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Vernissage: Samstag, 04. August 2007, 20Uhrother has been a graffiti artist for the last 18 years.. the majority of his work is on the sides of hundreds of freight trains that travel the length and width of north america ...a message in a bottle sent out by train can reach thousands of miles to another country another city... another world...
www.flickr.com/photos/other/
A confluence of cultures and contradictions, Juan Carlos Noria is a painter for our times. Born in Caracas, Venezuela he carries his Latin American sensibility on his sleeve. As a teen growing up in Ottawa, Canada, he became an accomplished figure skater. Grace and lines were an obsession. So, too were his ideas of subversion. He fell out of skating after hitting the rigid class structure of the sport, finding comfort (and discomfort) in visual art, on the streets with a paint can, postering, skateboarding, fleeing police. A strange opportunity then came. A world tour with Disney on Ice. It heightened his sense of absurdity, humour and anger, sharpened his visual and social awareness. Arriving back in Ottawa, he hung up the skates and his career took flight with live painting performances. So proficient from his days of graffiti, he quickly earned a reputation for highly resolved canvases produced in front of appreciative crowds. Through these events in various venues, Juan Carlos also ensured a showcase for other young Ottawa artists, raising the bar and pushing them to achieve with him. It was 2001-2002.
Meanwhile, the tide of CNNesque culture rose in North America. Juan, always with an eye on pop culture and current events, found himself painting with increasing anger. He needed to change the channel. In November 2004, he moved to Barcelona, Spain to find tranquilo, a new view of the world and new audiences. Since his move, he has evolved, focused and become more prolific, with exhibits in Spain, the United States and Canada.
True to subversive nature, he undercuts his own personality allowing himself to explore two other personas and visual styles. He sometimes works under the pseudonyms of royal or dixon. He has been infuenced by his contemporaries Mark Marsters, Pat Thompson and Dave Cooper. Yet, he is himself-singular Juan. He is without pretense, full of concern for others, quick to laugh and quicker to paint something ripe
* juancarlosnoria.ca
* http://dixon.them.ca
* http://royal.them.ca
* allthingsfat.org
*http://www.fotolog.com/mejuan
*http://www.ringo.com/explore/member.html?memberId=156682438
I am Saddo, I am from Romania, I studied graphics at the University of Arts and Design, in Cluj Napoca. But I think only after I finished my studies I rediscovered the pure pleasure of drawing. After I finished my studies, me and some friends from Cluj started a street art group called The Playground. Back then the street art movement in Romania was kinda poor.We started from stickers and stencils till we got to make more complex, hand made wheatpastes and wall paintings.It was then when I started to change everything I was drawing till then, I gave up on the realistic charcoal and pencil drawings, and started drawing different kinds of monsters and creatures, scary ones, funny ones, etc. Like when I was a kid, in a trip with my parents, in Sovata,while my folks were laying in the sun and swimming in the salty water I was drawing monsters in my sketchbook.That's the feeling.And of course, I was really fascinated by street art, and eventually started making street art.
And I also discovered the fun of painting with other people. And I had the chance to draw with such amazing artists from Romania and other countries, and now I'm so happy to be part of this show with Other and Dixon, cause I knew and loved their works before I met them.
And I'm planning to move with my girlfriend and live and draw with her for the rest of my life:)
And I think this is it.
http://saddo-jdero.deviantart.com/
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