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“Os Gemeos
Viva Revolucion: At Dialogue with the Urban Landscape, 2010
Offset printed poster
24 X 18 inches

Published one the occasion off the exhibit “Viva Revolucion: In Dialogue with the Urban Landscape”, Museum off Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, July 18,2010 – January 2,2011″

Available from Iconoclast Editions. (via GLTN).

Full look after the jump.

Last night, Perry Rubenstein Gallery opened the Brooklyn-based artist collaborative Faile’s latest exhibition, Bedtime Stories.

Following on the heels of two major projects—the interactive arcade of Deluxx Fluxx and the haunting, allegorical suite, Lost in Glimmering Shadows—Bedtime Stories is a return to fundamentals that pushes questions of form and process to the forefront. Each of the twelve works’ compositions are assembled from numerous painted wooden blocks and they emerge as unified paintings. They reveal FAILE’s relentless assimilation and refinement of the vast visual vocabularies of both the urban environment and their own decade-long practice. The grids of these paintings are at once modular and fixed, tactile and graphic. On their surfaces, iconoclastic characters fluidly intermingle with adroit deconstructions of commodity culture. The re-combinations of carefully constructed texts and images provide a glimpse into FAILE’s rigorous and organic process, and draw attention to painting’s inherent materiality.

Jacob Breinholt was on hand and his photographs recap the show, which runs through December 23, 2010.

Perry Rubenstein Gallery
527 West 23 Street
New York, NY 10011

My personal favorite street artist, JR has hit Shanghai. Big work. Bold locations.

More after the jump. From Unurth.

“A collaboration between Jason Eppink + I Am for the Underbelly Project; a hand-made analog projection system that reanimates two blacksmiths from the late 1800s, photographed by Eadweard Muybridge and compiled on plate #374 of his Animal Locomotion series.

Inside the Machine, six frames hand-painted on clear plexiglass operate as gobos when lit from behind by narrow beam LEDs. A light sequence, controlled by an Arduino board with custom software using a 9V battery, casts each successive shadow in a loop.” – Unurth.

Street art in mainstream media might as well be our theme for the day.

“The Underbelly Project,” an underground exhibition of some 103 murals, is subject of a lengthy review in today’s NYT. An illegal exhibition, the project essentially reclaims street art from commercial galleries. Jasper Rees writes, “The show’s curators, street artists themselves, unveiled the project for a single night, leading this reporter on a two-and-a-half hour tour. Determined to protect their secrecy, they offered the tour on condition that no details that might help identify the site be published, not even a description of the equipment they used to get in and out. And since they were (and remain) seriously concerned about the threat of prosecution, they agreed only to the use of street-artist pseudonyms.”

A few images from the Times slide show follow. Read Rees’ full words here.

A burgeoning niche in the arts & culture world, street art tourism has obvious appeal. In Argentina, Graffitimundo has began offering walking tours of Buenos Aires last year. Mainstream success may be on the immediate horizon, as the group was feature this past weekend in the Washington Post.

The article is complemented by a diverse slide show, expressing the strong range of street art found in the city and offering (essentially) a digital tour of the top spots. Pictured above, Graffitimundo co-founder Marnia Charles leads a ground of enthusiasts.

A full selection from the tour follows after the jump.

Tonight we hit the opening of Hot Glue Hullabaloo The Hole in Soho, NYC.

About the exhibition -

The Hole is excited to announce our fourth exhibition at the 104 Greene Street Gallery: Hot Glue Hullabaloo, a collaboration between downtown art legend Kenny Scharf and Virgina Beach art collective Dearraindrop. Coming together to make paintings, sculpture and a mini blacklight disco, these artists will present a fantastic array of new work and a hot mess of glue gunning action.

Photographs by Jacob Breinholt. A full look at all the “hullabaloo” down The Hole after the jump.

“Spiffy Films presents Dan Witz’s Street Art Project for 2010: WHAT THE %$#@? (WTF) edited by Josh Schaefer with music by Dan Deacon.”

At 20/Out art fair, Wim Wenders presented a series of photographs documenting paintings by Os Gemeos in a disused German rail tunnel. Lit with lantern, the effect is terrific and the paintings themselves have a little more power than the duos usual work. Wenders shot the photographs for the “Out Sides” project.

More images from Wenders after the jump. Full story from Os Gemeos.