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Art using simple, circle stencils
"I think of myself of a collector of color. The paintings are manifestations of the collecting process. I use color to bring movement, emotion and temperament to the paintings."
Start Time: Wednesday, July 22 at 12:00am
End Time: Wednesday, July 29 at 12:00am
Where: Belgrad
URL: Belef09
At the moment when Belgrade is facing a lack of exhibiting areas on one side and the development of alternative forms of expression through
street art of the younger generations of artists, we believe that the Belgrade Summer Festival can serve as a platform for researching the potential of pictures in public areas.
First off, thanks so much for your patience. The site was down for a bit, but is back up and happy. Just uploading the quick piles today. That would be over 350 photographs from the Middle America tour last month. Just the general pics from the cities where I could find stencils.
Look for the next upload soon! This will be the individual artists, som San Francisco pics, and all the great submissions that have come in this past month.
Thanks again for visiting the site. The tour was fun. Priceless. Gratitude to everyone who played some part of the tour.
Ohio (Cleveland, mostly Columbus)
Bloomington (aka B-Town), IN
01. - 31. Juli 2009
Opening // Wednesday 1. July 09 // 5 pm
Vernissage // Mittwoch 01. Juli 09 // 17 Uhr
opening times: Di - Sa // 14 - 20H
STATTBAD // Gerichtstr 65 // 13347 Berlin
(Nähe U+S - Bahnhof Wedding)
artists:
1010 / ALIAS /ANTON UNAI / DDG / EL BOCHO / EMESS / FUK LABORATORIES / JUST / MEAN MAREK / MYMONSTERS / NEON / NEROMONGA / NOEL / NOMAD / SAM CREW / SP38 / TIKA / VECTORIAN / VLEP VNET / WOW THE DEAD / ZONENKINDER
What I'm Up To
(go to Chris Stain's Web site for all the info)
Mural in the 518
This month I travel to upstate NY to do some painting on the outside of 518 Prints screen printing company. At their request I plan to re-visit some of the working class themes that inspired me to initially cut stencils back in the late ‘90’s. Check my blog, www.chrisstain.com for photos.
Green Day - East Jesus Nowhere
My good friend at Workhorse Visuals contacted me about doing an illustration for a GREEN DAY project based on lyrics from their new album, "21st Century Breakdown". I was given the song "East Jesus Nowhere" and asked to put something together based on the feelings I got from the lyrics. Recently I completed the piece for the limited edition release of the album. The work will be featured in a booklet that accompanies the cd. It will also be traveling with the band and displayed at different music venues in a gallery format.
"I've always really had the sense of the way that people store things inside their bodies and the way that everything you've ever seen or ever done is a part of you.and I felt like in a way if I could somehow draw that.or make an x-ray - maybe it was just your experiences that day or maybe it's just what you walked past that day, or maybe it's a deeper story that's.somewhere in there for the telling."
-SWOON
fm the artist: "the size of the work is 78x78 inches, or 200x200 cm. i know it`s just statistics, but in the end it was more than 300 stencils, and 250 hours of work"
