Breakin-the-wall
Out of the Sth returns in 2010 – this brilliant street art festival co-curated by Sławek ZBK Czajkowski aka Zbiok is back again in Wroclaw, Poland. I wish I had been able to attend! International painters creating murals include many artists I’ve have featured in books in the past and with whom I am also very personally fond of… Mudwig (Bristol), Dem (Milan), Fefe Telavera (San Paulo/Madrid), Vova Vorotniov (Kiev), Escif (Valencia),... Read More
Beyond the Street
Here’s a book that gets two thumbs up from me and that’s before I’ve even read it – which I’m planning to this weekend. The reason I like it already is not because I am featured in it! – but I admire the work that has gone into it. At least two years of almost constant research I believe, particularly from Patrick Nguyen who as I understand it took a career break to work on this book full-time. He went the extra... Read More
Stop motion updates
Both Sam3 and Ericailcane have recently completed some brilliant stop motion animations. The first Nadadores a ceramic animation by Sam3/2010, is an earth poem filmed in Murcia’s outskirts. It is the first time I’ve ever seen an artist animating ceramics! To do this he had to create a number of ceramics at different stages. The second animation comes from Ericailcane – called Ammazzarne uno per Educarne 100 which beautifully combines... Read More
Ericailcane – Potente di Fuoco
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... Read More
Santa’s Ghetto Bethlehem
It was a humbling experience to have been able to assist in Santa’s Ghetto’s 2007 in Bethlehem. Each December for six years running, East London screenprint publishers Pictures on Walls have hosted a “squat art concept store” known as Santa’s Ghetto. Usually the venue is an empty shop space, transformed into a wonderland of underground art. Santa’s Ghetto had originally planned a sabbatical in 2007, until the surprise announcement... Read More