SUMMER UPDATES REMINDER:
\r\nTOMORROW NIGHT AT ALCOVE GALLERY, ATLANTA
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\r\nTHE 7TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW
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\r\n~WATERCYLCES~
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\r\nI’ll be showing with H.C Warner, Davey Wong, Valery Milovic, Michael Pukac, Greg Theakson, and more!
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\r\nThank you for your support! Hope to see you there!
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\r\nUPCOMING PROJECTS:
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\r\nBeen preparing for a solo exhibit at Bold Hype Gallery (now in NYC!) called “Pet Peeves” that will be featuring animal paintings, coming November 2010!
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\r\n“Sweet Streets 2” at Gallery Nucleus, CA, is huge international group art show celebrating Japanese street fashion. This event will be taking place Sept. 11, 2010 and should be a blast.
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\r\nI’m very excited to be working on a collaborative project with some very talented artists and awesome people, photographer, Neda Abghari, and painter, Fahamu Pecou. This project is constantly evolving and growing, and I look forward to keeping you updated on everything as it unfolds!
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\r\nPlease keep an eye on my web page for updated art inventory and news.
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\r\nThank you again and much love!
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Alcove Galleryposted 07/09/2010 Museum of Modern Art, Naples, Italy The Urban Art Superstars go to the Museum:
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\r\nCurated by David Vecchiato
\r\nFrom April the 24th until May the 25th at MADRE- Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples.
\r\nVernissage on Saturday , April the 25th at 9 p.m. at the Museum.
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\r\nFinally there’ s a new air in museums !
\r\nThe most exhaustive exhibition on Urban Art presented in an Italian museum brings to MADRE some of the most important names of the young contemporary Art scene, born from the latest urban and youthful cultures.
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\r\nAfter years of discussions on the limit between art and comics, the most “comics - corrupted” artists will invade Napoli COMICON festival.
\r\nDavid Vecchiato ( here in the double role of curator and artist) presents the most recent works of international stars of Urban Art, colleagues and friends as Gary Baseman, Boris Hoppek, Shag, Ian Stevenson, Gary Taxali, Mijn Schatje, Jon Burgerman, Jim Avignon, Junko Mizuno, Glenn Barr, Bigfoot, Naoshi, Ciou, Sergio Mora, Nathan Jurevicius, Joe Ledbetter and others from all over the world.
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\r\nAnd also the new phenomenon of Art Toys, strongly supported by MondoPOP Gallery and XL Magazine, will play its game among artworks from street art, skate art, pop surrealism, lowbrow and poster art.
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\r\nTo complete the scene, Urban Superstar will propose the huge installations of Junko Mizuno, Mijn Shatje and Tokidoki from Fornarina private collection, presented during the Urban Beauty Show in 2008 at Louvre in Paris.
\r\nFornarina joined naturally to the Urban Superstar project as they are one of the first international brands that is investing on new artistic currents promoting their exponents.
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\r\nJeremyville from Australia and Mijn Shatje from Paris will be our guests at the inauguration and will offer astonishing performances and meetings with the public! People will be involved to participate to the performance.
\r\nAnd Italy? Beyond the roman Simone Legno, founder of the Californian Tokidoki brand, other Italian artists will take part to the show, that shared the last 15 years of underground art experiences and events. AlePOP, Allegra Corbo, David Vecchiato himself, Fupete, Licia Viero, Scarful, the young Sten e Lex, Cesko, El Gato Chimney, the Serpeinseno collective, the parisien Zelda Bomba and many others.
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\r\n As David Vecchiato remebers: “ During these years we refused to be tamed by the logics of old art employees asking us to stop with this imaginary similar to comics, cartoon, tatoos and graffiti. We experienced on our skin the slowness of our country, facing to loose the opportunity to tell one of the creatives souls of our generation.
\r\nAs uncle Warhol teached us, we learned how to menage personally the production, distribution and sale of our own art and we reached our international colleagues. Bringing this vital art from street into a museum, I hope to encourage new young artists from any country to develop new aesthetic senses within their community, with the main purpose to focus on the passions which join us, rather than on the differences that move away\".
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\r\nUrban Superstar will be an event rich of performances and interactions with people: many Urban collegues and I, belive that the real artistic moment is revealed just in the performance, the specific instant where creation pass through the artist. What remains of the artwork is only a snapshot, a residual. We must never lose the sense of art called as the most noble, by Nitzsche: that is the art to celebrate and have fun.
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\r\nThe Superstars of Urban Art arrive in Naples, artists not always easy to tame, just as some rockstars.
\r\nThey will come with a promise: “ We will not break Gioconda glass, neither cut Fontana’s canvas, nor use the bog of Duchamp. We’ll just open museum’s windows to let new air enter from the street”.
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\r\nURBAN SUPERSTAR Show
\r\nCurated by David Vecchiato
\r\nFrom April the 24th until MAy the 25th 2009
\r\nAt MADRE - Museo D‘Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina,
\r\nvia Luigi Settembrini 79, Napoli.
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\r\nURBAN SUPERSTAR show is an event by Comic(ON)OFF
\r\nOrganization
\r\nMondoPOP International Gallery, Roma
\r\nNapoli Comicon, Napoli
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\r\nInfo:
\r\ninfo@mondopop.it / www.mondopop.it
\r\ninfo@comicon.it / www.comicon.it
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\r\nThanks to:
\r\nLa Repubblica XL
\r\nFornarina
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\r\nARTISTS:
\r\nAiko Nagakawa aka Lady Aiko (Japan/USA)
\r\nAlePOP (Italy)
\r\nAllegra Corbo (Italy)
\r\nBethany Marchman (USA)
\r\nBoris Hoppek (Germany/Spain)
\r\nBigfoot (USA)
\r\nCesko ( Italy)
\r\nCiou (France)
\r\nDavid Vecchiato aka Diavù (Italy)
\r\nDEM (Italy)
\r\nEl Gato Chimney (Italy)
\r\nFupete (Italy)
\r\nGary Baseman (USA)
\r\nGary Taxali (India/Canada)
\r\nGlenn Barr (USA)
\r\nIan Stevenson (UK)
\r\nInge Cornil (Belgium)
\r\nJeremyville (Australia)
\r\nJim Avignon (Germany)
\r\nJoe Ledbetter (USA)
\r\nJon Burgerman (UK)
\r\nJunko Mizuno (Japan)
\r\nLicia Viero (Italia)
\r\nMijn Schatje (Francia)
\r\nNaoshi (Giappone)
\r\nNathan Jurevicius (Australia)
\r\nScarful (Italia)
\r\nSergio Mora (Spagna)
\r\nSerpeinseno (Italia),
\r\nShag (USA)
\r\nSten & Lex (Italia)
\r\nSimone Legno aka Tokidoki (Italia/USA)
\r\nZelda Bomba (Francia/Italia)
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More infoposted 04/24/2009 Bold Hype Gallery Group Show April 4, 2009, Bold Hype Gallery in Orlando, Florida presents \"Say When\", group art exhibit including artists: Nathan Spoor, Dan May, Amy Sol, Lola, Bethany Marchman, RS Connett, Ken Garduno, Charlie Immer, Colin Johnson, Andrew James Jones, Ken Keirns, Jason Limon, Michael Page, Scott Scheidly, Martin Wittfooth. -Curated by Nathan Spoor and Eric Althin
BOLD HYPEposted 04/04/2009 