Nick has been busy in the French capital today dropping this piece – Le Corancan.
Le Corancan
You can see more photos from Bogota Stencil Festival here.
The piece above was done yesterday morning on Quai de Valmy in Central Paris by Nick Walker. It’s in response to Sarkozy’s decision to ban the burkha. From Nick:
“It’s particularly tense in Paris. They are in between elections and the reaction is expected to be quite strong. The police discovered the piece 30 minutes after it was completed and we don’t expect it to stay up long. After months of wrangling,The government are believed to be only days away from ratifying the ban.”
Here are some shots that Upfest have released, you can see more on the Upfest site. The one with 3D is awesome.
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Nick has been busy in the French capital today dropping this piece – Le Corancan.
Le Corancan
Nick has been busy in the French capital today dropping this piece – Le Corancan.
Le Corancan
New from Faile is this little beauty, Wrong End Of The Rainbow.
Sadly I won’t be picking one of these up unless I happen across a pot of gold, but you can by going here: http://bit.ly/cxXRLD.
Until next time.
The Wall Pimper
For more great art visit my gallery at www.pimpyourwalls.co.uk
If you’re an artist, run a gallery or publish prints, feel free to send me details of what you’ve got, and if I like what I see, I’ll give you a plug. Click here for a big-up.
Sage Vaughn, LA based artist and latest beau of King Lazarides.
Buy ‘Misfit’ here: http://bit.ly/bnY3wu.
Until next time.
The Wall Pimper
For more great art visit my gallery at www.pimpyourwalls.co.uk
If you’re an artist, run a gallery or publish prints, feel free to send me details of what you’ve got, and if I like what I see, I’ll give you a plug. Click here for a big-up.
“I first picked up an SLR in high school, back in 1994. Have been taking happy snaps ever since. After traveling in 2008, I dove head first into photography and digital manipulation of photos, and haven’t looked back since. I got my first DSLR, my Canon 50D in June 2009. A solid relationship has grown between us since.”
“I live to travel, been lucky enough to visit all the continents except Antarctica, which I am aiming to get to before my death.
My favourite location is damn hard to pick, but I’d have to say Namibia, Africa. The country is unique, ever changing landscapes, the incredible Namib Desert, Fish River Canyon, Etosha National Park.. argh the list goes on. There’s an ancient feel to the whole place, like nowhere else I have visited.”
“Thanks to PimpArtworks for the chance to share a bit of my world with you guys. Look forward to seeing some great art on this site!”
Cracking print release from Shepard Fairey to commemorate Smokey Robinson’s 50 years of music.
There are two colourways available, but for me, it’s gold all the way.
Buy them today at a random (aka keep checking all day every 20 seconds) time, here: http://bit.ly/t3qo.
Until next time.
The Wall Pimper
For more great art visit my gallery at www.pimpyourwalls.co.uk
If you’re an artist, run a gallery or publish prints, feel free to send me details of what you’ve got, and if I like what I see, I’ll give you a plug. Click here for a big-up.
Cracking print release from Shepard Fairey to commemorate Smokey Robinson’s 50 years of music.
There are two colourways available, but for me, it’s gold all the way.
Buy them today at a random (aka keep checking all day every 20 seconds) time, here: http://bit.ly/t3qo.
Until next time.
The Wall Pimper
For more great art visit my gallery at www.pimpyourwalls.co.uk
If you’re an artist, run a gallery or publish prints, feel free to send me details of what you’ve got, and if I like what I see, I’ll give you a plug. Click here for a big-up.
We love PaperMonster here at World Graffiti, and with good reason. The Monster pushes out wild art prints with a unique and recognisable look, and here is a new collab with artist Abztract, great stuff.
We particularly like the detail in the pink, we’ll take 50 please.
Full blurb says ‘…a new 5 color screen print based on PaperMonster’s True Identity painting. The print is a beautiful size at 18″x24″ with great texture and even better colors.’
You can buy the PaperMonster print from the Abztract site, looks awesome.
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To celebrate Wooster Special Edition of the 35th Anniversary Edition of the Faith of Graffiti we sat down with legendary photographer John Naar and artist Snake I to better understand the impact of the book when it was released in 1974.
This first video explains the difference of the new edition from the old edition, the reason for choosing the “Red Bird – Stay High 149″ as the cover and Wooster print and how Jon took over 3000 photos in 10 days.
Redbird In The Bronx
Limited Edition Print of 300
8 1/2″ by 11″
Archival paper
Signed and Numbered by Jon Naar – 2010
Faith of Graffiti
Words by Norman Mailer. Photos by Jon Naar
128 pages
Paperback
$75 USD
Shipping US: $12 USD
Shipping EUR $25 USD
Wooster fave Alexandros Vasmoulakis will have his first US solo exhibition open this weekend in Los Angeles at LeBasse Projects
Alexandros Vasmoulakis
Is Everyone Happy?
Opening Reception: Saturday March 20th at 7pm
LeBasse Projects
6023 W. Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
310.558.0200
As an artist who doesn't go in for art shows, I mean I might exhibit (one day if I get my sh*t together) but the truth is I've never liked galleries all that much, worse still are the dreaded overblown, over-hyped, over-priced art fairs that trawl the globe each year. In the 70s you had hippies who'd follow the sun, circumventing the Earth in order to turn on, tune in and drop out at one mad, bad and usually free festival after another. In the 80s and 90s you've got your Euro trash, rich and self-indulgent trust fund brats who paraded around the planet, their noses packed to the hilt with cocaine, haute couture dripping from their shoulders and nouveau cuisine titbits dripping from the corners of their mouths. Now the globetrotter has grown up, they do one of two things. They either pollute the planet by flying to every godforsaken spot they can find where they sing patronising songs and help build mud huts in ecologically sensitive, war torn, poverty stricken countries. (Hey stop travelling and give all your money to charity, if you're not medically trained, a scientific expert, an engineer or ready to invest millions in a 3rd World economy, you're wasting everyone's time and money and air and water). The other choice is to follow the arts scene. Favoured by most of the idle rich, the ones who still don't feel guilty even if the capitalist state is collapsing and we're verging on a global revolution, and I use that word with its original intent. There is no such thing as, say, a digital revolution, revolutions are bloody and brutal and almost always end with chopping off a monarch's head or shooting a dictator or two (in order to replace them with yet another).
They could follow the fashion scene, but unless you're completely vacuous, Posh aka Victoria Beckham for example, you won't find your meaning of being off the rail, it's not in your purse/wallet, it's not branded, not even if the logo is made from real gold and diamonds for diamanté. No, shopping doesn't cut it. That is unless you happen to like splurging your vast fortune on art. Contemporary art is dicey of course, the arts scene is fickle, an artist might be the talk of the town the year before, but most average billionaires can cope with a tax loss or two, I mean a few million is small change to most oil billionaire and hotel empire heiresses. Then there's the PR angle. If you're say Angelina Jolie, you're sitting in your agents sumptuous office fretting about your future Hollywood career after snatching Brad from a bimbo from TV's Friends, you need to change your image fast. Show your feelings. Feel empathy. In the course of that psychological and philosophical makeover, asides adopting starving orphans, dabbling in world politics and taking on more taxing roles in cinema, you could always buy some art? I mean on some protozoic level buying lots of Warhols makes Dennis Hopper appear to be an intellectual. Angelina likes Banksy, it's street rather than boulevard, it's edgy but not in a grumpy superstar fashion, and the media will lap it up, which they did.
So rich or rich and famous, either can traipse around the world looking something a tad less than superficial, buying art they don't understand as an investment because their accountant and PR people think it will be a hoot. Besides the paparazzi will be there and you can talk about your new movie, song, biography, fashion label, charitable cause or perfume. Plus there's all that glamour, booze, intellectual bigwigs to expand and wow your outer social circle. In truth it's a barely spiritually higher than interior design, for it is essentially still shopping. It always was.
There's a debate going on at The Saatchi Gallery on the 29th March, it's called 'Art Fairs are about money not art'. Personally I prefer my title, but hey Saatchi won't even acknowledge my emails so there's no use bleating. Doors open at 7pm, the debate starts at 7:30pm and finishes at 9pm. They're charging £15 which seems a rip to me, it's funny but if they'd made it free they'd have a far more balanced debate. Who's going to spend £5 an hour for an argument? People with money and too much time on their hands. Anyway, here's a plan, If I was rich, or even wealthy enough I could do stupid things with money I'd do this.
Find a few homeless people around London. Sort them out with deposits for bedsits, get them signed on at the dole, dried out if they need it, food on the table, all that jazz. Then I'd ask each of them to do me a favour. I'd buy them some cool clobber, one could look like a toff, dressed head to tail in tweed and a deer stalker and a monocle to top it off. Another can be a rock chick, faux fur and bling to the nines. The third, who knows, an art critic replete with Armani suit and Italian leather shoes. Then give them each a ticket to the debate and ask them to argue fanatically about total nonsense.
The toff could shout "I only buy old masters. I like oils, they go with the stags' heads!". The rock chick could reply with "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? Where's the V.I.P section?!?!". The critic should just intersperse the debate with expletives in French and German and then walk up to the chairman and throw their vino over him in disgust.
Now that would be fun…
So everyone has heard about the new Banksy film by now, ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’, well he did an interview for the English Newspaper Magazine ‘The Sunday Times’ at the end of February 2010. They filmed him paint an exclusive chimp stencil for their cover and featured a pretty interesting interview with the man (done remotely of course…). Have a look…
Banksy Sunday Times Magazine Exclusive Cover – February 2010
Banksy gets some criticism from the graff world for selling out, but we reckon the interview put him in a pretty good light, unpretentious and humble.
On talking about painting on the streets… ‘…the fact of the matter is, if you exhibit in a gallery you have to compete against Rembrandt, but if you paint down an alley you only have to compete against a dustbin. I guess it’s the art equivalent of hanging around with fat people to make yourself look thin.’
Check out the short video of Banksy painting the chimp stencil, it’s interesting to see.
You can read some of the interview on The Times Online site.
Check out previous Banksy posts on World Graffiti, including the ‘Exit Through The Gift Shop’ trailer and photos from an exclusive private sale of Banksy stencil art.
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