We made this video for the Zamoc show at the bastard store. Here he explains why the title La Nebbia – italian word for The Fog –
The painting that he and his friend Luca Lattuga left on the wall of the bookcase get our respect!
Yesterday the Massimo De Carlo Gallery presented ‘Karma’, the first solo show of the American artist Dan Colen. The installation Oh Shit – for the construction of which Colen has asked advise to the experienced team Karbaum / Atelier LC / studiometrico – is already rising discussion inside and outside Lambrate, the Milanese area where contemporary art and skateboarding sometimes bump into each others…
Ten skateboards presented by Davide Bertocchi in year 2000 at Fondazione Teseco with a show titled Insensatezza. How it ended for the woman in white dressing on the right then?
On saturday March, 6th from 6:00 PM at bastard store starts La Nebbia, first personal exhibition of Luca Zamoc, the talented monochrome artist from Modena.
About twenty original “ink on paper” pieces.
It will be possible to buy Zamoc’s works during the show that will stay on until saturday March, 13th.
Exit Through the Gift Shop is the name of the first feature film directed by Bansky: the movie will be presented at the Sundance, the indipendent film festival of Park City (Utah).
According to the information i was able to collect by blogging around, the movie, which is presented as the first disaster movie about street art, narrates the story of Tony Guetta, a French filmmaker who loves art and cinema and wants to shoot a documentary about street art, trying to meet Bansky himself. Obviously he will not succeed…
A bunch of new and old interesting books has just arrived at the bastard store; among them Everything That Creeps.
Elizabeth McGrath, LA angel-faced artist, collects in this book some of her most creeping, bloody and repulsive creatures.
An irriverent sculptress who has created a fantafreaky world, populated by odd and freaky characters meant to be hung on your wall or to be displayed on your nightstand (she has her beloved dead and stuffed chihuahua on hers).
On the one shelf on which you put your childood relics, next to Goldrake, you could also put a McGrath’s sexy doll with bloody legs, or some drunk miniature insects or, if you really love animals, a chopped hare head.
The deep-dark iconography of Elizabeth shocks, amazes and amuses, her sculptures are full of truculent details and they evoke disturbing atmospheres “a la David Lynch” but thanks to the wise mixture of kitsch, irony and horror they come out excessive yet refined.
Here’s a video recently featured on Boing Boing tv in which David Pescovitz meets Liz McGrath.
Dumb skateboards never rests, after a few months past the release of Too Dumb To Quit they’re back with an event that sounds very interesting. January 29th at the CLAB in Lodi, there will be an exhibition showing all the Dumb boards as artwork and Gio Donadini a.k.a. Canedicoda, will perform live. Beers and happy hour will be following.
This is all we know but it does already sound promising…
On Entry snowboard magazine #31 you can read a nice interview of Lukas Goller. For once, snowboarding gets left apart in order to explore his artistic attitude.
First of all Lukas is a free minded person who tries to express himself through ways he likes. In fact this three pages interview is more about his way of seeing art than about snowboarding.
Lukas collaborated to the designing of the outerwear for next winter introducing notable innovations. He’s also the author of the “Lubert” graphic, shown here below, for the next bastard collection, Fw 2010, in stores in September.
Who’s the man behind Rise Above? Marcello Crescenzi, profession graphic designer in Rome, tells about himself in this short video interview (only in italian, sorry english speakers) for the opening of his personal show at bastard store. Childhood passions and strong ideas as a background to the Rise Above project allowed him to be The Future of the Past. Let’s give a quick peep at his version.