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ITS ALL ABOUT MAKEUP: SCRATCHING THE SURFACE WITH STREET ARTIST VHILS
Portuguese street artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils creates urban art that is really unlike any other street art out there. He not only uses classical graffitti techniques but also manipulates the layers of actual city walls by pouring acid and bleach onto surfaces to unearth the layers beneath. Vhils art is poetic, complex, and ambitious, often focusing on the needs we have abandoned in favour of our wants, and the realisation that trading pleasure back in for happiness will be a less than straightforward exchange. You need to watch this for yourself.
IMMINENT DISASTER IN BROOKLYN
Not only the future of Bedford Avenue but emerging Brooklyn based artist: Imminent Disaster. ID’s work focuses on large scale street art installations and is driven by the ephemerality and decay of modern urban life and the vestiges of human narrative visible and becoming invisible within it. Disaster’s most recent works build on the idea that the gradual loss of memory is an inevitable part of human mortality. We just think it looks pretty cool. But you can read more about Imminent Disaster’s master plan and check out more of her art HERE on her site.
NEW VAMPIRE WEEKEND VIDEO RIPS OFF AAKASH NIHALANI
Hype aside, we”ve never been huge advocates of Vampire Weekend. While their new album, Contra is getting serious praise, their new seizure inducing video for the track “couzin”, totally rips off our friend Aakash Nihalani’s signature box art. When we first saw the video, we thought maybe Aakash had given the band consent to use his art but as it turns out he was never consulted and was never compensated. Way to steal another artists work guys! If you are interested in checking out Aakash’s actual work, click on some of the links below:
to check out the rip off press play:
POSTERBOY STRIKES AGAIN OR COPYCAT?
Either New York’s “Posterboy” is back in action for a third time or there is a copycat offender out there cut and pasting subway ads with the same conviction. This is the latest ad spotted on the Church Avenue bound platform at Nassau Avenue. For more “Posterboy” check out these links:
Posterboy 1
Posterboy 2
Posterboy 3
Posterboy 4
MISSBUGS CUT OUT AND FADE OUT: THIS IS THE REMIX
Walk down the street, put on your headphones, turn on the tube, there’s an emerging trend in popular culture to remix culture. While artists have always recycled from their predecessors, there is something unique about re-mixing pop culture almost at the same time it is originally being created. From the music re-mixes of Girl Talk, who samples current pop music, pop culture TV about… current pop culture TV, to the crude cut and paste street art ad-remixes of Poster Boy ,this “Cut and Paste” approach to creating art is reinventing our perceptions of pop culture that we may have not even had the time to form an initial perception on to begin with.
UK street artists MissBugs are certainly at the head of this class. Miss Bugs is actually two artists. Miss, an anonymous artist born in 1979 Pencoed Wales, and Bugs, another artist born in 1979 Bristol. The two appropriate pop imagery and well-known pieces of street art like Shepard Fairey’s , Obama creation, so historically quickly and frequently, to create new pop and street art, that is something familiar and yet all together different and incredibly alluring. Their new street art “Cut Out and Fade Out” incorporates elements of the street background right into the piece, paying homage to the urban environment. We think its rowdy. Check out more of MissBugs HERE.
ZIGGY GOES TO BROOKLYN
Bowie’s Aladdin Sane inspired street art on North 6th and Wythe in Brooklyn. Pretty freaky Bowie.
VIDEO PAINTING FROM SWEATSHOPPE
Sweatshoppe, a multimedia project from Blake Shaw and Bruno Levy allows artists to “paint” video onto any surface with LED paint rollers. “In an effort to establish new platforms for public art and performance, SWEATSHOPPE has developed a new interactive technology that enables them to explore the relationship between video, mark making and architecture. ”
The LED paint rollers are tracked by video control software where once the drawing commands are created, the strokes can then be textured with video images. Nerd Alert! But damn, this is pretty cool stuff. You need to check out this video, shot live in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan. So sweet.
SWEATSHOPPE, 4spots, the landing extras from SWEATSHOPPE on Vimeo.
CARDBOARD ANIMATION FROM THE NETHERLANDS
Cardboard is an animated film from Netherland graduate student Sjors Vervoort. All of the animation and design was created by Sjors Vervoort and the sound and SFX by Steven Aerts. With some serious imagination, the simplest medium and idea make for a really eye catching visual experience. You can also check mysoti for some cool shirt designs based on the film characters and more artwork from Sjors.
DAVID CHOE TIMELAPSE MURAL
LA born David Choe, who has been featured in Hustler, Raygun, Vice and Juxtapoz magazine is known for both “his exaggerated vulgarity as for his aesthetic sense.” An art school drop out, and self proclaimed homeless street/graffiti artist, Choe wanders around making good art and bad music. He has a penchant for Vietnam, Israel and New York City and has dabbled in just about every medium and form of self expression from comics, murals, toys, prints, movies, music, magazines, books, t-shirts, commercials, posters, shoes, fine art and live demos. On his website, he says he “wants to retire early and illustrate the entire bible and paint the entire great wall of china. But who knows anything with this guy.”
D.U.M.B.O. ART UNDER THE BRIDGE
What:13th Annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under The Bridge Festival
Where: D.U.M.B.O …duh
When: September 25 – 27, 2009
Damage: FREE
You might not see Anthony Keidis running around with his shirt off, but at the now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival, you will see touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation’s largest urban forum for experimental art. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists’ studios or check out the indoor video dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.
Check out the new iPhone Festival Guide application at dumbo.walkabit.com.
www.dumboartscenter.org
www.dumboartfestival.org
www.video_dumbo.org
You were thinking about it too… Couldn’t resist. (PS- Gus Van Sant directed this):
TAPE AND MIRRORS – AAKASH NIHALANI EXHIBIT
Discosalt has been following Aakash Nihalani for a while now and you may have even stumbled into some of his work as you pound the streets of NYC. Here’s your chance to check out some of his latest work using the mediums of (you guessed it!) tape and mirrors.
Eastern District and Ad Hoc Art are pleased to announce their newly featured joint effort exhibit Tape and Mirrors by artist Aakash Nihalani. Tape and Mirrors, the artist’s third solo exhibition in New York, will open on Friday September 25th, 2009. Note, the Press/VIP Preview is from 6-7pm, followed by a public reception from 7-10pm. The exhibition will be on view weekly Wednesdays through Sundays from 12pm-7pm until October 25th, 2009.
Eastern District is a contemporary exhibition space located at 43 Bogart Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn. They pride themselves on the merging of all creative artistic practices and presenting the community with art exhibitions as well as ongoing performance and event-based programming. Eastern District is excited to be presenting Tape and Mirrors with Ad Hoc Art. Ad Hoc, formerly located at 49 Bogart Street, is a staple in the Bushwick art community that has dedicated itself for years to being more than just a gallery.
Ad Hoc is a passionate creative fulcrum, showing work that is often marginalized by the larger New York art scene. This collaboration is the second of many to come, continuing to build the local art community to another level.
Aakash Nihalani’s street work consists mostly of isometric rectangles and squares. Using brightly colored tape, Nihalani selectively places these graphics around New York to highlight the unexpected contours and elegant geometry pre-existing in the city itself. All execution of his street-level tape work is done on site, with little to no planning.
For however brief of a time, Aakash Nihalani’s work offers people a chance to see a different side of New York, and momentarily escape from their routine schedules and lives. “We all need the opportunity to see the city more playfully, as a world dominated by the interplay of very basic color and shape”. He tries to create a new space within the existing space of our everyday world for people to enter freely and to unexpectedly ‘disconnect’ from their reality.
Playing off of the metaphor ‘smoke and mirrors,’ meaning an illusion created out of an elaborate distraction, Nihalani’s Tape and Mirrors exhibition aims to create a magical experience out of the mundane. By implementing mirrors in key positions throughout the space, the viewer is given an opportunity to step ‘into,’ and view themselves within, Nihalani’s signature tape installations. Creating a playful interruption to the regular gallery schematic, the viewer is prodded from being a bystander to a participant, not only interacting with the space and materials around them, but also with their own reflections.
Let Nihalani’s Tape and Mirrors open up a new portal of reality and experience yourself between dimensions at Eastern District & Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn. Original prints and paintings by the artist will also be on view and for sale through the gallery.
To find out more information about Aakash Nihalani’s Tape and Mirrors exhibition, and more about Ad Hoc and Eastern District’s collaboration please go to adhocart.org and eastern-district.com.
For more information on Aakash Nihalani and his art visit aakashnihalani.com. Refreshments generously provided by Asahi.
WHERE: 43 Bogart Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
WHEN:September 25th from 6-10pm.
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