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Sunday, July 17, 2011
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Painting Performance at Lord Napier / Iker García Barrenetxea
As promised the Lord Napier got covered in paint. It was a great experience to do this painting performance wich I hope people enjoyed.
In resume, about 14 hours over Saturday and Sunday of full on painting. I used a lather with three legs that put my life at "risk" and I guess that added a bit of excitement to the viewer...
I had a very young art critic that said to me that the painting was scary...(he was six), but hey, it´s an opininion to take in account.
A review of the festival by Clare Callan for Run Riot would say:
"Stepping off the train the next day we came upon a performance artist with a gaggle of people watching him, he seemed to be in character as some kind of prophet of doom, “see” said my friend “apocalypse.” (read the rest of the article)
Other Criteria also mentioned the performance with a picture of the work in progress. Click here to view the article)
On Sunday I already felt the pain of this overexercise that was doing such a large painting in a short period of time, but at the same time I had a great feeling. I had lots of fun and I think that people enjoyed the show. Friends looked after me bringing me beers, coffee and food, also the organizers and volunteers that did a great job.
Although I couldn´t see much of the festival I heard great things about it and I saw people definetly having a great time. Well done all the artists and people of Hackney Wick!!
Finally I have already seen nice pictures of the performance, that will serve me as a way to rememner this experience.
The following photos are by my good friend and photographer Barnabe Freixo who I believe captured very nice moments of the two day event. Thanks Barny.
Have a nice day!
In resume, about 14 hours over Saturday and Sunday of full on painting. I used a lather with three legs that put my life at "risk" and I guess that added a bit of excitement to the viewer...
I had a very young art critic that said to me that the painting was scary...(he was six), but hey, it´s an opininion to take in account.
A review of the festival by Clare Callan for Run Riot would say:
"Stepping off the train the next day we came upon a performance artist with a gaggle of people watching him, he seemed to be in character as some kind of prophet of doom, “see” said my friend “apocalypse.” (read the rest of the article)
Other Criteria also mentioned the performance with a picture of the work in progress. Click here to view the article)
On Sunday I already felt the pain of this overexercise that was doing such a large painting in a short period of time, but at the same time I had a great feeling. I had lots of fun and I think that people enjoyed the show. Friends looked after me bringing me beers, coffee and food, also the organizers and volunteers that did a great job.
Although I couldn´t see much of the festival I heard great things about it and I saw people definetly having a great time. Well done all the artists and people of Hackney Wick!!
Finally I have already seen nice pictures of the performance, that will serve me as a way to rememner this experience.
The following photos are by my good friend and photographer Barnabe Freixo who I believe captured very nice moments of the two day event. Thanks Barny.
Have a nice day!
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Hackney Wicked Festival 3rd Edition this week end!
Hey!
For the 3rd year and coming stronger than ever The Hackney Wicked Festival will start on Friday and untill Sunday.
Here´s a little video from last year´s festival by Beatriz Fernandez.
All sort of events from open studios, exhibitions, live art events, open air film screenings, and a lot more...
Check the main wensite to find out what´s on
http://www.hackneywicked.com/
I have been invited to do a live painting performance at Lord Napier on Saturday from 12 pm, an event sponsored by Red Bull.
Please come and perhaps add something on the walls to help me cover the whole space with paint, it will be fun!
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
JR
"JR´s work is about much more than size. He uses surprise and humour and courage to break down boundaries between people. He takes his art on to the street and into war zones and places where art seems to have no place. He creates odd juxtapositions that forces people to ask questions and to smile.
He started by creating large stencils and then industrial-size photocopies of his pictures and pasting them up in the streets of Paris. He then took photographs of street scenes wich included his own fly-posted photographs or "photograffs". He posted these photographs in the streets as well."
"In the past two years JR has exporetd the idea of "grimaces for peace" across the globe. He took close-ups in Israel and Palestine of grimacing people who did the same jobs: taxi-drivers, hairdressers, chefs, security guards. He blew them up and stuck them side by side, on buildings on either side om the Israel-Palestinian divide and on the wall that separates Israel from the West Bank.
Wich were the grimacing Paelestinians? Wich were the grimacing Israelies? Most people could not tell. JR took pictures of Israelies and Palestinians staring at his pictures. He posted those up as well."
"I own the biggest art gallery in the world, JR says. I exhibit freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people that are not museum visitors. My work mixes art and act. It talks about commitments, beauty, freedom, identity and limit.
JR takes art into places ruled by suspicion, poverty, violence and oppression but insists he is making an artistic statement, not a political one. I am an not an artist with a cause, but an artist who causes people to think - he says." (The Independent)
(full article on Press)
He started by creating large stencils and then industrial-size photocopies of his pictures and pasting them up in the streets of Paris. He then took photographs of street scenes wich included his own fly-posted photographs or "photograffs". He posted these photographs in the streets as well."
"In the past two years JR has exporetd the idea of "grimaces for peace" across the globe. He took close-ups in Israel and Palestine of grimacing people who did the same jobs: taxi-drivers, hairdressers, chefs, security guards. He blew them up and stuck them side by side, on buildings on either side om the Israel-Palestinian divide and on the wall that separates Israel from the West Bank.
Wich were the grimacing Paelestinians? Wich were the grimacing Israelies? Most people could not tell. JR took pictures of Israelies and Palestinians staring at his pictures. He posted those up as well."
"I own the biggest art gallery in the world, JR says. I exhibit freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people that are not museum visitors. My work mixes art and act. It talks about commitments, beauty, freedom, identity and limit.
JR takes art into places ruled by suspicion, poverty, violence and oppression but insists he is making an artistic statement, not a political one. I am an not an artist with a cause, but an artist who causes people to think - he says." (The Independent)
(full article on Press)
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