Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been quite puzzled by the flyer of Arnaud Androck announcing his show at “La galerie de Nazeem”. Who would not be actually?
So I turned up to the opening last night thinking:” Great! I’m going to meet Régine, Massimo Gargia, Michel Drucker, Gilbert Montagné and many others french TV freaks!” Unfortunately that did not happen.
However, I was pleased to discover Arnaud’s work, especially his typographic paintings and also his screenprints representing rounded sports grounds (in collaboration with CHIPS from Rennes).
1- A photo of one of your artwork from 2011.
Our last work, a new step in our work. We are studying, from about
two years, this new way of drawing stencil. Now we have just did this and
another stencil on the street and hundreds of sketches. We are very far
from what we’d like to see, these are proofs, experiments 10 years
after our first stencil on the street in 2001. On the street we use
the same technique of the Stencil Poster, we paste up a paper stencil
like a poster then we paint on it and then we destroy the matrix, so
the stencil die on the wall, it’s not reproducible.
It was not very easy to change, we abandoned the parallel lines
that were a mark for our stencil. We introduced lines and dots in
stencils many years ago and we called that way of stencils Hole School,
in the website Stencil Revolution. Now there are a
lot of stencilers using halftone to create their stencil, today a
lines or dots stencils are very common.
What we want to do now is using one color stencil as always but
destroying the lines in thousands of fragments like an impulsive
schetch and doing something else than portraits, very difficult.
We want, as in the past, to go as far as possible from the classic
stencil immaginary in the form and in the content.
We hope to reach some result, time will judge us.
2- One thing you did in 2011 that you are particularly proud. We are never totally proud of ourselves, we are -most of the time-
unsatisfied by our work and may be it’s the reason we still work on
our art.
The work that was more intense this year was that in Køge -Denmark-
for Walk this Way festival in april.
3- Something you loved in 2011.
The Crisis, we are happy that this Occidental crisis will make reflect
many people.
The best arts movies were directed in Italy during a period of crisis.
May be crisis will help some artist to express something authentic.
Some new real piece of art.
4- Someone you hated in 2011.
In 2011 we hated ourselves.
5- One city, One festival & one exhibition.
Prague, Fame Festival, we were at so few exhibition this year… may
be we will go to see Caravaggio in Palazzo Venezia the 31.
6- A photo of someone else artwork or the name of an artist you enjoyed a lot the work.
This years we were fortunate to take part to a festival in Foligno,
Attack,where we watched the three horses of Erica il Cane, we like his
imaginary and his skill in drawing so big murals. It’s very important to
see a mural in person and not only on a photo on the web.
7- One book
We prefer don’t tell our book, no one read nowadays.
8- One web video.
9- One website
I don’t navigate very much
10 – One place to eat in Roma.
In our house, Lex in particoular is a good chief. If not we recommend Sora Margherita in piazza delle Cinque Scole.
As far as I can remember Above was the 1st contact I get from the USA via ekosystem.org. It was more than 10 years ago. And he was also the only non-european to participate to our collective project called Don’t Copy Me in 2002. During those years he regularly sent me news about his travels and actions. Street-artists like travels but it’s more like a lifestyle for Above. He lived in Paris & Barcelona for several months and he traveled more countries than Phileas Fogg the last 10 years.
This book retraces his steps around the world with photos and stories from artists he met.
There are 2 version of the book. The luxury signed-numbered-boxed one (on the first 3 photos) and the regular one with only the book. http://www.zeropluspublishing.com/above.htm
ABOVE: PASSPORT examines the street artist that has blanketed the world with art covering over 90 cities in 60 countries. The book includes hundreds of plates and quotes from artists across the globe .
La professionnalisation d’un grand nombre d’artistes qui sont sensés intervenir dans la rue a de multiples conséquences. L’an dernier la tendance pénible de la scène street-art etait les ventes aux enchères. Le plus insupportable étant pour moi certains blogueurs fraichement spécialisés qui relayaient ces enchères en direct sur leur twitter. Cette année une des grosses tendances a été la réalisation d’énormes fresques dans le cadre de festivals. Si dans un premier temps on a tous été impressionné par ces grandes peintures, on a un peu l’impression d’assister désormais à la mise en place d’un street-art officiel dénué de violence, de spontanéité ou d’humour.
Du coup la découverte cette année de OakOak a été un vrai bol de fraicheur. Quelqu’un qui ne semble pas avoir fait une école de commerce ou de Community Manager pour gérer son image, qui ne fait pas parti d’un réseau. Mais surtout quelqu’un qui intervient dans la rue en utilisant réellement celle ci, son mobilier, les imperfections des murs, avec un résultat qui amuse et étonne. La réalisation peut sembler parfois un peu bancale ou naïve mais par rapport aux productions trop maitrisées des désormais stars des grands festivals, la fragilité des interventions de OakOak leur confère encore plus d’éclat.
OakOak: ” J’ai commencé a faire des interventions en 2006 d’abord par des pochoirs de portraits puis de plus en plus j’ai commencé a essayer d’utiliser vraiment l’espace qui m’entourait, et utiliser le mobilier urbain. Je n’ai jamais fait de graffiti avant. Il y en a tellement de trés bons dans ce domaine que je leur laisse justement Les modèles sont des artistes comme SPY, Varini, Slinkachu, 6emia, j’aime ce principe d’intervenir le moins possible et de changer totalement le sens d’un détail, d’une faille dans un mur. Je marche beaucoup dans la rue, et c’est en trouvant un endroit particulier, un détail, que généralement l’idée vient… apres il suffit de trouver la meilleurs façon de la mettre en place.”
11 choses sur 2011 par Oak Oak
1- Une photo d’une de tes interventions dans la rue. 1- A photo of one of your artwork from 2011
2- Quelque chose que tu as fait en 2011 dont tu es particulièrement fier. 2- One thing you did in 2011 that you are particularly proud.
The urban scream / le cri urbain de MUNCH
Ma photo préférée de 2011, définitivement, car grand fan de Munch My favorite photo in 2011, because I’m a big Munch fan.
3- Quelque chose ou quelqu’un que tu as aimé en 2011. 3- Something you loved in 2011 Bah çà va paraitre un peu con mais mon premier livre, la création et tout ce processus… It may sound a bit dumb, but I really enjoyed working on the making of my first book.
4- Quelque chose ou quelqu’un que tu n’as pas supporté en 2011. 4- Something you hated in 2011 La crise de l’euro, il me semble que je n’ai entendu QUE ça à la radio, télé, journaux… Euro Crisis, I have the feeling it was the only topic on the radio, Tv, Newspaper.
5- Une photo du travail de quelqu’un d’autre. 5- A photo of someone else artwork. j’ai adoré cette installation. I loved this one.
Mehmet Ali Uysal
6- Un morceau de musique – One track
assez fan de born free de M.I.A – pretty fan of M.I.A.
7- Une vidéo trouvée sur le web – a web video
8- Un site internet – A website. Grand fan de bd, je suis régulièrement le site de boulet, j’adore son humour http://www.bouletcorp.com/
9- Un film – A movie En 2011 Drive était top! ouais je sais ce n’est pas très original pour 2011…. Drive was on top ! I know i’m not really original.
10- Une BD – A comic book Calvin et Hobbes pour la bd, 2011 ou pas. Calbin & Hobbes. No matter the year.
11- Un dernier mot – A last word amusons nous!!! / Have fun !!!
