stunning work from maciek janicki, more info via it’s nice that
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it’s a miracle
…is the name of an upcoming exhibition in eindhoven at the piet hein eek gallery featuring work by none other than ‘anton beeke’ and a group of his former students… a book will also be released during the exhibition
dalai lama
clever idea for a painting currently on show at the cncpt13 gallery in amsterdam: although it is illegal to celebrate the dalai lama’s birthday or paint his picture in tibet a dutch artist (airco caravan) had a painting created in several separate parts
…without knowing, 16 artists in China painted a part of the Dalai Lama. They were invited to produce ‘abstract’ impressionistic oil paintings, based on photos uploaded onto their websites. The pictures were pieces of the portrait, but were rotated and named ‘Curtains’, ‘Grandpa’, ‘Mango’ and the like. Together the Chinese painters created an illegal painting, symbolizing peace and unity in many different ways… it took her a half year to collect all of the pieces together (via ‘de volkskrant’)
porgy by lukas
awesome portrait of dutch actor porgy franssen by talented photographer (and my mate) lukas göbel in the ‘volkskrant’ magazine this past weekend
once upon a time
great piece from street artist ‘mobstr’ in london: the story 2012 (via edson williams)
…the first installation of The Story was a simple “Once upon a time…” The artist expected maintenance crews to paint over his graffiti. As soon as the wall was cleaned, Mobstr proceeded with the second installation, which was then also painted over, and so on until the narrative was completed…
…his intention was to create an indirect “teamwork” between two opposing societal forces exemplified by street artist and street maintenance crew…
