The artistic approach of the New
York-based newcomer Aakash Nihalani is minimalist - in the best sense of
the word. With radical consequence he has reduced his pictorial
language to geometrical forms, lines and planes.
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Akay, also known as Karl Adam Warrol, is one of the first Swedish graffiti-influenced street artists, and has received international attention. When he quit graffiti, he started his street art project
Akayism. In
the
Akayism
project
he
has
done
art
installations
in
all
kinds
of
formats
and
sizes,
which
have
been
seen
in
all
corners
of
the
world.
Some
of
the
installations
have
been
collaborations
with
other
famous
street
artist.
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The works of Albin Ray speak for themselves and for their creator.
Implicitly, they must, as little is known of this nomad who moves
between Vienna and New York.
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In
his
work,
the
media
artist
Aram
Bartholl
examines
the
relationships
between
the
network‐data‐world
and
our
everyday‐life‐space:
"In
which
form
does
the
network‐ data‐world
manifest
in
our
everyday‐life‐space?
What
flows
back
from
cyberspace
into
our
physical
space?
How
do
digital
technologies
influence
our
everyday
activities?"
Emerging
from
these
questions,
Bartholl
eagerly
searches
for
a
humorous
approach
to
the
phenomena
of
being
digital.
And,
in
this
way,
the
imaginary
borders
between
the
virtual
and
the
real
are
constantly
questioned
‐
the
mutual
relativity
of
both
categories
shifts
into
the
foreground.
Aram
Bartholl's
works
have
had
international
exposure
at
festivals
such
as
Ars
Electronica
Linz,
Futuresonic
Manchester
and
Transmediale
Berlin.
Since
1995,
Aram
Bartholl
lives
and
works
in
Berlin.
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Das Pseudonym der 1981 in Bogota, Kolumbien geborenen Künstlerin Bastardilla steht
im Spanischen schlicht für "kursiv".
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Benjamin Gaulon (born 1979) is an artist whose work focuses on planned obsolescence, consumerism and disposable society. He has previously released work under the name "recyclism".
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BLU is the pseudonym of an Italian artist who has deliberately decided to conceal his real identity. What little is known about him is that he lives in Bologna and has been active in the street art scene since 1999.
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The multitude of signs and signal-systems which influence the appearance
of and imperceptibly determine our everyday movement in urban
environments, serve as the primary material for the Louisville,
Kentucky-born artist Brad Downey.
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In 1982 Charlie Ahearn directed the hip hop classic movie Wild Style. Yes Yes Y'all 2002 co authored by Charlie Ahearn is an oral history of the first decade of hip hop with many photos by Ahearn.
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- Institute for Urban Development
Chris Sugrue is an artist and programmer
from the United States. Her works experiment with the often magical or
illusory possibilities of technology creating fictional worlds that
bleed into reality. These software-driven artworks have taken the form
of interactive installations, live audio-visual performances, and
algorithmic animations.
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There is hardly anyone in Vienna or in
the small Styrian community of Semriach, who has not encountered at
least a single pictorial or sculptural intervention of Christian
Eisenberger.
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Humorous
quotes
from
Viennese
Actionism
as
well
as
examinations
of
the
becoming
of
the
Austrian
and
international
performance
art
history
are
found
throughout
Christian
Falsnaes'
work.
In
his
performative
installations
documentary
footage
often
serves
as
an
annotated
or
irritating
framework:
"Often
times
I
mix
contradictory
images
to
create
new
meanings
and
to
point
out
the
connections
that
are
not
obvious."
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By scratching on the surface of reality DEEP INC. uncovers new levels of signification in the every day surroundings. DEEP INC. is not inventing, just revealing what is already there. By minimal interventions DEEP INC. challenges common perception patterns - and the transformation of reality. The idea for every intervention emerges from the actual environment sourrounding us all, correlative the implemented materials, methods and techniques are generated site-specificly.
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"In just a few moments, the Berlin-based
writer, Dtango creates complex murals, which consist of a single
continuous line
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Ellis Gallagher is known primarily for chalk drawings made by outlining shadows in the streets of New York City. Gallagher was born on September 9, 1973. He is a native New Yorker living in the
Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. Before his chalk drawings he was a graffiti writer, working in NYC mostly.
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Born in 1954, Austrian artist Erwin Wurm has been working over two decades on complex works that can be described by the expansion of the term sculpture. His oeuvre comprises material sculptures, actions, videos, photos, drawings and books. The most influential pieces of work are Wurm's "One Minute Sculptures."
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Evan Roth is an American artist based in Paris who visualizes, subverts and archives transient and often unseen moments in public space, popular culture and the Internet.
He applies a hacker philosophy to an art practice that often involves technology, humor and activism. In 2012, Roth was awarded the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award.Roth's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art NYC and has been exhibited at various institutions, including the Centre Pompidou, the Kunsthalle Wien, the Tate, the Fondation Cartier and the front page of Youtube.
Roth is also co-founder of the Graffiti Research Lab and the Free Art & Technology Lab (F.A.T. Lab), a web based, open source research and development lab.
To find Roth's work online, just google "bad ass mother fucker".
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Florian Rivière is an "urban hacktivist".
Between 2008 - 2012, he established and led the french collective Democratie Creative that created a series of public interventions within Strasbourg.
Inspired by hacker and DIY cultures. His work focuses on allowing citizens to reclaim their urban environments. He uses raw and found materials in the street to create spontaneous games, furnishings, traps, maps and instructions to divert public space.
So many urban tactics which show the functionality of sites, and direct action of the user on urban space.
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Founded by the artists James Powderly and Evan Roth, the international
network Graffiti Research Lab., is preoccupied with the mission of
providing cheap, open-source communication technology to artists,
graffiti-writers, communications-guerillas and political activists.
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Isaac Cordal is a Neanderthal from Pontevedra (Spain). Currently lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
With the simple act of miniaturization and thoughtful placement, Isaac Cordal magically expands the imagination of pedestrians finding his sculptures on the street. Cement Eclipses is a critical definition of our behavior as a social mass. The art work intends to catch the attention on our devalued relation with the nature through a critical look to the collateral effects of our evolution. With the master touch of a stage director, the figures are placed in locations that quickly open doors to other worlds. The scenes zoom in the routine tasks of the contemporary human being.
Men and women are suspended and isolated in a motion or pose that can take on multiple meanings. The sympathetic figures are easy to relate to and to laugh with. They present fragments in which the nature, still present, maintains encouraging symptoms of survival. The precariousness of these anonymous statuettes, at the height of the sole of the passers, represents the nomadic remainders of an imperfect construction of our society. These small sculptures contemplate the demolition and reconstruction of everything around us. They catch the attention of the absurdity of our existence.
Isaac Cordal is sympathetic toward his little people and you can empathise with their situations, their leisure time, their waiting for buses and even their more tragic moments such as accidental death, suicide or family funerals. The sculptures can be found in gutters, on top of buildings, on top of bus shelters; in many unusual and unlikely places.
Herbert Achternbusch ( Germany)
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Ivan Argote was born in Bogotá, Colombia. He holds an MFA from the Paris Fine Art School (ENSBA).
Chock-full of inventiveness and humor with a rebellious twist,
Ivan Argote's work comments on the ways we traditionally regard art, by shifting the focus from the visual work to very particular actions that question the behaviors we assume within society's parameters of what is acceptable.
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His work mixes Art and Act, talks about commitment, freedom, identity and limit. After he found a camera in the Paris subway, he did a tour of European Street Art, tracking the people who communicate messages via the walls. In 2006, he achieved Portrait of a generation, portraits of the suburban "thugs" that he posted, in huge formats, in the bourgeois districts of Paris. This illegal project became "official" when the Paris City Hall wrapped its building with JR's photos. In 2007, with Marco, he did Face 2 Face, the biggest illegal photo exhibition ever. JR posted huge portraits of Israelis and Palestinians face to face in eight Palestinian and Israeli cities, and on the both sides of the Security fence / Separation wall. In 2008, he embarked for a long international trip for Women are Heroes, a project in which he underlines the dignity of women who are often the targets of conflicts. JR creates "Pervasive Art" that spreads uninvited on the buildings of the slums around Paris, on the walls in the Middle-East, on the broken bridges in Africa or the favelas in Brazil.
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The artist labels himself "a maverick hobbyist dabbling at the fringes
of robotics, chemistry, writing, pyrotechnics, graffiti, art, tattoos
and rock n roll."
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Know Hope is internationally known for his poetic and often melancholic
artworks, which pertain to the precarious nature of human existence and
revolve around the world of feelings connected with the human
predicament. In this context one finds in his work the recurring motifs
of hearts and hour-glasses, suggesting the fragile and easily broken
nature of existence.
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Leopold Kessler, modern artist born in Munich. In his artworks he is exploring the limit between public and private space. He is making small interventions in space. They are sometimes hard to notice but very accurate and site-specific. He lives and works in Vienna. In 2003 he graduated Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and in 2004 Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
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The American artist, Mark Jenkins (b.
1970) is predominantly working with the profane material of packing
tape, he employs to take casts of his body and everyday objects, such as
children's playthings.
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Marlene Hausegger is infiltrating public space in very subtle ways. Her interventions, which you can certainly call them, as they always relate to existing structures that are lying outside our daily perception, are shaped by a surgical, revealing gaze that moves those repressed places back into our consciousness. Relations in meaning that we take for granted are starting to waver through this form of interventionism, which works through the mechanisms of adjustment, emphasis, accentuation, and reinterpretation. With the simplest means like adhesive tape, chalk, or simple objects she adds a new function or meaning to the respective places. Her manifestations in public space are of temporary character, of an anti-monumental demeanor, disappearing over time like ephemeral traces. Only through documentation via the photographic medium they experience the duration befitting them.
Andreas Krištof (translated)
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Born in 1985 in Santiago de Chile, Max
Schaffer discovered his ability and passion for the arts in public
spaces in his teenage years. His early murals on school buildings in
Mexico and Cuba would be the prelude to his career in the arts.
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Born 1963 in Troyes, French artist OX first became artistically active in public space in the early 1980s. The artist group "Les Frères Ripoulin," which he had co-founded, began in 1984 to occupy billboards as exhibition space for their own art. The group was closely related to the "Figuration Libre" movement and stood in contact with Warhol's Factory, Jean Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. After successful international exhibitions the group split up in 1988 and OX dedicated himself to easel painting until the middle of the 1990s. Some poster-actions ("Affichages") were taking place again from 1993 and since 2002 OX dedicates his creativity almost only to interventions in public space. His visual language is reflective and minimalistic: mono- and polychromatic stripes are reminiscent of Daniel Buren's works, architectural and color accents in the urban context are reinterpretated, simple dichromatic color gradients seem to carry Mark Rothko's paintings into the urban space, posted ads are breached by reduced optical illusions or replaced by geometric compositions. The art of OX draws its power from the friction with its urban context. It opens up a meditative place of calmness that makes room for individual reflection and breath.
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The
omnipresent, multi-talented Busk belongs to the most prominent activists
in Viennas Street Art scene. In the mid-90s the Vienna-born artist
developed his passion for character sets, fonts and styles through
graffiti.
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Seine Artworks sind ironisch, poetisch aber vor allem provokant. Sam3 malt am liebsten
Silhouetten auf Hauswände - ob in groß oder ganz klein spielt dabei keine Rolle.
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The formation "Sabotage" was founded by artist Robert Jelinek in the
area of the Documenta IX in Kassel in June 1992.
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In 2003 the Los Angeles-based artist Tony Quan aka Tempt One was
diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis). ALS, also known as
Lou Gehrig's disease, rapidly progresses throughout all systems. In some
cases, the brain loses its ability to control all muscles, resulting in
the progressive inability to physically move about or function various
parts of the body. The disease may or may not have a known causal factor
and may not even have a medical cure.
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Voina is a Russian art collective that engages in street action art. It is a movement in contemporary art that is relatively new to Russia despite being widespread in the West and regarded by critics as one of the most valuable contemporary art movements.
The group was created on 23rd February, 2007 by philosophy students at Lomonosov Moscow State University with the aim of developing monumental patriotic street art in Russia. The group's idol was, and forever will be, the great Russian artist Dmitri Prigov. Voina currently counts over 200 members who perform actions in its name, sometimes without informing the rest of the group.
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