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Rizoli New York is set to publish a graphic novel by Paris street artist Fafi. Titled “The Carmine Vault”, it is sure to please the fans and convert the uninitiated. Hitting the shelves in April of 2012.
Centered around a character called Birtak and his desire to join the Paris Opéra Ballet, The Carmine Vault brings to life Fafi’s colorful and irreverent world for the first time in a lavish graphic-novel format. Combining comic book elements with the prestige and allure of art books, the book employs elegant compositions and innovative printing effects to reproduce vivid, never-before-seen work from this celebrated artist.
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Zero Publishing presents a boxed edition of Above’s book “Passport.”
About ABOVE
From WIKI (born circa 1981) has been creating public art since 1995. ABOVE is an international contemporary street artist who keeps his identity concealed and is widely known for his multi-layer/full color social and political stencils, spinning wooden “arrow mobile” installations, and large mural “word play” paintings. ABOVE started traditional graffiti of tagging freight trains in California in 1995. ABOVE moved to Paris at the age of 19 where he started painting his trademark arrow (pointing above) all around the city. Since then ABOVE has been consistently traveling around the world doing many large self-financed “tours” with each tour exploring a new medium or style of artworks. ABOVE has been successful in putting his street artworks in over 90 cities in 60 different countries around the globe.
Technical Specs
- Edition: 200
- Sales start at edition number 61/200
- Hardcover book: signed/numbered – 12.25 x 12.25″ (31.1 x 31.1cm)
- 156 pages
- Over 120 color plates
- ISBN 978-1-937222-04-8
- Designed by Blaine Fontana of FONTANA STUDIOS
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The French publication GraffitiArt, recently dropped it’s 13th issue. Preview images after the jump.
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Let’s take a break from all of the Terry Richardson hype for a minute and get really raw. Michael Dweck recently published “Habana Libre,” a collection of his photos documenting the social life in modern day Cuba. Dweck’s subject matter penetrates the vibrant social scene of a society that has been politically ostracized for decades. His use of the monochromatic medium adds the perfect flavor to the subject matter.
MICHAEL DWECK: HABANA LIBRE
Interviews by William Westbrook
Published by Damiani editore, Italy
290 pages, 21 four-color plates, 214 duotones plates, 3 gate-folds
Hardcover, jacketed, 9.75 x 12.5 inches
ISBN 978-88-6208-184-9
Retail: $65.00
Publication date: October 1, 2011 (US); November 1, 2011 (International)
Edition size: 3000
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Today, September 22, Glasgow-based street artist David Shrigley will be at WORD Bookstore in Brooklyn to promote and celebrate the launch of his latest book “WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?”, a book of illustrations, drawings, comics, photography and sculpture. The night includes a talk, book signing and sharpie tattoos for those interested. Also, East River Tattoo will be on site for those who want ink of a more permanent variety.
The book is also available online.
via arrested motion
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New York’a Lower East Side neighborhood has become a place where young people are allowed to flex their creative muscles, and skaters, tattooed models and rebellious yuppies can all be found wandering the streets. But before its inception into “cool”, the LES was a close community of Jewish residents, who largely shaped the culture of downtown Manhattan. “Jews, a People’s History of the Lower East Side” is a 3-part anthology shedding light on the LES’s rich history.
From the project’s Kickstarter page:
Jews, A People’s History of the Lower East Side is a three volume anthology edited by Clayton Patterson and Dr. Mareleyn Schneider. The first volume addresses the social history of Judaism in the neighborhood. The second and third volumes follow these threads into modern culture, examining contributions to art, business, and community in downtown New York. Compiling more than 150 chapters contributed by an international host of writers, these three volumes investigate individuals, movements, and institutions that have impacted the city, the country, and the entire planet.
The editors have spent the past three years bringing together more than 150 authors to examine how Jews have shaped the culture, landscape, and politics of the Lower East Side over the past two centuries. So far, over $2,200 has been pledged in an effort to reach the $15,000 goal with 45 more days to go. Check out more on the Kickstarter page.
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After using photoshop as his primary illustration tool for over a decade, Daniel Mackie abandonded photoshop in 2010 and returned to illustration to push his creative process and work further. His illustrations are now completely hand drawn and painted, and feature an immense attention to detail. Many of his subjects or characters contain entire fantastic worlds within the confines of their limbs, and play with distorting human shapes and scale.
Mackie recently won ’Best in Book’ in the Creative Review Illustration Annual 2011. Check out more of his works here.
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After over a decade of temporary pavilions designed by some of architecture’s most prolific minds, Summer at the Serpentine unites these images of the Serpentine Gallery’s temporary structure’s on the pages of a book, with illustrations from each architect and penmanship from renown architecture writer Philip Jodido.
“Since 2000, the Serpentine Gallery in London’s Kensington Gardens has called on some of the world’s top architects to design summer pavilions – temporary structures that are erected next to the Gallery itself for a three-month period. The Serpentine, which was built in 1934 as a tea pavilion, opened in 1970 as a showplace for exhibitions of modern and contemporary artists. The only architecture program of its type in the world, the Serpentine Gallery Pavilions attract up to 250,000 visitors each summer.”
Some of the Serpentine pavilion architects are names that have almost seamlessly blended into pop culture; Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid and Oscar Niemeyer are only a few examples included.
Available for purchase through TASCHEN.
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Bringing together some 500 images—including most of artists’s boxes, as well as their details in painting, drawing, and sculpture— Charles Matton: Enclosures invites readers into the intimacy of his creative universe.
Charles Matton was a painter, draftsman, sculptor, photographer, filmmaker, and writer. Haunted by the “urgent mystery” of appearances, he employing a diverse set of media to explore several themes. Many of these were drawn from his immediate environment – be it his apartment or local pool – and all became objects of experimentation. Charles Matton’s boxes—created using a vast range of techniques— are artistic microcosms, part of his “strategy of encirclement” which fit together in the coherent complexity of his body of work.
Sylvie Matton is a writer, scriptwriter, journalist, and author of novels such as the best seller Rembrandt’s Whore. Paul Virilio, urbanist and philosopher, is an emeritus professor of architecture at the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris. Virilio provides the forward to the book, Matton an intimate essay.
© CHARLES MATTON: Enclosures by Sylvie Matton, Flammarion, 2011.
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