Posts filed under ‘Art & Xit’
Andres Herren X Reality Caption
ANDRES HERREN is a young photographer based in zurich, switzerland.
A trip to LA during the summer of 2009 was a life changing experience for him on a personal as well as artistic level. The vibrating city with its many different facets captured his interest. The lowrider scene and the LA CULTURA inspired him a lot.
Mark Jenkins X Street Intervention
Mark Jenkins is redefining sculpture as part of the urban environment. His first book, The Urban Theater, documents Jenkins’s compelling, often disturbing street installations and demonstrates his talent for provoking reactions from passersby. For Jenkins, these spontaneous responses and interactions are an integral part of the life cycle of his works.
Jenkins creates and sets free a colorful cast of characters by way of clear tape casts: the homeless, kids, vagrants, polar bears, and horses (to name but a few) all take their place in the wild, wild urban space, while interacting with the surrounding buildings and public places that provide the context and set the stage. Positioning them around the world, Jenkins’ sculptures have made their way around the world in cities throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Disturbing, humorous, and enigmatic in equal measures, Mark Jenkins enlists his hyper-realistic sculptures into the service of, for example, Greenpeace, as well as for exhibitions, performances, art galleries, and workshops.
The artist’s first comprehensive monograph Mark Jenkins: The Urban Theatre will be released to coincide with his Berlin exhibition Glazed Paradise at Gestalten Space from January 19 to February 26.
Crack Cats X Phomer Pack
Mr. Phomer presents the CAT PACK at the Character Totem Home-Coming exhibition by Inkygoodness at the Zellig space, Birmingham. Featuring the coolest Totems and the awesome work of Mc Bess, Uberkraaft, Billy, Loulou & Tummie, El Tobe and many, many more.
New York 80’s Graffiti Exhibition in Paris
As copy and pasted with much respect and props to High Snobiety: “Graffiti New York 80’s is up and running at Paris’ Galerie Jerome de Noirnont. The show features a who’s who of famed 80’s bombers: A-ONE, Jean-Michel BASQUIAT, BLADE, Bill BLAST, CRASH, DONDI WHITE, FAB 5 FREDDY, FUTURA 2000, Keith HARING, RAMMELLZEE, and TOXIC. AsCurated puts it, “the show is all about the pioneering spirit of New York art during the decade.” We’ve been told that the above piece by Futura and Crash is going for 60,000 Euros.
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On view through July 20, 2011 at Galerie Jerome de Noirnont (36-38 Avenue Matignon, Paris)
Photography: Mathieu Vilasco for Highsnobiety” Xeeepa!
Jucapinga X Facing Kabu
Jucapinga has made is show visible to the audience last Friday night in London, with “Facing Kabu”. His dedication and master degrees in mafia studies, gangsters and the goodfellas is pretty evident in his works, so what better place to host a show than an old Police Station. Talk about details. You can still visit the show for the next days, ending this Friday 11th at 7pm. Dont’ miss the opportunity to give it a look in person. Pics inside from the night, as usual, thanks to the great guys at Plasticina.
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Mattieux X December Update
Mattieux “Black Dots” Logo
Mattieux “Dead Cat Ghost” Poster
Mattieux “Round Square” Poster
Mattieux “Xepa X 36 X BA” Poster
Mattieux “Castor”
Francoise Nielly X Colorful Portraits
Françoise Nielly’s massive, colorful portraits are delicious to look at. Even more wonderful – and particularly infuriating to those of us who have timidly dabbled in painting – is to watch her create them. In a beautiful video posted on her site, she, in her confident, strong hand, wields her painting knife shaped like a miniature garden trowel, and makes painting look easy like cake frosting. She paints her vivid, passionate canvases — some as large as 78 x 25 inches (195 x 62 centimeters) – from black-and-white photos, further proof of her unfailing ability to interpret light, shadow, hue and tone by applying brilliant colors and daring strokes.
Born in Marseille, brought up near Cannes and Saint-Tropez, and now living in Paris, Nielly is at home among bold contrast and dazzling light. To add to her likeability, here is the list of her loves: Life, wide open spaces, sushi, blue lagoons, the Internet, humor, books, Paris, New York and Vancouver.
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Sachiko Kodama’s Ferrofluids
Sachiko Kodama‘s “Morpho Towers / Two Standing Spirals” is an installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music. The two spiral towers stand on a large plate that hold ferrofluid. When the music starts, the magnetic field around the tower is strengthened. Spikes of ferrofluid are born from the bottom plate and move up, trembling and rotating around the edge of the iron spiral.
This new technique is called “ferrofluid sculpture” that enables artists to create dynamic sculptures with fluid materials. This technique uses one electromagnet, and an extended sculpted iron core. The ferrofluid covers the sculpted surface of the iron core that was made on an electronic NC lathe. (Read More)
