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DAF Group Feature: Vol. 168

August 12, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of nine contemporary artworks and/or art related videos chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. This week, we feature the work of Anne Lemanski, Cameron Mathieson, Elizaveta Porodina, Linus Lundin (aka YASH), Andrea Myers, JR, Meryl McMaster, Aida Muluneh and the short film “Balance” by photographer/director Tobias Hutzler, inspired by Rigolo Swiss Nouveau Cirque artist Maedir Eugster.

Tobias Hutzler - BALANCE from Tobias Hutzler on Vimeo.

Andrea Myers andreamyersartist.com
Christine Wu misschristinewu.com
Cameron Mathieson llightness.ca
Anne Lemanski annelemanski.com
Elizaveta Porodina porodina.net
Linus Lundin YASH instagram.com/linuslundin
Meryl McMaster Anima-2012-merylmcmaster.com
JR Rio Olympics 2016
Aida Muluneh at David Krut Projects-davidkrutprojects.com/artists/aida-muluneh

Filed Under: ART, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Street Art, Video Tagged With: Andrea Myers, Anne Lemanski, Cameron Mathieson, Elizaveta Porodina, JR, Linus Lundin, Meryl McMaster, Tobias Hutzler, YASH

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 167

August 3, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of nine contemporary artworks and/or art related videos chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. This week, we feature the work of David Breuer-Weil, Floyd Elzinga, Gilles Bensimon, Gil Maia, Igor Melnikov, JR, Marchal Mithouard (aka Shaka), Mohau Modisakeng and Zeng Fanzh.

Gilles Bensimon artsy.net/artist/gilles-bensimon
David Breuer-Weil Emergence-2012 davidbreuerweil.com
Gil Maia gilmaia.com
Floyd Elzinga floydelzinga.com
JR - Rio-De-Janeiro2016 jr-art.net
Igor Melnikov melnikovart.com
Zeng Fanzh artsy.net/artist/zeng-fanzhii
Marchal Mithouard (Alias Shaka) shaka1.fr
Mohau Modisakeng Fossils-2016 mohaumodisakengstudio.com

Filed Under: ART, Drawing, Group Feature, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Street Art Tagged With: contemporary, David Breuer-Weil, Floyd Elzinga, Gil Maia, Gilles Bensimon, Igor Melnikov, JR, Marchal Mithouard, Mohau Modisakeng, Shaka

TED Prize 2011: JR – Use Art to Turn the World Inside Out

March 20, 2011 By Wendy Campbell

2011 TED Prize Winner JR owns the biggest art gallery in the world. He exhibits freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not the museum visitors. His work mixes Art and Act, talks about commitment, freedom, identity and limit.

After he found a camera in the Paris subway, JR did a tour of European Street Art, tracking the people who communicate messages via the walls. Then, he started to work on the vertical limits, watching the people and the passage of life from the forbidden undergrounds and roofs of the capital.

In 2006, he achieved Portrait of a generation, portraits of the suburban “thugs” that he posted, in huge formats, in the bourgeois districts of Paris. This illegal project became “official” when the Paris City Hall wrapped its building with JR’s photos.

In 2007, with Marco, he did Face 2 Face, the biggest illegal photo exhibition ever. JR posted huge portraits of Israelis and Palestinians face to face in eight Palestinian and Israeli cities, and on the both sides of the Security fence / Separation wall.   In 2008, JR embarked for a long international trip for “Women”, a project in which he underlines the dignity of women who are often the targets of conflicts.

JR creates “Pervasive Art” that spreads uninvited on the buildings of the slums around Paris, on the walls in the Middle-East, on the broken bridges in Africa or the favelas in Brazil. People who often live with the bare minimum discover something absolutely unnecessary. And they don’t just see it, they make it. Some elderly women become models for a day; some kids turn artists for a week. In that Art scene, there is no stage to separate the actors from the spectators.

After these local exhibitions, the images are transported to London, New York, Berlin or Amsterdam where people interpret them in the light of their own personal experience.

At TED 2011, JR made his audacious TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out. Learn more about his work and learn how you can join in at InsideOutProject.net. To see more of JR’s work, visit JR-art.net. The TED video below (after the photos) is 24 minutes but truly inspiring to watch, so if you have the time, I check it out.






Filed Under: ART, Photography, Street Art, Video Tagged With: French Art, JR, Street Art, Ted Prize 2011

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