FILBO 2012 _ Bogotá _ Colombia

foto: Claudia Andujar

FILBO 2012
La Feria del Libro de Bogotá tiene en cada edición, desde 1991, un país como invitado de honor con el ánimo de fortalecer los lazos comerciales y culturales con Colombia. Cada año, estos países traen lo mejor de su cultura por medio de sus autores, artistas, muestras gastronómicas, musicales y teatrales. En 2010, se realizó un homenaje al Bicentenario nacional como invitado de honor. Este año, tendremos a Brasil como país invitado de honor.

Artistas Brasileños
Alex Hornest
Nacido en San Pablo, Brasil, este artista tiene un estilo mezcla de comic y mucho contraste. Sus personajes en blanco y negro juegan con el background colorido haciendo una obra difícil de pasar desapercibida.Su nombre es Alex Hornest, y tiene un muy buen portafolio con obras que llevó a Los Angeles, San Francisco y por supuesto, los más importantes salones de arte de Brasil.


The Graffiti Work Of Painter And Sculptor Alex Hornest Is One Of The Stars Of The Campaign "Unimaginable" To Display And Promote São Paulo Inside And Outside The Country. Graffiti Artist For 19 Years, Onesto, As Commonly Known, Is Inspired On People, How They Act And Live In The City. The Graffiti That Appears In The Film Can Be Seen On The Walls Of The Consolação Cemetery And In A Factory In Barra Funda.
The Film Is Part Of The Campaign "Unimaginable" From Spturis, Created By Lew'Lara\TBWA To Promote Tourism In The City.

Claudio Ethos
Artista paulista, usa el bueno y viejo blanco y negro, ese grafitero con más de 10 años de calle, viene impresionando cada vez más las miradas sobre su trabajo. Su técnica es realmente linda, mezclando dibujos surrealistas con un dominio preciso de luz, sombra, volumen y perspectiva, viene siendo reconocido por todo el mundo. Eso llevó el nombre de Ethos afuera. Desde 2008, realiza exposiciones de sus trabajos de estudio y calle en lugares como San Francisco, Nueva York, Múnich y más recientemente en Colonia, Alemania, en el Festival CityLeaks.


Brazilian street artist Claudio Ethos honoured us with one of his graphic pieces at the beginning of September. An enigmatic monk now observes the busy traffic rolling up and down Vogelsanger Straße. Passers-by are invited to reflect, dream and scare. Watch Claudio working on his piece and learn more about his grasp on street art.
Music: Full Crate & FS Green - "To The Floor" / Brenk Sinatra - "One Daay" / mpmsite.com
camera operator: Nils Vogt / Sias van Zyl / Manuel Ernst
interview & translation: Georg Barringhaus
produced & edit by namugrafie.de / oemer mutlu | facebook.com/namugrafie

Artistas Colombianos
StinkFish
Nació en 1981 Ciudad de México y vive en Bogotá desde 1985 cuando sus padres decidieron volver a Colombia. Comenzó a caminar hacia adelante y hacia atrás la ciudad sin un curso fijo, especialmente en el centro y sus alrededores. Encontró todas las clase de gente, de lugares y de imágenes. Años después no sólo rasguñaría las paredes de su casa sino las de sus vecinos. A los 16 o 17 años comenzó a escribir “hedor” en sus cuadernos, en los escritorios de la escuela, cuartos de baño, un par de años más tarde decidió agregar los pescados.


:: Propaganda + Graff a cargo de Stinkfish, Mecamutanterio y Buytronick del Animal Poder Cru en la ciudad de Londres ::
Cut by: Mutamasick
Music : Dj Signify ¨Bollywood babies¨
2011

Bastardilla
Bastardilla es el nombre de una artista urbana originaria de Colombia. Con 28 años, su trabajo en el graffitti ha sido difundido y reconocido gracias a Internet. Su obra se caracteriza por sus dibujos con rasgos delimitados, fuertes, además de la influencia étnica de la región sudamericana. Las expresiones en los rostros que pinta están cargados de emoción y sentimiento, siendo ya parte de su estilo. Sus obras casi siempre se ubican en grandes espacios, en barrios pobres, donde destaca su uso del color.


BASTARDILLA / BOGOTA [subtitled EN/FR] por DEFENSE_DAFFICHER
In Bogota, graffiti writer Bastardilla draws the forgotten people of Colombian society.
DEFENSE D’AFFICHER - 8 cities, 8 artists, 8 directors - A web documentary exploring what street art says about the world. Get the full experience here: www.francetv.fr/defense-d-afficher/en/

Lux Tenebris - Bruno 9li at LOGO Gallery

Sidera Devorare / Bruno 9li, 2012 / acrílica sobre tela / 173X258cm

No dia 8 de maio a LOGO inaugura a exposição Lux Tenebris, de Bruno 9li (pronuncia-se Novelli), um dia antes da abertura da feira SP-Arte, onde a galeria e o artista também estarão presentes. Ocupando a totalidade do espaço expositivo da LOGO, 9li apresenta sua própria origem de universo através de 12 pinturas sobre tela e duas esculturas em látex e resina.

Bruno 9li explora referências e técnicas da pintura gótica associadas a uma investigação de conceitos da física quântica e da astrofísica contemporâneas. Em Lux Tenebris a matéria se revela em varias dimensões, gerando polaridades e dinâmicas. Mesmo estático, o novo corpo de obras evoca movimentos e sons que são, em parte, orientados pelo trabalho anterior do artista em vídeo, agora emulado pela pintura.

Artista formado pela Universidade Autoindicada por Entidades Livres, Bruno 9li é natural de Fortaleza, cresceu e iniciou sua carreira em Porto Alegre e atualmente vive em São Paulo. Fez sua primeira individual na capital gaúcha em 2006, que foi seguida por exposições em países como Argentina, Inglaterra, Dinamarca, Espanha, Japão e Estados Unidos. Em novembro, ainda nesse ano, o trabalho de 9li poderá ser visto no MAC Dragão do Mar, em Fortaleza, em sua primeira individual de museu.

Lux Tenebris - Bruno 9li

Abertura 8 de maio, a partir das 17h
visitação de 9 de maio a 2 de junho
de terça a sábado, das 11h às 19h

galeria LOGO
rua Artur de Azevedo, 401
Jardim Paulista
São Paulo, Brasil
tel 55 11 3062 2381
www.galerialogo.com

Supremacia da Rua

Reunindo as melhores Crews de Graffiti de São Paulo em um só lugar apresentando variações de estilos, estéticas e técnicas.
Essa é a proposta do evento Supremacia da Rua.

Dias 12 e 13 de Maio/2012
A partir das 10hs.
Rua Isabela - Chabilândia - Guaianases - Zona Leste - São Paulo - SP

shame (2011)

In New York City, Brandon's carefully cultivated private life -- which allows him to indulge his sexual addiction -- is disrupted when his sister Sissy arrives unannounced for an indefinite stay.

SHAME
101 min - Drama
Director: Steve McQueen
Writers: Abi Morgan (screenplay), Steve McQueen (screenplay)
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan and James Badge Dale

Doris Salcedo

Doris Salcedo (born 1958) is a Colombian-born sculptor. Salcedo completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in 1980, before traveling to New York, where she completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at New York University. She then returned to Bogotá to teach at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Her work is influenced by her experiences of life in Colombia, and is generally composed of items of furniture.
Doris Salcedo is the eighth artist to have been commissioned to produce work for the turbine hall of the Tate Modern gallery in London. Her piece, Shibboleth (2007), is a 167-metre-long crack in the hall's floor that Salcedo says "represents borders, the experience of immigrants, the experience of segregation, the experience of racial hatred. It is the experience of a Third World person coming into the heart of Europe".
Doris Salcedo addresses the question of forgetting and memory in her installation artwork. In pieces such as Unland: The Orphan’s Tunic from 1997 and the La Casa Viuda series from the early 1990s, Salcedo takes ordinary household items, such as a chair and table, and transforms them into memorials for victims of the Civil War in Colombia.
In his book Present Pasts: Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory, Andreas Huyssen dedicates a chapter to Doris Salcedo and Unland: The Orphan’s Tunic, presenting her work as “Memory Sculpture.” Huyssen offers a detailed description of the piece, a seemingly mundane table that, when considered closely, “captures the viewer’s imagination in its unexpected, haunting visual and material presence.”[4] A seemingly everyday piece of furniture is in fact made of two destroyed tables joined together and covered with a whitish veil of fabric, presumably the orphan’s original tunic. Upon even closer inspection, hundreds of small human hairs appear to be the thread that is attaching the tunic to the table. Huyssen equates the structure of the tables to the body. “If the tunic is like a skin…then the table gains a metaphoric presence as body, not now of an individual orphan but an orphaned community.” Salcedo’s Unland is a memory sculpture, presenting the past of her own country of Colombia to the international art audience.
During a conversation with Carlos Basualdo, Salcedo discusses her own approach to producing art:
“The way that an artwork brings materials together is incredibly powerful. Sculpture is its materiality. I work with materials that are already charged with significance, with meaning they have required in the practice of everyday life…then, I work to the point where it becomes something else, where metamorphosis is reached.”
Again, in a 1998 interview with Charles Merewether, Salcedo expounds upon this notion of the metamorphosis, describing the experience of the viewer with her own artistic repair or restoration of the past.
“The silent contemplation of each viewer permits the life seen in the work to reappear. Change takes place, as if the experience of the victim were reaching out…The sculpture presents the experience as something present- a reality that resounds within the silence of each human being that gazes upon it.”
Salcedo employs objects from the past, objects imbued with an important sense of history and, through these contemporary memory sculptures, illustrates the flow of time. She joins the past and the present, repairs what she sees as incomplete and, in the eyes of Huyssen, presents “memory at the edge of an abyss…memory in the literal sense…and memory as process .”

Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville works and lives in Oxford, England. Saville went to the Lilley and Stone School (now The Grove Specialist Science College), Newark Notts for her secondary education, later gaining her degree at Glasgow School of Art (1988–1992), and was then awarded a six month scholarship to the University of Cincinnati, where she states that she saw "Lots of big women. Big white flesh in shorts and T-shirts. It was good to see because they had the physicality that I was interested in". A physicality that she partially credits to Pablo Picasso, an artist that she sees as a painter that made subjects as if "they were solidly there....not fleeting".
She studied at the Slade School Of Fine Art between 1992 and 1993. At the end of her postgraduate education, the leading British art collector, Charles Saatchi, purchased her entire senior show. He offered the artist an 18-month contract, supporting her while she created new works to be exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery in London. Rising quickly to great critical and public recognition in part through Saatchi’s patronage, Saville has been lauded for creating conceptual art through the use of a classical standard -- figure painting. Although Saville’s chosen method is quite traditional and seemingly outmoded, she has found a way to reinvent figure painting and regain its prominent position in the context of art history.Known primarily for her large-scale paintings of nude women, Saville has also emerged as a major contemporary artist and leading figure of the Young British Artists (YBA). Her blatantly feminist subject matter, of obese and sometimes faceless women with vast bodies, partly originates from a trip to America. It was while studying at Cincinnati University in Ohio, that Saville’s lifelong fascination with the workings of the human body began to affect her artwork. Much of her work features distorted flesh, high caliber brush strokes and patches of oil color, while others reveal the surgeon’s mark of a plastic surgery operation. In 1994, Saville spent many hours observing plastic surgery operations in New York.
Saville has dedicated her career to traditional figurative oil painting. Her painterly style has been compared to that of Lucian Freud and Rubens.[says who?] Her paintings are usually much larger than life size. They are strongly pigmented and give a highly sensual impression of the surface of the skin as well as the mass of the body. She sometimes adds marks onto the body, such as white "target" rings.
Since her debut in 1992, Saville's focus has remained on the female body, slightly deviating into subjects with "floating or indeterminant gender," painting large scale paintings of transgender people. Her published sketches and documents include surgical photographs of liposuction, trauma victims, deformity correction, disease states and transgender patients.

distancia e convívio por alex hornest _ novos muralistas no sesc ipiranga

NOVOS MURALISTAS
SESC Ipiranga

Bate-papo com Alex Hornest
Dia 27/03
Terça, das 19h30 às 21h30

O artista recebe interessados para uma conversa sobre sua trajetória em São Paulo e pelo mundo e sobre seus novos projetos. Área de Convivência.

A pintura mural ou parietal (sobre paredes) tem estreita relação com a arquitetura e ocupou um lugar significativo nos centros urbanos como manifestação de arte com conotações políticas e sociais. A disponibilização da obra de arte em locais públicos rompeu com uma circulação que anteriormente era restrita às galerias e museus. A arte passa a ser também mostrada nas ruas. As intervenções produzidas especialmente para o muro do quintal resgatam a tradição dos afrescos e dos pintores muralistas, sob um olhar contemporâneo.

Intervenção de Alex Hornest, conhecido como “Onesto”, cujo tema trata das relações humanas e como se dá o convívio sócio-político e cultural de cada cidadão na metrópole. O artista, escultor, pintor e grafiteiro é conhecido por suas intervenções na cidade de São Paulo. Seus traços são facilmente reconhecíveis e propõe, com humor e lirismo, um olhar poético e crítico das relações sociais em meio ao caos urbano.
O painel sobre o tema pode ser visto no Muro do Deck da unidade SESC Ipiranga.

De 27/03 a 20/05/2012
Terça a sexta das 9h às 21h
Sábados, Domingos e Feriados das 9h às 21h

SESC Ipiranga
Rua Bom Pastor, 822
CEP 04203-000
Te.: 011 3340-2000
email@ipiranga.sescsp.org.br

Eternal Flame _ Arte com fogo _ parte III

Вечный Огонь (or Eternal Flame in English) is the name of an spectacular urban art installation in Yekaterinburg, Russia. To remind of fallen Soviet soldiers during World War II, an artist group burned the soldiers faces on wooden panels using Molotov Cocktails. The results are just great and are now part of an abandoned hospital.
It’s amazing to see, how weapons can be used in a unusual way to create art.
The roughness, flames and burned faces are probably the best solution to visualise brutal war, for what reason these unique Molotov Cocktail artworks are in my eyes a good way to commemorate…
Via urban art core

Radya made these impressive portraits of fallen Russian WWII soldiers. The faces were made of bandages on wooden boards and were then burned to create this particular look. Afterwards, the portraits were put up on the walls of an abandoned WWII hospital in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Via today and tomorrow