09. Sat 1.10 and Sun 02.10, 16:00 Tickets 60kr

WORKSHOPS, TALKS AND PANEL DEBATE – FREE

Escif & Hyuro: Workshop at Kunstskolen i Rogaland, Sat Oct 1st 12:00-15:00*

Dan Witz: Workshop for kids with at Tou Scene, Sat Oct 1st 12:00-15:00**

Artist talks: Tellas (ES), Thur 22.09, 18:00 Herbert Baglione (BR), Fri 23.09, 18:00 KiR

Street Art lecture: Carlo McCormick (US) – Thur 29.09, 18:00 Tou Scene

Panel Debate with Artists, Carlo McCormick and Juxtapoz (US) Fri 30.09, 18:00 Martinique

*The workshop has 10 free places. To attend send your name and phone number to marte@numusic.no

**This is a sticker workshop for kids. The workshop will be in English.

For more information visit our website www.nuart.no or contact

www.facebook.com/nuartfestival

www.twitter.com/nuart11

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nuart

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Hold Up Art Gallery Presents: KRAKEN “Fantasmas” (Los Angeles, CA)

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OPENING RECEPTION

Saturday, September 17, 2011 from 7:00PM to 11:00PM

Exhibit runs September 17, 2011 through October 20, 2011

Hold Up Art

358 E. 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Fantasmas is the first solo exhibition by prolific Mexican street artist Kraken. Consisting of twenty-one pieces, ranging from giclee reproductions to handmade silkscreen prints and original drawings, Fantasmas showcases the unique style and voice of this talented artist. The exhibit’s opening reception will feature a live performance by Adrian Terrazas Gonzalez (The Mars Volta) with Jazztec.

Known for his dark, gothic and somewhat disturbing images, Kraken is a highly sought after commercial graphics artist in Mexico. His work has been used to brand products from alcoholic beverages to sneakers, from apparel lines to bands. As a member of Mexico’s E3 Collective, Kraken has been involved in numerous group shows around the world. His work has appeared in an Amnesty International art book to raise money for the cause in Darfur, and he has had his work featured in an installation by the Centro Cultural España. Kraken’s work is often recognized for his use of repetitive graphics and what could be called an obsession with eyes.

“I am inspired by different things when I work; comic books, movies, but mostly emotions. I get a lot of inspiration from reading psychological case studies of serial killers,” shares Kraken, “That’s where I got the idea of deforming humanity with unnatural light and dark colors, and repetitive imagery, like eyes. The eyes represent different things in my work, but lately they represent anxiety. I have this notion that your eyes see things differently when you’re having a panic attack; your stomach aches and your palms itch. It’s like those parts of your body are filled with eyes.”

For more information about this and other exhibits,

please visit www.holdupart.com.

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Cell Phone Snap : Broken Crow + Wolves Feasting on a Carcass

September 14, 2011

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Is this a metaphor for the rich feasting on the US economy? Or just the Macy’s One Day Sale? Here’s a quick cell phone snap of the new piece by Broken Crow at Living Walls : Albany, complete with blood slopping across the field of yellow flowers. More to come soon.

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Broken Crow photo ©  Samson Contompasis

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Living Walls : Albany Presents: Keynote Lecture by Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo “Street Art Stories: A New Direction on the Street” (Albany, New York)

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Saturday, September 17th
Located in the Clark Auditorium of the New York State Museum

3:30-4:45PM
KEYNOTE LECTURE
“Street Art Stories: A New Direction on the Street”
Presented by Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo, founders of Brooklyn Street Art

In Street Arts’ latest chapter, the storytellers are hitting up walls with all manner of influences and methods. More than ever before, formally trained and self taught fine artists are skipping the gallery route and taking their work directly to the public, creating cultural mash-ups and highly personal stories of their own, altering the character of this scene once again. Eclectic, individual, and as D.I.Y. as you can imagine, these Street Artists may have knowledge of who came before them or not, but they are determined to be a part of one art scene that is perceived as authentic, relevant, and alive.

Join Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo, authors (“Brooklyn Street Art”, and “Street Art New York”, published by Prestel/Random House) and founders of Brooklyn Street Art (BrooklynStreetArt.com) and contributing Street Art writers for The Huffington Post ARTS, as they show and compare examples of work from New York’s streets today. Then join a lively discussion in a Q&A session to help explore this storytelling practice and discuss how it may be evolving what we have been calling “Street Art” for the last decade.

Hosted by “Living Walls : Albany”, Samson Contompasis, Director,  and Grand Street Community Arts, James Shultis, Executive Director.

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Cake at Living Walls: Albany

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Street Artist Cake brought her hand painted people to Albany yesterday, with these portraits of a “wondrous traveler”named Saige. A fine artist who makes one of a kind wheate-pasted pieces as a means of therapy and tribute, Cake has a unique style that is at once melodic and medical, enabling the viewer to have x-ray vision. Recently Cake has been introducing metallic, as in these two new pieces using silver leaf.

Learn more about Cake and see Jaime Rojo’s photos of her work in our recent interview with her on Juxtapoz.

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Knock knock, Cake is at the door. (photo © Cake)

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Cake (photo © Cake)

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Cake (photo © Cake)

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