Having become interested in Chicha posters recently I stumbled across a Peruvian Street artist called Faber who uses these posters as a backdrop to his work.
A great use of found surfaces and colour contrasts for this emotive subject.
The most wonderful artist’s book of last year has to be Ericailcane’s Potente di Fuoco. The idea is so simple but just brilliant. Twenty years after he had drawn them Ericailcane’s parents showed him his first drawings featuring both creatures from this earth and fantastic ones. In this book he reinterprets them again side by side with his childhood drawings.
Picasso said – “All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” Without a doubt Ericailcane is still in touch with his amazing childhood creativity…
Sam3’s new stop motion is a triumph of low-fi. One of those films you wished you had made yourself – but of course you didn’t so hats off to Sam.
I’m huge fan of all of Sam3’s work – he has a great commitment to his work and comes up with many beautiful ideas. Its also been a real pleasure to work with him in the past with projects like Santa’s Ghetto in Bethlehem and Cans Festival.
He’s produced a few stop motion films before but this is instantly my favourite..
Although Choque Cultural’s new ‘Acervo’ space has been open for a while. Baixo Ribeiro, the gallery director has posted a film giving us a flying visit around the space and the show at MASP. The new space, not too far from the old one which is still open in Pinheiros, is in a great quiet spot in the heart of one of the cities most famous graffiti halls of fame. So now Choque operates gallery shows in both spaces - including a current show of American artists Gary Baseman and Shag.
For months Choque Cultural gallery have been preparing for an important show which they were asked to curate at MASP – The Musuem of Contemporary Art in Sao Paulo. The result are spectacular from some of my favourite artists such as Carlos Dias, Ramon Martins, Zezao and Titifreak. Opens November 19th for three months.
My wife Olivia has recently launched her new website promoting her work as an art consultant and dealer.
I’ve been lucky enough to meet all of the artists she works with personally, and their quality is superb. Web design layout by yours truly. www.oliviaconnelly.com
Blu has been busy with a huge animation production this year – but managed to find some extra time to work on this wonderful collaborative animation with David Ellis at this year’s Fame Festival.
Its a wonderful piece of work from two artists famous for their stop frame animation.
As part of my research for a new book I was lucky enough to travel to Mexico – stopping in Cuernavaca, Mexico City and Oaxaca. Among the many artists I met were Saner and Smithe. It was great to watch them painting for an afternoon – more to be revealed in the book soon…
Choque Cultural have been busy working on new original prints. Some have been produced using the woodcuts and or a mixture with traditional Lambe Lambe woodblock print techniques at the Grafica Fidalga. These include two prints by Derlon and one each by Daniel Melim and Jaca.
Derlon Almeida is a young artist from Recife in the Northeast state of Pernambuco. Having been a graffiti artist since a teenager, today Derlon’s work is influenced by local culture and the traditional woodcut art of the region known as Cordel.
