Eltono Show in Sao Paulo

Eltono “Invertidos” Vernissage
ROJO®artspace Sao Paulo
18.12.2007 – 18.01.2008


Art exhibition of french artist, displaying a selection of his new artworks.

Eltono presents a well intended conversation between the street art and the
gallery art. Artwork made out of collected materials from public spaces are to
be reproduced maintaining the originals in the streets of the city.

Vernissage tuesday 18.12.2007 from 19:30h to 23:30h
ROJO®artspace Sao Paulo
POP. Rua Virgilio de Carvalho Pinto, 297
05415-030 Pinheiros. Sao Paulo.
Brazil

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OS BRASILEIROS Party in Brazil

The Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art is hosting “Os Brasileiros” pre-show party in São Paulo Brazil on Saturday December 22nd to celebrate their Los Angeles show that will be opening January 5, 2008 featuring artists from all over Brazil including Akeni, Alexandre Anjo, Alexandre Yassu, Andre Firmiano, Binho Barreto, Binho Ribeiro, Bruno Kurru, Ciro Schu, Dalata, Daniel Bileu, Dask Two, DOC, Does, Flavio Morais, Flavio Samelo, Flip, Graphis, Hyper, Jana Joana, Jey, Kaleb, Mateus Bailon, Milo, Pankill, Pato, Paulo Ito, Petite Poupee7, Prila, Raquel Schembri, Rodrigo Villas, Sesper, Suzue, Tatiana Guid, Thais Beltrame, Thiago Syen, Tiago Fazito, Tikka, Vitché, Yá!, Zeila Trevisan and more!

Many of the artists will be in attendance at the pre-show party doing live painting!

“Os Brasileiros”: Pre-Show Party in São Paulo

Saturday, December 22, 2007  10pm till sunrise

A GALLERIA
Rua Capital Federal, 440
(travessa cayowaa)
Pompeia São Paulo

Music, Live Painting, Cheap Drinks and Organic Pizza all night!

Bring your paint if you want to hit the walls!!
If you paint you will get free beer and free Pizza!!!

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Jon Reiss on CBC Radio One

Yesterday I was interviewed with Fab 5 Freddy on CBC RadioOne (Canada’s NPR) about the graffiti wall discovered at 151 Wooster (discussed previously in this blog).

From Tuesday, December 18th:
“Graffiti’s Holy Grail has been uncovered in Soho. It’s a wall that features some of the greatest graffiti artists of the 70s and 80s, including Jean-Michel Basquiat. But the wall has raised issues about whether or not graffiti is art and what we should do to preserve it. We talk to graffiti pioneer Fab 5 Freddy and doc-maker Jon Reiss (BOMB IT!).

Click here for a direct link to the podcast to hear the full story

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Juxtapoz Review


Check out what Juxtapoz had to say in their review of BOMB IT:

When faced with the knowledge that graffiti artists aren’t all thuggy-looking poor young boys in the ghetto, they come from all classes, races, ages, genders, all demographics have participants in this dialogue, you can’t help but realize that the whack-a-mole approach will never get the result the critics hope for. Due to the sheer size and reach of participation, how about some (perhaps a lot) of free, genuinely public art space? This film, shot beautifully, years in the making and brilliantly edited, is designed to make you think and reconsider assumptions about public space.

Catch the full review here:

https://www.juxtapoz.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2177

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Reader Post – Graffiti Wall in Erie Pennsylvania

Soon we will have a way for all readers to post comments to our blog. But until that time – if anyone has something vital to put forth, we will endeavor to post it for you. The easiest way to be posted of course is to comment on an existing post. But if you feel what you have to say doesn’t relate to another post – feel free to email us through the Contact Page of the main Bomb It Site. This is an email I received from Nathan Clark about a wall in Erie, PA:

 

Good afternoon Mr. Reiss-

 

The review on Tuesday of your new international graffiti documentary film,”Bomb It”, in JUXTAPOZ ART & CULTURE Magazine Online asks, “…how about some legal walls?”

 

 

Well, spanning more than the length of two football fields, this is one…

 

 

Here is a link to photos of a large work-in-process by multiple young urban artists in Northwestern Pennsylvania. They have been engaging their collective talents during the warm months in creating this striking wall art project, spraying a spectrum of colors onto more than 650 linear feet of this massive concrete retaining wall in Erie. Twenty photographs of the wall can be found at this link (progress photos posted on different dates, so please scroll down to see those toward the end, too): Continue reading

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