MIMA ‘ City Lights’ with MOMO

July 20, 2016 butterfly 1 Comment

We continue our visit of the new Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art (MIMA) in Brussels ( see Swoon here). The permanent collection over two floors features works by Mobstr, Parra, Barry McGee, Horfee, Huskmitvan to name a few.

For the exhibition ‘City Lights’ presented by Alice Gallery, US artist MOMO has created a bespoke installation, where he questions the space and lines through geometric patterns and sculptures. Visitors are invited to navigate through the installation to get different perspectives and surprises like drawings hidden behind a fake wall.

MIMA - MOMO

View the full set of pics here

Stay tuned for the rest of our coverage of City Lights with Faile and Maya Hayuk.

MIMA Museum – City Lights
Until 31 December 2016
Brussels

Shows, streets, Toulouse

Toulouse: Ben Eine for Rose Beton

July 15, 2016 butterfly

UK artist Ben Eine recently created a new mural with his signature font on one of the walls of the Universite Paul Sabatier in Toulouse for the Rose Beton Festival. The colourful mural stating ‘STORYTELLING’ is already the favorite amongst the students.

Check the pics of the work in progress.

View the full set of pics here

ROSE BETON FESTIVAL
Until 28 August 2016
Toulouse

Marrakech, Shows

Marrakech: Tilt – Voyage Retour

July 9, 2016 butterfly

We continue our coverage behind the scenes in Marrakech at Jardin Rouge with French Graffiti artist TILT as he works on the second instalment ‘ Voyage Retour‘ of his installation that is currently exhibited at Rose Beton Festival in Toulouse.

The first part of the installation ‘Voyage Aller’ ( covered) was featured at the Marrakech Biennale ealier this year.

Tilt - Voyage Retour

Gathering items from the souk and local markets in Marrakech, Tilt and his assistant Gauthier set up the second version of the sectioned car with a roof rack loaded with objects brought back from Orient to Occident. Carefully assembled and defying laws of gravity, ‘Voyage Retour’ pays tribute to the big summer migration flows.

Tilt - Voyage Retour

Then Tilt adorns the installation with graffiti, tags and flops and secret messages.

Tilt - Voyage Retour

Here is a snapshot of the before / after result:

Tilt - Voyage Retour

Some spots have been deliberately left open for additional graffiti writers to add their touch to the final installation in Toulouse displayed at the Musee des Abattoirs. Stay tuned for more details coming soon.

View the full set of pics here

Tilt – Voyage Retour
Rose Beton Festival
Toulouse
Until 28 August 2016

Brussels, Shows

MIMA ‘City Lights’ with Swoon

July 7, 2016 butterfly

Inaugurating the new Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art (MIMA) in Brussels, created by Florence and Michel Delaunoit, Alice van den Abeele, and Raphaël Cruyt, four pillars of the New York Street Art scene, MOMO, Swoon, Faile, and Maya Hayuk are showing their unique street practice.

We start off with a look at Swoon’s intricate hand-cut paper patterns and wheat-pasted figures. A large portrait of ‘Ice Queen‘ featuring Olivia Katz (which was first seen at the MOCA in 2011) adorn the outside wall of the museum.

MIMA - Swoon

In the basement Swoon created an immersive installation looking like a maze with her signature characters featuring family and friends she met through her various encounters: from a portrait of her mum surrounded by buddhist protectors ‘Dharmapalas’, Walki, a young boy from Haiti who benefited from the Konbit Shelter Project, George, an inmate from Philadelphia who worked with Swoon, to her latest portrait of Sonya.

MIMA - Swoon

View the full set of pics here

Stay tuned for the rest of our coverage of City Lights with Faile, Momo and Maya Hayuk.

MIMA Museum – City Lights
Until 31 December 2016
Brussels

Art Fair

ART|BASEL 2016 Part 2

July 5, 2016 butterfly

Art|Basel 2016

After reviewing Unlimited and Scope Art Fair we continue our coverage of ART|BASEL 2016 and bring to you the highlights of the 47th Edition of the Fair featuring 4,000 artists across stands by 287 galleries from 33 countries.

Visitors to the fair could enjoy masterpieces by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Lichtenstein, Dali, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, George Condo, Julian Schnabel, Duane Hanson, Gerard Richter,Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami, Yoshimoto Nara, Daniel Arsham, Anish Kapoor, Shepard Fairey and more…

Art|Basel 2016