Urban Art Agenda Number 3 opens in Ballarat

Urban Art Agenda #3 is an international stencil art exhibition, which has opened at the Art Gallery of Ballarat.  Inspired by New York graffiti of the 1970s, stencil art is a form of street art, or urban art as it is often called, which has sprung up all over the globe in the last two decades. The Ballarat exhibition (coinciding with a Hans Heysen exhibition) is presented by FamousWhenDead and PinXit Arts & Events and brings together some of the most prolific stencil artists from around the world, including A1one (Tehran), David Soukup (Chicago), ELK (Canberra), El Moocho (Melbourne), HaHa (Melbourne), Jana and JS (Salzburg), Jef Aerosol (Lille), Kenji Nakayama (Boston), Mandarina Brausewetter (Vienna), Orticanoodles (Milan), Ozi (São Paulo), Penny (London).

Exhibition dates: Ballarat, 18 July – 23 August. The exhibition will be presented with additional artists in Melbourne in September, Sydney and Brisbane in October and November.

www.urbanartagenda.com.au

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Street Art revolution in Iran

Check out the following sites to get a taste of street art revolution in Iran

Sources:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/irangraffiti/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinxit/sets/72157611086130133/
http://www.famouswhendead.com.au/

Also in July FamousWhen Dead Art Gallery Melbourne presents Ralf Kempken a new body hand-cut screens for his second solo show titled Now Screening. Ralf is exploring the process of perception: “As we rely on our perceptions to make sense of our world we realise that we can exert control to adjust the perceptive process. But by doing so we find that the perceptive process is open to illusion – and delusion. What are we really seeing? Seeing is not an act of perception but one of creation.”

If you haven’t seen Ralf’s recent works at ArtMelbourne, C3 art space or SmithGallery do not miss this amazing showcase. Exhibition opens Friday, 17 July and runs to 2 August. Preview Thursday, 16 July 6 – 7 pm.

FWD
207 Victoria Street
West Melbourne 3003 Australia
Check website for gallery opening hours.
Gallery: http://www.famouswhendead.com.au/

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Melbourne Ink: a documentary – Thursday May 7th Docklands

Street art isn’t for anyone, it is for everyone.

A documentary on the underworld of Melbourne’s street art screening @ OPEN  CHANNEL, Shed4, Docklands

On 7th May, Melbourne Ink, an independent documentary about our beloved laneways and evolution of street art in Melbourne and its protagonists, will be screened at OPEN CHANNEL, Shed4, Docklands. It is an opportunity to get an insight into these disembodied artists, their motivations and philosophies. It is a free event with artists from the film doing some live painting, a delicious Argentinean BBQ will be on offer and there will be plenty of beer at a cheap price.

The documentary is made by two French directors, Julian Sena and Romain Levrault, who wanted to make an uncensored film featuring Melbourne’s most prominent figures in graffiti and stencil art. “Melbourne is legendary for its street art, it brought us here. We wanted to make a film about the conflicting forces where street art is illegal but is widely used to market the city”, says Romain.

The film stars various artists from the Blender Studio, the Mitten Fortress, the Everfresh Studio, No Vacancy and Until Never galleries. The artists have been interviewed and followed during their performances in the city. “This is their story uncensored, you will see from the film there is no holding back. It is an exciting and politically-charged 25 minutes”, says Julian.

Sponsored by Melbourne Stencil Festival, OPEN CHANNEL, Art Truck and Mountain Goat, the screening brings a night of live spraying demonstrations, music and a chance to get close up with some of Melbourne’s most notorious street artists.

Melbourne Ink
Thursday May 7th 2009
Victoria Harbour, Shed 4 North Wharf Road (end of Bourke Street) Docklands
Time: 6 till 9pm
Free entry

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