Author: Fran
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Brett Amory “This Land Is Not For Sale” at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, NY
Next Thursday October 15th is the opening of This Land Is Not For Sale: Forgotten, Past and Foreseeable Futures, a series of new works by California-based artist Brett Amory at Jonathan LeVine Gallery. Amory, who gained international recogniton for his “Waiting” series: urban settings like London and San Francisco portrayed as lonely abstracted landscapes of vanishing human assertion, presents in…
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Lovely mural sequence by ADOR (FR)
I came across this lovely series by French street artist and illustrator ADOR on Instagram and I just couldn’t resist. A skilful painter, his characters are full of humor and wit in the cutest and funniest way possible, and finding inspiration in everything from art, illustration, comics to human behaviour. The images tell a story that often is self…
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Faith47 New mural x Monumental Art in NYC
This new mural by Faith47, painted for the Monumental Art project in Harlem,NY and titled ‘Estamos todos los que cabemos’, speaks according to the artist, of ‘the migrationary patterns of birds, making in this way allusion to Europe’s current refugee crisis. ‘Observing that nature ignores human borders on a map. We forget that the dividing lines specifying countries, were mereley…
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Daniel Dalopo “Animal Instinct” at BC Gallery in Berlin
Today is the opening of ‘Animal Instinct’ the first solo exhibition by Spanish artist Daniel Dalopo at the BC Gallery in Berlin. The show consist in a series of new canvases and paper collages that awaken associations with traditional Cubism and Pop Art. ‘Animal Instinct’ speaks about life and the constant struggle for survival in modern…
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Photo recap: Bartek ‘Pener’ Świątecki “Nocturnes” at 886Geary Gallery
Just a few weeks after his last exhibition in Košice, Slovakia (covered) Polish artist and muralist Bartek Świątecki aka Pener, opened “Nocturnes”, his first solo exhibition in the United States at the 886 Geary Gallery in San Francisco. Not unlike the rest of his work, Nocturnes continues the same line of experimentation with abstraction making little or no reference to…
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Daan Botlek New art installations in Oranienbaum, Germany
Dutch artist Daan Botlek posted recently a few images of his latest work in Oranienbaum, Germany where he created a series of interesting pieces that clearly reflect his interest in experimenting with site-specific installations and new ways of presenting his work. As we can see in ‘Pumice Pantheon’ (image above), ‘Entrance to Exit’ and ‘Schismatic Tendencies’ (longer down) his characters show an amazing…
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Elian x Nuit Blanche Brussels 2015
After a short break in Argentina, Elian is back in Europe where he just finished” Dark Perimeter / Basic Primary Shapes ” a new mural painted for this year’s Nuit Blanche Brussels in Belgium. The new mural follows the same kind of aesthetics and conceptual framework he has been working on during the past year, and is explained by…
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New murals by Chazme and Sepe for TransUrban project, Germany
Polish artists and muralists Sepe and Chazme are now in Germany in order to take part of the TransUrban mural project, a joint project between 40Grad Urban Art Festival, 44309 Street Art Gallery and Cityleaks festival. The artists have painted so far two murals, ‘Line’ in Cologne (image above) and ‘Faceless’ in Dortmund (scroll down), both dealing with…
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Axel Void ‘Gray’ x CityLeaks in Cologne, Germany
Alejandro Hugo Dorda Mevs, better known as Axel Void, was until recently in Cologne, Germany for this year’s CityLeaks festival where he painted this rather claustrophobic piece. ‘Gray’ could reminds us of the pieces exhibited a couple of months ago at BC Gallery in Berlin (“Sehnsucht”) except for one little detail. Unlike the “Sehnsucht” paintings, which were also unpleasant, but where…
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Chris Duncan’s T.T.I.T.T.T.T.T. (The Time It Takes To Take The Time) at V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
Working with a wide array of materials, everything from photos, string, sewing, paint, wood paper, time, mirrors, light and space, Oakland based artist Chris Duncan mines questions of optics, geometric abstraction, colour theory, and dynamic patterning, along with a variety of materials to ponder ideas such as perception and balance, in both conceptual and physical forms….
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