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July 3, 2015
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JAZ, Sten & Lex, Augustine Kofie, and More Present New Works in “Cuatro Igual A Uno”

In recent years, Mexico City has played host to some of the most progressive urban artists in the world. Many of them have come together in Celeya Brothers' anniversary exhibition, "Cuatro Igual A Uno": 3TTMan, Christiaan Conradie, Franco Fasoli aka JAZ, Fusca, Augustine Kofie, Lesuperdemon, Sten & Lex, Sanez, Smithe and Jorge Tellaeche. The group represents not only the freshman artists to show with the gallery, but also the city's international draw, hailing from the United States, South Africa, to Argentina. Take a look at more photos from the exhibition after the jump.

Augustine Kofie

In recent years, Mexico City has played host to some of the most progressive urban artists in the world. Many of them have come together in Celeya Brothers’ anniversary exhibition, “Cuatro Igual A Uno”: 3TTMan, Christiaan Conradie, Franco Fasoli aka JAZ, Fusca, Augustine Kofie, Lesuperdemon, Sten & Lex, Sanez, Smithe and Jorge Tellaeche. The group represents not only the freshman artists to show with the gallery, but also the city’s international draw, hailing from the United States, South Africa, to Argentina. Among them is Augustine Kofie, whose 70s-esque colored paintings and murals evoke kitsch with geometrical precision. His new series employs different qualities of line, some futuristic, layered with found images of things like vintage computers and cassette tapes. They communicate a personal language for Kofie, who uses these assemblages to connect the past with the present. Italian duo Sten & Lex have a unique style where line also plays an important role. Their new work mimics the stencils they use to create their murals, which they describe as a combination between geometry, or order, and chaos. Rather than using strips of paper to create their piece, they use black and white to reduce an architectural form to simple halftone-like strokes. JAZ, based in Argentina, shares their boldness in his more politically inspired imagery. His paintings on display depict masked hybrid subjects battling with animals such as the leopard, one that is commonly found in his paintings. Their clashing personifies the power play that exists between modern cultures. Take a look at these and more pieces from “Cuatro Ugal A Uno” below, courtesy of the gallery.

JAZ

Fusca

Smithe

Stan & Lex

Christiaan Conradie

Augustine Kofie

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Augustine Kofie, Celaya Brothers gallery, JAZ, Sten & Lex, urban art

Bordalo II, Graffiit, street art, urban art

May 19, 2015

Portugal-based artist Bordalo II (previously featured here) is drawing attention to environmental issues with his latest series, "Big Trash Animals". The animals can be found in various cities in his home country including Lisboa and Estarreja, and as far reaching as Berlin, Germany. These new pieces take his core concept of giving waste a new life even further by spreading an important message.

Katharina Grosse Builds Otherworldly Places with Color

Abstract, Katharina Grosse, Public art, surrealism, urban art

June 10, 2014

German urban artist Katharina Grosse doesn’t limit her vibrant artworks to a wall- she colors the world around her. Color is absolutely essential to her graffiti that covers buildings, mounds of dirt, and installations that evoke natural wonders like the Northern Lights. Her strokes don’t follow the contours of the chosen environment. They follow that of her own hand as she moves through the space, telling an abstract, emotional narrative. If it looks as though she hovered over the Earth with a spray gun, you would be right. Grosse’s process often involves dangerously leaning over scaffolding or being suspended from a crane. Throughout her career, her materials have varied from the conventional to unconventional; acrylic on canvas paintings and gallery walls to plastic and styrofoam alien-like formations. See more of her work after the jump.

Douglas “Hoxxoh” Hoekzema Energizes His Murals with Abstract Designs

Douglas Hoekzema, graffiti, Hoxxoh, street art, urban art

June 17, 2015

Miami based street artist Douglas "Hoxxoh" Hoekzema fills his murals with a burst of color and energy using abstract design. While they look like the work of a computer generated graphic, his designs are drawn freely by hand. As if subject to gravity’s pull, geometric circles and triangles radiate from their centers until they take more organic shapes. In his paintings, Hoxxoh often interrupts the design’s infinite nature as if to remind us of its flat dimension. Another way of looking at this interruption is like the stopping of time. Hoxxoh’s main concept, “Time Waits for No Man,” refers to his fascination with the properties of time, both its beauty and society’s obsession with keeping track of it.

Twoone Paints Largescale Mural in Urban Spree Complex, Berlin

Berlin, street art, TwoOne, urban art, Urban Spree

August 21, 2015

When we visited Berlin-based Japanese artist Twoone in his studio last month, he shared explorative new works featuring animals. We got a chance to catch up with him again in Berlin last week, where he was hard at work on a new mural in the Urban Spree complex. Named after the nearby Spree river, the complex features rotating urban art by emerging and well known international artists. Sadly, it is rumored to become the construction site of a new highway, making Twoone's large scale mural covering the main building's facade particularly significant.

JAZ, Sten & Lex, Augustine Kofie, and More Present New Works in “Cuatro Igual A Uno”

Bordalo II Promotes Environmental Issues with New “Big Trash Animals”

Katharina Grosse Builds Otherworldly Places with Color

Douglas “Hoxxoh” Hoekzema Energizes His Murals with Abstract Designs

Twoone Paints Largescale Mural in Urban Spree Complex, Berlin

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