More good things coming up in Australia these weeks..

Day 2 of PasteModernism Install at Cockatoo Island, Sydney

More pics and info here

Here are some pics from ROA´s  “Paradox” Show in Australia at Forms Gallery

all artworks are available at pretty portal gallery

BTOY (Barcelona)
C215 (Paris)
CZARNOBYL X-TER (Berlin)
ESOB (Düsseldorf)
FAKE (Amsterdam)
L.E.T. (Düsseldorf)
PISA 73 (Berlin)

Event auf Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=178352702241568

Opening 14.10. 19h-23h
14.10. – 11.11.2011

PRETTY PORTAL
Brunnenstr. 12
40223 Düsseldorf

http://prettyportal.de

Last weekend 150 artists  (ROA, Emess, L.E.T., El Bocho, LoBros and many many more) celebrated the   “artbase”  festival  near Berlin.

Here are some impression. ( All pics by luckycat)

more infos: artbase2011.de

Tomorrow Onethirty3 in Newcastle will open their Studio1 for the a one day show with a  wall based painting installation and  print release by Herakut.

Thursday Juli 14th , 6.30 – 9pm

OneThirty3 / Unit22 Hoults Yard, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE6 2HL

onethirty3 – Artists Installation Space will host six innovative and exciting installations a year. The invited artists will create site-specific art installations which will provide a unique opportunity for visitors to experience large scale examples of the best in underground art from around the world.

Anton Unai personifies the creative philosophy represented by Joseph Beuys’ legacy: a profound belief in the sanctity of spontaneity, the poetry of chaos, and the rejection of traditional academia. As a self-taught artist, Unai’s installations are often the result of weeklong “actions,” improvised and created on-site using mostly found objects, or “golden garbage,” salvaged from the streets of his action.

Using materials that reflect the urban landscape, ordinary detritus like rusty sheet metal or yesterday’s newspaper, Unai’s work resurrects and reinvents the discarded relics of the modern masses. His art is at once rough and delicate, exposing sentimental and vulnerable humanity through violent gestures, provocative irony and messy compositions that defy traditional aesthetic boundaries. Meta-narratives, pop and subculture artifacts, religious iconography and a wide breadth of literary references are all present in his multifaceted installations, as well as allusions to art historical antecedents ranging from Basquiat’s urban poetry to Sir Howard Hodgkin’s abstract paintings as sculptural objects to Jonathan Meese’s theatrical symbolism.

Anton Unai:
DO WHAT YOU CAN, WITH WHAT YOU HAVE, WHERE YOU ARE

Opening: July 7th – 7 pm / open tue-sat until july 31st – 12am to 6pm
Location:  Circleculture Gallery, Gipsstrasse 11 Berlin-Mitte / German

Famous for his large-scale depictions of animals on city walls around the world, ROA brings the creatures which inhabit the fringes of human society back to the metropolis to expose the natural beauty in the cycle of life and death.

In conjunction with the opening, Skalitzers announces the launch of ROA’s first limited edition book, ROA: An Introduction To Animal Representation by Mammal Press. A limited number of copies will be available from the gallery.

ROA
‘TRANSIT’

Vernissage Saturday 9th July 2011, 19HR
Exhibition 13th July – 6th August, 2011

The summer is getting busy.

Moniker Project announces “Gossipwelltold”, a group show with Alex, Fakso, Ben Eine, Bob and Roberta Smith, Candice Trip, Case, Cheryl Dunn, Dabs and Myla, Herakut, Joshua Petka, Luke Chueh,  Nate Frizell, Patrick Hanze, Swoon.

Source: Monikerprojects

London based Stolenspace Gallery announced a groupshow with a  big list of great artists, starting on 8th of july and a  new print by D*Face.

Arth Daniels, Chloe Early, D*Face, David Bray, Eelus, EINE, Falk Jensen, Hellovon, Jake Wood Evans, James Mylne, Jaybo,Josie Morway, Meryl Donoghue, Miss Van, Mysterious Al, Oliver Vernon, Pete Fowler, Ronzo, Rose Sanderson, Roxanne, Jackson, Rico, Ripo, San, Shepard Fairey, Sylvia Ji, Toshikazu Nozaka, Usugrow, Will Barras Word To Mother

Mauger Modern, “Beautiful And Damned”, Solo exhibition by Pam Glew
24. May 2011 – 29. May 2011
81 Rochester Row, London SW1P 1LJ

Pam Glew practices a unique bleaching technique on fabric and flags. She uses dye and bleach to deconstruct and distress vintage materials in her own breed of painting. Her current ‘beautiful and damned’ series references subjects from the 1920-30s, silent films and tragic stars of the screen. Her style reminds the works of Art Nouveau mostly because of her using of floral ornaments.

Pictoplasma Festival with conference, workshops, exhibitions, animation festival, performances and parties
6. April 2011 – 9. April 2011
Baybylon, Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 30, Berlin
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, Linienstraße 227, Berlin
.HBC, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 9, Berlin
and 25 galleries and project spaces in Berlin-Mitte

The Pictoplasma Festival in Berlin once more stages the world’s leading and largest celebration of contemporary character culture. The unique mix of screenings, personal artist presentations, exhibitions and parties has proven to be immensely inspiring, while the lively exchange between the various disciplines highlightes the importance of contemporary characters in today’s global visual understanding.

Source: http: pictoplasma.com

Museum of Contamporary Art, “Art in the Streets” Exhibition
17. April 2011 – 08. August 2011
250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012-3007, USA

The aim of this exhibition is to examine the history of street art and graffiti and to show how an underground form of expression that began in the 1970s became what it is today…a major art movement! Art in the Streets will show installations by 50 artists including some of the legends of the movement like Swoon, Shepard Fairey, Os Gemeos and JR.

Os Gemeos, Untitled, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2009, photo by Ignacio Aronovich/LOST ART

LEE, Lion’s Den, Lower East Side, New York City, 1980, photo by Martha Cooper

Mister Cartoon, 1963 International Ice Cream Truck, 2010, Urethane enamel candy painted freehand on truck by Mister Ctoons, photo by Estevan Oriol

Wild Style mural by Zephyr, Revolt, Sharp, 1983; front: Doze, Frosty Freeze, Ken Swift; second row: Patti Astor, Fred Brathwaite, Lady Pink; back: Lil Crazy Legs, Revolt and Sharp, directed by Charlie Ahearn, photo by Martha Cooper

Superplan, “Oversized + Underpriced, Round 3″, Performance by 53 Streetartists
15. April,  20:00 to 16. April, 00:00
Markgrafendamm 31, 10245 Berlin, Germany

Hatch sticker museum and Superplan have joined forces to present the 3rd round of “Oversized + Underpriced”. An oversized version of the legendary US postal sticker will be lovingly customized by more then 50 artists. Music by Echo Deck and AT-AT.
Most of the proceeds from sold artwork will be donated to Skateistan.
Yep, it’s gonna be great.

The Outsiders, “Pecking Disorder”, Solo exhibition by Zenz
18th March to 16th April
77 Quayside, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 3DE

Xenz also known as Graeme Brusby have been practicing graffiti art for 20 years. Now he works together with TCF, one of the UK’s longest standing and most respected graffiti crews. He paints landscapes from his imagination using the spray can to capture fragments of memory and ever-changing subject matter, often drawn from the natural world, so that the word graffiti no longer sufficiently describes what he does.

Source: www.theoutsiders.net