D*Face – Off The Wall | Street Art

London’s D*Face talks about how American & NYC culture has been influential to his work, the significance of having his first solo NY show at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery and explains how his work is an assemblage of a personal journey through visual imagery.

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“How can I tell her we are both just stencils?”, Chance Street

London’s Chance Street has been romanticised in stencil form by Id-Iom. This wall is the new neighbour to a piece by Eine who has his work on the shutters adjacent.

Want to see the wall being produced? Check out the video over the way.
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Mutate Britain – One Foot in the Grove

The people at Mutate Britain are gearing up the web community with this promo video for their next exhibition One Foot in The Grove. Not a lot is been given away just yet but the list of artists involved just keeps going, including some of our favourites; Part2ism, Fark, Snub, Dr. D, Obey, Sweet Toof, Best Ever and Pure Evil.

If you missed it, check out our Mutate Britain photos from the exhibition last December.

More details to be released shortly on the Mutate Britain blog.

Shepard Fairey interviews Banksy for Swindle magazine

“One of the most inappropriate nicknames of all time, at least in my opinion, belonged to Ronald Reagan: “The Great Communicator,” who we’ve come to learn did a pretty shitty job of communicating the government’s problems and indiscretions. A nickname like that deserves a more righteous, honest owner—someone like BANKSY.”

Read the interview at Swindle

Blu, Smoking Politicians, Italy

Blu is currently working with David Ellis to create an animation for the FAME festival, Italy. Perhaps this new wall by Blu not so far away from FAME is part of the animation?

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D*Face said No to being a Banker or a Mechanic

Another interview from the people at WalrusTV. The  UK street artist, D*Face, talks about his no compromise and just go do it mentality. Even if you don’t like his work at least he’s got a good ideology about things.

Beautiful Losers Trailer

“Beautiful Losers celebrates the creative spirit behind one of the most influential cultural movements of a generation. In the early 1990′s a loose-knit group of likeminded outsiders found common ground at a little NYC storefront gallery.”

The documentary explores the history, motivations and aspirations of a generation of influential contemporary and street artists whose unified creativity was born from subcultures of the early 90′s. With their movement influencing pop culture the film also importantly compares the “intent” of the artists, from Shepherd Fairey’s global Obey brand to several of them being given $1000 a day to work be themselves in Japan.

The Beautiful Losers DVD is out later this month. If you can’t wait for the DVD then pop down to the ICA, they’ll be showing it until the 24th August.

INSA x NIKE Exhibition | Something for the Weekend

In 7 days INSA ran east London, painting 35 pieces along Charlie Dark’s map for The IAM1 Journey Nike Sportswear project. Produced by Protein and documented by INSA’s long time collaborator, photographer Ethel, each of the 35 hand painted pieces form one of the centre pieces of INSAs major London solo show for 2009. This IAM1 Journey animation will be deconstructed within the “Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places” show with behind-the-scenes processes alongside the original painted objects that make up the individual frames.

Show details over the jump.

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Posterboy NYC Video

Poster Boy began as one man cutting up and rearranging posters in the subways of New York. Now the original artist describes Poster Boy as a “movement” that anyone can be part of and “a social thing, as opposed to being an artist making things for bored rich people to hang above their couch.”.

Some dodgy youth television editing in this video, but the content brings a nice insight into the philosophy behind Poster Boy.

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New Vhils on Brick Lane

A new Vhils wall has been put together near Dray Walk, Brick Lane. The Portuguese-born artist is currently exhibiting a range of work at Lazarides in Soho. Scratching The Surface includes stencils, collage and even some relief pieces as seen in the video Vhils released not so long ago.

Source: ArtOfTheState