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BSA Film Friday: 04.07.23

BSA Film Friday: 04.07.23

April 7, 2023 ,
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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening:
1. Damien Hirst – The Beautiful Paintings

2. SHOE – UNMOVEMENT

3. TCK – STEEL DIVISION – THE VIDEO (BERLIN) Via I Love Graffiti

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BSA Special Feature: Damien Hirst – The Beautiful Paintings

Yes, of course, you could make art like this, in fact, it looks like you do the lion’s share of creating this one online and he signs the print – but that is not the point of this video here today. Damien Hirst has a corner on branding and selling that many do not, and he has been commercially successful at it. From our perspective, if an artist wants to live on their creative work, all lessons are welcome!

Damien Hirst – The Beautiful Paintings. Or a master lesson on selling art.

SHOE – UNMOVEMENT

Careful when you slam on the breaks here, SHOE is driving the painting process, and it is terrain yet unmapped. This promotional video for UNMOVEMENT at the Curators Room is a solo exhibition by SHOE featuring his most recent body of work.

As explained by the artist, “The title ‘unmovement’ is inspired by the ever-present dichotomy of movement and stillness. While the painted surface of a work is a still object, the particles of the paint are constantly moving, as well as the material quality of the canvas itself: time consumes, and transforms. The crystallization of an impression is, however, present in the here and now, prompting a question concerning the nature of time and, inevitably, of change.”

Click HERE to read about UNMOVEMENT on BSA

Video by: Sander Lanen
Music by MAYO

SHOE
UNMOVEMENT
(Curated by Gabriel Rolt for The Curators Room)

7 April – 27 May, 2023

Location:
The Curators Room – Art Chapel Amsterdam
Prinses Irenestraat 19
AMSTERDAM

TCK – STEEL DIVISION – THE VIDEO (BERLIN) Via I Love Graffiti

This movie by the TCK CREW from Berlin was available by the end of 2022 for a very short time, a limited quantity of 100 pieces, and was sold out as quickly as it came.

Now it’s time to show you the full-length film here:

“From the underground to the top at last. A concentrated 35 minutes of TCK and their partners banging non-stop trains in your face. Mostly footage from 2011-2016 and a few more recent shots. No 4K, no drones, just trains. Berlin only.”

Enjoy!

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Tread the Path Less Traveled: Shoe Creates “Unmovement” in Amsterdam

Tread the Path Less Traveled: Shoe Creates “Unmovement” in Amsterdam

April 4, 2023

Using a 1992 Buick Park Avenue as your painting utensil is completely normal in late capitalism. So is calling yourself Shoe.

In his latest exhibition, the graffiti writer and contemporary artist Niels Shoe Meulman takes us the extra mile inside his shiny blue “paintbrush,” crushing cans in the process, tracking patterns across the canvas in a smoothly violent kinetic joyride. Unlike other tools one uses to create paintings, this Buick is central to the show.

Did you guess that he would coin a term? The author of “Calligraffiti” may imagine that this automotive move into contemporary art will be adopted by other’s who want to write with a steering wheel. In promotion of this UNMOVEMENT, “the artist reached what he semi-ironically calls Carrigraffiti: signs, interventions, actual paintings created by using his car as a tool.”

Niels SHOE Meulman. ZERO KELVIN (MINUS 273 DEGREES CELSIUS). (photo courtesy of The Curators Room)

Can you imagine a branding collaboration with Formula 1 racers and, say Montana Colors, as curated by the driver at the head of the pack, Shoe? What would that track look like? And would it be contemporary art?

Sara van Bussel, the art curator, researcher, and writer based in Milan, tells us this work is of the moment. “If everything is the contrary of everything we find ourselves here,” she says, “in the midst of a still movement, a temporal interval in the constant transformation of matter, absorbing Shoe’s work as precisely what it is: the paradox of our time.”

Niels SHOE Meulman. ALL DISORDER DISAPPEARS. (photo courtesy of The Curators Room)

SHOE /// 2023

The Curators Room is proud to announce UNMOVEMENT, a solo exhibition by SHOE featuring his most recent body of work.

(in cooperation with Niels Shoe Meulman, Amsterdam and Gabriel Rolt, Barcelona)

Niels SHOE Meulman. NOTHING CAN BE COLDER. (photo courtesy of The Curators Room)
Niels SHOE Meulman. ON AND UNDER THE VULCANO. (photo courtesy of The Curators Room)
Niels SHOE Meulman. PERMANENTLY CLOSED. (photo courtesy of The Curators Room)
Niels SHOE Meulman. Process shot. (photo courtesy of The Curators Room)
Niels SHOE Meulman. Process shot. (photo courtesy of The Curators Room)

SHOE UNMOVEMENT(Curated by Gabriel Rolt for The Curators Room) Click HERE for additional information.
7  April  –  27 May,  2023 
🥂Opening:  Friday, 7 April, 17 – 21 hrs

Video by:
Sander Lanen
Live DJ set by:
Cristel Ball

Location: The Curators Room – Art Chapel AmsterdamPrinses Irenestraat 19 AMSTERDAM

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