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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
INSPIRATION 3 - CALL FOR ART!!!
There is such a feeling of impending seasonal change here in Tel Aviv. Inspiration comes in with the spring & for the third year, the INSPIRE Collective asks you to show off some inspiration! It’s during these pre-spring months, for the last few years, that we really get working and organized in order to time the show with these weather and seasonal changes as a type of metaphor for inspiration. Join us this year and show off what inspires you!!! It must be noted that most artworks received will be installed and shown in one public location in the streets of urban Tel Aviv. As the weather turns really great here in May,please keep in mind when preparing your works, that this is an outdoor event and the Middle Eastern desert sun should be taken into account. Artworks are recommended to be durable (not easily broken) and somehow protected from the sun during the exhibition’s duration. The last two years of hosting the Inspiration Art Exhibition here in the Middle East have been a great success & each year the size of participating artists and appreciators are growing!
THIS IS AN OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS OF ALL KINDS TO BRING SOME INSPIRATION TO THE MIDDLE EAST! POSTERS, PRINTS, AND CLOTHING ARE THE FOCUS OF THIS YEAR’S SHOW, HOWEVER WE INVITE YOU TO SUBMIT ARTWORKS OF ANY TYPE AS LONG AS IT SHOWS US WHAT INSPIRES YOU! JOIN US & SHOW YOUR ART IN THE STREETS OF TEL AVIV!
(Video, press, and updates about the show's developments will be posted in the INSPIRATION 3 group discussion threads as they happen!)
ALL WORKS (AND FREEBIES TO GIVE OUT) SHOULD BE MAILED TO:
ITW
PO BOX 4917
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL 61049
(THERE ARE NO SIZE LIMITATIONS, BUT PLEASE WRITE US ABOUT LARGER INSTALLATIONS PREVIOUSLY TO MAILING THEM OFF).
You can see pictures of the first ever Inspiration Art Exhibition that happened @ Barbur Gallery in Jerusalem here:
www.flickr.com/photos/idiotthewise/sets/72157594525260921/
The second year we exhibited even more artists @ Legal Action Gallery / Casco Urban Lab in Tel Aviv, which can be seen here:
www.flickr.com/photos/idiotthewise/sets/72157603679836957/
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Saturday, February 28, 2009
MAGEFA (VOL.1)
AFK Crew / NIO Crew / 048 / BrokenFingaz Crew / SMD Crew -
A Tel Aviv-based Graffiti and Street Art Independent Magazine...Volume 2 coming soon! Help support independent urban art:
www.myspace.com/magefa1
Email them some love, support, and your photo contributions of graffiti and street art from Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem and surrounding areas...
Email to : magefa@ymail.com
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Street Flowers For Noa
In honor of the newly born Noa Aya, new dad, ITW (Inspire) has been placing street flowers blooming in the central districts of Tel Aviv:
See photos of Poe and ITW's newborn daughter here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/idiotthewise/sets/72157605353265643/
See photos of Poe and ITW's newborn daughter here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/idiotthewise/sets/72157605353265643/
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
KNOW HOPE Talks About "Temporary Residence", His Debut Solo Show in San Jose
Tel Aviv Graffiti and Street Art website has covered many Know Hope street works and group exhibitions, but when we heard his first solo show was happening , we had to know more. Tel Aviv Graffiti and Street Art(T.A.G.S)asked KNOW HOPE about his debut solo show happening tomorrow in San Jose, CA and here's what he had to say:
T.A.G.S: First of all, let me congratulate you on your first solo show! I am sure it will be incredible! Can you explain the name of the show and its meaning?
KNOW HOPE: I think the name of the show (Temporary Residence), this time around, is quite literal. There is this timeless timeliness that composes our existence, and for that matter, everything around us as well. what was dramatic yesterday is nostalgic today, so in a way we are creating our future memories based on the fact that a current moment is something that will disappear or change form. the whole idea of "home", as something that is usually meant to make for a foundation, gets a whole new perspective when being replaced by the word "residency".these common moments, these specific time frames make for our temporary residency, in a way.
T.A.G.S: Why San Jose for your first solo and what's up with Gallery A.D.?
KNOW HOPE: Anno Domini aka Gallery AD is a really cool gallery located in san jose, CA. The gallery first opened in 2000 and has been showing great artists and supporting the independent art scene ever since, alongside many other efforts to promote art and creative innovation outside of the gallery as well. the good folks responsible for all this, Cherri and Brian, are great and have a really good thing going, and when they offered me my first solo show, it felt just right to have it with them.
T.A.G.S: What works will be shown and what's the Gallery A.D. space like?
KNOW HOPE: I'll be doing a site specific installation in the space alongside a group of new pieces made specially for this show. the space is an old movie theater turned gallery, so it makes for quite an interesting space to work in.
We wish KNOW HOPE all the best with his debut solo show, "Temporary Residence"
Monday, September 22, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
REUSE PROJECT 2 : Tel Aviv
The REUSE PROJECT 2 here in Tel Aviv was a great success and has accomplished its goal to raise public awareness about the issues of abandoned and publicly forgotten spaces in the process. REUSE PROJECT 2, like the first REUSE PROJECT in Jerusalem last year, has become a larger challenge to the public and an exercise in space liberation, urban renewal, and guerrilla art. Its about giving back something positive to the community and making a social statement through our expressions at the same time.
Although disappointing, we had anticipated the closing to be inevitable because most "post-industrial cities" are too close minded about reuse concepts of this kind and proportion, mainly because of its capitalist nature, it just doesn't have the money (what it calls "resources") to rehab buildings, when the real resource of any populated area is the population itself...so the closing is part of the exhibition too...we have had many local people tell us about the closing with frustration...and its actually a good thing for raising even more awareness of the neglected space issues within Tel Aviv as well as showing people the inefficiency of using capitalism (and any imitation of it) as the only tool to reuse these places (their are abandoned and forgotten buildings all over the world!).
So, in summary, after twelve days of showing...REUSE PROJECT 2's door may come open again but not in relation to our show here but we hope that the next time the those doors open that it will be as an action of the people, perhaps by those who want it to be open because they now see the value and potential of the no longer forgotten space...
Again...thanks to all of you who helped to manifest this project and its vision! REUSE, RESIST, and INSPIRE!
www.idiotthewise.com
www.inspirecollective.blogspot.com
http://www.flickr.com/groups/reuseproject2/pool/
Saturday, September 6, 2008
REUSE PROJECT 2
An INSPIRE Collective social action exhibition of urban art and renewal.
The ReUse Project is an on-going street and domestic planning campaign endorsing urban perma-culture and renewal through artistic means.
So, for all those hippies who should be wearing boots...for all of you anarchists and artists who should be living like you mean it,, but also for ALL of us who should be using what we're refusing: Now open to the public as a tribute to urban art and renewal...
ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK: The INSPIRE Collective and Joint Effort Gallery are proud to present this year's ReUse Project 2: a global art exhibition completely reusing one abandoned building in central Tel Aviv... Watch and learn to reuse as over 120 international and local artists take over this central location!!
www.idiotthewise.com
www.flickr.com/groups/reuseproject2
www.telavivstreetart.blogspot.com
www.flickr.com/photos/idiotthewise/sets/72057594103444722/
To be added to the mailing list for future INSPIRE Collective events, please email ITW @ idiotthewise@gmail with "street art mailing list please" in the title...
REUSE & INSPIRE!!!
View some video shorts of some of the reusing that has been happening on site:
www.flickr.com/photos/idiotthewise/2831732477/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th7n6TIwiws
This is the 2nd REUSE PROJECT...see photos of the first REUSE PROJECT in Jerusalem here:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Jerusalem%20reuse%20project&w=all
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