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With the ocassion of the publication of the book that originates from the project of the same name, we are hosting a short two week show with the touring art exhibition “A Nice Set” (www.aniceset.com) curated by Plus Et Plus in NY. The exhibition consist of a series of slipmats (those pieces used by DJs to cue their vinyls) customized by a superb selection of artist from all over the world: Build, Carlos “Mare 139″ Rodriguez, David Ellis, Ian “Swifty” Swift, Hort, Jeff Staple, Jeremyville, Luca Ionescu, Marc Atlan among others.
You can find this book at our space in Madrid and here at our online shop.
February 23rd, 2008 01:23pm
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This past summer we were fortunate enough to host an exhibition by one of our favourite artists collectives: Rinzen (www.rinzen.com). This australian bunch of very talented individuals are scattered around the globe and 2 of them, Steve and Rilla came over for the show, decorated the place and brought over a superb collection of original artwork, mostly ink and watercolor on paper. The series, done specifically for the show explore, in their own words: “the national animal, the bull and its metamorphosis into that famous symbol of unconscious desire, the Minotaur”. Sozi, a little girl, often present in Rinzen work also suffered her own metamorphosis for the ocassion turning into a darker version of herself.
Now that the exhibition is over we can finally offer some of the remaining pieces on our online shop for a limited time only. Most of them are one of a kind 30x40 or 40 x 50 cm on special watercolor paper and have been unframed but a series of 3 small signed and numbered limited edition Gocco prints and a couple of offset prints are also available at an amazing affordable price.
These art pieces are available here at our online shop.
October 21st, 2007 07:38pm
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We’ve recently received a new series of the collectable art toys “Dunny”, produced by Kidrobot. The selection of the artist has been done by the people from the Headquarter shop in Mexico DF, the same guys behind the Santa muerte clothing brand. Among the selected participants we don’t only find visual artists but also graphic designers, industrial designers or even musicians like Jenkah, Mocre, Kranen, Artemio, Ed Sison, El Muerto, NAHUAL, VM06, Hula&Hula, Quique Rangel or Beast Brothers, just to name a few.
In this series the artists have incorporated to their designs elements from the mexican traditional culture and history while still keeping them fresh and original. As usual, the different designs for this series come in surprise blind boxes so you are not sure which one you will be getting until you open the box. In the picture you can see the ones we’ve gotten so far for our very own Subaquatica collection.
These figures are available at our Subaquatica space in Madrid and also here/strong> at our online shop.
January 25th, 2007 04:44pm
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Dutch artist Boris Tellegen, better known as Delta (www.deltainc.nl), is a perfect example of a logical evolution from his origins as a pioneer in European Graffiti in the 80s until now. He’s currently a worlwide known visual artist busy in many different fields such as illustraion, graphic design, painting, architecture… He designed a series of 6 toys for Sony Creative Products in Japan a few years ago, consisting of the letters in his name and the word INC (his own brand). And more recently he also did some collaboration for the Be@rbrick series but this new toy, Radar, it’s his first proper toy produced by himself. Only 200 have been produced worldwide in each colourway. The vinyl figure, resembling a robot, is about 22 cm tall and it’s built out of the letters in RADAR. When Delta sent us the first pics a few months ago of the prototype for this figure he mentioned that this would be the first in a series of figures made out of the letters of different words such as “turbo” or “ultra” but so far we’ve only seen images of another similar figure, a beautiful wood prototype for a robotic-like figure with the letters in DELTA.
We have just received these figures and are available as long as stock last in Subaquatica and also online here at our online shop.
January 16th, 2007 08:50pm
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Cream magazine is one of the many and different creative outputs of the design-music-fashion-art collective Silly Thing from Hong Kong. Their latest issue, for spring-summer 06 is a very special monographic volume dedicated to Japanese fashion brand Under Cover. The edition is a true luxury with velvet covered hard covers, golden sides… and we are actually talking more a book than about a magazine because there are no ads or any other contents besides the pictures and text about Under Cover. This brand is the child of fashion designer Jun Takahashi, known for his Under Cover brand but also for his former brand Nowhere, where he had Nigo (A Bathing Ape) as a partner or because of being part of the music band Tokyo Sex Pistols or his projects with artist Madsaki.
Available here aquí through our online shop.
June 28th, 2006 01:27am
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Since he first arrived to New York in 1979, dutch artist Ari Marcopoulos has shown a special hability to inmerse himself into the alternative cultural scenes of that place and capture the main names in the Skate, Snowboard or Hip Hop cultures… But his main acomplishment is not simply collecting photographic portraits of people ranging from a young Basquiat to the Beastie Boys but is in-depth look at the least known corners of the society of that country.
His work finally started to get some major recognition with his 2002 show at Whitney Biennial and since then and more recently with his two latest exhibitions: “Even the President of the United States Sometimes Has Got to Stand Naked” celebrated between october of 2005 until january of 2006 at PS1/MoMa in NY and “Flow” at the MU art center in Eindhoven (Netherlands). With the ocassion of each one of this two shows two catalogs have been published and are available in Subaquatica. The first one, “Even the President…” deviates from Marcopoulos’ usual themes and focuses on the way of life of an average american family in the world of suburbia or simply outside the city. On the other hand “Flow” compiles a selection of his photographs, mostly portraits, between 1986 and present day.
These books-catalogs are available here at Subaquatica in Madrid and also here (”Even The President….”) and here (”Flow”) through our online shop.
June 25th, 2006 11:13pm
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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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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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“We are not allowed to be here”: This is how Aaron Rose starts his new documentary about Beautiful Losers. The here is the white neutral space of a gallery where the about first and only exhibition about contemporary art and street culture is going to be shown. A space where these artists would have never imagined to be posible to ocupy if it wasn’t for this man (one one the 2 curators of the show, along with Christian Strike). I’m at the Triennale di Milan (Italy) and I’m glad that they came to this point, so I can see it, share it and live it as well. 10:30h in the morning, Sunday, I came just for this. I enter and I know that this is not going to be a quick visit.
Mike Mills
Os Gemeos
The space of the Triennale couldn’t be better. Two corridors divide the exhibition in three parts in a way that it’s posible to walk through it easily. The “influences” part has a starting point that introduces the less ilustrated in the ways of the american underground that, since the 60’s, is full of different youth subcultures. Be aware, you won’t find just one way for the world of “Beautiful Losers”. It is full of different directions, pasts and stories and it only exists from the encounter of all these conditions. Maybe that’s why it wasn’t considered a movement on it’s own. Even “The Disobidients” drunk from the best wines, better said, from the best beers! (Note: “The Disobidients” is a term coined by Tokion magazine -in May 2002- to describe a movement of artists who use the aesthetics and distribution tactics of Street art but cross breed them with a strange brew of Pop culture, illustration, commercial toy production, critical intelligence and artistic integrity.) All the glorious past of Dogtown can be seen in the black and white photos of Craig R. Stecyk (Note: Dogtown is a nickname for the beach area at the Santa Monica/Venice border in California, famed for its skateboarding and surfing culture and known for the documentary and book “Dogtown and Z-Boys“) and helped by Tommy Guerrero’s music instalation we go through (Henry) Chalfant’s New York Graffiti, (Raymond) Pettibon’s Surf, Larry Clark’s sex and by the time we get to see the Ari Marcopoulos photos we are already one of the skaters. We are now prepared to begin to see the real exhibition.
Beautiful Losers, much more than a group or even a movement, is the work of an entire family, of a group of people who use such a close language that you can almost see them by your side, doing their pieces and just having fun. In an art that is rebel with a cause you find an unexpected sweetness and peace in the moment of expresing their way of thinking. Don’t fool yourselves though, this is not a hippie kind of art, this is a often illegal art that still fights the power and at the same time demands the right to party. But when they get to do it, all you can see is colour and suddenly everything turns easy. You don’t have to think, you just have to feel and let the beauty of these “losers” lead you and make you want to be one of them. Claire E. Rojas impressed me, Geoff McFetridge amused me and Brian Donnelly followed me to the second part of the show.
Claire E. Rojas
Claire E. Rojas
With a big smile on my face I sit in front of a screen where something was about to begin, this is the surprise gift of this exhibition: the documentary about Beautiful Losers, how it started, where, when, who and why in only 40 minutes. When it’s over you can always see it again because it’s incredible or you can jump to the seat next to you and watc and remember the golden years of “Style Wars” or just watch a good Habitat (skateboards) video. Skate is everywhere: magazines, zines and an entire wall dedicated to show an endless number of skateboards, pro-models of known skateboarders of today and yesterday painted by all these artists. Here is where the low art gets to have its 15 minutes of fame. All kind of magazines talk about them, every gallery just has to have them, and suddendly limited-editions are being made with their work. The underground turns commercial and I found myself in a room full of giant bears ( 1000% Be@rbricks) hanging from the ceiling each bearing the familiar sign of a known “loser”.
By the time I get to the third part of the exhibition I see that the best was left for the last part. My camera is giving signs of dead batteries, not that I’m allowed to take photos anyways. And while the first two security guys look the other way a third man isn’t gonna make it easy for me. But my mission has to be acomplished so I head full gas and enter the worlds of Phil Frost, Ryan McGinness, pass through (Ed) Templeton’s photos and Spike Jonze’s video and stop totally amazed to find the genius that is Harmony Korine; “Above the Below” is unbelievably beautiful. Reaching the final stage I meet Margaret Kilgallen and I understand it all. Sometimes one look is but enough to know that you found your place. Barry McGee (aka Twist) salutes us at the beggining and says goodbye at the end of the exhibition with two of his mythical instalations o animated mannequins painting on the wall. A Graffiti artist painting in a musem wall is always fine with me.
Barry McGee
Barry McGee
I get out of the Triennale happy and sure of one thing: Spain deserves this exhibition to see if once and for all the people of this country start to understand that Street art is not vandalism but the other way around. Everything depends on how you do things and how you really want to listen to what you are being told. While I get myself in the plane to get back to Barcelona and just sleep of exhaustation and I think of these “losers”, of these nobodies that turned into somebodies. In the end they will always turn out to be losers again and for me that’s beauty of this exhibition.
Text & pictures: Ana Neto
Links:
http://www.iconoclastusa.com/projects/current.html
http://www.beautifullosers.it/
Note: This show is on exhibit at Le Tri Postale, Avenue Willy Brandt, Lille (France) from 13th April until 2nd July 2006 from 1:00 pm until 8:00pm Tuesdays through Sundays (closed on Mondays).
According to a recent conversation with Aaron Rose the “Beautiful Losers” documentary should be released on DVD some time along 2007
April 8th, 2006 08:31pm
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Silly Thing (www.silly-thing.com/ or www.think-silly.com) is a Hong Kong based collective, fashion company, record label, design studio… well, we are not sure exactly what’s their main actitivy but they seem to be really busy doing new things and one of their latest acomplishment has been co-producing a toy figure designed by UK illustrator James Jarvis with his brand Amos Toys (www.amostoys.com) It’s a revisited version of his classical character Martin only bigger and with oriental eyes, and this time called Leon. These toys have quickly become nearly impossible to get and they’ve sold out already in most places. In fact you will be really lucky to find them somewhere else online except for our online shop where you can buy them here for the black version and here for the orange one.
April 7th, 2006 06:38pm
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