All posts tagged: France

Spring Has Sprung : BonBon, UNO, and OX on the Street

March 22, 2016 Artists

It has been two days since the Sun was directly over the Equator and she is heading north to bring the Global North a lot of flowers and blossoms in the earliest spring since 1896. Today we have newly budded interventions from three cities in this warming hemisphere that may make you think of Spring 2016. See here new pieces from Amsterdam, Rome and Paris by sticker artist BonBon, wheat paster UNO and site-specific billboard jacker OX respectively.

BonBon. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. March 2016. (photo © @BonBon_Art)

UNO. Rome, Italy. March 2016. (photo © UNO)

Rome-based Street Artist UNO has on his mind the Surpreme Leader of North Korea, who Vanity Fair recently contrasted with a potential US President Trump. These don’t really look like Kim Jong-un’s features nor pallor but that fabulous hair is hitting the heights like a nuclear explosion! BTW Uno puts his own two-eye logo in the wallpaper pattern in the background. And no, we do not understand any of this at all.

OX. Paris, France. March 2016. (photo © OX)

And finally, new billboard takeovers by the minimalist conceptualist OX in Paris, whose installations are deeply sympathetic with their environment, often mimicking the colors/shapes/textures that are nearby. OX tells us, “I found these very “French!” Certainly the first one is.

OX. Paris, France. March 2016. (photo © OX)

Skio and Théo Lopez at Square Henri-Karcher in Paris for Art Azoï

March 16, 2016 Artists

Paris, like many cosmopolitan cities around the world is mostly a pedestrian city – with about 60% of journeys are by foot rather than by car. With this in mind the city’s urban planners have been focusing on making the streets much friendlier to pedestrians by creating shared spaces, making the sidewalks free of clutter and more safe for people who walk, jog or ride bikes.

With the implementation of the Pedestrian Paris Initiative walking in Paris has become a whole lot easier and enjoyable in the last few years. Walking is the best way to get to know a city. It will be then fair to say that finding and experiencing Street Art is one of the many rewards from walking.

Here we see the newly commissioned mural by Skio and Théo Lopez for the Parisian organization ArtAzoï at the Square Herni-Karcher. Organizers say they are gifting the community with a mural that pays an homage to them, offering them to have a first hand, personal interaction with the art.

Skio and Théo Lopez. Work in progress. (photo © Michel Jean-Théodore)

“The latest installment of the mural at Square Henri-Karcher in the 20^th arrondissement in Paris features the artistic collaboration of Skio and Théo Lopez.

Skio is an artist of many talents, spanning from illustration to art direction, who has been painting graffiti across France since 1995. Active maker and shaker in the Parisian street art scene since 2005, he fluidly transforms his technical knowledge through one medium to the next. His work translates his loves and fears, and these nostalgic tendencies offer dynamic, detailed images that search for the sentimental.

Théo Lopez is a trained graphic designer and active member of the Parisian artist collective, “9ème Concept,” who has explored different artistic approaches since a young age. Originally attracted to tribal motifs and spiritual symbolism, his work has since evolved to a more abstract approach. Lopez’s abstraction creates works loaded with patterns and optical effects, offering a poetic union of the linear and material. His process rejects a pre-defined path; rather, he prefers to paint, cut, conceal and reveal in real time. This way he can allow each layer to prompt a dialogue, amongst contrasting colors and lines, that brings depth to each of his works.

After Art Azoï extended the invitation to Skio to paint the 40 meter-long wall at Square Henri-Karcher, he saw the opportunity to ask his friend and fellow artist, Théo Lopez, to collaborate on a mural that would combine their respective styles.

Skio chose to represent a jogger, who takes a break to daydream, as a nod to all the Parisian joggers who run past the mural every day. It’s this sort of consideration that is sensible to the interaction with passerby’s that makes a mural stimulating, and in this case, Skio’s work invites the viewer to be lost in reverie.

In his collaboration, Théo Lopez combines abstraction with different textures afforded by the acrylic paint to integrate Skio’s jogger into a futurist universe.

The mural was hardly an easy feat, given the endless rain, hail and snow that marked the five days of production. Yet these constraints offered their own perks at the end, allowing for both Skio and Lopez to experiment and create interesting textures from some areas where the paint washed away.

Both Skio and Théo Lopez plan to collaborate in the future, and to further explore the mélange of the figurative with the abstract to create it’s own universe”.

– Alex Parrish at Art Azoï

Skio and Théo Lopez. Work in progress. (photo © Michel Jean-Théodore)

Skio and Théo Lopez. Detail. (photo © Alex Parrish)

Skio and Théo Lopez. (photo © Alex Parrish)

Skio and Théo Lopez. Detail. (photo © Alex Parrish)

Skio and Théo Lopez. Panorama. (photo © Nicolas Scauri)

Skio and Théo Lopez. Panorama. CLICK on image to enlarge (photo © Nicolas Scauri)

Alex Parrish is part of the ArtAzoï team and a frequent BSA Contributor.

Click HERE to learn more about ArtAzoï

Tilt Smashes With Multi-Hued Tags: “Magic & Destroy”

March 1, 2016 Artists

“When does an ultra-tagged trash can, which some consider simply vandalized, assume the status of a work of art?” asks Stephanie Pioda, the art historian and journalist in the introduction of this 3 year old collection of TILT, “Magic and Destroy”.

Tilt Magic & Destroy Wallworks. Paris 2013

Indeed the artists posed a variant of the same question last week when we met him at Jardin Rouge in Marrakech, and it bears consideration. Absent the act of vandalism, the bashing of an object with layers of tags is simply an art technique; albeit one loaded with the implications of a street act that violates the established codes of accepted behavior in public space and infringes on property rights. It is an examination of context, as with all discussions about what graffiti or street art becomes once it enters a gallery or a home.

Tilt Magic & Destroy Wallworks. Paris 2013

Originally created to accompany his solo show with Paris based Wall Works gallery, the soft-cover catalogue with images by photographer Benjamin Roudet gives a satisfying overview of the diversification in technique and experimentation that has brought this Toulouse native far since first writing his bubble-based tags on the streets in the late 1980s.

From the carved “New York” apple core sculpture to the soft-porn love-interest photo spreads, to the endearing and incomplete blackbook doodling, the Brooklyn whole-roof silver co-tagging with Mist, and the aerosol slaughter of a car sliced in half, TILT continues to explore where his passion for expression can take him.

Based on the new migration themed work we’ve just seen that he is preparing for dual shows in Morroco and France, the ultra-tagged work of TILT is expanding his contemplative examinations beyond the charged duality of vandalism and art.

Tilt Magic & Destroy Wallworks. Paris 2013

Tilt Magic & Destroy was published by Wallworks on the ocassion of Tilt’s exhibition Magic & Destroy at Galerie Wallworks. Paris 2013 with images by photographer Benjamin Roudet.

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BSA Images Of The Week: 12.13.15

December 13, 2015 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

As the snow birds flew back to NYC this week from their Miami art debauchery with dark circles under their eyes and paint under their nails we tossed them right back in the roiling red & white mash of SantaCon in the streets, 2 more politicians going to jail, and the alleged hunk-hiring Bronx priest resigning from his parish. You can really feel the spirit of Christmas and Hannukah all around.

BSA was proud to co-sponsor the talk with DAZE, LEE Quinones, and Jane Dickson for the special reception at DAZE’s “The City is My Muse” show currently on exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, hosted by Sean Corcoran. The three are vital to the historical thread that reaches back to NY’s earliest graff days and it was evident from seeing their newest works as they each presented them on screen that they refuse to be nostalgic about the city – but prefer to be on top of it. Case in point was Lee’s opening the following night that showcased his new mural on the ceiling at the Indigo Hotel – his Sistine Chapel if you will.

P.S. We’ll be at MCNY with DAZE March 2 – mark your calendar.

Invader finished his 42 piece wave of tile installations in New York, according to reports, Banksy struck out with political pieces addressing immigration and xenophobia (videos at end of this posting), and Gilf! wrapped the façade of a Williamsburg bar with “gentrification in progress” tape to mark its death by market forces. As artists continue to grapple with socio/political events, the art of the street keeps mutating forward.

Side note: “Images of the Week” takes a hiatus for the next few weeks thanks to special Holiday programming. It returns in 2016.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Banksy, Bunny M, City Kitty, Cost, Daze, Dee Dee, Gilf!, Invader, Jaye Moon, Jordan Seiler, KET, Labrona, Lee Quinones, Lex56, Mint&Serf, Never, Pet Bird, Read, Sipros, Specter, Wing, and WK Interact.

Top Image: Sipros and a father of surrealism for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter in Paris. (photo © Specter)

Specter was in France last month with FKDL and Upian, among others. Here are some examples of paintings and ad takeovers in Paris as well as an abandoned factory called La Rodia in Besancon. The Brooklyn based artist tells us that “It was a trying time to be there but supporting my friends and creating some colorful distractions was more important.”

Specter in Besancon. (photo © Specter)

Invader (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Inva…sions are Cost…ly (photo © Jaime Rojo)

City Kitty (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lex56. Noted. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jordan Seiler (photo © Jaime Rojo)

WK Interact (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gilf! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

For Dotty & Pearl (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Wing (photo © Jaime Rojo)

bunny M (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dee Dee (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The company you keep… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Labrona and Ket in Montreal. (photo © Labrona)

Labrona and Ket in Montreal. Detail. (photo © Labrona)

Labrona in Montreal. (photo © Labrona)

Mint & Serf (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Detail of Lee Quinones’ inventive ode to New York at a newly opened hotel in the LES. The artist, who grew up in the hood was commissioned to paint on the ceiling of the hotel’s reception room a map of the neighborhood to which he attached painted “poloroid” portraits (sourced from previously existing photographs) who lived and played on those streets “Between Two Bridges”. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Daze standing in front of a portrait of him taken decades ago. This piece is currently being exhibited at Chris “Daze” Ellis: The City is My Muse at the Museum Of The City of New York. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tom Warren with Christopher “Daze” Ellis
Portrait of Daze with Tags, 1983, Acrylic on Gelatin silver print

Jaye Moon has a sense of “awe” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Never created this memorial to Peter Caroll AKA Pet Bird, who passed away suddenly in September. We love you Peter…and you too Never. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Balloons. Manhattan, NYC. November 2015. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

From The Guardian:
“Street artist Banksy has painted a depiction of Apple founder Steve Jobs on a wall in a migrant and refugee camp in France known as the Calais ‘Jungle’. The artist, who has never revealed his identity, released a rare public statement challenging the perception that migrants and refugees from Syria are a drain on Western economies, UK media reported”

Monkey Bird Crew in Lille, France and Their Largest Monkey/Bird Stencil

December 12, 2015 Artists

The Bordeaux-based Street Art duo Monkey Bird Crew were in the northern French capital Lille in November to create their largest mural ever and today we have some exclusive shots of the enormous piece from the natural stencilists as they scaled the bricked wall and sprayed the new work.

Monkey Bird Crew in Lille, France. (photo © Aline Mairet)

Phototographer Aline Mairet tells us “This collaborative work was realized as part of the major cultural event called “Renaissance” (by Lille3000) and was built with the contribution and participation of the neighborhoods residents.”

It’s standard practice for Edouard and David to portray their chosen avatars of monkey and a bird – of many varieties – in a composition that shows their reliance on one another. Aline says that she sees the their inspiration as being derived “principally from sacred or lyrical works such as illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, and architectural ornamentation – as well as Japanese prints and fantastic illustrations from the ‘Arts and Crafts’ period.”

Monkey Bird Crew in Lille, France. (photo © Aline Mairet)

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BSA Film Friday: 12.04.15

December 4, 2015 Artists

Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening :

1. Brandalism Takes Over Bus Stops to Counter Cop21 Misinformation
2. OLEK Working Women
3. Madame Edwarda: R.ö vs Höy
4. Lilys – High Writer at Home by Joey Garfiled and Stephen Powers
5. Miss Me By Pablo Aravena
6. So Much Winning! So Much! Head Spinning Winning!

BSA Special Feature: Brandalism Takes Over Bus Stops to Counter Cop21 Misinformation

Misinformation is an entire industry today. It’s goal is usually not to make you active, but make you passive.

Here is a brief intro video about Brandalism’s answer to UN COP21 – and the first of what will surely be more videos about this massive effort by 82 Artists from 19 different countries to take back public space and the public dialogue about climate change from those who are skillfully employing misinformation and bending laws to enable them to continue making money at all costs. “Two days before the launch of the UN COP21 Climate Conference, 600 posters were installed in outdoor media spaces across Paris – to challenge the corporate takeover of COP21 and to reveal the connections between advertising, the promotion of consumerism and climate change.”

OLEK Working Women

A new conceptual performance piece by OLEK and a troupe of Olekians on a sunny day in Union Square.

“The artwork is destroyed as it is created, and created out of its own destruction in an infinite loop. Like the perpetual punishments of Sisyphus or Prometheus, a woman’s work is never finished. Subject and object, static and metamorphic, old and new, enduring and fleeting, public and private, concealed and revealed, traditional and innovative, decay and renewal, are all interchangeable.”

Madame Edwarda: R.ö vs Höy

“Why do you do that – you see, she said, I am God.”
But seriously, this is really scored well, even if we don’t know what it is about. Something related to cutting off your head during coitus. Not your average Friday, is it?

Lilys – High Writer at Home by Joey Garfiled and Stephen Powers

Out of print for 20 years, this newly re-released album is coupled with Stephen Powers’ project “A Love Letter to Philadelphia” from a couple years back. As you get carried my the haze of the soundtrack you will swear that these two projects were originally with each other in mind.

“From the limited 21st anniversary vinyl LP pressing of the 1994 album, Eccsame the Photon Band – Lilys’ etheric second full-length album has become a shoegaze collector’s favorite.”

Also don’t miss Stephen Powers’ new installation at the Brooklyn Museum now on view. >>> Coney Island Dreaming: Following The Signs To Stephen Powers

Miss Me By Pablo Aravena

“When I started going on the streets, it just felt like the ultimate cry for freedom” says Montreal based Miss Me.

So Much Winning! So Much! Head-Spinning Winning!

Yes, you knew something sounded familiar. Those are your drunk neighbors winning over there. More biting revelatory critique than an hour and half of SNL, frankly.

BSA Images Of The Week: 11.15.15

November 15, 2015 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

We start this weeks “Images of the Week” with a new piece on the street in Paris and we end the collection with many more inspired by the same events. A large number of artists took to the streets Friday night and yesterday to express grief and solidarity for 129 people killed Friday in Paris by terrorist attacks.

In addition to the outpouring of expressions and opinions on social, electronic and print media, it is good to see painting employed this way in the public space because it provides a common sense of our physical place, a location for people to meet and discuss and grieve together. “We were just folk that needed to get away from watching the news and met up on the train tracks,” one artist tells us.

Many of the pieces called up the Latin phrase that has been an unofficial motto of the city of Paris since the mid fourteenth century Fluctuat nec mergitur (Classical Latin: flvctvat·nec·mergitvr) which is translated today to mean “Tossed by the waves but not sinking (or sunk)”. In the coming days we hope that this continues to be true, but also that the shock and pain of such events do not lead to a cycle of violence and inaccurate generalizations, as presumably the actions were intended to provoke. Even in these difficult times it is important that cooler heads prevail.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to those families and friends who are in such utter pain because of these atrocious acts as well as others who are suffering because of war throughout the world.

Our personal thanks to BSA Facebook fans and friends who helped us find these new images; Susanna Allende, Jérémy Berjon, Jul Ben, Ona Sis, Yogesh Saini, Matthieu Ribo, Gaëlle Boscolo, Sylvie Arrondo, Mike Lambert, and Meli Venegas.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Alex McNett, Bifido, Caserta, City Rabbit, Dasic Fernandez, Espion, Gaia, Gregory Gentois, Grim Team Crew, JCorp, Kai, Kashink, KLOPS, Mint & Serf, Moamed Abla, Moze (ODC Collective), Myth, Nepo, Pawn Price, POI, Shepard Fairey.

Top image above >>> MOZE in Paris (photo © Moze ODC Collective)

KAI (photo © Jame Rojo)

Bifido in Caserta, Italy. (photo © Bifido)

Gaia in Jersey City, NJ. Portrait of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange and a portrait of a man intended to represent the Lenape people native to the Delaware river watershed, Ackingsah-sack Wetlands, Lower Hudson Valley and Long Island. (photo © Jame Rojo)

Shepard Fairey in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jame Rojo)

He’s either lifting it… Heart (photo © Jame Rojo)

Kashink (photo © Jame Rojo)

Alex McNett (photo © Jame Rojo)

Dasic in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jame Rojo)

What’s the chance of that happening? Myth (photo © Jame Rojo)

This guy seems to have a lot on his mind. City Rabbit (photo © Jame Rojo)

A 3D sculptural tag from Mint & Serf (photo © Jame Rojo)

Stairway to Graffiti heaven. (photo © Jame Rojo)

JCorp (photo © Jame Rojo)

OBEY . DZN (photo © Jame Rojo)

KLOPS (photo © Jame Rojo)

Let’s see, who’s here: Jimi Hendrix flanked by Steve Winwood and ? and then possibly Jerry Garcia, then Johnny Cash, John Lennon, and Bob Marley. No women. Pawn Price in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jame Rojo)

POI (photo © Jame Rojo)

NEPO (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kashink in Paris. (photo © Rory Kavanagh)

Grim Team Crew. Place de la Concorde, Paris. (photo © Sylvie Arredondo)

Grim Team Crew in Paris. (photo © Gregory Gentois)

Espion in Montreal, Canada. (photo © Espion)

Artist Unknown. Paris. (photo © Us Of Paris)

This art wall was created Saturday morning at Khan Market in New Delhi by visiting Egyptian artist Mohamed Abla as part of a Delhi Street Art collaboration. New Delhi, India. @delhistart (photo © Yogesh Saini)

Untitled. Manhattan, NYC. November 2015. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

She’s the Bomb: Ella & Pitr Launch “La Femme Canon” on Airstrip South of Paris

September 21, 2015 Artists

Ella & Pitr have sent a human cannonball across a massive runway in the south of Paris and we bring you exclusive new aerial photos today as you shoot into your week. “La Femme Canon” is a bit of wordplay that can mean a gorgeous woman and a person who has been shot from a cannon. Naturally, this beautiful new woman has wings to assist her to fly further once she has been launched into the air.

Ella & Pitr. La Femme Canon. South of Paris, France. September 2015. (photo © courtesy of Ella & Pitr)

“It was a very difficult delivery because of the rain, but finally here it is,” say the exhausted couple of this newest giant mural visible from the sky – completed only weeks after completing their record-breaking one in Norway.

Perhaps the rain has contributed to the rich green fields that frame the new image on the airstrip of an old military airport. The lengthy pavement certainly makes an appropriate canvas for a woman in aviation and Ella & Pitr appropriate codes from the strip into the flying cap la femme is wearing. Enjoy these images of the latest high-flying duo’s work, and merci beaucoup to the artists for sharing them with BSA readers.

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Gather the Rose of Love : YZ and LE CABARET DE SANCERRE

September 19, 2015 Artists

Summer’s final roses are still ripe for the picking here in Brooklyn, with no threat of autumn’s frost in sight and late September sun to illuminate them as you scuffle by on concrete sidewalks. Street Artist YZ lives and works in Montreuil near Paris and has been bringing rooms of an old cabaret alive with roses this summer and shares with us today images of classical figures she painted with india ink on silk paper for these decaying walls.

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“Each room has it’s own character and the natural light sometimes reveals a different aspect of the original painting,” she says of the nudes originally created by Bouguereau, Lehmann, Gerome, and Merle.

The historic old building once housed “Le Cabaret de Sancerre” and the owner invited YZ for an artists residency inside this place that once hosted a mystical cabaret, a cinema, a dancing room and many lovelies of all persuasions.

“Pasting those women in a different context where love has been present over several years brings this old building alive again,” she says, and indeed the figures summon you to contemplate them and their natural beauty and the passage of time.

“Edmund Spenser wrote in the 16th century, ‘Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time’”, YZ tells us, “and this is the leitmotiv of the series.” The recurrent theme throughout the rooms may you of the excesses of love and lust and the necessity of giving over to them both, now, before the winter comes.

So passeth, in the passing of a day,
Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre,
Ne more doth flourish after first decay,
That earst was sought to decke both bed and bowre,
Of many a Ladie, and many a Paramowre:
Gather therefore the Rose, whilest yet is prime,
For soone comes age, that will her pride deflowre:
Gather the Rose of love, whilest yet is time,
Whilest loving thou mayest loved be with equall crime.

Edmund Spenser (I552-I599): The Faerie Queene II.XII.75

BSA Images Of The Week: 07.12.15

July 12, 2015 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring ASVP, Dain, D. Hollier, Dee Dee, Free Humanity, Homo Riot, Hunt, Jorit Agoch, Myth, Old Broads, Philippe Herard, Solus, The Electric Tattoo, Oji and Wing.

Free Humanity and Pooh comment on the connection many continue to make between the chemical industry and the collapse of 40% of bee colonies. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Film Friday: 06.26.15

June 26, 2015 Artists

Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening :

1. THIS IS NOW – Endangered Species
2. David Walker in Nancy, France
3. Phnom Penh Murals with Cambodian Urban Art Institute
4. A Primer – The FAILE BÄST Deluxx Fluxx Arcade
5. Drunken Collaboration with Sr. X and Zabou

BSA Special Feature: THIS IS NOW – Endangered Species

Endangered species have been called attention to by Street Artists in recent years, most notably ROA and his large murals around the world, but even Brooklyn local QRST has pasted his paintings of endangered frogs on streets as commentary of our negative effects on entire species, continuously messing with ecosystems and now possibly threatening our own existence.

This short film focuses on a campaign by artist Louis Masai Michel working on the streets of London as part of a funded campaign with Synchronicity Earth, who “support on-the-ground conservation action and creates spaces for cognitive dissidence, working alongside artists, young people, conservationists, activists, film-makers, scientists and enlightened business-leaders to co-create a world in which all life is valued, regardless of economic ‘worth.’”

David Walker in Nancy, France

David Walker just created this mural in Nancy, France to support his current show with Galerie Mathgoth. Not a strict adherent to the École de Nancy , Walker has a craft of his own with aerosol cans that actually bring features and expressions to a life-like quality, all the while eschewing traditional tools of the painting trade. Shout out to Karl’s beard.

Phnom Penh Murals with Cambodian Urban Art Institute

French artists Théo Vallier and Chifumi were invited to gather Cambodian and International graffiti artists to create murals on Phnom Penh’s walls this April and this video gives a good summary of the events. On the streets were new works and collaborations by Chifumi et Théo Vallier, Peap Tarr & Lisa Mam, Tones, David Myers, Koy, Venk, Eltono, and Alias 2.0.

More information of this event sponsored in part by the Institute Francais HERE

The FAILE BÄST Deluxx Fluxx Arcade – A Primer from Miami Beach 2013

If you are wondering what you will see opening July 10^th at the The FAILE BÄST Deluxx Fluxx Arcade and throughout the summer at The Brooklyn Museum, here is a good primer from an installation of it they did in Miami Beach in 2013. We’ve seen the new installation that Faile and BÄST are currently preparing for you, and we can tell you that it is like this, but MUCH MORE.

Video Directed By: Priest Fontaine
Shot By: Noah Carlson & Priest Fontaine
Edited By: Priest Fontaine
Music By: Seth Jabour

Drunken Collaboration with Sr. X and Zabou

They say that this is based on a true story, and one you may have heard of before. We’re not sure if they are advocating alcohol abuse or against it , but it’s always a cheery surprise to hear The Dead Kennedys, isn’t it?

Lille Biennale: Update with Jana & JS, Psykoze, Nuria Mora, Baba Jung

June 23, 2015 Artists

The Biennale of Urban Art in Lille, in the north of France continues at a relaxed pace with new pieces including a new window pane reflective moment by the French-Austrian stencil couplt Jana & JS. Also included are new walls by Baba Jung, Nuria Mora, and Psykoze were completed these last two weeks. Here we have new shots for BSA readers courtesy Aline Mairet.

Jana & JS (photo Aline Mairet)

Hell’o Monster and M-City at the Urban Art Biennale in Lille, France

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BonBon. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. March 2016. (photo © @BonBon_Art)

BonBon. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. March 2016. (photo © @BonBon_Art)

UNO. Rome, Italy. March 2016. (photo © UNO)

OX. Paris, France. March 2016. (photo © OX)

OX. Paris, France. March 2016. (photo © OX)

Skio and Théo Lopez. Work in progress. (photo © Michel Jean-Théodore)

Skio and Théo Lopez. Work in progress. (photo © Michel Jean-Théodore)

Skio and Théo Lopez. Work in progress. (photo © Michel Jean-Théodore)

Skio and Théo Lopez. Work in progress. (photo © Michel Jean-Théodore)

Skio and Théo Lopez. Detail. (photo © Alex Parrish)

Skio and Théo Lopez. (photo © Alex Parrish)

Skio and Théo Lopez. (photo © Alex Parrish)

Skio and Théo Lopez. Detail. (photo © Alex Parrish)

Skio and Théo Lopez. Panorama. (photo © Nicolas Scauri)

Skio and Théo Lopez. Panorama. CLICK on image to enlarge (photo © Nicolas Scauri)

Tilt Magic & Destroy Wallworks. Paris 2013

Tilt Magic & Destroy Wallworks. Paris 2013

Tilt Magic & Destroy Wallworks. Paris 2013

Tilt Magic & Destroy Wallworks. Paris 2013

Tilt Magic & Destroy Wallworks. Paris 2013

Tilt Magic & Destroy Wallworks. Paris 2013

Tilt Magic & Destroy Wallworks. Paris 2013

Top Image: Sipros and a father of surrealism for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter in Paris. (photo © Specter)

Specter in Paris. (photo © Specter)

Specter in Besancon. (photo © Specter)

Read More (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Invader (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Inva…sions are Cost…ly (photo © Jaime Rojo)

City Kitty (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lex56. Noted. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jordan Seiler (photo © Jaime Rojo)

WK Interact (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gilf! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

For Dotty & Pearl (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Wing (photo © Jaime Rojo)

bunny M (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dee Dee (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The company you keep… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Labrona and Ket in Montreal. (photo © Labrona)

Labrona and Ket in Montreal. Detail. (photo © Labrona)

Labrona in Montreal. (photo © Labrona)

Mint & Serf (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jaye Moon has a sense of “awe” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Never created this memorial to Peter Caroll AKA Pet Bird, who passed away suddenly in September. We love you Peter…and you too Never. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Balloons. Manhattan, NYC. November 2015. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Monkey Bird Crew in Lille, France. (photo © Aline Mairet)

Monkey Bird Crew in Lille, France. (photo © Aline Mairet)

Monkey Bird Crew in Lille, France. (photo © Aline Mairet)

Monkey Bird Crew in Lille, France. (photo © Aline Mairet)

Monkey Bird Crew in Lille, France. (photo © Aline Mairet)

Monkey Bird Crew in Lille, France. (photo © Aline Mairet)

Monkey Bird Crew in Lille, France. (photo © Aline Mairet)

Monkey Bird Crew in Lille, France. (photo © Aline Mairet)

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Madame Edwarda: R.ö vs Höy

“Why do you do that – you see, she said, I am God.” But seriously, this is really scored well, even if we don’t know what it is about. Something related to cutting off your head during coitus. Not your average Friday, is it?

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Miss Me By Pablo Aravena

So Much Winning! So Much! Head-Spinning Winning!

Top image above >>> MOZE in Paris (photo © Moze ODC Collective)

KAI (photo © Jame Rojo)

Bifido in Caserta, Italy. (photo © Bifido)

Gaia in Jersey City, NJ. Portrait of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange and a portrait of a man intended to represent the Lenape people native to the Delaware river watershed, Ackingsah-sack Wetlands, Lower Hudson Valley and Long Island. (photo © Jame Rojo)

Shepard Fairey in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jame Rojo)

He’s either lifting it… Heart (photo © Jame Rojo)

Kashink (photo © Jame Rojo)

Alex McNett (photo © Jame Rojo)

Dasic in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jame Rojo)

What’s the chance of that happening? Myth (photo © Jame Rojo)

This guy seems to have a lot on his mind. City Rabbit (photo © Jame Rojo)

A 3D sculptural tag from Mint & Serf (photo © Jame Rojo)

Stairway to Graffiti heaven. (photo © Jame Rojo)

JCorp (photo © Jame Rojo)

OBEY . DZN (photo © Jame Rojo)

KLOPS (photo © Jame Rojo)

Let’s see, who’s here: Jimi Hendrix flanked by Steve Winwood and ? and then possibly Jerry Garcia, then Johnny Cash, John Lennon, and Bob Marley. No women. Pawn Price in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jame Rojo)

POI (photo © Jame Rojo)

NEPO (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Why do you do that – you see, she said, I am God.”
But seriously, this is really scored well, even if we don’t know what it is about. Something related to cutting off your head during coitus. Not your average Friday, is it?