HELLS HALF ACRE

HELLS HALF ACRE

Launching the 12th October, Lazarides in collaboration with The Old Vic Tunnels invites you to their newest off-site exhibition, Hell's Half Acre.

The labyrinth of tunnels beneath Waterloo station will be converted into a large-scale evocation of Dante's Inferno. Visitors will explore a unique interpretation of the nine circles of hell through the vision of your very favorite Laz artists plus additional contributions from outside the normal roster including: Conor Harrington, Vhils, George Osodi, Antony Micallef, Doug Foster, Todd James, Paul Insect, Mark Jenkins, Boogie, Ian Francis, Polly Morgan, Jonathan Yeo and many more ... Interaction with the works will be encouraged as part of this multi-sensory experience.

Hell's Half Acre will be open for viewing from 12th to 17th October, 6pm till 11pm Tuesday to Thursday, with extended hours over the weekend. Entry to the exhibition will be free, but as space is limited you will need to book ahead.

For more information, please read the press release.

BOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE

JOSÈ PARLA THE CONCORD PROJECT

Not sure if I fully understand this project, but seems Jose Parla has been commissioned by Concord Pacific, Canada's largest Community builder" to produce a mural for one of their development projects. The work is immense and looks pretty amazing. Look forward to seeing the piece in situ.

From Arrestedmotion

Pics via Honeyee

More on Jose Parla

KNOW HOPE & SHOW AND TELL

I first stumbled across my first Know Hope in Palestine back in 2006, a small paste up on the side of the road next to the wall, and though I was surrounded by large scale works from Banksy, Blu, Swoon and numerous other internationally recognised artists, it was this small A2 paste up of a character holding his heart out to the wall that really struck home, it was also the reason we invited him to participate in the following Nuart Festival.

Know Hope - There Is Nothing Dear (There Is Too Much Dear)

Show & Tell Gallery is pleased to welcome the Israeli artist known as Know Hope to his first solo exhibition in Canada.

Know Hope is best known for his street art, in which he depicts characters through several different story lines. The predominant theme within his work is the need for momentary connection in daily reality. Or, in other words, the everyday human struggle.

This exhibition examines the idea of the collective memory in comparison to the personal memory. Through the growing but steady vocabulary of imagery in his work, Know Hope attempts to research how and why we tend to hang on to memory, despite it having an inevitable ephemeral nature.

Know Hope has exhibited his art interenationally in galleries, art fairs, and on the streets around the world.

NATE FRIZZELL

Nate Frizzell ‘I Should Know Who I Am By Now’

Artist Nate Frizzell opens his second solo exhibition with the gallery after
recent shows in the UK and New York. The new exhibit continues to
revolve around the themes of self-discovery through an examination of
the human condition.

The exploration of personal identity and individual choices made over
the course of a lifetime are viewed in Frizzell’s winter themed paintings
and his first sculptural elements.

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 6th, 7-10pm

LeBasse Projects
6023 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232

www.lebasseprojects.com

BANKSY AT AUCTION

Now we don't normally post news on auctions, we figure the auction houses have enough resources to market their own sales, however, it's not a "rule" we hold dear to and the opportunity to post up this fantastic and clever little piece from Banksy was too much to resist.

Lot 396 Description
Banksy (b. 1975)
Untitled
signed 'Banksy 010' (on the reverse)
spray enamel on found aluminium sign
35¾ x 35¾in. (90.9 x 90.9cm.)
Executed in 2010

Estimate (Set Currency) £35,000 - £45,000
($54,915 - $70,605)

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT RESTORATION FUND FOR 'DEFENESTRATION' SCULPTURE IN SAN FRANCISCO

MORE ON THE DEFENESTRATION PROJECT HERE

Provenance
Donated by the artist.

Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Auction .15 October 2010 . London, King Street

See lots here

BROOKLYN STREET ART INTERVIEW

Recently had the pleasure of answering a few questions from Street Art partners in crime over at Brooklyn Street Art.

From BROOKLYN STREET ART
Art Saves lives

The small but very expensive (if you are not a resident) and oil rich Coastal town of Stavenger in Norway must be feeling a bit blue right now. Nuart 2010 artists cleaned up, packed up their tools and left after two weeks of painting monumental murals for the town’s folk to enjoy during the long, dark winter months ahead.

This years’ Street Artists included Dotmasters, Dolk, EVOL, Sten & Lex, Vhils, and ROA, among others. As in the past 5 years under this curator, the ‘10 group is a stellar selection of talent that is helping define what direction Street Art is heading.

The offerings this year were super sized and in many cases bold in color. All of the participants this year were painters, masters at their craft and supremely independent. Martyn Reed, curator and visionary engine behind this elaborate but accessible street art festival doesn’t limit himself to one large festival – instead he marries it with a prestigious electronic-based music festival he created as a result of his years as a DJ. This years’ NuMusic festival featured performances by luminaries like Krautrock grandaddies Neu! and American hip-hop cornerstone Grandmaster Flash.

The affable bad boy Reed took a moment this week to look at his route to success so far and tell BSA about what the Nuart festival is and why it is important to him.

Brooklyn Street Art: Putting on a festival of this magnitude must be a big task. How do you do it?

Martyn Reed: Actually...

Read the full interview here

NUART "LANDMARK" TOUR MAP

One for the locals and any lovers of street art that happen to find themselves in Stavanger these coming months and hopefully years. Local newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad have published a flash map with images and locations of this years work.

You can find the map here

Feel free to drop us a mail if in town and we can also point out the locations of previous years work.

DOTMASTERS NUART 2010

, originally uploaded by le´SLiM.

Fabulous photo of the Dotmaster work from Nuart friend and family member Linn Heidi. It's Gold !

Bubble Letters A Z - 2010

Bubble Letters A Z - 2010. Via: Printable Bubble Letters

BANKSY IN BASQUE COUNTRY

Not sure about this one but...
Banksy presents 'Exit Through the Gift Shop', at the International Film Festival of San Sebastian, it looks like he's left his mark in the city. Thoughts ?

source

UPDATE
More images coming in of the new Banksy




And if you're wondering where you saw the chap looking at the frame comes from..he's been spotted before, only significantly smaller. Last time he had an outing was in Toronto, all 30cm of him.

Bubble Letters To Trace

Trail is a symbol that is used to provide information to others, and bubble letters fact can also be produced for trail signs, as for various models of course.

Graphic Surgery

VIA
Graffuturism


Related links;
Graphic Surgery Flickr
and
Graffuturism Interview with Graphic Surgery
and
Graphic Surgery Website

How To Draw Bubble Letters 2010

How To Draw Bubble Letters 2010. Via: Printable Bubble Letters

ALEXANDROS VASMOULAKIS AND EVOL

Alexandros Vasmoulakis and Evol for Nuart 2010, note the Choe "Whale" tag on the box from 2009.

photos by Ian Cox

VHILS CLOSE UP

Nuart Tour-35, originally uploaded by Jollyaard.

Great close up of the Vhils piece. The portrait is a very well known image of a Norwegian fisherman from the turn of the century, turned out that the wall we were working on used to be a factory for packing sardines, Stavanger's prime industry at the time.

The owner of the wall was shocked to find we had two Portuguese artists painting a Norwegian fisherman and proceeded to produce an old label from a Sardine can written in Portuguese. Apparently it used to be the factories main export country.

A happy coincidence or a very clever curatorial decision, we'll let you decide.

STEN & LEX FOR NUART

Great shots of the Sten & Lex piece from the artist themselves.

More here

LANDMARK TOUR

More shots of the Nuart crowd on the first "Landmark" tour.

NUART'S "LANDMARK" TOUR

Nuart Tour-30, originally uploaded by Jollyaard.

Crazy turnout for the first Nuart "Landmark" tour. Thanks to everyone for getting into the spirit of things, a true traffic stopping revolution. And through Art !

STEN & LEX FOR NUART

DSC_0749, originally uploaded by metamandag.

Sten and Lex finishing up their piece for Nuart after 7 days of some of the worst rain we've seen in a decade. Rewarded with whoops and cheers and a round of applause from the crowd on Sunday.

DOLK FOR NUART 2010

Great shot of the Dolk piece from Ian Cox

MONIKER ART FAIR

Absolutely adore this video by Owen McGonigle for Moniker art fair.

Enter The Lovely
for Moniker International Art Fair
by Owen McGonigle.
Music by Ronin.

The Moniker Art Fair will take place in London from October 14 - 17, 2010.

From the press release

Moniker focuses on the finer side of the street art movement with a diverse mix of exhibiting galleries from Los Angeles, New York City, Berlin, Milan & London. In addition to these galleries displaying their roster of artworks in traditional art fair format, MONIKER will feature six project spaces. These curated spaces will be interactive in feel and will bring an art show experience to the event.

Featured Galleries include

Patricia Armocida
New Image Art
Choque Cultural
CircleCulture
Carmichael Gallery
Campbarbossa
Black Rat Press
Anonymous Gallery

Babelgum's pop-up cinema, will be screening 'Beautiful Losers', 'Guerilla Art' and the worldwide premiere of 'Bomb It 2'.

Moniker Art Fair

TRESPASS : A VIDEO INTRODUCTION

Nice little video introduction to the Trespass book by Taschen, particularly like the quote from Martha Cooper, " I think the common thread amongst all the artists in the book, no matter what they were doing, is that their urge to do it was more powerful than any kind of rule or regulation against doing it".

Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art featuring interviews by Marc and Sara Schiller (Wooster Collective) Carlo McCormick, WK Interact, Anne Pasternak, Martha Cooper.

More on the book and ordering details here

DOLK FOR NUART 2010

The first large scale Dolk went up in Stavanger during this years Nuart, this was shot shortly after completion and is the final piece on the Nuart "Landmark" tour. Unfortunately rain from hell fell from the skies before, during and after, well, we say fell, it actually rained sideways, and the work took a serious beating. Whilst we're all for the natural degradation of Street Art and believe it's a natural part of the aesthetic, we're still considering touching this one up.

NUART "LANDMARK" TOUR

The town's people turned out in force on Sunday for the first of Nuart's "Landmark" street art tours. Thanks to Carl Fredrick for shooting this great little vid and to speakers Kristal and GT for their impressive dedication to the cause !

Fancy making the tour yourself ? Download the google map from the link below

Landmark map

Mural Locator.

It’s an uber is a simple web tool that
not only lets you find colorful murals around the world,
it also lets you upload them.
So say you pass one at the train station every day.
Snap it up, upload the coordinates
and it will mark it on google maps for other people to see.
If you have a fave or even one you have
colored yourself you can upload it here.
Let’s Color.

VIA
LetsColorProject

Homer Simpson escalator design

VIA
Win/Fail Blog

DOLK FOR NUART

A rain free moment and it's back in the cherry picker for Dolk.

photo Ian Cox

THE GRAND "LANDMARK" TOUR. TODAY KL1500

Ok, so today's the day. The first grand tour will be starting from Nytorget at 1500 today, Kristal and GT will be our hosts and the nuart crew will be on hand to give one to one chats on the work. The work is up, the sun is shining. Tour will take approx 90 mins with stops and introduction talk at each piece.

Tour starts from Nytorget 17. Rogaland Kunstsenter

For those who want some autonomy or to take the tour another day, You can download and print a google map of the works below.

Nuart "Landmark" Map

VHILS V's GRANDMASTER FLASH

Ian Cox, one of the worlds leading photographers of street art, also known as Ian "Wallkandy", is in town to take shots of Nuart's "Landmark" series, he also found the time to drink a few shots and get down to Grandmaster Flash.

By the way Ian, the forum's down !