Matching entries matching “live painting” from KELP - graffiti meets design
This is an awesome video for the Painting Reality Sao Paulo project executed on March 23rd, 2012. During 10 days more and 120 actions such as this occured in the city center in order to "take back" the streets for the people. For the opening of the Baixo Centro festival over 200 liters of water soluble ink were poured into the streets, using the movement of the cities cars, buses, bikes, and people to create an all organic, live painting. By the next morning it had all been cleaned, making it an effective yet less destructive way of bringing color and art back into the streets. This project was inspired by the German Painting Project Reality by Rosenthaler Platz in Berlin during 2010 posted below.
From Dre Urhahn and Haas&Hahn of Favela Painting:
"Our latest work in Rio de Janeiro. It's called Praça Cantão and spans over 34 houses, covering 7000 square meters. We are slowly moving towards our goal: painting an entire favela and we're getting closer and closer.
Over the last month, Praça Cantão, the square at the entrance of the community of Dona Marta was turned into a vibrant artwork of monumental scale. 34 houses on the giant hillside favela, located in the center of Rio de Janeiro, have been painted in a design of colorful rays, radiating into the city. This 7000 square meter artwork is part of the 'Favela Painting' project by Haas&Hahn (Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn), a project that aims to transform communities into landmarks and inspirational monuments as a part of Rio's image, next to the statue of Christ the Redeemer and Sugar Loaf mountain.
Realization of the artwork is largely driven by the inhabitants of Dona Marta. 25 local youth have been trained as painters, providing for their own income and being responsible for turning their own neighborhood into a colorful monument. This grassroots method of working has proven to be successful in earlier projects, and gives the local community empowerment, pride and color. The local team is complemented by three painters from another favela, Vila Cruzeiro, where two of the previous projects by Haas & Hahn took place.
The project has thusfar been financed through grants and donations, but a co-operation with the dutch paint company AkzoNobel might open new doors. A meeting with their Managing Director Tex Gunning, showed they had a shared vision. "They wanted to give color to the community", Dre recalls, "and we wanted to give art to the community. I see no reason why we cannot recreate this idea across 300 houses, 3000 houses, whether its in Rio, Johannesburg, Mumbai or anywhere in the world."
About Favela Painting
In 2006, the Dutch artists Jeroen Koolhaas en Dre Urhahn conceived the
idea of creating community-driven art interventions in Brazil. Named
'Favela Painting', their first efforts yielded two murals which were
painted in Vila Cruzeiro, Rio's most notorious slum. The first mural is
entitled 'boy with kite' and has a surface of 150 m2. The second mural
proved to be more challenging, with a surface of 2000 m2. Painted on a
staircase in the heart of Vila Cruzeiro, it depicts a flowing river with
Koi Carp fishes in the style of a Japanese tattoo, designed together
with Rob Admiraal. The artworks for the murals are painted in
collaboration with the local youth. Training and paying them as
painters, learning them the tricks of the trade and empowering them by
contributing to the development of the artwork. These projects received
worldwide press coverage and have become points of pride both within the
community and throughout Rio.
Using a grassroots-based bottom-up approach has proven to be a key factor in the success and final results. In order to generate support and approval for their activities, the artists always make the favela their home. By spending their time within the local community, they're able to connect to their surroundings more easily, winning the hearts and minds of people. In their point of view, the inhabitants of the favela are a legitimate part of the city, but not seen that way from the outside. Using these beliefs, they work with the locals to paint the artworks, literally helping them changing the face of their community. Over the years, inhabitants of the favela's have become aware of this method, and are actively requesting their favela to be turned into an artwork. As one woman from Vila Cruzeiro put it: 'I've never been to a museum in my life, and now I'm living in one'.
Favela Painting is supported by the Firmeza Foundation in the creation of striking artworks in unexpected places. It collaborates with the local community to use art and color as a tool to inspire, create beauty, combat prejudice and attract attention. The Foundation facilitates the worldwide realisation of art interventions, and looks after their maintenance. It also develops relevant spin-off projects in the areas of education, socio-economic / social support and development of local people involved in the projects.
As of March 2010, Favela Painting has established a collaboration with AkzoNobel's decorative paint division. Based on their mission of "adding colour to people's lives", AkzoNobel intends to participate in an inspiring and meaningful manner in local communities in the countries in which it operates. The objective of the cooperation between both parties is to realise worldwide, large scale "community driven" works of art. Works of art that make a colourful difference in the lives of individuals, groups, communities and cities. Works of art that have the potential of inspiring others elsewhere, that leave an indelible impression and can work as a catalyst in the processes of social renewal and change.
via wooster.
Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of posts about graffitti and urban art around Latin America. To visit the first series, please click here.
In public spaces, street art (or urban art) represents the voice of the community, marginal groups, and young people that strive to be heard, often defying the notion of private property. Latin America is not an exception for this. Some of Latin American street art is distinct from what is created by the hip-hop movement, focusing on political messages and stories of struggle that speak directly to the viewer.
Through the lens of bloggers, Flickr users and communities, and contributors on YouTube, we offer you an online tour of the art of the streets that communicate secrets and passions at every turn.
Cuba
As in any organized community, graffiti has its own rules. Graffiti's primary medium of creation is aerosol paint (or spray). Experienced graffiti writers use different sizes of spray valves to control the spread and pressure of the paint, and refill the cans to save money. Thus, it is not uncommon to find artists that consider street paintings that use other medium or techniques (like acrillic paint, brushes, and such) as not part of the graffiti community. These type of paintings might be considered more "art-oriented", as Guatemalan artist NEARsyx from Hemisferio Urbano expressed in part I of this article. In other words, the variation of medium in graffiti is usually related to the term "street art".
However, the case of Cuba stands in the middle of this, as shown in
a short documentary film called "Havana Bombings" (created and shared
by Camila Fernández) about the Cuban graffiti:
One of the interviewees explains a unique characteristic of Cuban graffiti:
Por las características de la economía, se hace muy caro. Lo que supuestamente se hacía con spray porque el resultado es barato, aquí es todo lo contrario. Aquí el spray se encarece mucho. Se usan recursos alternativos. En el festival de Alamar, Rudolfo Renzoni, que fue el creador del festival internacional de rap, la gente, los graffiteros, decían "¿cómo vamos a hacer graffiti si no tenemos spray?". Y él decía que no, para hacer graffiti no necesariamente necesitas spray.
The documentary features artists Ink (César Rojas) and NoNo12 (Yanelis Valdés) using paint brushes to create their work on murals.
Another video (provided by user vadebike) shows a gathering in Alamar, one of the cities where the movement has higher activity, with urban artists that use these "alternative" means to create graffiti.
Chile
There are many reasons behind doing street art. One of them deals with bringing public spaces back to life with community art instead of commercializing it, as it happens with abandoned lots and murals. Following a similar aesthetic approach to the street art is blog KELP [es] ("kultura en la pared" / "kulture on the wall"), which focuses on graffiti as way to enhance urban design in Chile. Its statement reads:
KELP.cl busca explorar y promover el trabajo plástico del graffiti, casi desde la perspectiva disciplinar del diseño. Su postura no es reaccionaria ni violenta. Rechazan el vandalismo. Tampoco profundizan en la ideología o el conflicto social que hay tras de muchas de estas expresiones. Eso les permite centrarse principalmente, en la propuesta estética, por lo que generalmente escogen los mejores ejemplos mundiales
Earlier this year, the author of KELP profiled Grin, a Chilean artist [es] who has been active for more than a decade. Grin combines his passion for graffiti with another urban discipline: architecture. He practices both in enormous murals that play with depth and texture, and sometimes they merge with the structure of the building itself:
Browsing through the large pools of photos of the streets of Chile of Street Art Valparaíso, Chile*stencil or Los Muros Nos Hablan, it is easy to find other creative examples on how urban buildings and colored fantasies live in the same space harmonically:
Latin America Region
Graffiti suramericano [es], South American Graffiti and SMNR [es] are some of the Flickr groups that collect street art works for the region. Blog network Murales Políticos [es] dedicates one blog for several countries of Latin America to display an interesting gallery of political-oriented murals.
Desde el sitio europeo Urbanartcore:
This evening, artworks from some of the best and most popular street artists in the world will come together in London for the street art group exhibition, called "The Thousands".
In addition to works by Jose Parla, WK Interact, Swoon, Faile, Os Gemeos and Banksy, there will be some by Know Hope, Adam Neate, Herakut, Armsrock, Barry McGee, Elbow-Toe and others! So you can say that "The Thousands" is a meeting of the worldwide street art scene's "Who's Who".
Additionally there will be presented a special book by Michael "RJ" Rushmore of Vandalog at this exhibition, called "The Thousands: Painting Outside, Breaking In", which shows urban artworks of the exhibiting artists.
If you happen to be in London today, take some time to visit that amazing-sounding exhibition, and send me your photos ;-)
Via arrestedmotion.com.
Un evento redondo con live painting en la Galería Bomb del barrio Bellavista en Santiago, Chile.
Ver más imagenes de lo que fue la pintada en el Flickr de Saile.
Nuevo video para lo que fue el evento-live painting en Francia de un Tren de alta velocidad. Entre ellos los grafiteros Seak y Zedz.
En plena estación de trenes, 4 carros fueron preparados para ser pintados en vivo.
Lógicamente con un margen de solo 6 horas para que posteriormente lo usuarios puedan ocupar el tren.
Excelente idea y desarrollo sin inconvenientes.
via y sin subtitulos.
Pixo, a documentary about São Paulo's pixação, directed by João Wainer with art direction from the artist Alexandre Orion, had his word premiere yesterday (July 5th), in Paris. The screening was part of Né dans la rue: Graffiti (Born in streets: Graffiti), the upcoming exhibition of Fondation Cartier, the world famous center for contemporary art. ... Cripta, a pixo writer, and Barry McGee were chosen to cover the building walls. Wainer said on his twitter: "While Cripta was painting, an amount of people came to see. 'It's gorgeous', said the (exhibition) curator." He also commented that Barry McGee said to Cripta: "what you guys do it's the real street art. You rock. It's the most impressive thing on this exhibition" It's very ironic, and even funny, that one of the most hated expressions in Brazil now is in the same place of contemporary artists, as Beatriz Milhazes, the most valuable Brazilian contemporary artist alive, and who once did the center walls. "The Fondation Cartier director wants to go to Brasil to understand more about pixação. Why Brazilian galleries take so long to understand?" asks the director."
Kiwie, grafitero de la ex Unión Soviética (actual Letonia) nos presenta una pintura muy entretenida con la ayuda de varios ñiños.
Puedes leer una entrevista suya en Canned Goods.
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KELP apoya a los artistas seleccionados para pintar un graffiti inspirado en Roberto Matta, pintor chileno destacado en el extranjero. En base a la inspiración de su trabajo se desarrolló un live painting con gran asistencia del público interesado.
Organizado e.o. por el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo y KELP.
KELP a través de su alianza con Puma apoya como siempre desde 2004 intensivamente la cultura del graffiti en Latinoamérica.
Con live painting incluido KELP es support partner para estas fiestas de Big Beats de Santiago apoyando a los stencilistas quienes pintan durante el transcurso de la fiesta.
KELP a través de su alianza con Puma apoya como siempre desde 2004 intensivamente la cultura del graffiti en Latinoamérica.
Gracias a la invitación de la Universidad Andrés Bello y sus excelentes diseñadores KELP estuvo presente con live painting en esta exposición novedosa.
El lugar era la misma sede de diseño e ingeniería de la UAB en Santiago de Chile y participaron diseñadores, artistas y empresarios ofreciendo porductos y novedades.
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