GRAFFITI BRASIL - BACK TO SCHOOL

The guys at Choque Cultural Gallery in Brazil, dropped us an email to share details of a paint jam they organized last week.

The venue for the jam was the recreational area of the Unibes school. The school is located in the downtown area of Sao Paulo and it provides opportunities for those less fortunate to learn professional skills and take part in art, food, music and computer related activities.The event features some of Brazil's finest graffiti/ street artists with over 18 artists taking part, including Speto, Shnn, MZK, Boleta, Zezao, Titifreak, Whip, Ramon Martins, Mea, Presto, Minhau, Chivitz, Profeta and others.

Check the short clip below of the paint session, put together by the artist Shnn.

Graffiti - From Tags to Riches

Graffiti - From Tags to Riches is a short UK Graffiti Documentary, mainly filmed in Bristol with a few bits from London. Features artist such as Inkie, FLX, Paris, Sickboy, Cyclops, Sweet Toof, Tek33 & more

via HYB

TAKASHI MURAKAMI LONDON SHOW

Here's one for the diaries next month and one we certainly won't be missing.

Gagosian Gallery announces an exhibition of new paintings by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami.

Beneath its bright and playful appearance, Murakami's art deftly challenges the established dichotomies of high art and popular culture, East and West, present and past, life and death, humor and gravity, skepticism and belief. Visually, his work merges the dystopic worlds of popular animé and manga cartoons with the ultra-refined techniques of traditional Nihonga painting.

The show will run from FEBRUARY 10th until APRIL 9th

Gasosian Gallery | 17-19 Davies Street | London

ATG SCREENPRINT

London graffiti crew ATG (Ahead of The Game) drop their first screenprint.

An edition of just 25, hand pulled 3 colour print, A2 in size. Available now from the ATG online store where you can also buy the Original "I love LDN" t-shirts and other runs of limited edition tees.

BEN ALLEN SOLO EXHIBITION

"Life, Death and Other Colours" is the title of the upcoming solo show featuring new works from Brigton based artist Ben Allen.

The show opens with a private view on the 5th February at the Ink_d Gallery in Brighton. The exhibition will feature all new original works on canvas, silkscreen prints and some new 3d works. Alongside the works in the gallery Ben Allen will be running a progressive art project outside the gallery where you are invited to take part in a collective creation.

The show will run from 6th February until March the 1st.

Ink_d Gallery | 96 North Rd | Brighton

Chrome & Black Graffiti Store

Chrome & Black is set to become London's number one destination for all your graffiti supplies. Opening on the 20th of Feburuary 2009 in East London, the new shop will also sell pens, books and a selection of graff related Tshirts.

UPDATE: Opening Hours: Monday - Saturday 10am - 6pm. Sundays 11 - 4pm. They are are fully stocked with Beltons, Montana Hardcore and Montana 94.


For all the latest new check out the Chrome & Black blog or to buy supplies online check the newly launched Chrome and Black online store.

Chrome & Black | 49 Bethnal Green Road | Shoreditch | E1 6LA

SAM3 MINI BOOK

Spanish street artist Sam3 recently had a show opening titled "Tiráme de la lengua" at the Hollywood In Cambodia Gallery in
Buenos Aires.

To tie-in with the exhibition a limited edition mini book was produced. Featuring 21 drawings from Sam3, the 24 pages publication is an edition of 500. The book has been published by H.I.C. & Sam3 in Buenos Aires last month and is available to buy for 10Euro's (postage included) from Sam3's blog here.

ROJO POSTER SERIES

Spanish based Rojo magazine have teamed up with 10 very talented artist to produce this limited edition poster collection. 10 original unreleased artworks created by 10 different artist. The posters are all 55cm x 150cm in size and limited to an edition of just 200 sets and are 125Euro's per set.

Artwork provided by: MWM, Bruno 9li (Pictured Below), Neasden Control Centre, Evgeny Kiselev, Catalina Estrada, Dalek (Pictured Below), Sergei Sviatchenko, Wagner Pinto, Alexander Egger and Veljko Onjin.

To see the whole collection of 10 posters, go check Rojo's Website.

Faile Website Update

Faile has posted a great set of photographs from their Lost in Glimmering Shadows Exhibition over on their website. Check the picture here

The website also hints at a possible print release in March.

C215 BACK IN LONDON

I see from Romanywg's flickr that french Stencil artist C215 is back in London and has been hitting the streets of East London again with some new work.

Pictured above is some work he painted in Cargo earlier in the week. Also in the Cargo's courtyard is some new work from Bruno Leyval. Check Romanywg's flickr who has photographed the artists at work in Cargo.

Photo: Romanywg


I also came across this great short film from AfroBreak, documenting C215's travels to Brazil last year, not sure when the video was posted but I hadn't seen it before.

The film documents C215's travels into the favelas as he finds spots to paint on the streets. It follows him into the homes of some of the locals where he decorates their walls with his work and also shows him giving a master class to the local Kids on how to cut a stencil.

Brad Downey London Exhibition

Stolen Space Gallery presents Brad Downey in the Dray Walk Gallery. The exhibition entitled ‘An Honest Thief’ opens on Thursday 29th January and will run until Sunday 8th February.

Subtle, comic and very often provocative, Downey aims to surprise the viewer, by illuminating how public, private property, urban space and personal experience overlap in an era of increasing privatization.

Visit Brad's website to see more of his street work or check out this video interview below by German based Hobnox from June of last year.



Please note, only the intro of the video is in German, the rest of the interview with Brad is in English.

Dray Walk Gallery | Dray Walk | The Old Truman Brewery | Off Brick Lane.

INSA HITS UP THE ARTIC

Looks like Insa has been busy over the winter working on one of the ice suites at The Ice Hotel in Sweden. Check his Insa blog for the full story and a look at the full set of images from the hotel.

9 Teaser Trailer- Tim Burton

Spotted this over on the Clutter blog. Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov join forces to produce wunderkind director Shane Acker's distinctively original and thrilling tale "9".

Above is the awesome teaser tailer for "9". It was developed from a 11 minute short by Shane Acker (see video below) back in 2005.


"9" is set to be released on 9.9.09!

Early Griffin Press - Series Four

Early Griffin Press announce the arrival of their fourth series of Early Griffin screen prints, this time featuring work by Stuart Kolakovic, Jan Kruse and Lizzy Stewart.

Each print is on archival, acid free 200gsm white Heritage paper, signed and numbered edition of 50,
50cm x 70 cm, £50 each. Stuart Kolakovic’s is two colour, Jan Kruse’s is three and Lizzy Stewart's is two.

Early Griffin donates 10% of the profits of each edition to a charity of the artist’s choice.

Check these and the other 3 series over here.

[via Capitano's Corner]

XENZ - UNFORSCENERY EXHIBITION

East London based Foster Gallery kick off the new year in fine style with a new solo exhibition from Xenz. Opening on the 30th January with a private view on Tursday 29th January 6 - 9pm, expect to see a stunning selection of new paintings and sculptures.

The exhibition will run from the 30th January - 28 February 2009.

Foster Gallery | 1 Chapel Place | Rivington Street | London EC2A 3DQ

Xenz has started a blog recently, where you can see some studio shots of work in progress. Check it here: Xenz Blog. Also worth a visit is his flickr web pages.

Objectified Documentary

Above is a peek at the upcoming feature-length independent documentary "Objectified", by Gary Hustwit, the director of "Helvetica".

"Objectified is a documentary about industrial design; it’s about the manufactured objects we surround ourselves with, and the people who make them.On an average day, each of us uses hundreds of objects. (Don’t believe it? Start counting: alarm clock, light switch, faucet, shampoo bottle, toothbrush, razor…) Who makes all these things, and why do they look and feel the way they do? All of these objects are “designed,” but how can good design make them, and our lives, better?"   Gary Hustwit

The trailer features the voices of Jonathan Ive, Andrew Blauvelt, Marc Newson, and Karim Rashid. The song is "I Like Van Halen Because My Sister Says They Are Cool" by El Ten Eleven.

Objectified will premiere at film festivals and events worldwide starting this March, more info here: Objectified

WHAT COLLECTIVE BRISTOL SHOW

A new group exhibition is opening this week in Bristol featuring original art and prints from the "What Collective". The show titled “Size Doesn’t Matter” will feature the talents of 45rpm, Gumbo, Oath, Sainty, Sums and Richt,
all menbers of the What Art collective.

The exhibition opens on Wednesday the 14th, with a preview starting at 7pm at the Friend & Co Gallery.

Friend & Co. | 8 The Promenade | Gloucester Road | Bristol

D*FACE BILLBOARD

Looks like D*face had some new work up just before christmas which we missed. We are not sure if this "I Need A Riot" hand painted subvertisment, on a liberated East London billboard is still running as we have not seen any photos other than the ones which features on his D*Face website.

NOUS VOUS SHOW @ JAGUAR SHOES

Dream Bags, Jaguar Shoes London will kick off the new year with an exhibition featuring work from the illustration collective Nous Vous.

Nous vous is a Creative Studio made up of Nicolas Burrows, Jay Cover, William Edmonds and Tom Hudson. They originally came together in 2006 to form a social 'drawing club', but have since evolved into other things. They exhibit both as individual artists and as a group, while working together as designers and illustrators on commercial projects. They still site that making the work together is the most important element in their practice.

'BIG FIRE' is an exhibition of new work, exploring the four Nous Vous artists' individually and as a group. This exhaustive archive of the spewn-out contents of four brains repeats, copies, reworks, parodies, emulates, trashes and pokes fun at itself through the myriad images on display.

There is a private view at the bar, opening on Thursday 22nd January, 7pm till late. The exhibition will run until Sunday 1st March.

DreamBagsJaguarShoes | 32 Kingsland Road | London

Street Art Charity Raffle

A little late in posting this as the first raffle has already taken place, but there are another 11 still to take place. London based artist Mike Marcus has organized the Street Art Charity Raffle. Each Saturday, a different artist will volunteer a work and suggest a charity which the proceeds will go to. A photograph of this work will be posted to the Street Art London flickr group and tickets will be available until the following friday via paypal at £1 each. There will be no limit set on the amount of tickets available and each individual can purchase as many as he or she wants.

The winning ticket will be picked at random at the end each week the full proceeds will be transferred to the chosen charity.

The schedule for the next 10 weeks is as follows:

Saturday 3rd January - Gemma Compton(pictured above)
Saturday 10th January - Xylo
Saturday 17th January - Shuby
Saturday 24th January - Banksy
Saturday 31st January - Cake
Saturday 7th February - Paul le Chien
Saturday 14th February - Klone
Saturday 21st February - Part2ism
Saturday 28th February - T.wat
Saturday 7th March - L.E.T
Saturday 14th March - Grafter

More info on how to buy tickets over here.

Sweet Toof & Martin Lea Brown Shows

Graffoto blog have a great review of the Sweet Toof & Martin Lea Brown Shows which opened at the Sartorial Gallery just before Christmas. If you missed it, the shows will re-open on the 13th January and will run until the 4th February. Read their review here.

Sartorial Gallery | 26 Argyle Square | London WC1H 8AP
Photo: NoLionsInEngland