Art Battles Artist of the Day is: Klot aka Johannes Klundinger from Berlin Germany
We can’t wait to see him at ArtBattles 2012 Berlin this summer!
Yesterday we went to the opening of Brucennial at 159 Bleecker,
(former site of Art Battles Pop Up Gallery 2012)
This is put on by the Bruce High Quality Foundation and Vito Schnabel and in case you aren’t familiar with them their mission statement here it is:
The Bruce High Quality Foundation was created to foster an alternative to everything.
That said they put together their answer to the Whitney Biennial and The New Museum Triennial, both under way.
Showing are close to 400 artists using every inch of the massive space.
The opening was packed, with art, with people, with PBR’s (10 trash cans full)!
We snapped so images above but nothing was named or numbered so we’ll have to go back and see who did them later!
To read more check out this NYTIMES.COM article
For Valentine’s Day we ventured over to the Hole Gallery on Bowery between Houston and Bleeker for the opening of Theo A. Rosenblum & Chelsea Seltzer’s “Two Heads are Better than One”
Quite appropriate theme for the Day, these two artists have worked in tandem for years creating a world of plastic bizzarness. Their found paintings are repainted and individually framed with hand molded odd plastic frames. A simple painting of a country home becomes an odd party scene with cartoony like figure’s passed out on the porch and crazy images all around. An assortment of fast food surrounds a romantic painting of wild horses charging across a rainbow, and a simple painting of a nude becomes a scene of a cartoon bug eyed man groping her.
Our favorite was the “Snow Manimal” however. Somehow the Horse torso and the plastic snowman fit together so well, it is so bad it rounds back to good.
This is mentioned to be the curatorial premiss as a matter of fact. These artists vibe are similar to the Japanese Heta-Uma (literally good-bad) movement of Japanese punk artist King Terry articulated. As they explained in the write up for the show,
“ Something “technically” bad that challenges the notion of “bad” by being sensually and conceptually amazing: a wonky line often describes a face much more evocatively than a perfectly rendered photo-realist drawing, for example. In Rosenblum and Seltzer’s world, these hand-sculptured and not-quite-right forms—and even the “handmade” and wonky ideas that form them—are much more exciting than a fabricated (or logical) version would be.”
Also at the back of the gallery is a wall of their drawings which became the show. It is always interesting to see how fetal ideas become full blown creations. It gives the show strength.
Great show go check it out and decide for yourself if its “good” or “bad”
Theo A. Rosenblum and Chelsea Seltzer
Two Heads are Better than One
February 14th – March 17th, 2012
Here are some artworks created by our four artists competing this Friday!
Art Battles at Le Poisson Rouge 159 Bleecker
Doors at 7pm $20 Cover Music by DJ Kalkutta
Half Time SHow by Indie Hip Hop Duo Tanya Morgan
Old Soulz Entertainment does a lot for Live Art in NYC, especially featuring a multiple Art Battles Champion Pesu! Check out their 2011 Reel!
Love Save Japan!
![All we gotta say is “lenticular graffiti” AMAZING
archiemcphee:
“A latticed warehouse door at Corby House on Curtain Road in London provides the ideal setting for lenticular graffiti, and by far the best use of it (so far) was this rabbit by ROA [one of the Geyser of Awesome’s favourite street artists]. From one angle, you can see a fairly realistic rendering of a furry rabbit, and from the other you get a black silhouette with the rabbit’s veins and arteries showing in bright red.”
Photo by grievousbodilycharm
[via WebUrbanist]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw4bx19s6u1qzfsnio1_500.jpg)
All we gotta say is “lenticular graffiti” AMAZING
“A latticed warehouse door at Corby House on Curtain Road in London provides the ideal setting for lenticular graffiti, and by far the best use of it (so far) was this rabbit by ROA [one of the Geyser of Awesome’s favourite street artists]. From one angle, you can see a fairly realistic rendering of a furry rabbit, and from the other you get a black silhouette with the rabbit’s veins and arteries showing in bright red.”
Photo by grievousbodilycharm
[via WebUrbanist]
We went to Bold Hype Gallery last Thursday for the “Their Bones Are Coral Made” Exhibition by art couple kozyndan.
They are known for their album covers for Postal Service “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight” and for Weezer, as well as extensive illustration work however recently have been having fine art exhibitions in places like Toronto and Melbourne.
Their work is very marine based and is a bit humorous as well as well executed in the classic illustration media of gouche on paper.
They intertwine lovemaking (and some odd recreational activities) with slugs in their tiny pieces created withlining one of the walls, creating an almost slug kama sutra that they pull off with charm.
Another great choice was their Medusa Mandala series of three Mandala’s created with gouche on black backgrounds, however when they tried to recreate on on the large commanding wall of the small gallery it was missing some level of craftsmanship. Perhaps the couple should stick to their smaller sized pieces where they can work tightly within their favorite mediums.
Overall a cool show at one of our favorite galleries!
Dec 8-Jan 14th
