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Beyond the Street NY Book Launch and Video

June 8, 2010 butterfly 3 Comments

The last ever show at Deitch celebrated the book launch of “Beyond The Street”, featuring the 100 leading figures of Urban Art.

An impressive list of contributors flew from all over the world to attend in person.
A fantastic atmosphere where everyone was happily signing each other’s book.

Henry Chalfant and Editor Patrick Nguyen

Patti Astor and Martha Cooper

Sara Rosen, Patti Astor

Ron English
Jonathan LeVine and Joe Russo

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WK Interact

Ali Schmitz, Patrick Nguyen and Becki Fuller

Dzine , Jose Parla and Saber

Mike Snelle (Black Rat Press), Logan Hicks and Elbow Toe
Pedro Alonzo is not bemused by Mr Brainwash and Sweet Toof

Details about the book here

http://www.gestalten.com/__motion/player.swf?clip=129&autoStart=true

Gestalten did a great interview of Patrick Nguyen.

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Sweet Toof in New York

June 4, 2010 butterfly 24 Comments

UK artist Sweet Toof, featured in Banksy’ film Exit Through the Gift Shop, has been hitting the streets of New York and also some roof tops and water tank in Greenpoint.

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Swoon on the East River State Park

June 3, 2010 butterfly Leave a comment

For its inaugural Williamsburg Waterfront Sculpture Exhibition, the Urban Art Projects invited Brooklyn artists and writers to select eight local sculptors (Ursula Clarke, Rob De Oude, Sarah Fonzi, Yasmin Gur, Nathan Slate Joseph, Howard Kalish and Wu Ming Littlefish Farms) for a temporary installation on the East River State Park.

The jury for the remaining sculptors was comprised of Phong Bui, artist and publisher of the Brooklyn Rail, Boaz Vaadia, internationally known sculptor, and Debora Gilbert, writer curator and artist.

In addition to the selected sculptors, Swoon created a domed sculpture to raise awareness for her upcoming building project in Haiti.

Together with her partners at Konbit Houses Project, Swoon has been working on a development that will provide dwellings for inhabitants of disaster stricken areas like Haiti. While the artwork proposed for the East River State Park employs the same super adobe building material to be used in Haiti, the dome structure in Brooklyn is more an art installation rather than a dwelling in its own right.

The installation is on public display until June 6, 2010.

www.uaprojects.org

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Beyond the Street UK Book Launch

May 24, 2010 butterfly Leave a comment

Written by Patrick Nguyen and Stuart Mackenzie and published by Gestalten, ” Beyond the Street” is comprised of interviews and images with 100 key players in street and urban art from around the world. With its impressive list of participants, artists, gallerists, auction houses gathered over two years, this 400 pages tome provides a unique and insightful portrait of street and urban art.

More details about the book and list of participants here.

LONDON BOOK LAUNCH
Many contributors, artists and art enthusiasts attended the London book launch and signing event at the Phillips de Pury auction house: Alexone, Blek Le Rat, D*Face, Lucas Price, Mode2, Slinkachu, Matt Small, Andipa Gallery, Gallerie LJ, Steve Lazarides to name a few.

Patrick Nguyen signing Stuart Mackenzie with Blek Le Rat

Alexone with Lucas Price Matt Small

Lina from Gestalten and David Chaumet

More photos from the event by Butterfly here
NEW YORK BOOK LAUNCH
If you missed the London one and wish to meet some of the contributors, Deitch Projects will be holding the US book launch on Thursday 27 May 2010.
18 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013

RSVP required. See the invite below.

Invitation Deitch

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The Faile & Bäst Deluxx Fluxx Arcade in NYC

May 19, 2010 butterfly Leave a comment

After the London success of the explosive and creative Deluxx Fluxx video arcade installation (covered here ) Brooklyn-based duo Faile and collaborator Bast take over a disused storefront on the Lower East Side.

Originally conceived as a one-off project in London, Deluxx Fluxx allowed Faile and Bast to indulge nostalgia for the classic video arcade while exploring the tactile possibilities of the wooden cabinet as sculptural medium.

Deluxx Fluxx aims to make art less sterile, more fun, and accessible to a broad audience. This sensibility harkens back to the golden age of arcade games; a time when the Lower East Side itself was still a redoubt for punk rock and graffiti culture. Deluxx Fluxx is entirely interactive, and invites viewers to play a round of psychedelic foosball and take part in the art itself. It is the artists’ intention that viewers will forget they are looking at art, and be captivated by the carnivalesque. The video arcade may be a lost form, but in Faile and Bast’s re-imagining, it gets a temporary and much needed revival.

In its New York incarnation, a new set of the retrofitted machines run games by Adapted based on Faile and Bast’s omnivorous visual language, with sounds produced by Seth Jabour of the noted band Les Savy Fav.