Enjoy Wright work and its beautiful fresco in gold leaf who win the Britain’s most prestigious UK art prize last night Turner prize. Glasgow-based Richard Wright, 49.
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A new exhibition is on. Winter show – group show in the Kishon gallery.
For the upcoming israeli winter, a group exhibition will take place, in the disciplines of painting, Sculpture, photography and installation.
An interesting collection of israeli creators testing the boundaries of contemporary art.
Gallery artists and guest artists:
Shay Id Alony, Mali De-Kalo, Tamar Dubrovsky, Orly Azran, Ruth Barabash, Ruthi Helbitz Cohen, Sara Kahana, Vered Adir, Etchi Werner-Nyiri, Liav Mizrahi, Arnon Toussia-Cohen, Gilic Cohen, Dror Auslander, Ayelet Doron and Karin Perez.
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Art Basel Miami Beach Fair – is a greater extent than its sister fair in Switzerland, Art Basel Miami Beach is known for an emphasis on edgier contemporary work. “Agathe Snow’s name has been synonymous with New York’s Lower East Side underground art scene for several years, but it’s only recently that she has begun calling herself an artist. The Corsica-born 33-year-old was the rogue female in a group of artists famed as much for their wild antics as for their art” (Gurdian.co.uk).
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Superhero Nursing Home
Our favorite superheroes have finally grown old… These depressing life-like sculptures were created by contemporary artist Gilles Barbier, who currently lives and works in Marseille, France.
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Back on track
it is about time to start over and post… i am now reorganizing all information about my trip to both 53 Venice Biannale and the 3th Moscow Biannale and all latest Art and UX design news. Stay tuned…
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#03 Let’s Go! AME72 Solo Show
AME72 is a full-time artist who does street art all around the world. His use of a Lego-esque character has earned him the name “Lego guy”.
AME72 often uses stencils and generates freehand spray paint works with intense colors and clean sharp lines. In the same way as Pop art which removes the material from its context and isolates the object, AME72 uses these mass-produced molded smiling toy puppets, as a mean to transmit a message. Messages borrowed from the urban texture and aimed towards the society’s characteristics: economic abundance, consumerism and commercialization. Says AME72: “We have got the tools to send out a positive message of peace … it’s a necessity! Whatever happens, there’s always going to be pain and hurt … I try to make stuff that makes people smile”. Using un-standard art materials in his works, as comics and short texts full of humor and defiance towards society, he manages to emphasize the banality and hypocrisy existing in every society, as can be seen in his most notable pieces: ‘Where’s the missing peace?’ done on the Israeli security wall in Bethlehem, and ‘Rooms for rent’ done outside Buckingham Palace in London, which highlighted homelessness in the UK.
Like many other street artists before him who, rather than simply representing or commenting upon our mass media culture, have infiltrated the publicity machine and the marketplace as a deliberate strategy, so did AME72 by using his own signature as “brands”, to penetrate and become famous all around the world. Harnessing the power of the celebrity system and expanding their reach beyond the art world and into the wider world of commerce, these artists exploit channels that engage audiences both inside and outside the gallery. Keith Haring’s Pop Shop and Jeff Koons’s seldom reunited Made in Heaven are examples of artists who crossed the line between illegal street art to institutionalized and commercialized art. Keith Haring opened the Pop Shop in 1986 on New York’s Lafayette St. to merchandise his branded artistic signature as edition objects such as t-shirts, toys and magnets aimed at as wide an audience as possible. Jeff Koons’s Made in Heaven, which debuted at the Venice Biennale in 1990, immortalized his marital union with the Italian porn star and politician known as La Cicciolina.
Having previously worked for over 10 years in graphic design & marketing, ame72 has spent the last 5 years as a full time Urban Artist, creating works, traveling and exhibiting in various locations around the world including; UK, USA, Spain, Thailand, Israel, Egypt, Bulgaria, Switzerland & Australia. He has exhibited alongside Damien Hirst, and his work appears in several books on street art. He was recently invited to submit works for the prestigious DNFA urban art auction, held at the Selfridges department store in London.
The exhibition in Kishon Gallery features works that emphasizes the fact that there is no distance between the functional and the aesthetic or moral conflict between the desire to keep the brutal and non-controlled aspect of the street – and the institutionalization and acceptance of artistic institutions. However, the essence from which they evolved doesn’t leave them as they move to the walls of the gallery.
Interesting exhibition in the tate about the pop life art, just open this month.
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Kishon Gallery - Group Exhibition: Zero Cents, Klone and Haim Mark.
Street art has always existed from the cave paintings through the Roman Empire to the streets of today. It is expressed in public spaces often seen as vandalism and mostly carried out by marginal groups, sometimes even radical and underground ones. This recent years a tendency to institutionalization and transformation can be seen affecting street artists as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring and even the British virtuoso street artist, Bansky famous for his underground activity and theatrical works around the city walls.
The evolution in which street artists and their movement cross from the street walls to the art establishment walls creates a moral conflict between the desire to keep the brutal and non-controlled aspect of the street – and the institutionalization and acceptance of artistic institutions. However, the essence from which they evolved doesn’t leave them as they move to the walls of the gallery.
The exhibition “Foreign Memories” deals with the layered identity of the three artists that developed from the urban art life. Their marginal group affiliation, provides their work a powerful role in the creative process and offers a diverse relationship between the character, the space and its personal designation. A biographical story or a universal one, a group memory versus a personal one in the public sphere, a fascinating encounter of creativity without boundaries. The viewer is invited to take part and participate in their personal experience and conduct a dialogue with the personal story of each one.
The group exhibition takes place in the kishon gallery in Tel Aviv. Opening 3 sep – 25 sep.
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#01 summer show
First Group Exhibition showing in the renovated gallery space, kishon gallery. The three artists exhibition , Ruth Helbitz, Ruth Barabash and Orly Azran, met for the first time through the initiative of the Gallery. The principle decision was not pre-set a curatorship theme, but to expand the dialogue between the curator and the artist to a lengthy dialogue between the three and from it build together the exhibition. This created an exhibiting based on randomly artistic dialogue. The connection has created a discourse saturated with pain and personal cry, out of each ones private life.
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i just saw this unusual house and thought how creative a mind can be. Legendary publication designer Roger Black vacation home, a series of shipping containers arranged in a stark landscape in West Texas. Mr. Black, who was the art director at Rolling Stone in the 1970s, and at The New York Times and Newsweek in the 1980s, is now a publications consultant. He built this house, a nine-hour trip from his Manhattan apartment, last year. The living room has a flat-screen television and midcentury furnishings bought in New York and San Francisco. The painting is by Carlos Montes de Oca. (via NYTimes.com)
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The Athens Biennale
it seems as if a trip to Athens now days is worth going, the Athens biennale can offer interesting venues. The 2nd Athens Biennale 2009 HEAVEN opened to the public on June 15th and will last through October 4th. The 2nd Athens Biennale 2009 is conceived as a multifaceted contemporary art festival that extends along the coastline of Athens, in the central areas of Palaio Faliro and Kallithea. The six exhibitions of the 2nd Athens Biennale 2009 are complemented by a series of performative events lasting all through the summer.
The colossal “Egg Tray” by Kostas Roussakis at the Water Plaza as part of the “How Many Angels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?” exhibition (curated by Christopher Marinos). An amazing ‘alien intelligence’ sculptural or even architectural work.
As for our continuous seeking of the art websites interfaces, again the official website of the Biennale is disappointing by its lack of direct links to the art works and artists. their blog is the only user friendly way to give us a real peek to the biennale, a good start…
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