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.
Swoon on the East River State Park
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.
Beyond the Street UK Book Launch
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.
The Faile & Bäst Deluxx Fluxx Arcade in NYC
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.
Photos by Butterfly
The show is now on view until the 27th May 2010.
Check out this video from the NY Times
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Deluxx Fluxx NYC
158 Allen St. New York, NY 10002
Tuesday-Sunday 3-11pm
More information available at www.DeluxxFluxx.com
Art from the New World- Opening Part II
Gary Baseman brought many of his characters to life with costumed live models like Skeleton Girl, Hickey Bat Girl, Bubble Girl and also Toby and little devil “Hot Cha Cha Cha” initially created for “La Noche de la Fusion” Festival. Click on the images to enlarge
It was surreal to see so many artists under one roof.
Many UK artists also joined in like D*Face, Nick Walker, Ian Francis, Lucas Price to name a few.
Last but not least, Dita von Teese entertained the guests with her infamous burlesque routine . ( Photos of the performance were not allowed)
On Saturday 15 May Gary Baseman conducted a tour of the exhibition and the participating artists were available to greet and sign.
More photos from Butterfly about the show and party here
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