One of our favourite artists and old friend of the house is Boris Tellegen aka Delta (www.deltainc.nl). He’s quite a legend in the world of Graffiti and a perfect example of true-to-the-game evolution and adaptation in exploring new ways and disciplines for his creative output. After some years of intense activity as a Graffiti writer (artist) in his hometown of Amsterdam, around Europe and the world his tridimensional style was both admired and copied widely. At the same time he pursued studies in industrial engineering, started several projects in collaboration with architects and started working as a graphic designer mainly for music bands and record labels. In the meantime he also started using silk-screen printing for his work and producing t-shirts for his own brand INC. Since then he has become a very respected artist, has exhibited his work in galleries and art centers around the globe and gets comissioned by huge commercial brands. But somehow he still manages to dedicate some time, while having those other more lucrative asignements, to produce very limited runs of t-shirts or other different products and prints with a few new designs every year, still paying as close attention and care to their quality control and commercialization. In fact we are very lucky to be one of the very few shops worldwide where is t-shirts and other products are retailed.
We have recently received some of his latest t-shirts and a very nice pin in different colours with his trademark satellite icon that you can find at Subaquatica or at our online shop here (there you can find also some books that feature his work and a couple of designs of t-shirts from last season for which we still have some units left at a special offer price).
May 10th, 2006 06:45pm
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The installation”Poderes Mentales”/”Mind Powers” finally was opened and although the heavy rain that day didn’t help as soon as the sun has made appearance again we have quickly gone there to take some pictures of the outside. As for the video for now you’ll have to be in Madrid to watch it inside the installation. The way the video was done by the 6 different artists and collectives was the following: Each artist would send another one of the artists a single image, a frame, the last one from his still undone video fragment. The artists had to fill with his video/motion graphics/animation work the gap between the image received from another artist as his first frame and the last frame he had already sent to another artist. The result is an endless video loop brief but very beautiful that we will look for the time and manner to show you sometime. For more info remember we have a simple but functional mini-site for this project: www.subaquatica.com/poderesmentales.
May 8th, 2006 06:46pm
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After the successful first part, c100, author of “The Art of Rebellion” brings us finally the second volume. For those of you that don’t know the book “The Art of Rebellion”, published in 2003, that title is possibly one of the most complet guides about the new forms of artistic expression on the streets, what we could call Street Art. Considering the wide range of countries and cities that this phenomenon has reached in the past years, the huge number of street artists and the variety of styles, techniques and approaches to the matter it’s no surprise that a single book couldn’t but only show a partial side of the whole subject.
“The Art of Rebellion 2: World of Urban Art Activism” seems to aim not only at widening that view but to do it with the lessons learned by the author from the previous experience. After taking a careful look (well, a few looks) at this new book we can afirm that it’s a more complete and elaborated volume than the fist part not only because of the larger number of pages and bigger size but because a more polished methodology and a more careful edition. The book includes a first section with a general perspective of the worldwide Street Art scene, a second and main section featuring a nice selection of different artists such as PMH, Jon Burgerman, Blu, Miss Van, El tono, Nuria, Boris Hoppek, Stefan Marx aka Gomes, Derrick Hodgson, Faile, Kid Acne… A last part of the book covers some of the different events with street artists in the last few years. The book presents this way a varied, rich, active, and more mature scene than the previous part showed us three years ago.
For those of you unaware of what’s been going on in the streets of many cities around the globe in the last decade, “The Art of Rebellion 2″ is an excellent way to get a taste of what we are talking about. For those of you in the know this is also a must have because of its wide and documented approach to this amazing scene.
Available at our online shop here.
May 6th, 2006 07:56pm
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