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| Miss Van’s solo show 开幕酒会：2010年12月16日，星期四，下午6点 VIP Opening on Thursday December 16th, 2010 at 6PM 18Gallery and Bund18 present TWINKLES / 闪耀 by Miss Van (a solo show done in conjunction with the Bund18 6th anniversary ) Opening in the presence of the artist : Thursday December 16th, 2010 from 6 to 9 PM Venue: 18Gallery, Bund 18, 18 Zhongshan East Road (E1), 4F, Shanghai 开幕酒会：2010年12月16日，星期四，下午6点-9点 展览地点：上海中山东一路18号4楼18画廊 Show from December 16th, 2010 to January 16th, 2011 every day from 11AM to 11PM 展览日期：2010年12月16日—2011年1月16日 展览时间：周一--周日 闪耀个展 by Miss Van 值此外滩十八号六周年庆典，18画廊有幸邀请到国际知名艺术家Miss Van携“女性主题”作品举办个展。Miss Van终于带着新的作品系列来到中国。继洛杉矶，墨西哥，巴黎和纽约的展览之后，Miss Van短暂停留上海，展示她的作品。Miss Van, 真正街头艺术的女性代表人物，在图卢兹的街头开始她的艺术生涯。自创业初期，她的风格一直发生着巨大变化，她的最新系列是古典绘画的一支颂歌。她的绘画风格已经从曲线美和图卢兹街头诱人的美女画像，过渡到这个新展所示的忧郁和微妙的作品风格。 TWINKLES by Miss Van Miss Van finally reaches China with a new series of works. Following her exhibitions in Los Angeles, Mexico, Paris, and New York, Miss Van is taking a short break from her travels to show off her works in Shanghai. Thanks to her past year exhibitions in Barcelona, Los Angeles, San Diego, Mexico, London or Copenhagen, she has found many new sources of inspiration. Not only has she let herself be influenced by the contemporary artists with whom she has shared many privileged moments, but she has also borrowed the techniques and subtle lighting effects of past master artists, focusing her work more on the quality of her painting and less on self-asserting herself as is the tradition in street art. With this new series she has undergone a beautiful evolution towards a more mature and refined style of painting, but without ever losing touch with her street art origins. |
was published by Skinny Books in 1983.
Remi/Rough has travelled the world with his art and has compiled an extremely personal collection of images for this book – all in a very cool 21cm x 21cm square format, soft bound and full colour throughout. With a foreword by New York legend Mare 139, this book is an absolute must have.Title: Lost Colours and Alibis
The inside story of the crew that has kept graffiti alive in New York City for the past 20 years.
Some call it art others vandalism. For the members of the infamous RIS crew the label doesn't matter. ROCKIN' IT SUCKERS is the story of New York City's infamous RIS crew in their heyday. New York in the late 80s: A city tormented by crack and violent crime. At the same time the golden age of hip hop was in full bloom, and despite the violence some found room for creativity.
At this time a group of kids got together to taste the last of the city's painted subway trains, just in time to experience a new era in New York's graffiti history - The authorities decided to clean up the city and a zero-tolerance policy towards graffiti was instituted. While many of the city's graffiti writers quit, the RIS crew was determined to keep the trains colourful and decided to wage their own war with the city. As a result, they took over New York with style, and along the way influenced graffiti writers long way outside the five boroughs.
The crack down from the authorities didn't only trigger the RIS crew to write more, it also made them come up with faster techniques and develop their styles, all done with the crews' characteristic arrogance and humorous touch. Soon they became one of the world's most important and influential graffiti crews.
ROCKIN' IT SUCKERS feature never before seen images of graffiti by the leading figures in the crew as they share their thoughts on bombing, vandalizing and rocking the city.
Essays by: Duel, Fuzz One, Ghost, Ket, and Noxer.
Features the work of Bruz, Det, Ghost, JA One, Reas, Sane, Smith, Veefer and many more.
In The Graffiti Coloring Book, sixty of Scandinavia's best graffiti writers have provided the outlines. You choose the colors. The Graffiti Coloring Book is as fun for children as adults. Get out your crayons and walk the path of the kings of graffiti.Title: Graffiti Coloring Book
Barry McGee's art buzzes with an infectious street vitality that celebrates the rich pageant of city living, while lambasting its ills, overstimulations, frustrations, addictions. His early years as a graffiti artist, tagging on the streets of San Francisco under such monikers as Ray Fong, Twist and Twisto, still nourish his drive to inscribe the blank face of modern life with the personal and the handmade.Title: Barry McGee
A part of the early 1990s art and graffiti boom associated with San Francisco's Mission School (others include Clare Rojas, Chris Johanson and Aaron Noble) and with the Beautiful Loser generation, McGee synthesizes a wide range of resources, including the Mexican muralists, anonymous street art and San Francisco Beat poetry, all of which are notably characterized by a sense of public address that McGee never neglects to convey in his own work.
His paintings, drawings and installations spill over with graphic energy and political anger, and direct exhortations to his audience to respond to the life around them. This hardcover artist's book takes the form of a visual collage, incorporating photographs, drawings, paintings and documentation of past and present installations. It is the definitive volume on a much-loved artist.
Barry McGee was born in San Francisco in 1968 and studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. He continues to live and work in that city. He has had solo exhibitions at Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts, Deitch Projects in New York and the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo.
The Exchange project started in 2005, with just six participants from different areas of the United States. Today, the group includes thirty three members worldwide.The participants of The Exchange pair up with other artists from the group, trading names, outlines and personal styles with one another. One artist draws a sketch in the other artist's name, scans it and sends it via email for the other artist to print out and execute.
Many graffiti writers in their quest to improve their artistic talent and earn an honest living have naturally gravitated towards other artistic endeavors. Since the 1970s these artists have made the leap to become muralists, fashion designers, art directors, and as of late, tattoo artists.Similar to the graffiti movement in which the artists battle with one another in the public eye to be the best and most respected the same goes within the tattoo world. These spray paint technicians with their color mastery and wild styles are making a splash worldwide and changing the face of the tattoo business by adding their bold letters and thus creating a new visual language for the skin. A language filled with graffiti style burners and characters that are a departure from the standard tribal design and sailor styles.
Part One entered the subway graffiti movement in 1974 just after the foundation for piecing had been laid down. He began doing the bubble and mechanical styles of the era, and by 1975-6 he truly came into his own.Title: Part One: The Death Squad (On the Run)
From 1977 to 1980 few writers could compete with Part One and his TDS partners. These young men burned the subway lines from Brooklyn to the Bronx with their elaborately stylized letterforms and innovative color schemes. At the time Part One's aliases Fudge 357 and Worm 2 were seen on the trains in great abundance.
Today, Part One continues to burn and is considered an original New York City style master. The ON THE RUN book, Part One The Death Squad, is one of great historical importance. Part One of The Death Squad Fame and his crew have remained somewhat under the radar in regards to media recognition, even though they are considered one of the most prolific and influential style crews in the history of graffiti.
The fact that TDS was neglected is quite ironic considering the fact that some of the biggest names in writing were affiliated with it. @149th Street New York City Cyber Bench. This book sets the record straight giving Part One of TDS credit where credit is due. It is the first publication dealing exclusively with his impact on writing culture, with stories from the early days in 1974 until now, tracing his development as a writer and an artist over the years.
With exclusive material and unpublished archives, including sketches, pieces, trains and bombings from the Part One and TDS vaults. Historical gems, finally given the treatment that they deserve. OTR s Part One The Death Squad, cements his rightful place in graffiti history, his story preserved for all to share. Like OTR's motto says, Know your history.
Part One is still very active today first and foremost as a graffiti writer, but in other areas of art and illustration as well. It is interesting to see how his work has evolved since his train writing days. To get the full story behind this lesser-known but no less significant legend be sure to check out the book.
An in-depth look at a style in flux, 'Smash 137 - smash proof' traces the various style excursions and developments of Smash 137 one of Europe's finest contemporary style writers as he chases the elusive perfect style. Never content with resting on his reputation or accepting in-vogue styles, Smash keeps busy mixing it up and pushing his forms to the limit.Title: Smash 137: Smash Proof (On the Run)
He is renowned for executing complex transitions and ideas under the guise of a simple veneer. Don't be misled - behind the bubbly persona and swing of these so-called simple letter styles is a subtle but powerful punch. This is a work in progress full of interesting twists and turns.
Watch as Smash takes the art of writing to another level ... Smash 137 is an impressive talent, famed for his unique, super-fresh letter styles and his no frills approach. He gained street cred in his home town of Basel before his work was picked up by galleries worldwide. Today he travels the world painting large-scale commissions and attending graffiti jams. He is currently affiliated with the art collectives The Invisible Heroes, Krauts Gallery and writes for the Montana Writer team.
Cubabrasil: Over 25 artists from Brazil, Germany and Cuba joined forces in this extraordinary creative coming-together, which took place in Havana, Pinar del Rio, Sāo Paulo and Berlin. This book documents the countless pieces and large-scale murals, guerrilla video projections, workshops and exhibitions, which were born from this intercultural collaboration. Cubabrasil features Latin American aerosol stars like Os Gemeos, Vitché, Nina and Joana; German aerosol artists Won, Neon, Cemnoz, Stone, the video artists group BerlinBeam-Boys and some of Cuba's best muralists.Title: Cubabrasil (On the Run Books)
Logan has established his reputation as one of aerosol art's worldwide heavyweights, specializing in murals, characters and illustrations. Having bridged the gap between spray cans and tattoo machines, Logan has become a master in graffiti influenced tattooing. Check out this Sevillan's resume as he takes the world by storm! The book comes with a ton of exclusive texts and pictures.Title: Logan: Seville's Finest (On the Run Books)
Since 1983, SENTO has been an active graffiti artist painting every surface that holds still long enough to get a fresh coat of Krylon paint. From New York s trains to billboards, from highways to freight trains and even going as far as traveling around the world painting, as a Bronx native he has consistently pushed the boundaries of what it means to be a style writer and bomber. His style has influenced writers across the globe in cities like Madrid, Paris, Helsinki, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. His style is unbeatable and he is truly one of the world's best.Title: Sento: The Fantastic Partners (On the Run Books)
Art interventions in urban spaces, also known as street art, have enjoyed growing popularity. 'Muralismo Morte' delves deeper into the world of contemporary urban muralism, featuring the large-scale murals that grace the streets, abandoned buildings, backyards and building facades of cities everywhere. The contrast is stark, from much celebrated pieces in prominent places to those hidden in anonymous, decayed ruins that never see the light of day.Title: Muralsimo Morte: The Rebirth of Muralism in Contemporary Urban Art
Urban art activist Jens Besser uncovers these urban treasures offering special insights into this emerging scene that is coloring our urban spaces. There is an incredible diversity in the work of these new muralists both in style and application; with artists expressing the abstract, the surreal and the realistic mixed with moods of exhilaration and melancholy. All murals interact playfully with the unique charm of the environment in which they were made adding to the sublime beauty of the pieces.
GHOST was one of the last kings of the New York City train writing era. He experimented with traditional letter styles until developing his own loose, funky and psychedelic letters that sprouted from his twisted drug seeped brain and his passion for bombing. When most writers see a train yard as an opportunity to paint a nice colorful piece, Ghost sees the yard as a place to bomb, to do hundreds of throw ups. He approaches his paintings with the same zest and casual grace as he does his throw-ups, with bold dripping explosions of vibrant colors and freaky cartoons.Title: Ghost: RIS Crew (On the Run Books)
With frequent trips to Europe his style has inspired the new wave of Scandinavian-loose-bombing-style pieces. Today, he exhibits his artwork in galleries worldwide and does collaborations with urban culture brands. Despite this Ghost remains an enigma, he isn't social, and he does not want to be your friend. But his artwork like his bombing is something fantastic that deserves attention, for this he is overdue.
Advocator of "Free Your Spirit" Danish graffiti maestro Sabe is a true master of styles that flexes on all levels whether it's with his advanced mechanical letter compositions, new-wave bubble styles, photo-realistic portraits, cartoon characters, or just plain bombing. He is known to mix up these styles to suit the occasion and his mood. Never one to be called a slacker he has an unparalleled enthusiasm for the craft along with a work ethic and execution rate of an army of crews. With a career spanning over twenty-five years Sabe remains active, prolific and influential.Title: Sabe: FYS Crew (On the Run)
'Calligraffiti - The Graphic Art of Niels "SHOE" Meulman' is an impressive publication that presents a large selection of typographic works by Niels Shoe Meulman arranged in a uniquely simplistic manner; every spread presents two interacting visuals on its opposing pages. This repeating duality makes this book much more than just a collection of the artist's best work; it unveils the basis of all graphic art.Title: Calligraffiti: The Graphic Art of Niels Shoe Meulman
The idea of universal harmony, sometimes described as yin and yang, is translated to the 21st century. Like 'black and white' or even 'less and more'. Throughout the book there will be comments written by Adam Eeuwens and the artist. The book includes an essay by Adam Eeuwens about the artist and the significance of his work.
Niels 'Shoe' Meulman is a contemporary Dutch calligrapher, typographer and designer who successfully made the transition from the street to high end design. His work can be described as classical freehand calligraphy combined with street edge and contemporary design aesthetic.
With firm roots in graffiti, Shoe is a member of Europe's infamous Crime Time Kings who ruled supreme in the 80s and 90s.Today, his design and typographic works are included in the permanent collections of MOMA San Francisco and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. They can also be found wandering the streets, gracing a range of luxurious silk scarves - out on his 'Unruly' label - worn by fashionistas and Hip Hop heads alike.
Title: Trespass: A History Of Uncommissioned Urban ArtGraffiti and unsanctioned art—from local origins to global phenomenon
In recent years street art has grown bolder, more ornate, more sophisticated and—in many cases—more acceptable. Yet unsanctioned public art remains the problem child of cultural expression, the last outlaw of visual disciplines. It has also become a global phenomenon of the 21st century.
Made in collaboration with featured artists, Trespass examines the rise and global reach of graffiti and urban art, tracing key figures, events and movements of self-expression in the city's social space, and the history of urban reclamation, protest, and illicit performance.
Trespass features key works by 150 artists, and connects four generations of visionary outlaws including Jean Tinguely, Spencer Tunick, Keith Haring, Os Gemeos, Jenny Holzer, Barry McGee, Gordon Matta-Clark, Shepard Fairey, Blu, Billboard Liberation Front, Guerrilla Girls and Banksy, among others. It also includes dozens of previously unpublished photographs of long-lost works and legendary, ephemeral urban artworks.
Also includes:
• Unpublished images of street art by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Unpublished photographs by Subway Art luminary Martha Cooper
• Unpublished photos from the personal archives of selected artists
• Incisive essays by Anne Pasternak (director of public arts fund Creative Time) and civil rights lawyer Tony Serra
• Special feature: exclusive preface by Banksy
Culled from thousands of images, the result is a collection of work that attests to the artists' personal and stylistic diversity, from Mars1's robotic depictions of alternate universes which reflect the local counterculture spirit, to Neck Face's whimsically ghoulish creatures that serve as a testament to entrepreneurial hipsterdom, to Bigfoot's friendly green primates inspired by the area's rich graffiti culture.Title: San Francisco Street Art
San Francisco's charm as an international destination also causes foreign artists to contribute to the street dialogue-Brazilian duo Os Gemeos, Londoner D*Face and German painter Dome have all graced the city's walls with their unique points of view.
With "I love my world" Dran signed his 6th book.Video preview: Dran - I Love My World
Plus que jamais en phase avec son temps, Dran croque ses contemporains sans ménagement More than ever in tune with his time, his contemporaries Dran undertaker bluntly
et pointe du pinceau les travers de notre société et du monde dans lequel nous vivons. and the tip of the brush across our society and the world in which we live.
L'image parle d'elle-même, le trait est juste et vivant, la matière est présente et il flotte sur ces pages The image speaks for itself, the line is just living, material is present and it floats on these pages comme un parfum d'acide sulfurique. a perfume of sulfuric acid.
Sans jamais sombrer dans le discours Without ever falling into the discourse sermonnaire ou la mélancolie, preacher or melancholia, Dran invite le lecteur dans son univers plein d'humour et de finesse, un régal. Dran invites the reader into his world full of humor and delicacy, a treat.
« I love my world » is the 6th book by Dran. "I love my world" Is The 6th book by Dran. An artist of our time, Dran bluntly sketches the world and points An Artist of Our Time, The World Dran skits and bluntly points his satirical paint brush at the society we live in. His satirical paint brush at The Society We Live in.
His images speak for themselves , with clean and precise lines, His images speak for Themselves, With clean and precise lines, and an intelligent false naviety. Intelligent and false naviety year.
Without ever sinking into a lecturing tone, Dran invites the audience into his sharp Without ever sinking Into a Lecturing tone, Dran prompts Into The Audience history sharp world blending humour and finesse, a real visual treat. world blending humor and finesse, a real visual treat.
Title: Label 228: A Street Art ProjectCamden Noir launched his Label 228 project by putting out a call to artists, asking them to send him their artwork or anything, for that matter, on priority mail labels. Within six months, he received over 500 labels from artists all over the world. At this point, he has over 1,500 labels from over 600 artists. This is a collection of the best of those labels, in a beautiful, full-color book.
The artists featured in Label 228 include Mecro, Downtimer, Mat Curran, Daniel Fleres, Zoso, Aaron Kraten, Lightsleepers, David Flores, Matt Linares, Kegr, Josh Taylor, Robots Will Kill!, Nano, Dolla, and many more.
This eye-catching insider's guide includes old school graffiti legends, avant-garde street artists, film makers, DJs, designers, writers, and poets who have influenced urban culture. From the groundbreaking New York artists of the 1980s to the unique work of modern-day Iranians, this book shows how street culture has penetrated every aspect of modern life.Title: Street Knowledge
Street Knowledge includes work and exclusive interviews from some of the world's most famous artists and talents, such as Banksy, David LaChapelle, Kelsey Brookes, Quik, Tony Kaye, Tama Janowitz, The KLF, Shawn Stussy, Obey, Irvine Welsh, Martha Cooper, and Benjamin Zephaniah, as well as lesser-known and up-coming talents who are literally coming up from the streets.
Broken Windows - Graffiti NYC documents the flowering of the graffiti movement of the post-train era, and this newly revised 2010 edition has been completely redesigned with 70 more pages and many new photographs. In the 1980s graffiti was pushed out of the subways as the trains were cleaned once and for all.Title: Broken Windows: Graffiti NYC
In the 1990s, much of the graffiti action in New York migrated to the city's walls, enabling the 'writers' to execute more refined and concept-driven large-scale pieces. By the end of decade, this new medium was being used to great effect. Photographers James & Karla Murray took great pains to faithfully capture an unprecedented rebirth of the movement, documenting the most significant murals created during 1996 - 2001.
Broken Windows contains insightful interviews, an extensive selection of women s' graffiti, and features the work of more than 180 artists from The United States, Germany, France, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Holland, Italy, and Norway.
Dan Witz: In Plain View 30 Years of Artworks Illegal and Otherwise is the first and long overdue monograph on the work of Dan Witz.Title: Dan Witz: In Plain View: 30 Years of Artworks Illegal and Otherwise
In his 30-year career, Dan Witz has specialized in a smaller, more intimate kind of street art. For Witz, a sense of wonder and curiosity is the key, as well as the element of discovery.
Strongly influenced by the changing cultural landscape of the New York City streets where he developed his craft, Witz has traveled the path from dark to light and back again. His monograph is a study in both the man and his art, with chapters chronicling the transformation from a derelict Lower East Side to a shiny new Gotham. The book is beautifully illustrated in 250 color photographs and narrated through an interview with the Wooster Collective.
For everyone from eager politickers to the street art aficionado who knows there's more to the genre than just Banksy, Reproduce and Revolt collects the work of dozens of important political artists from around the world. Both a striking collection of images and a graphic toolbox for political activists, the book contains over 300 high-quality illustrations and graphics covering issues such as war, the environment, immigration, the media, feminism, queer liberation, antiauthoritarianism, and police brutality. Clear instructions help readers use the images to achieve maximum impact.
Keith Baugh, a painter & photographer from England, whilst on vacation in New York City in the early 1970s I photographed some very early New York subway graffiti. The photos include tags and masterpieces by many of the pioneer New York writers including Ale-One, All-Jive, Blade, Chico, Cliff, Comet, Crachee, Doc Cool, Hondo, In, Jester, Kool Kevin, King, Lava, Mono, Riff, Roach, Rox, Ruben, Silver Tips, Staff 161, Stim One, Super Strut, Tracy 168 & Vamm.Title: Early New York Subway Graffiti 1973-1975: Photographs from Harlem, South Bronx, Times Square and Coney Island
Decades after the movement globalized, New York is still the mecca of graffiti culture. Painting there is a badge of honor, with graffiti artists from around the globe making pilgrimages to New York for that purpose. This is the city where it all began, yet few know the back story.Title: Graffiti New York
Graffiti New York fills that gap, detailing the concepts, aesthetics, ideals, and social structures that have served as a cultural blueprint for graffiti movements across the world. The book features approximately 1,000 images, complemented by texts by the authors and relevant players in the movement, as well as descriptive graphics and sidebars.
Ranging from the birth of simple signature tags to today’s vibrant murals, and covering the ups and downs of the movement, the culture’s value system, its social framework, the various forms of graffiti, and significant artists and crews, Graffiti New York is a major addition to Abrams' superb books on graffiti art.
This unique book provides a ten-year tour of New York City graffiti captured on walls, trucks, and subway cars. Works range from traditional tags to modern "production" walls by graffiti crews X-Men, KD, 156, RIS, AOK, TC-5, FAME CITY, COD, XTC, TFP, MCI, IF, DYM, 718, TD4, SMART, TATS CRU, GFR, and AKB.
Ride back in time on the colorful New York City subway line of the 1970s to 1990s; the graffiti years, when subway cars became rolling metal canvases for some of the most notorious and influential graffiti "writers;" of all time. Explore the amazing array of art work from the 1970s, '80s and '90s transit system "graveyards," including the work of graffiti artists BLADE, GHOST, SENT, REAS, VEN, WOLF, and STRIDER, as well as many other talented "underdogs." The era is richly illustrated with over 235 rare, never-before-published photographs accompanied by personal accounts from the writers talking about their art and recalling their wild antics. This is an informative, nostalgic look at New York subway graffiti.
Title: Kings Way: The Beginnings of Australian Graffiti: Melbourne 1983-93A comprehensive account of the first decade of the graffiti-writing subculture in Melbourne, Australia, this compilation pays tribute to the individual writers and crews who established the city’s reputation as a global street-art presence. Beginning with the year 1983, this volume depicts the rapid changes in styles in these early years as Melbourne’s graffiti changed from simple scrawls to intricate murals of astonishing complexity. Part visual encyclopedia and part social history, this compelling record details the events, spaces, materials, and folklore of what made up the lives of the early graffiti artists.
'Characters of the graffiti world' is over 120 pages, of full-colour photos (and 4 interviews with prominent genre'ed artists) based on the charicatures and themework of the graffiti/aerosol art culture. Where-as graffiti usually draws one's mind to words and letters, tags and scrawls, this book is focussed more on the artistic side of the graffiti culture and not focussed on the words or tags at all-it's about the themework and charicatures/characters of the culture. The photography within the book is 40% NZ based and 60% international giving a great cross-section of both national and international talent/artists
