Evol Installation
Berlin based artist EVOL just came up with a new installation.
DO WHAT YOU CAN, WITH WHAT YOU HAVE, WHERE YOU ARE
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
ROA in Berlin
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
Mode2 painting in Berlin
Mode2 is one of the most famous graffiti artists in Europe – his skills in bringing painted characters to live are well-known around the world. He has been active in the graffiti scene since the 1990s and also is a spokesman for the Hip Hop scene. He speaks out for the ‘re-humanization of the urban sphere’.
Tonight he will create a mural about dance cultures live at Schau Fenster gallery in Berlin, as a part of the Radical Riddims exhibition
Doors: June 10th, 7pm
Location: Schau Fenster Gallery, Lobeckstr. 30-35, Berlin
For more info, check out the Radical Riddims program!
Pictoplasma Festival in Berlin
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
Exhibition: Oversized + Underpriced, Round 3
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.
Blood Red Canon von TRYONE
“There is no wall, whatever its thickness that artillery will not destroy in only a few days.”
Niccolò Machiavelli, “The art of war”, 1520
TRYONE: The Cannon 150mm x 4500ml red, Berlin 2011
Introducing BASE23
During my Visit at Stroke artfair last year i met Base23 and was amazed by his artwork immediately. He describes himself: ” The RAL-Galaxia and their life forms were discovered by me in 2008 after doing research in the laboratories for about 17,5 years in the aerosol universe. Since then the color machines and animals have landed on planet earth to make our daily environment more colorful. ”
BASE23 lives and works in Berlin and has exhibited in Barcelona, London, Melbourne, Paris, Berlin and several German cities. BASE23 started with graffiti in 1989 and went on to study, majoring in graphic design/typography.
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