We recently had the chance to get ourselves to Oslo and were eager to discover the street art scene the city could offer and came across the wonderful pieces below.
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The Brick Thief – a short film by LEGO
Lego, lego and lego. We like it very much here at ART-PIE and were very excited to learn about the release of their latest short film – The Brick Thief.
To make it even better, the whole thing is in stop-motion.
A definite must-see and feel good factor effect. Continue reading The Brick Thief – a short film by LEGO
Jayoon Choi at Jealous gallery – new drawings
Following a fantastic reaction to her line drawn “People” series we have been working with Jayoon Choi to curate a beautiful solo exhibition focusing on her latest body of work.
We are very excited about the show, which will feature both familiar figure studies and new drawings alongside displays of Jay’s sketchbooks and diaries and new prints. In all the work line is exquisitely assured, describing form with Jay’s characteristic accuracy and delicacy.
Words from Jealous gallery
When – 3 till 27 March 2011 (private view on Saturday 5th March from 2 – 4 pm)
Where – Jealous Gallery | 27 Park Road | N8 8TE | London | info@jealousgallery.com
Related link
> Jayoon Choi website: www.aoooi.co.uk/
The latest JR installation is strong and powerful
The latest JR installation is strong and powerful. Meet Kikito, a Mexican baby boy.
The place: the US-Mexico border fence. Which way is the baby looking over? You would have guessed it – Kikito is looking over the border from the Mexican side.
The daily struggle for Mexicans to cross the US border
This new installation,a huge scaffolding installation, tells us about the struggle of millions of Mexicans to cross the border and enter the US.
Kikito is depicted as happily playing while looking over the US side of the infamous border wall but neither him nor his family can see that, neither him nor his parents can cross the border – and this is the point of this artwork.
Each time I’ve seen walls that have caught my attention, or that I’ve heard about a lot in the media, they would stick in my mind. I would even dream about it. When Trump started to talk a lot about a wall along the Mexican border, one day I woke up and I saw a kid looking over the wall.
I was wondering, What is this kid thinking? What would any kid think? We know that a one-year-old doesn’t have a political vision, or any political point of view. He doesn’t see walls as we see them.
JR
Up until the 2nd October
If you are lucky to be in Southern California between now and the 2nd October, here is the exact location. We would strongly recommend to swing by to see that.
About JR
JR is a French artist who has been working on his “Inside Out” project for quite a few years. He travels the world in his photo-booth truck and snap portraits of people he meets along the way. Then, he pastes them onto buildings or walls – or on scaffoldings in this instance.
Meet the little workers in Clerkenwell
Looking down as usual when I am on my way to the office, I must have heard them calling on me that day. I looked up that morning. One was proudly sat down on a wooden pillar while another little man and a woman had found refuge in small cavities of what looks like a very depraved wall. But they were all very glad, I spotted them as so many by-passers never do, they told me.
At first I loved them but was also eager to know what the hell these little characters were all about. After a what seemed to me a long chat, I did not know more than before I talked to them. What I knew for sure is that they were over the moon that someone took them out of their boredom by spotting them.
Slightly puzzled by this encounter, I was trying very hard to remember whether I had seen these guys elsewhere when right there in front me, was another little worker but this time amongst the display of some kitchen and bathroom furniture shop on Clerkenwell road. I was stunned and started to believe they were either following me or spreading all around.
I decided to step in the shop and find out once for all…
These little workers are actually part of an advertising campaign to increase awareness about the imminent opening of a new DOMUS shop on Great Sutton street. DOMUS is speacialising in tiles. Representatives have been around shops in Clerkenwell and gave away these little figurines to scatter around willing shopkeepers’ shop windows as well as right on the street nearby the new store.
Whatever this is, street art used in advertising, this is a genius idea and if the guys at DOMUS had in mind to get people to find out and talk about these guys, well they got it right. Look above, I mentioned three times their brand in this blog post and are about to insert a link about their new shop which is about to open. Clap, clap, clap.
Read more about the new DOMUS shop (might be of interest to you, huh?). Find out what they look like with photographs below.
Remi Rough piece for MEC London
Remi/Rough has recently completed a piece of commissioned work for media agency MEC in South London. See the time-lapse video of Remi working on the hoarding.
If you are interested in seeing it with your own eyes, here is the address: 1 Paris Gardens, London, SE1 8NU
Related link
MEC website – www.mecglobal.com
Faile, Klaas Van Der Linden & Evoca-1 street art
Part of our 3 street art works series you should see today: Faile, Klaas Van Der Linden & Evoca-1.
Faile – located in Dallas (United States)
Klaas Van Der Linden – located in Antwerpen (Belgium)
Evoca-1 – located in Peru
Adam Neate at Elms Lesters Painting Rooms
Last time we went to see an Adam Neate’s show, precisely at the same venue, we were happily surprised by the freshness of Adam Neate’s three dimensional works.
I hadn’t seen such work, such technique before – 3D in paintings using Perspex being such a modern medium. The sober atmosphere, high ceilings and spot on lighting at Elms Lesters painting rooms enhance Adam Neate’s art which seems to gravitate around you.
You will find below a few pics of his show last year
A definite must see show
When – until 29th October
Elms Lesters Painting Rooms
Tuesday – Friday 11am – 7pm
Saturdays 11am – 5pm
When Da Mental Vaporz crew hit Melbourne
I must admit when I heard that this crew, originally from France, were heading down under I completely geeked out.
We have been big fans of DMV, seeing pieces from them go up in Paris, Barcelona and their epic wall at London’s Meeting Of Styles.
Even though the show at Rtist gallery is a great way to see each artists individual style, the true abilities of this crew shine when they collaborate on big walls.
It seems that everything came together for them here in Melbourne, the weather was great and the wall they were given was in China Town a unique and oddly appropriate setting.
Find below a few pics of the wall they painted.
> I want to see more photographs
> I want to see Da Mental Vaporz at the Meeting Of Styles London photos
Photographs by chasinghosts
