Atches - Day 2

Theory meets Practice

We managed to figure out how to secure the plate with a maximum material we’ve got and a minimum effort - scalable solution.

It’s exciting to see the canvas grow…

Stay tuned for the next report!

The work on the 1st canvas will begin tomorrow.

We are very excited to be reporting on the progress.  Loads of battles to win and puzzles to solve, it is true.   

We only have 5 days from today to complete the work.

Oceans’ 12 would be jealous of us now - keep watching!

stink & bastardilla @ NDSM meeting Urban Symbiose

i shall write more tomorrow, but for now is a teaser :O)

Cool Place To Be : AMSTERDAM, WEST

Walvis

Spaarndammerstraat 516

Are you a Robinson?

It had seemed to me that Robinson was a name that someone who wasn’t English might choose, either for a fictional character, or for themselves, should they wish to adopt an English name.  It is found in many non-English contexts: the French words robinson (a large umbrella: a person who lives alone, apart from the world), robinsoner, robinsonisme, robinsonade, and the verb robinsonner, the latter coined by Arthur Rimbaud… Kafka’s Robinson is Irish, which prompts the hotel’s head waiter to exclaim: “I don’t even believe that his name is Robinson for no Irishman was ever called that since Ireland was Ireland”.

Patrick Kieller, “The Possibility of Life’s Survival on the Planet”

                          

Robinsonism … a wandering, erratic scholar on a journey through landscapes of … , the Keruacs and Gingsbergs.

Are you a Robinson?

All City Canvases is an urban festival in Mexico City taking place from 30 April - 5 May 2012. The line up is to die for and we cannot wait to see the result of the best creative minds gentrifying the cities around the world.   What a World Museum it will be in a year or so ;) {photo courtesy Waone Interesni Kazki}
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All City Canvases is an urban festival in Mexico City taking place from 30 April - 5 May 2012.

The line up is to die for and we cannot wait to see the result of the best creative minds gentrifying the cities around the world.  

What a World Museum it will be in a year or so ;)

{photo courtesy Waone Interesni Kazki}

APC, Colombia

StinkFish and AEON (aka Third World Pirate, Lorenzo Masnah) started APC some 6-7 years ago from a very simple idea: wouldn’t it be cool “make up a crew without rules or defined styles, which could grow and grow as a large family of animals of different races and backgrounds. There were only the two of us for a while; later, friends from different cities and countries join. Today we are about 30 animals in Colombia, Mexico, United States, Brazil, Venezuela, Guatemala, Spain, Holland and Argentina.”

I am in love with the liminal, third-space, left-over parts which are often right in the middle of the most vital parts of the city, but sometimes tucked away a little more. I like areas where people are doing a lot of walking. Advertising is always trying to place itself a million miles above us, looming down with the shiniest flashiest most disconnected depictions of beauty, just out of reach like the rest of its promises. I find myself trying to get down below that, at eye level, where people are walking and to depict the life that exists here at the bottom edge, our ordinary reality as it remains connected to the ground.

SWOON in URBAN ILLUSTRATION BERLIN (street art cityguide)

BTOY Btoy Andrea is a famous Barcelona street-artist, better known as BTOY.  Andrea received her art education at the Institute of the Photographic Studies of Barcelona (2001-2003). Her vocation of a street artist began in 2002, as a result of experimenting and improvising with various techniques (acrylic painting, spray, stencil, etc.). Since then, creating murals on the streets of Barcelona and other cities became her main artistic devotion. Andrea participated in numerous street art festivals, including the Cans Festival in London (2008) organized by Banksy, when she realized several murals and installations in a tunnel at Waterloo Station. In 2005 Andrea started exhibiting her art indoors, and has exhibited in the art galleries in Los Angeles, London, Mexico, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Zurich, Milan and Brussels.
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BTOY

Btoy Andrea is a famous Barcelona street-artist, better known as BTOY.  Andrea received her art education at the Institute of the Photographic Studies of Barcelona (2001-2003). Her vocation of a street artist began in 2002, as a result of experimenting and improvising with various techniques (acrylic painting, spray, stencil, etc.). Since then, creating murals on the streets of Barcelona and other cities became her main artistic devotion. Andrea participated in numerous street art festivals, including the Cans Festival in London (2008) organized by Banksy, when she realized several murals and installations in a tunnel at Waterloo Station. In 2005 Andrea started exhibiting her art indoors, and has exhibited in the art galleries in Los Angeles, London, Mexico, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Zurich, Milan and Brussels.

SWOON Swoon is a Brooklyn-based artists predominantly known for her evocative woodcut prints. She’s known around the world and is one of the rare old-timers from the streets.  She’s been published from ‘Urban Illustrations Berlin’ 2007 to ‘Beyond the Street’ 2010.   We are currently waiting Swoon’s confirmation and would be honoured to have her amongst the artists opening Artches.
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SWOON

Swoon is a Brooklyn-based artists predominantly known for her evocative woodcut prints. She’s known around the world and is one of the rare old-timers from the streets.  She’s been published from ‘Urban Illustrations Berlin’ 2007 to ‘Beyond the Street’ 2010.  

We are currently waiting Swoon’s confirmation and would be honoured to have her amongst the artists opening Artches.

SMUG Smug is originally from Scotland and is today one of the most realistic and exciting street artists world wide.   During his 15 years career in graffiti, he moved from letters to murals.  From colours, to gentleness of strokes, Smug manages to deliver the emotion as well as humour thus bringing our walls to life and making an abandoned place a place to be.
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SMUG

Smug is originally from Scotland and is today one of the most realistic and exciting street artists world wide.   During his 15 years career in graffiti, he moved from letters to murals.  From colours, to gentleness of strokes, Smug manages to deliver the emotion as well as humour thus bringing our walls to life and making an abandoned place a place to be.

I walked around Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg taking photographs of the incredible art of AliCé. Who is AliCé, you ask?

a lovely article from andBerlin

URIGINAL BARCELONA Oriol is an artist hailing from Barcelona that can’t be described in one sentence. With his immaculate portraits and psychedelic use of colours he seems to uncover every piece of personality and information of his subjects. He finds his inspiration in all corners of society, from the shopkeeper around the corner to the ‘authorities’ of art (from van Gogh to Damien Hirst).  
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URIGINAL BARCELONA

Oriol is an artist hailing from Barcelona that can’t be described in one sentence. With his immaculate portraits and psychedelic use of colours he seems to uncover every piece of personality and information of his subjects. He finds his inspiration in all corners of society, from the shopkeeper around the corner to the ‘authorities’ of art (from van Gogh to Damien Hirst).  

DHM Hugo Mulder is a pioneer in Amsterdam street art. Hailing from the graffiti era he now is a renounced art-director / designer working for major clients such as Nike, Coca Cola, Heineken and many more. He’s also a well-respected artist who creates work which are often a combination of letters and fine lines / illustrations. (from Amsterdam street art.co) His canvas paintings are often a combination of typography, abstract painting and perfect lines. This combination comes from his creative background in graffiti, graphic design and streetart. Hugo’s work has often been published nationally as well as internationally in books, magazines and online. His work has been exhibited in several group- and soloshows in a.o. London, Baltimore, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Den Haag. In 2006 he had his first museum show in the group exhibition “Dutch Masters” in Gemeente Museum Den Haag, which he also co-curated.
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DHM

Hugo Mulder is a pioneer in Amsterdam street art. Hailing from the graffiti era he now is a renounced art-director / designer working for major clients such as Nike, Coca Cola, Heineken and many more. He’s also a well-respected artist who creates work which are often a combination of letters and fine lines / illustrations.

(from Amsterdam street art.co) His canvas paintings are often a combination of typography, abstract painting and perfect lines. This combination comes from his creative background in graffiti, graphic design and streetart. Hugo’s work has often been published nationally as well as internationally in books, magazines and online. His work has been exhibited in several group- and soloshows in a.o. London, Baltimore, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Den Haag. In 2006 he had his first museum show in the group exhibition “Dutch Masters” in Gemeente Museum Den Haag, which he also co-curated.

ORTICA NOODLES Ortica Noodles is the pseudonym for two Italian artists: Wally and Alita, a very active and tight-knit duo. Both in love with the techniques of stencils, they began to create drawings and handmade posters and quickly made themselves known in the world of street art. Their first actions in the street were stencils, stickers and paste-ups. In their laboratory, situated in the Ortica district in Milan, the Orticanoodles logo started to take shape. With the subversive power of fellow artist Zibe, Orticanoodles began a blazing street campaign with the TSO crew. This soon evolved into a real Urban guerrilla art campaign. The streets are the largest open air museum in the world and everyone has free access to it. Because artworks in the streets are judged by their aesthetic impact and communicative power, the creations of Orticanoodles are based on a code: “Pop”. This basically focusses on the use of stencil techniques as a new form of Graffiti Art.
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ORTICA NOODLES

Ortica Noodles is the pseudonym for two Italian artists: Wally and Alita, a very active and tight-knit duo. Both in love with the techniques of stencils, they began to create drawings and handmade posters and quickly made themselves known in the world of street art.

Their first actions in the street were stencils, stickers and paste-ups. In their laboratory, situated in the Ortica district in Milan, the Orticanoodles logo started to take shape. With the subversive power of fellow artist Zibe, Orticanoodles began a blazing street campaign with the TSO crew. This soon evolved into a real Urban guerrilla art campaign.

The streets are the largest open air museum in the world and everyone has free access to it. Because artworks in the streets are judged by their aesthetic impact and communicative power, the creations of Orticanoodles are based on a code: “Pop”. This basically focusses on the use of stencil techniques as a new form of Graffiti Art.