CBK AMSTERDAM-URBAN ART EFX OPENNING
Photo by: Maureen Aardema Photography
URBAN ART EFX - International exhibition of Urban Artists
12.05. - 28.05.2011 @ CBK Amsterdam
Check: www.urban-art-efx.com
13 international artists exhibit their artwork on canvas, photography, installations, sculptures. A big amount of the artwork is specially prepared for the expo!
All artists have a background in street-art but have developed their work taking a step up on their artistic expression. They are internationally recognised as key figures within their artistic field and expression and present a professional overview of the diversity of Urban Art.
Alex Fakso / Italy / www.fakso.com
MadC / Germany / www.madc.tv
Leyp Collective / Netherlands / www.leyp.com
Nasimo / Bulgaria / www.nasimo.org
Faith71 / Netherlands / www.faith71.com
Jenny Bhatt / India / www.jennybhatt.com
Mr. Zero / Hungary / flickr.com/photos/mrzero_c
Fat Heat / Hungary / www.fatheat.hu/
Penny / UK / www.onepennypiece.com
Rachel de Boer / Netherlands / www.floatingmedia.nl
Said Dokins / Mexico / http://saidokins.blogspot.com/
SjocoSjon / Netherlands / www.sjocosjon.com
Woper Heroe / Spain / www.flickr.com/photos/woop
Alex Fakso is recognised as a prominent personality in the contemporary street scenario. He comes to photography at the age of thirteen when he gets a camera in order to capture his own “Graffiti pieces” on trains. Since the early 1990ies, he has never stopped being an active part of the Urban Art movement and
Donovan Spaanstra is a contemporary Durch artist who started his career as one of the first Graffiti writers in Holland back in the year 1984. During the years, he developed his style and artistic expression further to the next level of artistic expression but still uses the spray-can as his main work tool. Donovan attended
Jenny Bhatt is a contemporary artist from Mumbai, India, who has worked over many years across various mediums: visual arts, communication design, photography & cartooning. After a long research on colours and with a knowledge of the body’s charkas, Jenny Bhatt finds a connection between art and spirituality and attempts to find a relation between
Darrin Umboh, founder and artist of the Dutch Urban Art collective Leyp, represents a unique style that can be described as bold, vector-based, colourfully complex and very much character-driven. He draws his inspiration from everything pretty and fun with a lot of references to popular culture (fashion, movies, music, cartoons, drugs and naked women) He
Claudia Walde is a versatile illustrator, designer, fine artist and Street-artist. She painted her first Graffiti piece in 1996. Until then, she took every possible chance to travel, paint and exhibit. Her murals and artworks can be found all over the world like in Germany, USA, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Denmark, Poland, Switzerland, Ireland,
Krisztián Viszokai in the Urban Art world better known as Mr. Zero, started his artistic career at the age of 12 years. After having drawn since his childhood, Krisztián sprayed his first comic character on a wall in his home town in Hungary. Taking his artistic development more and more serious, he created a very
Ernesto Nasimo started painting Graffiti back in the year 1995 and was recognised as one of the first Street-artists in Bulgaria. The Graffiti scene in Bulgaria was at a very young stage during this period and the presence of advanced artists as well as the availability of books, magazines and Internet was very limited. This
Penny was educated at Chelsea College of Art Design and Central Saint Martins and upon graduating, quickly established himself within the stencil art scene in London. He has received critical acclaim for his highly technical, intricately detailed hand-cut stencils, which he brings to life with the application of an idiosyncratic colour palette. Penny regards the
Multimedia artist Rachel de Boer already began to show her animations & video’s during her studies on the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. After finishing the Rijks Akademie, she presented herself as solo VJ under the name: Floating Media and developed her style to artistically support music venues, theatre performances or projects in public space. Her
Said Dokins is a multi-talented visual artist from Mexico City, who combines modern Urban Art culture with traditional Mexican styles and elements. The focus of his artwork lays on a variety of themes like society’s reflection on its own history, the symbol of death in relation to the conflict of power, destruction, survival and the
Amsterdam born and raised visual artist SjocoSjon finished the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2005. Since his graduation he likes to research the elements of the visual language that are used in modern popular culture. The shamelessness, the violence, the marketing schemes and the visual shocks that are broadcasted to society through the TV screen and the
The style and picture language of Vistor Herrero can be defined as ¨new contemporary figurative painting¨. The roots and influences of his work can clearly been found in the graphic elements of the early skateboard culture, the 1970ies psychedelic-styled record covers, graphic design, advertising, surrealism and tattoo art. This mesh-up of various artistic elements creates
