[mactor]

Dann können ja jetzt evtl. das Haus und deren Bewohner mal wieder Miete zahlen.

[moonsafari]

Wenn dieses Kunstwerk nur auf Grund der Bekanntheit des Künstlers geschätzt wird, sollte man sich überlegen, ob man es nicht lieber wieder mit Farbe zukleistert.

[moonsafari]

Wenn dieses Kunstwerk nur auf Grund der Bekanntheit des Künstlers geschätzt wird, sollte man sich überlegen, ob man es nicht lieber wieder mit Farbe zukleistert.

Na gut, zu früh geschossen...hätte wohl doch erst mal den ganzen Artikel lesen sollen.

[fondation-art-oxylane]

Actually, the exhibition DO NOT THINK follow the project called BISAR - Berlin International Skateboard Artists Residence. This project was a residence with 6 european artists on a common subject: the skateboard.
BISAR is produced by the Oxylane Art Foundation and curated by Chiara Santini Parducci & Adrian Nabi.
Also, it's not an exhibition of street art but definitly of contemporary art. Pass by in the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien every day between noon and 7pm to see by yourself.
All my best

[abby_thur]

Ich habe eines seiner Werke tättowiert :-)Toller Künstler :-)

[fondation-art-oxylane]

What lies beneath is Brad Downey's piece for the DO NOT THINK exhibition.
It's the restauration of a previous Banksy piece in order to focus the attention on how commercial a part of the street art scene became in those 8 years since the original piece was first shown.
It plays with the thin line in between the message and the image, the logo and the content, what is still alive in images and what is lying.
Most of the press fell perfectly in the trap of taking it first degree and just name-drop a Banksy.
There's no Banksy in the show, Brad Downey's piece is a reflection on one aspect of skateboarding culture and has to be understood in the context of the show.

The DO NOT THINK exhibition is the result of a six month artists residency about skateboarding : the BISAR (Berlin International Artists Skateboard Residence) project.

The artists’ work explores several aspects of skateboard culture, at times influenced by the environment created at the residence itself:
Decomposition and the physical approach to architecture in the work of the video artists.
The « Do It Yourself » concept applied to inventing impossible boards or offbeat presentations of drawings, conceived by the cartoonist.
Reuse, readaptation and reappropriation of space – artistic, exterior or interior – detourned by the sculptor.
The illustrator’s maniacal repetition of a trick.
The composer’s sonic approach to the creation of a musica materica skateboard symphony.
In front of the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien that hosts the shows stands the skateable sculpture Papa Und Ich . The piece, the work of English cartoonist Dave the Chimp, represents a father protectively embracing his child and sends out a message of joy and freedom.

Artists:
Andrea Belfi
Brad Downey
Jacques Floret
Dave The Chimp
Mischa Wermkauf & Matthias Leinke

Curators:
Chiara Santini Parducci
Adrian Nabi

The entire project is the creation of the Oxylane Art Foundation who mounted it in collaboration with the Kunstraum/Kreuzberg Bethanien

DO NOT THINK
Projektraum 1/Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2
10997 Berlin

From 10 September to 23 October 2011. Everyday 12h - 19h.

More informations:
http://fondation-art-oxylane.com/pro...ingle.php?p=33
http://bisar.tumblr.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bisar-...67705989956588