Live Painting at Hackney Wick Festival 2010

Iker García Barrenetxea_Hackney Wicked 2010 from Beatriz Fernandez Garcia on Vimeo.

Group Show by Artycok TV at The Vyner Studio

The Vyner Studio Group Show 7 - 31 October from Alice Masters on Vimeo.

Alice Masters and Ruben Hale (Artycok TV) arranged a visit to The Vyner Studio a few weeks ago to interview Jon Braley and to also film the Group Show.

The video is now on the official website of Artycok, where you can also read the review by Ruben Hale.

http://artycok.tv/lang/en-us/group-show/6447

For those in London, tomorrow 630-930 and Saturday 12-430 are the last chances to see this show.

Find all the information of how to get to The Vyner Studio on Artrabbit.

http://thevynerstudio.co.uk/exhibitions.html

TateShots Issue 15 - Paula Rego

"Tate Shots was invited to observe Paula Rego and the team at The Curwen Studio in Cambridgeshire as they set about turning one of her drawings into an editioned print. Our film captures Rego at work and she tells us why drawing and printmaking is so important to her practice." (Tate)

Simon Schama's Power of Art - Rothko, part 1 of 7

Here´s a special documentary about the american abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko. A BBC program.
You can easily see the rest of the parts on youtube.

At the moment I am very busy working on a project to create an interesting space in London in collaboration with reputed artists and that will beneffit the community. I have been working on this for the last couple of months and it´s taking a lot of my time, so I´d like to apologize for those that check the blog every day and didn´t find as many posts as usual.
I´d also like to say that I was recently invited to talk about art for a couple of minutes once a month on a radio station in London; the first one will be next week. I will keep you informed.

Also, I´ve got three oil paints at the frame shop that will be hanged at The Eyre Brothers Restaurant in London very soon. I will also let you know about that.
All the best from the freezing London guys!

Chunky Move's Mortal Engine

"Founded by Artistic Director Gideon Obarzanek in 1995, Chunky Move has earned an enviable reputation for producing a distinct yet unpredictable brand of genre-defying dance performance." (www.chunkymove.com)
Beautiful dance performance, I hope one day I can get to see it life. I´d like to thank Yeukai Makoni for send it to me.

The Omo people

I´d like to thank once again Beth Thomson for sending me a nice link. Photographs taken over six years by Hans Sylvester of this tribe in the Omo River in Ethiopia. Music by Ryuichie Sakamoto. The sense of armony of colour on this people is just amazing. Enjoy and learn of this people that turn themselfs into art.
Have a nice week!

Philip Guston National Gallery of Art Video

She Who Measures

Check this animation out. I went along to Alpha-ville Audiovisual Festival on saturday at the Horse Hospital In Bloomsbury, Central London. "She Who Measures" is a short film that amongst others was curated by Future Films.
Director: Veljko Popović / Croatia / 2008
www.shewhomeasures.com

Ksenia Simonova

Street Art interview with Matt Small (BBC Blast)

I got to see Mathew Small´s work at the Leonard Gallery in London in 2007. Here´s a nice video where you can get to know the artist a bit more. I also reccomend to check his website. The paintings and prints are worth seeing.

"I paint portraits of people that I meet and I see on the street so I suppose some people call me an urban artist; I just call myself an artist, that´s what I do."
"I am a painter and I paint, I wanna paint something truthfull."
"The city is my canvas as such but I just bring it into my studio. I wanna depict people as I see them and as I observe them. The face communicates so much about the person. That´s what my work is about; it´s about me looking at the individual and trying to communicate that that individual is worth something."
"My work is about not known people, about people that don´t offten get observed."
"The best way of doing art is to have fun, and to experiment and play, and just to have your own ideas, and to have your own reasn why you are doing it."
"Basically art doesn´t have any rules, and whatever anyone tells you you don´t have to listen to it. Technically you can just get on with it and do what´s in your heart, anmd do waht you feel is waht you wanna do." (Matt Small)

http://www.matt-small.com/

Brazilian Dreams of Os Gemeos

Welcome to the world of Os Gemeos!

"Brazil is famed for carrying a sense of the carnivalesque in everyday life. You can smell and taste it even if the festivities are a long way away.

The work of Os Gemeos ("The Twins") reflects this celebration as they offer audiences a vibrant taste of everyday life portrayed through a fantastic caste of characters, real and imagined.

Largely self-taught, the brothers started out by tagging the streets with the name "Os Gemeos" in their distinctive style. Later, they started to weave surreal narratives of Brazilian subconsciousness into their graffiti.

Over the years their street painting reached such high levels that officials invited them to paint Brazilian trains.

Now, they're equally at home on the street and in museum and galleries. While still tagging Os Gemeos, their work has been recognized by the Tate Modern in London, MAM in Sao Paulo, Museum Het Domein in The Netherlands and Deitch Projects in New York.
This summer Deitch Projects is showing the largest gallery exhibition of Os Gemeos to date. Called Too Far Too Close, the show fills the gallery with the dreams and fantasies of Brazil: street kids, family portraits with mermaids, bathing girls, street musicians, favelas, flying animals, clowns and the reoccurring theme of twinship.

The show invites viewers to visit the childhood of the Pandolfo brothers as well as revisit their own. "(Scribemedia Arts and Culture)

Pretty Cool People Interviews: Studio DDT

This is a nice video-interview that takes you to the studio of DDT, a Barcelona based company that produces state-of-the-art special effects.
Click here for full article.

Golden Shield by Actop / D-Fuse

Golden Shield from Alvaro Posadas on Vimeo.

"Film part of the Undercurrent instalation curated by D-Fuse. The project feeds from a pool of audio, video and photographic material collected by D-Fuse from cities in China and UK.This is being re-interpreted by dufferent artists in response to questions of urban architecture, economic and social change as well as our personal relations to the space that surrounds us.

The Golden Shield Project is a censorship project owned by Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China. It was formally known as the Great Firewall of China (in reference both to its role as a network firewall and to the ancient Great Wall of China). A major part of the project includes the ability to block content by preventing IP addresses from being routed through and consists of standard firewall and proxy servers at the Internet gateways." (http://www.reformcomm.org/about.php)

http://www.actop.net/
http://www.dfuse.com/

Scratching the Surface by Vhils

http://www.Vhils.com/

George Grosz

Asger Jorn (1914-1973)

Diego Rivera

"World-famous Mexican painterinfluenced by Cézzane, an active communist and a husband of Frida Khalo, died in 1957, Rivera´s large wall works in fresco established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with works by Orozco, Siqueiros and others." (wikipedia.org)

Olafur Eliasson - Round Rainbow - 2005

Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Moon

Corona Save the Beach Party London 08 Iker Garcia Barrenetxea

On December 2008 I did my first life painting performance at the Corona Save the Beach launge party in London amongst 700 guests.
That was possible thanks to Sr. Golwind Events and Entertainment but specially to Maxi Recio who suggested me to them as the artist for such event. It was a great experience to be painting under that kind of healthy pressure. I guess that working at your studio or painting life is very different. I can see the beneffits of both, having that own energy bubble when alone and all the time for yourself; time has a different shape when there´s no deadline. Besides, at a life painting performance you just don´t stop and you have the energy of the people around you. I´m sure that this wount be the last time that I do something like this as I ejoyed it very much and i can see myself learning through it, wich is quite exciting.
This video was possible thanks to Beatriz Fenandez who´s being very supportive filming and editing some of my events. Also, for the second time Rico Casazza has delivered great music.
Thanks to both.