New wall by Vhils in Berlin

Alexandre Farto aka Vhils was recently in Berlin and created this fantastic wall with a new portrait of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

To this magnificent piece has Vhils added a third eye, the eye of providence. Surely as a commentary on the recent developments in relation to the European Euro crisis and probably the German Chancellor’s statements about how the debt crisis wasnt “something unpleasant”, but a “turning point”. Visionary as she appears to be, she thinks that the debt in the euro zone  is just a good opportunity to recreate the European Union, in a way that will ensure the sustainability of the bloc’s economic and financial policies. Now what Merkel has in mind by ‘something new’ is not clear at all…

‘Meeting de los estilos Argentina 2011′ – Video documental

Aquí un documental muy interesante de aproximadamente 15 minutos acerca del primer MOS en Buenos Aires, Argentina y que incluye artistas renombrados como Vhils (cubierto), Jaz (cubierto) y Liliwenn entre muchos otros.

Meeting of Styles (MOS) es un movimiento internacional de artistas urbanos que también apoya la cultura del hip hop. El movimiento nació en Alemania en 1997 bajo el nombre de International Wall Street Meeting y sólo en el 2002 se transforma en Meeting of Styles.

El evento fue presentado por Estilo Libre una organización local encargada de la producción del MOS en Argentina.

Nuevas piezas de C215 en las calles de Amsterdam

Christian Guémy aka C215 es un artista francés que utiliza principalmente stencils en la producción de su arte. Su carrera como estencilista comenzó en el 2006 aunque, ya para la fecha, había trabajado como artista urbano por más de 15 años.

C215 trabaja principalmente con retratos de mendigos, vagabundos, refugiados, niños de la calle y ancianos. La idea es llamar la atención del espectador y hacerlos reflexionar acerca de las condiciones de vida de aquellos a los que la sociedad ha olvidado.

Sus últimos stencils, persentados aquí, fueron pintados en su retorno a Europa luego de la exitosa apertura de su Solo Show en San Francisco hace algunas semanas atrás. Como es usual los stenciles aparecen casi mágicos e incluyen un fantástico retrato de Futura 2000.

Pics by C215

New Escif in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Spanish artist Escif was recently in Buenos Aires on a graffiti tour with Blu and painted this new wall.

Unlike what we’re used to see from this artist, that means works open to interpretation, this new wall is rather explicit in nature simply showing how to open a door with a credit card in five steps, but at the same time making reference to an earlier work by Blu. The detail of the card with the name of Macho Nacho from Valencia, Spain certainly made ​​me smile.

Photos via Buenos Aires Street Art

Paula Scher’s Book of Lying “Maps”. Not a review

Paula Scher is a renowned American graphic designer, illustrator, painter and art educator in design. Since the early 1990s, Scher has been creating remarkable, obsessive, giant hand-painted typographic maps of the world as she sees it, covering everything from specific countries and continents to cultural phenomena.

In her maps South America becomes a bulbous mass of countries, dominated by Brazil’s red heart. Manhattan is an island mobbed by street numbers, pushing the names of its famous landmarks into the surrounding rivers, and so on.

Through an acute understanding of the powerful relationship between type and image, Scher harmonizes witty with tragic, the methodical with the intuitive, and the personal with the universal in these paintings. Dynamic images are saturated with layers of elaborate line, explosions of words, and bright colors creating a plethora of visual information that produces an emotive response to places lived, visited, and imagined. Scher’s maps also reflect the abundance of information that inundates us daily through newspapers, radio, television, and the Internet to reveal the fact that much of what we hear and read is strewn with inaccuracy, distorted facts, and subjectivity.

The paintings are collected for the first time in Paula Scher: MAPS, a new book out now from Princeton Architectural Press. Here some of them:

Via Slate

Dabs Myla en Los Angeles

Recientemente presentamos el trabajo de este dúo australiano, Dabs Myla , aún en progreso. Después de cuatro días de intenso trabajo la pieza, que está ubicada en el Culver City Art Complex for Branded Arts en Los Angeles, fue finalmente terminada. Aquí algunos fotos.

Fotos arriva: Birdman

New Blu mural in Buenos Aires

Finally updating the blog again *sigh*…

I am just loving this new piece by Blu; it really is something for itself. The new mural shows the disintegration of the planet (society?) into millions of jigsaw people being lost in space. We can only speculate about the meaning of this new wall… Any comments?

Via BA Street Art

All photos © BA Street Art

 

Frank Kunert – Photographs of Small Worlds

Frank Kunert’s work can sometimes be a bit tricky and it can take you a moment to work out what is wrong with the scene you’re looking at. But there is actually nothing wrong with the scenes presented except that they are dioramas which Kunert makes and later photographs.

He keeps his scenes decidedly simple yet with a very cheeky humor that comes out through each still life photo. Here a small selection:

 

You can also find an interview with the artist check gallerie O 

For more of Frank Kunert check his website

Via Adversmedia on twitter

Banksy in London

Yep… one post about what Banksy has been up to the last couple of weeks, but only because I think they were funny,  except for the 2nd pic which looks awfully like a Mobstr.  And of course the hilarious interview Banksy posted on his website.

An hilarious Frequently Asked Questions section was also added which you can find below :

Is it cheating to use stencils?
Stencils are good for two reasons;
One – they’re quick ; two – they annoy idiots.

Why are you such a sell out?
I wish I had a pound for every time someone asked me that.

Is Banksy just a big brand these days? Do you even paint your own pictures?
It’s not supposed to be a brand, which is why people in advertising think it’s such a good one. I paint it all myself unless its illegal, in which case I’ve never seen any of it before, your honour.

Is Exit Through the Gift Shop real?
Yes.

Are you still friends with Mr. Brainwash?
I like to think so. When I asked him what he thought about the film he said “This is a cult movie, this is a classic movie, this movie stands alone – like The Godfather.”

Did you paint over Robbo’s piece and have him beaten up?
His piece in Camden had been dogged for more than five years by the time I painted that spot. It’s a real shame about his accident and I hope he fully recovers. I would never deliberately cuss Robbo – he’s a graffiti legend.
And he’s bigger than me. Click Here

Did you rip off Blek le Rat?
No, I copied 3D from Massive Attack. He can actually draw.

Do you need an intern?
No thanks.

Why are you so annoying?
It’s not all my fault, sometimes they make it up – I’ve never vandalized a war memorial, painted Kate Moss’s kitchen or visited the Playboy club with Ashley Cole wearing a skull mask.

What artists do you rate?
Käthe Kollwitz is my favourite. Partly because her drawing style is so beautiful, and partly because she thought being an artist was self-indulgent crap and became a doctor in an orphanage instead.

Can you donate a picture for my charity auction?
What are you? Blind? In which case maybe. I mostly support projects working to restore sight and prevent eye disease. Or as I like to call it ‘expanding the market’.

Via Street art news and Banksy

New Blu in Buenos Aires

Blu is in Buenos Aires and has just finished another politically charged mural. This time the mural features six people being grilled over a bonfire of 100 pesos bills. The theme for this mural may have something to do with the recession the Argentina is experiencing right now and maybe the way the country has been run to yet another economic crisis.

Via BA Street Art