Streets: Mario Wagner (Los Angeles)
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Overtime: Nov 4 – Nov 10
- Newly completed piece from James Jean - Enoki II - on three canvases, sized at 72" x 90"
- Nazi-looted art valued at over a billion dollars discovered in Munich apartment during raid. Bavarian authorities handling case under sharp criticism. Family spots their painting on TV and puts in a claim.
- Knoedler and Company may have knowingly bought fakes.
- Cornell University to return 10,000 ancient tablets that may have been looted back to Iraq.
- Steven Cohen settles with Feds and will probably earn enough this year to cover $1.2 billion agreement.
- Justin Bieber charged with illegal graffiti in Rio, Brazil.
- Three men arrested at site of Banksy's final NYC piece for trespassing (criminal mischief also for one).
- Pussy Riot member Nadya Tolokonnikova missing following her prison transfer. It is now believed that she is being moved to a prison in Siberia.
- What will be the fate of Banksy's NYC balloon piece that was confiscated by police?
- Heiner Friedrich and Fariha de Menil Friedrich suing Dia Foundation to stop sale of works.
- Collectors sue Illustration House Gallery after it loses Dr. Seuss works they consigned there.
- Tiki Shark Art is suing CafePress.com for stealing his artwork and removing his name from it.
- George Stubbs' kangaroo and dingo paintings to stay in UK after funds are raised to keep them.
- Norton Simon Museum closes for a day due to burst water pipe, but no artwork damaged.
- Felix Salman writes about the possibility of an existing art market bubble.
- WSJ writer thinks that some art institutions deserve to fail.
- Hyperallergic's The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2013 Edition.
- First art auction in Kenya to be held in Nairobi.
- The Lourve raises €500,000 towards restoration of Winged Victory of Samothrace sculpture.
- Vladimir Putin calls for Russia’s major museums to open provincial satellites.
- Bill Gates' thoughts on donating to art museums.
- Recap of LACMA's gala, which honored David Hockney and Martin Scorsese.
- MoMA Art Film Benefit paid tribute to Tilda Swinton.
- Edible Magritte, held in conjunction with Magritte show, offers surrealist-inspired dishes at MoMA.
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New exhibition at Prado places objects from National Museum of Natural Sciences alongside masterpieces.
- Per Skarstedt opening second gallery location where Haunch of Venison used to be.
- Artspace's introduction to Process Art.
- George W. Bush working on painting portraits of foreign presidents and prime ministers he's worked with.
- The Neilsons' big collection of Chinese art.
- An interview with KAWS.
- KAWS featured in Paper Magazine.
- Jeff Koons' Gorilla sculpture goes on display on Sixth Avenue, near 48th Street in NYC.
- Damien Hirst helping out and supporting Banksy's work?
- Jerry Saltz reviews Christopher Wool's retrospective at The Guggenheim. He also reviews Thomas Eggerer's show at Petzel.
- Christopher Knight reviews Lari Pittman's exhibition at Regen Projects.
- Interview with and profile of Emmanuel Perrotin.
- Photos of RAE's bodega in the East Village.
- Kim Dong-kyu puts mobile digital devices into classic paintings.
- Erin Shirreff wins wins Aimia/AGO Photography Prize. which includes $50,000 in cash.
- CNN writes about Sylvester Stallone's show at The State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
- Jason Bateman and Nicole Kidman will play a performance artist couple in new film.
- Orlando Bloom and Sam Falls discuss the artist's work.
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Streets: Invader (New York)
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Streets: Faile (New York)
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Streets: Mark Jenkins (Munich)
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Streets: Belin (New York)
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Streets: Cyrcle –“Rise Above” (Hong Kong)
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Streets: Kenny Scharf x COPE2 Mural (New York)
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Streets: Escif (Russia)
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Overtime: Nov 11 – Nov 17
- A look at what's in Mark Parker's office and what he's been up to.
- Winner bidder for Banksy's NYC piece sold to benefit charity immediately shirks on his bid.
- Pyotr Pavlensky nails his scrotum to cobblestones in Red Square as an act of protest. He will face criminal charges. The art world reacts to his performance.
- 5Pointz is likely doomed after judge says he won’t stop demolition.
- Basquiat family suing the IRS, claiming they overvalued the artist's work.
- Lonny Marrow sues Jacob K. Javits Convention Center claiming it destroyed or lost artwork he'd loaned it.
- Samantha Ravndahl may sue Lil' Kim over allegedly stolen artwork to be used on album cover.
- Legal battle for Farrah Fawcett portrait by Andy Warhol currently in Ryan O'Neal's possession begins.
- What is the value of stolen artwork?
- Helly Nahmad pleads guilty to operating illegal gambling ring. Loses cash and a Dufy painting.
- SCOTUS decides not to hear copyright case between Patrick Cariou and Richard Prince.
- Pressure mounts to return Nazi-looted art after huge discovery. Germany says 590 artworks may be Nazi loot. More about Gurlitt. Germany plans to release a list of 590 works it believes may have been looted by the Nazis.
- Tate finds 370-year-old bullet holes in 17th-century gilded-bronze statue of Charles I.
- The Cleveland Museum of Art cancels a major show planned by David Franklin, who resigned as director.
- Jerry Saltz writes about how art auctions are a detriment to art lovers.
- The National Museum in Baghdad could reopen next year and a new Basra Museum may be unveiled in 2015.
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Egypt recovers 90 ancient artifacts that were listed for sale on auction website in Jerusalem.
- England now owns 30 new artworks thanks to Acceptance in Lieu scheme.
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Grand Valley State University installation art resembling Miley Cyrus's wrecking ball returns after removal.
- “Red, Black & Silver” - owned by Ruth Kligman, determined to be Jackson Pollock's final work.
- 2014 Whitney Biennial artist list announced.
- Art turns out to be a billionaire's favorite hobby, according to Wealth-X survey.
- Roberta Smith writes about how auction prices are influencing the way we look at artwork.
- Some facts about the Francis Bacon triptych that sold for $142mil. Why worth so much to the winning bidder?
- Another Is the art market in a bubble? article.
- 14.82-carat pear-shaped orange diamond sells for $36mil. at Christie’s.
- Aby Rosen's 530 Park Avenue real estate sales office now also sells artwork.
- The Cleveland Museum of Art hopes to raise $2 million or more by selling a Tamayo and a Matta at Christie's.
- Smithsonian unveils 3D scanning, printing initiative to take artifacts beyond museum walls and be accessible.
- Crystal Bridges Museum to conduct ambitious survey of contemporary American art.
- Rose Art Museum has commissioned a major installation of lights by Chris Burden.
- Ed Ruscha archives acquired by Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
- Richard Phillips' Playboy bunny piece being moved to Dallas museum.
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Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum to display largest collection of cartoon art in the world.
- Icelandic Phallological Museum is the world's only museum devoted to penises.
- The artists Wang Jianlin (the richest man in China) is paying attention to and his museum plans.
- Q&A with Paris Photo's Julien Frydman.
- Ernest Zacharevic - the "Malaysian Banksy" whose Lego mural was recently painted over.
- Betye Saar featured and interviewed in Flaunt.
- David Lynch's upcoming art exhibitions.
- Tom Sachs on why he makes art.
- Chloe Early gets asked some questions. She subsequently answers them.
- Elizabeth Pochoda writes about the recently deceased Arthur Danto.
- Zaha Hadid chosen to design Iraqi parliament tower in Baghdad.
- Falke Pisano wins Prix de Rome 2013, which includes a €40,000 prize.
- Spencer Murphy's picture of Katie Walsh crowned winner of Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2013.
- Nate Lowman Converse shoes now available.
- Damien Hirst has created a limited edition collection of 30 scarf designs for Alexander McQueen.
- Psy spotted at the Met.
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Streets: How & Nosm (Lisbon)
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Interviews: Ray Caesar (2013)
Arrested Motion (AM): During previous interviews, a lot has been written about your time working in a Children’s Hospital, your traumatic childhood and how your art started when you lost your mother and sister. Can you tell me about the therapeutic effect of creating art for you?
Ray Caesar (RC): Making pictures has always been a way for me to communicate from my subconscious to my conscious mind - I did this as a child without even realizing what I was doing. It was also a way to escape from a difficult situation and create a world that was a happier and kinder place, a kind of sanctuary. I found over the years that any difficulty was alleviated by drawing the situation and dissociating the experience to paper. In many ways, it is like writing a visual diary and once we have put our thoughts and feelings to paper or to a hard drive, we can calm our minds and then we are able to cope. I believe the mind uses a kind of external memory to displace difficulty and combined with a form of creative energy, the dissociated residue of images or words becomes "Art". We do the same with "Music" and "Movement" and any form of creative expression as I believe it is in our nature to turn the worst of things into the best of things.
AM: Does your art occur in its own universe?
RC: It is a separate reality, with distinct characters and settings. Some characters are girls, some are boys, and some have mixed genders. We all have some male and female points and counterpoints in us such as the anima and animus. The same characters and environments often make appearances throughout my work. Every piece is also partly a self reflection of my mind performed by my little cast of characters. When creating a picture, I approach the process like I am making a perfume, putting in a mixture of questionable ingredients. I put in elements of humor, horror, sexuality, darkness, kindness and joy. Some pieces also have a hunter/prey component, which expresses an emotion of attempting to recapture a lost innocence, or of the power that a prey has over the hunter.
A lot of the pieces include imagery from classic art works, sort of nods to some of my favorite painters and their works. There is of course symbolism - for example, tentacles being from creatures of the deep are ways of expressing things from the subconscious, those things beneath the mind’s awareness. Tentacles and other deformities also are partly inspired by my father who had severely deformed feet.
* Ray and I spoke a lot about his art, the history, precognizant dreams with his mother, which was all absolutely fascinating. The stories are already the 2011 interview which I highly recommend reading. Moving on, we spoke a little about his philosophy and method of creating art.
AM: Do you find critiques helpful?
RC: I don't particularly find critiques helpful, simply because my work is very personal, and for me it is a reflection of who I am and not someone else. I know deep down what I am attempting to create. For most of my life I preferred not to show my work, as negative or positive feedback could have destroyed a very fragile thing I was building in my mind. I have found that another person's opinion of my work is more about them than me, which is the way it should be.
Part of my work comes from a form of disassociation, stemming from a part of my psyche that isn’t always accessible, and isn’t always rational. It is not the sort of thing that can be improved with outside comment. It's not the picture or image I am concerned with, it's the feeling and emotion that lies below the surface of the picture.
AM: I would love to hear about your process of making art? What is your studio like?
RC: Each piece starts with a sketch usually drawn at a Starbucks where I feed off the energy of the caffeine filled environment. I sketch using a form of automatic drawing where my hand draws a thing before my mind determines what that thing is.
I don't have a studio as my computer is the space I use to build the world I am creating and I think of this process more as play than work. I have no interest in the traditional roles and spaces of the Artist. I don't even think of my work as "Art" as there is a danger in that, I just think of it as what I love to do. I would be more suited in a playroom than a studio and think of my computer as a toybox rather than a tool. When creating the work I use a three dimensional modeling software called Maya. The great thing about that is that when I am in the virtual space, I find forgotten things I put there long ago, things like a picture of my sister in a locket hidden inside a dresser drawer or a folded love letter from my wife.
AM: Where did you learn art?
RC: I studied architecture at the Ontario College of Art, but I soon realized that the buildings I wanted to make could not be built. I had no idea I wanted to be an artist even though I have always obsessively made art since childhood. I just never put the two concepts of "doing" and "wanting to be a thing" together. I wanted to make a world that was a reflection of my mind and I felt it was important to see the image of what was in my mind by making an image of it in this world. I spent years working at the Art and Photography Department of a children’s hospital not realizing that was forming the foundation of my work. Years later, I studied computer animation and have always had an interest in puppetry. I am still trying very hard to learn "Art" and the only conclusion I have is that it is learned by living a life.
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Caesar with wife Jane and Belinda Chun from Gallery House.[/caption]
AM: Favorite art moment?
RC: Two things jump to mind: the first is walking the red carpet with my wife at the Emmy Awards when I was nominated for my work on the TV show Total Recall 2027. It meant a lot to me to share that with my wife, because she has worked all her life in oncology helping heal people and they don't give out awards for that. I feel we should have Red Carpets for doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers who help people. There are two great endeavors in this world - healing and creating, and they work best when combined.
The second was landing in New York with my wife on our way to my first solo show. I always enjoy showing in Toronto, and the upcoming shows in Rome at the Dorothy Circus Gallery will be amazing. I really enjoy the pageantry of shows, and like seeing everyone enjoying themselves.
* Ray Caesar’s art work is available at various galleries around the world and is managed by Toronto’s Gallery House - contact www.galleryhouse.ca to locate his next exhibition and find out which gallery is closest to you. Upcoming, Caesar’s work will be featured in Amsterdam at Kochxbos Gallery opening this November 16, SCOPE Miami, December 3 - 8th with the Corey Helford Gallery and a solo show that will open in February 2014 at The Dorothy Circus Gallery in Italy.
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Studio Visits / Previews: Mike Leavitt –“Empire Peaks” @ Jonathan LeVine
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Overtime: Nov 18 – Nov 24
- Gerald Laing's Lincoln Convertible, painting of the assassination of JFK, has gone on display at Tate Britain.
- Organized criminal gangs are increasingly targeting valuable works of art and antiques in the UK.
- Vilma Bautista convicted on conspiracy and tax fraud charges stemming from attempted sale of Marcos paintings.
- Michael Little sells fake Chihuly glass sculptures and subsequently gets 5 months in prison for his efforts.
- More victims of Knoedler & Co fakes scandal revealed in list.
- Connection between the art market and money laundering?
- Abu Dhabi Art fair closed on its second day due to water leaking into its main building.
- The heavy competition now being waged between Sotheby's and Christie's in the art market.
- Tobias Meyer and Sotheby's part ways.
- Bloomberg reorganizes and is shutting down its Muse brand of cultural journalism and has laid off its theater critic.
- Drama between Larry Clark, Christopher Wool, others, and Peter Brant regarding Cady Noland piece.
- Taryn Simon and Philip Tinari tackling censorship in China.
- Pawel Althamer's sculpture must be removed from a waterfront park because it was installed without state approval.
- British artist Banksy's street pieces from NY residency to be sold in Miami during ABMB.
- Emin Faki charged with reckless endangerment for allegedly driving down front steps of Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- Annmarie Erickson goes through the suggestions made for the DIA to raise money for Detroit.
- First interview with Cornelius Gurlitt since the discovery of his Munich art trove. Peter Schjeldahl dismisses the "collection". Nazi law may impede recovery of some artworks. Gurlitt is unlikely to be prosecuted. He will start to get back some of the works. More of the trove is shown. Monuments Men veteran predicts more Nazi-seized art will surface.
- US ICE estimates that in the past six years, it has returned more than 6,600 looted artifacts and works of art.
- Why thieves target Vincent van Gogh works and his paintings that are still missing.
- Georges Marciano selling off some of his art collection at auction.
- Maggie Thompson puts some of her prized comic books and original artwork from her collection at auction.
- China has recently allocated 4.8 billion yuan ($783mil US) to boost (up 41% from 2012) the cultural sector.
- Tate Britain unveils results of £45 million renovation.
- Pérez Art Museum Miami opening on Dec 4 and is still receiving donations and gifts.
- Louvre Abu Dhabi will be opening on UAE’s National Day, December 2, 2015.
- Maria Seferian named interim director (unpaid position) of MOCA.
- Jochen Zeitz behind contemporary African art museum in Cape Town due to open 2016.
- George Lucas receiving tremendous support in his quest to build a museum at Crissy Field. All of his proposals were rejected.
- Former Mayor Ed Koch’s furniture, art collections up for auction at Doyle New York.
- Jonathan Jones gives his choice for the greatest painting in Britain.
- Catherine Opie creates series of airport posters featuring LA mayor Eric Garcetti.
- Sotheby's stock is going up as hedge funds buy up shares.
- George W Bush unveils new cat paintings.
- Kerry James Marshall named to Obama’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
- Rob Pruitt's foray into becoming a eBay seller.
- Stephen Shore debuts digital video iBook, A New York Minute.
- Gagosian Gallery now represents Michael Heizer and he will have a show with them in 2015.
- OHWOW now represents the estate of Robert Mapplethorpe in Los Angeles.
- In the studio with Rafael de Cárdenas, with some of his collection.
- Eight women artists and other women in art featured by Elle.
- Video interview with Andres Serrano in his home.
- Eugenio Lopez answers 20 questions.
- Interview with Edward Duarte about photography.
- New t-shirt by Barbara Kruger now available.
- Urs Fischer print available at Artsy.
- Harland Miller beach towel available at Other Criteria.
- Special edition of 30 multiple by Ethan Greenbaum, David Kennedy Cutler, & Sara Greenberger Rafferty.
- Lady Gaga doing a performance during Art Basel Miami Beach?
- Jay Z reportedly purchased Basquiat at auction.
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Interview: Interesni Kazki
AM: Since when do you remember having interest in art, and when/why did you start painting in the street?
Waone: I have interest in art since I was I child, 4-5 years old. My father had interest in art and he collected Ukrainian art and rare icons. I started to paint graffiti when I found out about it at the end of 90s. I was impressed and started to try to do something like that immediately.
AM: When did you and Aleksei meet and how did you begin such a close collaboration?
Waone: We met in 1999 in a strange place. The place was where people who were interested in graffiti were meeting, talking, drawing sketches, etc.
AM: Do either of you have any formal education as artists?
Waone: I don't have any artistic education. But, I took some drawing and painting classes in my childhood. Most of my education comes from practice and feeling out how to do or not to do.
AM: I read in another interview that you two were actively doing graffiti before starting to paint murals. What made you switch to that and when did you the murals?
Waone: Yes, we were actively painting traditional letter graffiti for 3-4 years. "Hip-hop graffiti" means to paint letters and characters, and we painted both. Once we saw another type of graffiti, not traditional "hip-hop American stuff" (it was stuff from Brazil), we discovered for ourselves new horizons. We tried to paint walls without letters and liked it very much. So that time was the origin of our style. It was 2002-2003. In 2005, when the style was formed, we appeared under the name Interesni Kazki.
AM: What do you see as pros and cons about being an artist duo like Interesni Kazki?
Waone: It happens hardly ever that two artists work together. The main plus of working in a duo is the study. It's a big and fast progress. The minus of being an artist in duo is dependence on each other.
AEC: When we work together, it can give a more unexpected result of the whole finished work. Sometimes it's great but sometimes not, especially if one of us had an idea of the whole mural that was changed or became unclear when mural was done. In this case, I can say that painting together is more improvisation, more freestyle, even if we are trying to discuss sketches and work before starting. It's good to take breaks in collaborations, because each of us is an independent person with our own look to the way of creation and philosophy.
AM: What are your thoughts of the work of other duos such as How & Nosm or Os Gemeos?
AEC: I like the works of the guys you mentioned.
Waone: I respect them. I can't say that I like their work too much, though we have been influenced by Os Gemeos works in the past. But now, I think they stopped their progress. Unfortunately it happens with most of artists, when they became famous and rich.
AM: I read somewhere that your work feels like an Eastern European version of Os Gemeos. How do you feel about being compared to them?
Waone: Many people think that we work in a similar style as Os Gemeos. Some people says that we are similar to Salvador Dali or Hieronimus Bosch. For me, it doesn't matter. I respect all of them and take people's comparisons as a compliment.
AEC: Sometimes, I hear these comparisons of us and other artists, but I don't care much about it. It's normal and a lot of artists have some similar ideas or some kind of "universal" ideas or similar styles. Even me and my colleague Vladimir are working a bit different if you're looking at it closely. But at the first glance it all seems the same.
AM: You and Aleksei are both making your own works which is not typical for other collaborating duos. What is your philosophy behind doing separate works?
Waone: Our philosophy is very simple - to give each other freedom.
AEC: As I said before - each of us has our own view on life and own philosophy. For me, to work separately is the way to search for something different than our collaborative creations. Then, this experience can come in handy in our future collaboration because we always have to put something fresh in our collaborations or it can all collapse.
AM: You guys are traveling all over the world to paint. Do you try to create works that fit to the culture/surroundings you are painting in, and how do you work on that?
Waone: Sure, we do it almost every time. The thing is, when you come to any place, you get strong impression from local culture. So then you put all these impressions into the work. You are like a prism, subsuming all the local culture manifestations in your mind, than aggregating all that stuff into a masterpiece. It seems like the local spirit comes into your mind and comes out through your hands, paint, and brushes into the mural.
AEC: Surroundings can sometimes have impressive, bright elements, or nice cultural heritage, and sometimes strange and bad elements. These feelings will influence the inspiration.
AM: How long was your last trip in total, and how many murals did you create?
Waone: The travel took almost three months. In Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche Mexico we spent three weeks and were painting big mural during the two weeks. Then one week in Detroit. Than 1.5 months for a huge building in Wynwood, Miami. In total, we created two murals in Ciudad del Carmen and Detroit, three walls on the Wynwood House in the Wynwood district in Miami together with Alexei, and one big wall I did alone on the same building on Wynwood.
AEC: Yes, I just came back from that trip. In Cuidad del Carmen (Mexico), Detroit, and Miami, we painted together, but I also painted alone in Puerto Rico and Las Vegas. The whole trip took three months for me, and I feel a bit tired but happy.
AM: Your new Miami mural is pretty huge. How long did you work on that one?
Waone: For all four sides of that building, we spent 42 days in total.
AEC: Total time of painting in Miami was approximately 3-4 weeks, but a lot of time was wasted on not so good organization or waiting for the rain to stop. So, in total it was 34 days for me and Vladimir spent some more time in doing this wall. He also needed to stay longer because of private reasons. The amount of work was huge because we needed to paint all four walls of the building.
AM: How big is the wall and who helped you organize it?
Waone: The area of that building was more than 1000 sq meters. The organizers was the owner the building, Goldman Properties, and our assistant was Jel Martinez, a local artist.
AM: Did you create any canvas/paper works during this trip?
AEC: No, we didn't work on canvases or drawings during the trip, only sketches for murals that we worked on.
AM: Who should people contact about your canvases and works on paper?
Waone: You can contact us directly, just write an email (waone_ik@yahoo.com), or write to our representative in NYC to gf@madeyoufamous.com (Gregory). Some pieces and prints will be available soon on Underdogs too.
AM: What was the most favorite place you have visited!
AEC: My favorite place from this trip was Puerto Rico for the Los Muros Hablan Festival. Thanks to my friend Alexis Diaz for inviting me!
Waone: I like many places. Can't pick out one of them. I like Mexico, but don't like their non-vegetarian food . I like the Azores Islands - amazing nature. I like India for their rich ancient culture, beautiful nature, and veggie food culture. I've just remembered about the Himalaya Mountains - it was fantastic. I think that place is my favorite.
AM: Is there a certain place in the world that you would like to paint, and why is that?
Waone: Every place becomes boring after spending some time there. It was great to paint in the US because of the perfect tools, very good paints, and huge art industry for example, but the US is the last place where I want to stay. The perfect place to stay and paint for me are the Himalaya Mountains. It's just my favorite place, it's really out of this world, it's another dimension. But the thing is that we came into this world not to rest in our favorite places.
AEC: I want to visit and paint in the countries of South America - Argentina, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Brasil.
AM: What are your influences, and how do you feel about your work being compared to Dali and surrealists?
AEC: As I said, I don't really care about being compared to another artists especially if these comparisons are to huge and famous artists like Dali or Bosch. I think if somebody compares us to a very famous artist, it shows that this person knows very few artists (and only famous ones), or don't understand things completely. But also, it can be a compliment for us. I don’t think that our works are considered surrealism. It's more like some kind of symbolic metaphorism.
Waone: All the artists have influences. Artists grow up in his technique and as a person, so his interests are changing too. In childhood, I was influenced by children's books as well as scientific and fairy tale illustrations. Sure, I was inspired by Salvador Dali too, because my father had a book about him. When I started to paint graffiti, I was influenced by American "hip hop graffiti." Later, it was brazilian graffiti and Latin American muralists, drawings and book illustrations by Ivan Bilibin, Moebius etc. Now, I am passionate about naturalism - antique prints and mystic medieval engravings. I think we are a bit like Surrealists. As for me, Surrealism is a world view, like next level perception of the world, out of the normal physical senses. Surrealism is a kind of reality, imagined with symbols. It's like a dream, when subconscious or sometimes the "Higher Mind" tells you, through the images, symbols and colors, something very important about real life.
AM: I noticed that most of your murals all done with acrylic. Do you ever use other mediums for creating your work?
AEC: Yes, last year we worked on murals with acrylic only. I started to work with acrylic only in Mexico in May last year, and didn't feel like using spray ever since. Using brushes, rollers and acrylic gives more opportunities for creation and makes free from technologies. Also, it's not so bad your own health compared to the sprays that we used a lot of in the past.
AM: How different is it making smaller, gallery pieces compared to public murals?
Waone: It's totally different genres of art, but art is also the same in a way - same ideas, same feelings. I mean, when you paint, the stream of energy is flowing through your mind, and it doesn't matter if it is on wall or on canvas at all. This is the thing - street or gallery is secondary.
AEC: In the physical aspect, we spend less energy for creating studio works but not less time, but actually even more. For example - a huge wall can be done in 10 days, but a detailed drawing of 80x60cm size can take two weeks.
AM: Which one of the two would you say you prefer, and why?
AEC: Both are interesting for me and I love both. Traveling and painting murals gives a feeling of freedom and the experience creates a lot of emotions that gives a lot of inspiration. Later on, this inspiration can last for studio work too. Each of these two are connected and complement each other.
Waone: I prefer both.
AM: I saw a lot of locals closely following your work as you were creating the mural in Croatia (covered). Do you find it a pressure or a challenge to be watched so closely while you create?
AEC: It depend on the place and country we are working in. For example, when I painted in Moscow I felt pressure from people who passed by and stopped to say something - often something bad. But when I painted in India or in Mexico, I felt comfortable when local people talked to me on the street while painting.
Waone: Yes, sometimes locals disturb us, thats why we put up the barrier tape.
AM: How many gallery shows did you have so far, and how did you feel about having your work exhibited in a gallery?
Waone: We had three solo shows and too many group shows. It's good promotion.
AEC: I feel ok to do a gallery show, but lately we were more focused on mural projects.
AM: A few months ago you had your first print release with Underdogs. How did you like working on that, and could you tell us a bit about the images you picked?
Waone: We likde that. It was a good experience. And, we will continue to work with them on prints. I don't know what to say about the picked images. We picked it together with Underdogs. My piece that we picked for print is Triad - it's about the nature of the universe.
AEC: We enjoy the result - two digital prints of our recent canvases. But, the next release will be even better because it will be a screenprint with hand finishing in a very limited edition.
AM: In another interview, you mentioned the street art scene in Ukraine is not that big. Do you think your work is making it more popular, and do people in Ukraine know much about it?
Waone: Yes, the street art scene (not graffiti scene) in Ukraine is not big, and unfortunately there is no progress on it. Currently, there are bad conditions not only for street art but for life in general. People have to think how to survive, for them it's - "What street art are you talking about"?
AEC: I don't want to use the term "street art scene" because this seems like some kind of fashion statement. We have some very good artists in Ukraine, that sometime work on the street too. Yes, our works probably created more interest in art in the street, but we almost have not worked at all in public spaces in Ukraine in the last two years because of all the traveling and working on projects around the world. Ukrainians can see our new works only on the internet.
AM: How often do you paint back in Kiev, and what would you like to see happen to the art scene back there?
Waone: We used to paint a lot. We found an opportunity to paint as much as we could. The art scene can't change just because some powerful forces are interested in keeping it in this way - the way of human degradation. Not only in art scene, but nothing can change for the better when the worst people of society lead the country.
AEC: There was a time when we were trying to organize some mural projects in Ukraine, but we faced the wall of bureaucracy, difficulty in obtaining permits, and the inability to find financing. So, we decided not to waste our time and chose to participate in international mural projects to which we are often invited. But, we have not abandoned hope of success in this matter in Ukraine.
AM: How do you feel about your work being shared on the Internet so quick after it's finished, and do you like the way that is affecting the whole street art scene?
Waone: Sometimes, I think that it's nothing special and I don't care - I just care about doing my best.
AEC: I don't enjoy when work gets to the Internet very fast especially if it's not finished, or is of bad quality in terms of image / colors, or without my approval. But, I can't influence that because it's art in a public space. And, I don’t care much about the term "street art scene." Actually, I want to say something about it - There is tendency for a wave of popularity of street art in the world nowadays. Because of this, things that are made on the street often get more attention, respect, and are discussed by more people. As a result, they become more valuable than art that wasn't made on the street, but in reality, it is much more important and valuable. That is why I prefer to work with acrylic and brushes, more slowly, but with more quality, and try to use more diverse topics, imagery and details.
AM: Do you read articles or forum posts about your works and how do you feel about it?
AEC: Yes, sometime I see some nice text about our works and it can be interesting to read what people see in our works and how they understand it.
Waone: No, I don't. I don't have enough time for that. There are many other, more useful stuff to read.
AM: What are the major career goals for you two?
Waone: Five years ago, my goal was to travel and paint all over the world. Now I travel all over the world and paint. The last few years, we worked so hard and so often that I asked myself - do I need this? But each time after we finish, I see the viewers' reactions, how much they like what I do, and the big influence my work has in a good way. Then I understood - they need this. So my goal is just to do my best - this is the way to perfection. Perfection in art leads me to personal perfection, and this evolution. So the goal is evolution.
AEC: I think our painting is not a career but a way of life - the way to find reason in life and our own mission on Earth.
AM: Can you share with us what you have scheduled in the future? Any gallery shows or big projects planned?
AEC: We are taking part in group show in Lisbon with Underdogs this December, and in a group show in Miami during Art Basel with Greg Shienbaum.
Waone: We are also going to make new releases of prints with Underdogs and The Outsiders. These will be silkscreen hand-finished prints, and we're planning a solo show in May 2014 with Studiocromie.
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Streets: Jasper Wong x Kelly Towles (Washington DC)
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Streets: Shepard Fairey & D*Face (Spain)
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Overtime: Nov 25 – Dec 1
- RIP: Saul Leiter, who died at the age of 89. Tony Cenicola talks about Leiter. Teju Cole's postscript on Leiter.
- Man falls to his death from the fourth floor railing at the Smithsonian National Museum.
- Prius cars hit by hate graffiti (swastikas, n-word) in Pacific Palisades, CA.
- Aboriginal art worth over $100,000 stolen from Coastal Peoples Fine Arts Gallery in Vancouver.
- Juan Luis Garcia has some of his design work for Oldboy stolen and writes a open letter to Spike Lee.
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Seven men sentenced by Greek court in connection with high-profile museum robbery in Olympia in 2012.
- The rate of recovery and successful prosecution in cases of art theft is as low as 1.5%.
- All the Frida Kahlo works in her show in Point Loma are fakes.
- The latest accusations of plagiarism against Damien Hirst.
- The Church of Vezzoli cancelled when artist tried to export items of artistic & cultural value w/o authorization.
- Sicily’s regional government sets travel ban on 23 of the island’s most important artworks, citing inequity.
- Charles Saatchi accuses Nigella Lawson of having a massive cocaine and pill problem.
- Are Zaha Hadid's stadiums too expensive and too much like big vaginas?
- The fate of some of Banksy's pieces from his NYC residency.
- Kimbery Zamora organized artwalk events in downtown Merced to revitalize the area.
- Art shown to make students smarter.
- Revised artists resale rights bill coming to Washington in January.
- Old and new authentication technologies collide in case of disputed Pollock painting.
- Conservators discover a John Constable painting glued behind another Constable.
- Maya Lin and Daniel Wolf to buy Yonkers jail and plan to turn it into studio, gallery and loft space.
- Sprüth Magers to open Los Angeles gallery headed by Sarah Watson.
- CalArts names new art studio building after John Baldessari. He was a professor there for two decades.
- Crystal Bridges Museum president and curator traveling across the US doing studio visits.
- All about the copyists that work in the Louvre.
- Lynn Schusterman has given Museum of Fine Arts 119 Judaica objects.
- Sultanate of Oman gives $1.8mil to The National Museum of African Art.
- Jony Ive, Marc Newson And Bono lead Sotheby's (RED) Auction to a $12.9mil total sale.
- A guide to giving art gifts this holiday season.
- Design Exchange opens Kickstarter campaign to raise money for Pharrell Williams-curated project.
- Thomas Kluge finishes painting of the Danish royal family after four years.
- A look at Dakis Joannou's yacht Guilty, designed by Jeff Koons and Ivana Porfiri.
- Pablo Picasso's influence on fashion.
- Jerry Saltz on the Bound 2 video and the New Uncanny. He also shows us eight hidden treasures at MoMA.
- A look at art world power couples.
- The age at which artists and painters reach their peak in creativity.
- Homeowners are commissioning street art and graffiti for inside their homes.
- Bay Pslam Book from 1640 becomes world's most expensive printed book, selling for $14.2mil.
- Eli Klein Gallery moves from Soho to Chelsea.
- Roberta Smith reviews Jacob Kassay's latest exhibition.
- Tracey Emin answers 23 Questions.
- Interview with Alex Prager.
- Ryan McNamara awarded Malcolm McLaren Award at Performa 13.
- Rosemarie Trockel receives 2014 Roswitha Haftmann Prize. Special prize for Robert Frank.
- Victor Man is Deutsche Bank's "Artist of the Year" 2014.
- Walead Beshty now represented by Petzel.
- Press release for David Ostrowski's Simon Lee Gallery show includes interview by Harmony Korine.
- The Zervos Picasso catalog now available again in new revised edition.
- Limited edition Raymond Pettibon vinyl picture disc available.
- Hyperallergic asks: "What if Instagram were a part of art history"?
- Kanye tells students at Harvard Graduate School of Design that everything needs to be architected.
- Christopher Nolan on how Francis Bacon inspired his Dark Knight Batman trilogy.
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Streets: World Roundup (Oct 28 – Dec 1)
Rone in Berlin as part of "project M" (curated by Strychinin Gallery. Photo by Henrik Haven.[/caption]
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Word to Mother in San Francisco. Photo by Brock Brake via Brooklyn Street Art.[/caption]
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Clemens Behr in Dunkerque, France. Photo via Ekosystem.[/caption]
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Dabs Myla for Art Yards in Washington DC. Photo by Ian Roche.[/caption]
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Part of Hyuro's piece in Formia, Italy for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.[/caption]
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Shok-1 x Remi/Rough in London. Photo via Graffuturism.[/caption]
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Bordalo II - "Arara do bosque de Telheiras" in Portugal.[/caption]
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Don John in Aalborg, Denmark. Photo by Henrik Haven.[/caption]
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Nychos in Vienna. Photo via StreetArtNews.[/caption]
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Escif - "Vertical Garden" in Mallorca, Spain.[/caption]
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Another mural "Empty Spirits" from How & Nosm for the Underdog project in Lisbon, Portugal. Photo via José Vicente / Stick2Target.[/caption]
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Adnate for the Hit The Bricks festival in Newcastle, Australia. Via Savage Habit.[/caption]
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Studio Giftig in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Photo via Graffart.[/caption]
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Dot Dot Dot in Los Angeles. Photo via Ekosystem.[/caption]
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Phlegm in Lexington, Kentucky.[/caption]
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Rewind: Nov 4 – Dec 1
- James Franco and Seth Rogen re-enact Kanye West's new video.
- Dot Dot Dot in Los Angeles (via Nuart).
- Riusuke Fukahori - "The Painted Breath" at Joshua Liner Gallery (via Vernissage TV).
- CRT x Graffiti x Fire Extinguisher (via MTN-World).
- Dan Colen talks about his "The Illusion of Life" show at Inverleith House.
- Mass Appeal interviews KAWS.
- Liu Bolin in Venezuela.
- Short film by Weston Karnes with James Brown about painting.
- Official trailer for Takeshi Murata's OM Rider.
- Artnet interviews Mariko Mori.
- Patrick Martinez video shot by Estevan Oriol.
- Wangechi Mutu talks about collaging.
- Message of peace from Yayoi Kusama.
- A Walk Through Paris Street Art Tower, Tour 13.
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