Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey has designed a few tributes to Maui break Jaws. The surfriders foundation commissioned him to design these works for Art for the Oceans III Auction. 25 other artist were commissioned.

The work will go on auction on October 9th, in LA, I look forward to finding out how much for.

Exhibition with a Kick!

The exhibition was designed as an answer to all the people who go to exhibitions, without really having a clue about what all the art actually means.

Hannes Broecker held the exhibition in Dresden Germany, asking critics to appreciate different questions such as, Which Cocktail to try? A very different approach, involved her hanging the alcohol inside the picture frames, leaving cocktail glasses on the center table. As the evening progressed, opinions become more lubricated, the art itself would diminish, and the show would reach the end.

Sounds more like a glorified drinks party to me; or a demonstration of how art can be turned into pretty much anything.

Defacing Banksy

Following on form my earlier post about Banksy's exhibition in Bristol, I missed a major point which debates street artists becoming actual artists, in doing so do they devalue their work in a bid to respond to consumer demand. A similar defacing incident happend in New York a few years ago as a street artist moved from street to exhibition.

Banksy's exhibition opened on Friday and in the above case, 24hours later, graffiti appeared over the top of an original. In Bristol, one of his more famous works of art on a sexual health clinic receives the same attention. Depicting a woman's lover hanging out the window as her husband returns home, a paintball shooting defaced the image. Ironic that a graffiti artist is being defaced with more graffiti. Origionally when the painting was found, 97% of residents around Bristol voted to keep it, now, after his exhibition, is it only other street artists that are cross, or residents too?

Expensive Surfboards

Ten artists, musicians and designers have teamed together with SAS in a campaign to for cleaner seas. Artists include Banksy, David Carson, and Damien Hurst. Interestingly artist Damien Hursts' design is expected to sell for around £84,000.

Banksy's Exhibtion

BANKSY EXHIBITION: BRISTOL

Banksy's exhibition was very different to what one would usually expect to see inside a museum; that is however what most people would expect from him.

What surprised me about the exhibition wasn't the digs at today's society that most of us have thought before. Or the unusual graffiti. What I found most striking was the skill he obviously holds, and the way he used it to address his issues. Playing a game with the public, he placed beautiful landscapes and 'classic paintings' with a spin among the usual exhibition. I couldn't figure out how much of these he had contributed to, or if he had a team of artists working towards the output for this exhibition.

The exhibition was fantastic to look around, enthusing even the most unartistic.