Bristol: See No Evil Festival

September 9, 2012 butterfly 1 Comment

As part of the second ever See No Evil event, Street artists from around the world are in Bristol city centre to take part in the UK’s largest permanent street art project.

Nelson Street is being transformed with graffiti during the second year of the See No Evil urban art exhibition.

Last year projectors were brought in to help artists create graffiti on buildings up to 10 storeys high.

A RECORD 50,000 people from across the UK and Europe flocked to Bristol over the weekend for the city’s See No Evil street art festival.

Organisers estimate more than 20,000 poured into Nelson Street during Saturday daytime alone for the urban art festival, which saw 40 top street artists from across the globe showcase their work.
See No Evil was organised by Team Love, made up of music producers Dave Harvey and Tom Payne plus festival director Mike Bennett and art curator Inkie, with funding from Bristol City Council, the Arts Council and London 2012 Festival as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

View the full set of pics by Butterfly here

Paris

Paris: José & Rey Parlá – “U.T.O.P.I.A.” @ colette

September 4, 2012 butterfly

Parisian house colette in France just opened the eagerly awaited new exhibition titled U.T.O.P.I.A. featuring new collaborative works from the Parlá Brothers. The Brooklyn-based siblings placed a series of paintings on the walls featuring a melding of José’s urban calligraphy and Rey’s playful arrangement of colors and lines as evidence of their artistic dialogue. The show runs until 22nd, but check out our opening photos if you can’t make the show in person.

View the full set of pics from the opening here

FRERES PARLA
U.T.O.P.I.A
3-22 September 2012
Colette
213 Rue Saint-Honore 75001 PARIS

London, Shows, Street

London: Klimt Illustrated

September 1, 2012 butterfly

In celebration of the 150th birthday of Gustav Klimt, The Vienna Tourist Board with Lazarides Gallery have invited 9 internationally renowned street artists to create their own versions of work inspired by this famous Viennese artist. Featuring Shepard Fairey, Lucy McLauchlan, Mode 2, Vhils, Know Hope, Christian Eisenberger, Bastardilla, Marlene Hausseger and Ron English.

The two part event includes a live painting session in London Grosvenor Gardens and completed paintings being showed at Lazarides Rathbone. Looking closer on Mode2’s painting we can also notice a tribute to graffiti pioneers like Dondi and Rammellzee.

View the full set of pics here

Klimt Illustrated
24th August 2012 – 1st September 2012

London, Street

London: Ronzo Birdz invasion

July 31, 2012 butterfly

Crazy coloured pigeons sculptures have landed in London Brick Lane over the week end. Despite the high security for the Olympics, vandal extraordinaire Ronzo has been busy installing its funny urban Birdz characters in broad daylight.

More pics here

London, Shows, Street, Videos

London: Guetta meets Guetta

July 29, 2012 butterfly

DJ David Guetta is partnering with Thierry Guetta aka Mr Brainwash for a massive party on 1 of August, in a secret location in London. More info on www.guettamrbrainwash.com