L’Avenir (the future), curated by Poesia, is an exhibition opening at White Walls Gallery tomorrow, December 14th, 7pm-11pm. The artists involved read like stars in alignment: Augustine Kofie (US), Borondo (Spain), Chazme (Poland), Clemens Behr (Germany), Doze Green (US), Duncan Jago (UK), Part2ism (UK), Poesia (US), Robert Proch (Poland), Sainer (Poland) and Vesod (Spain). Their work has been referred to as “graffuturism,” a term coined by Poesia. In a recent interview with Vandablog, Poesia defined it as “artist with a graffiti background who evolved …
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West coast Bay Area based artist Augustine Kofie recently got busy in San Francisco, CA’s Tenderloin district. According to Kofie, the signage above is from the 1940’s. He currently has a solo exhibition up at White Walls Gallery through October 5th. Photo courtesy of Augustine Kofie. …
Conor Harrington is from Cork, Ireland. According to an Out of Site interview he found graffiti in a National Geographic; and rap through a friend’s cassette tape, Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988). Having grown up where graffiti was nonexistent, he was still a writer through and through until art school changed his perspective. Harrington’s paintings are a microcosm of styles that, in theory, don’t seem like they would gracefully cross-pollinate. Instead they …
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