During the second week of June (8-12 June) we, Project ASA, organise our first event. Happenings such as exhibition openings, paint jams and afterparties are taking place within a period of five days.

Locations are: Bobs Youth Hostel, Bep Gallery, Outland Records Gallery, De Duivel, The Thought Gallery, GO Gallery and afterparties at Sugar Factory (Hells Kitchen) and Flexbar (Undercover). There might even be an exciting outdoors location. Ooooh…

Artists who will be invading Amsterdam are coming all the way from countries such as Canada, Italy, England and of course The Netherlands itself. 

We are very proud to have the following artists at our first event: The London Police, Hugo Kaagman, Pez, Ives.One, Galo, Flying Fortress, K74, NOL, Fake, Farkfk, Recall One, Orticanoodles, Faunagraphic, Bue The Warrior, Chase and Indigo. 

We would not be surprised if the invited artists will leave their trademark outside on the streets in Amsterdam.

ABOUT:

Project Amsterdam Street Art (Project ASA) is a young organisation with creative artists and entrepreneurs, who have a passion for street art. We see that street art-wise something is missing in Amsterdam. Similar European cities already have diverse street art events. Through organising street art related (sub) events in Amsterdam, we are aiming to get to a same level as other European cities.

There are lots of exciting developments going on in the street art scene. Artists improve their techniques. Street art is becoming an accepted form of art in the international artscene. The streets can be seen as an open gallery, which can be visited day and night. Just look around you and be surprised and amazed. Street art is what makes the streetscape more attractive and beautiful.

Our goal is to set up an annual recurrent event and that it will become recognized in the European street art scene.

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Programme by gallery/event: http://www.amsterdamstreetart.com/events (here you will find a downloadable schedule + map.)

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E-mail: info@amsterdamstreetart.com
Website: http://www.amsterdamstreetart.com/

Urban Painting is proud to presents:
ORTICANOODLES PRIVATE SHOW
Urban Garage – via Forcella 7 – Milano (zona Tortona)
opening & live painting: friday 4 June, 2010 at 7 pm
dates: saturday 5, sunday 6 & monday 10 of june from 3 pm to 8 pm
FREE ENTRY

info: urbanpainting@ymail.com
www.urbanpainting.info

over 100 new pictures from Paris:

• NEW WORKS | Solo show | Galerie Itinerrance | Paris
• VITRY JAM#4 | group show | Vitry sur Seine – France

THE ZONE. Between the towers of Isola.
FEHLSTELLE is a collective of artists, former students of Thomas Ruff from the famous Düsseldorf art school. Here
in Milan they will erect two lookout towers, like those that once guarded the area surrounding the Berlin Wall. The location chosen is the Bussa flyover as it joins the two sides of Milan that are divided by railway lines and by Porta Garibaldi train station. The setting is that of the Isola quarter, an area that is today an open-air construction site undergoing a profound transformation, from a district famous for its craftsmen to a “Fashion District”. The two 31 feet tall towers will illuminate the flyover with searchlights, thus recreating that feeling of menace and anxiety experienced in those years by the East Germans, while transforming the flyover itself into an open-air theatre at which other artists will be invited to perform.
The inauguration will take place on Tuesday 10th November from 7.00pm _ the artists performing will be:

· SchillerWendt _ Christian Schiller and Marianne Wendt are two German artists who will present the specially-written sound installation ‘GRENZLAND’ (borderland). Two 20-minute tracks inspired by the events of summer 1989 in Hungary, on the borders of which Eastern Germans gathered hoping to cross over. Hungary eventually opened its doors to German citizens on 11th September 1989. In collaboration with Blistersound.

· Orticanoodles _ Orticanoodles is a tag that first appeared in Milan in 2005. The distinguishing feature of Orticanoodles is the use of the stencil technique as a new form of Graffiti Art.
For this installation, Orticanoodles will realize a wall painting named ‘The prison’, representing the constraint exercised on people by the Berlin Wall, creating a work on the side of one of the towers (23 x 13.5 feet). A live painting performance starting on the day of the inauguration that will continue on the following days.

· Studio Trickster (Karin Freschi, Filippo Borella) is a group of artists that focuses on the divisions between public and private, turning the social role of urban and domestic spaces upside down by experimenting with scenarios and action aimed at creating a new resistance. Geboren zum fallen/Born to fall is an action in memory of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Impenetrable, isolating, repelling, the wall is made of elastic material – it
welcomes attempts at contact, giving the illusion of proximity, and then amplifies its strength in refusal, distancing, discouraging and wearing you down. Two tireless groups of people divided by the wall longing to get in contact with the other side, a reunification that will only happen after their death.

LA ZONA. Between the lookout towers at Isola is a project by FEHLSTELLE.

Curators: Alessandra Cosi, Giulia Zorzi and Flavio Franzoni.

Inauguration: 10th November 2009 at 7.00pm. The installation will be on show until Sunday 15th November.

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