Back from Belfast where last Sat and Sun it took place Winter Base

Belfast Rockz!

The show featured underground artists from across Ireland, Britain and Europe

including Microbo and myself - Bo 130 from Italy, Mr Kern from France, Elph ,Dreph, Ruse, Guy McKinley, Matt Sewell, KVLR, Mark Ervine, Connie Bree, Miguel Martin and many more  from Ireland & UK ….

…plus some of Belfast’s best and most original bands  playing alongside international musicians

Winter Base is the first indoor street art festival of its kind.

Following the success of the inaugural Eurocultured Belfast festival during “Trans” in July 2009

the event has now been renamed Base and will be taking place twice a year.

Base is transforming  The Ulster Hall to accommodate a mini urban village of live painting, market stalls and music.

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…………………..Let’s go back…Way Back, Back Into Time…….

…well not that far… just 2005…. it seems ages ago but really its just five years…

I would like to show you a video about The Urban Edge Show

The big show curated by Microbo, myself and Abner, held in Milan in 2005.

Over 80 exhibiting artist from all over the world …

55 of them met in Milan and over five days collaborated on an amazing collection of works.

The show was in 2005 but the video, was just recently completed and released.

… and he brings back good memories!

Enjoy!

Urban Edge Show 2005 from Diana Manfredi on Vimeo.

……………………CLICK < Here you’ll find more photos from the show.

The Urban Edge

APOCALYPSE WOW!
APOCALYPTICS – POP SURREALISTS – CREATORS OF WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, at the same time, is also celebrated, the fall of another “wall” that has kept separate expressions, trends and styles that seemed destined to exclusion, marking the birth of the global world. Political history and society change, and there is also a profound change in cultural movements. APOCALYPSE WOW! reveals the shapes and the colours of pop surrealism, neo pop and urban art, current for long time kept away from the official art system, although very present in everyday of everyone life through various expressions. APOCALYPSE WOW! Is a collective exhibition, with about 80 works, including paintings, sculptures and installations drawn from the most representative international exponents of an imaginary that links the generations in the past 20 years of epochal changes and who have lived and built the so-called globalized age.

Curated By Julie Kogler and George Calcara

Artworks in the exhibition Courtesy of… The Don Gallery, Strychnin Gallery, Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Neo Pop Factory and other private collectors.

Artists:

SHEPARD FAIREY – TIM BISKUP – VICTOR CASTILLO – ELIO VARUNA – TARA McPHERSON - TODD SCHORR – BORIS HOPPEK – DAVID HOCHBAUM – KATHY STAICO SCHORR - FLYING FORTRESS – GARY BASEMAN – THE LONDON POLICE – JUNKO MIZUNO – TRAVIS LOUIE – FRANCO LOSVIZZERO - STEPHAN DOITSCHINOFF aka CALMA – JEREMY FISH – ALEXONE DIZAC – DOZE GREEN – MICROBO – RON ENGLISH – JEFF SOTO – BARRY McGEE – THE CLAYTON BROTHERS – CAMILLE ROSE GARCIA - AIKO NAKAGAWA – ANDRAS BARTOS – VER MAR – ANTHONY AUSGANG – LISA PETRUCCI – DESIDERIO – KEI SAWADA – ERIC WHITE – BO130 – NICOLA VERLATO – RICHARD KIRK - FRANCOIS ESCALMEL - DANIEL RICHTER - KILL PIXIE

MACRO FUTURE – Museum of Contemporary Arts.
Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, 4 – 00153 Roma – Italy

From Nov. 7th 2009 till  Jan. 31st. 2010.

Ron English

Macro Future. Rome. 2009.

Berry McGee – Twist

Alexone and Boris Hoppek

Bo130 and Microbo

Microbo

Bo130

Anthony Ausgang

Anthony Ausgang

The Clayton Brothers

Ron English

Doze Green

Nicola Verlato

Ceramic Sculptures (Bo130, Microbo. Jeremy Fish)

……Bob was here!

… Trip To Tunisi: Featuring… 2501/ BO130 / Microbo / Alexone / Ozmo / Will Barras. .07-2009

…Nothing but fun!

trip to tunisi from 2501 on Vimeo.

The Return of the FUN Gallery!

Patti Astor Presents:
A new generation of artists paying tribute to the legendary art, music, and scene of 1980’s New York City.

“It’s the Eighties y’all” – Fab 5 Freddy

From September 4, 2009
at Meltdown Comics – 7522 Sunset Blvd in Hollywood
Time: 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m

(Full article on frank151.com)

Here a feature documentary based on the book by indie film diva and museum curator PATTI ASTOR…

FUN! tells the story of the first art gallery in NY’s East Village and the convergence of rappers, breakdancers, graffiti artists and indie filmmakers that contributed to the birth of the hip hop aesthetic.

…back with some favourite videos… sit back and enjoy….

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Bombin’ (1987, Channel 4 , UK), chronicles the journey of NY artist Brim through the UK media, as well as meeting a young Goldie, who in turn travels to NYC to meet Afrika Baambaata. This was filmed at the times of the Birmingham riots and shows the parallels of life in the inner city on both sides of the Atlantic.

Bomb It – the explosive new documentary from award-winning director Jon Reiss investigating the most subversive and controversial art form currently shaping international youth culture: graffiti.

Through interviews and guerilla footage of graffiti writers in action on 5 continents, BOMB IT tells the story of graffiti from its origins in prehistoric cave paintings thru its notorious explosion in New York City during the 70’s and 80’s, then follows the flames as they paint the globe. Featuring old school legends and current favorites such as Taki 183, Cornbread, Stay High 149, T-Kid, Cope 2, Zephyr, Revs, Os Gemeos, KET, Chino, Shepard Fairey, Revok, and Mear One. This cutting edge documentary tracks down today’s most innovative and pervasive street artists as they battle for control over the urban visual landscape. You’ll never look at public space the same way again.

BOMB IT has shot in Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Tijuana, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Hamburg, Berlin, Cape Town, São Paulo, and Tokyo.