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INFART 2011 Festival – 2,3,4 Sept. 2011 @ Bassano del Grappa, IT

Sixty artists of international contemporary scene will be the protagonist of the 5th edition of INFART, confirmed the most awaited Urban art event of the year, with performances and installations, site-specific works and exhibitions, live concerts and DJ sets.
“IN INFART WE TRUST” is the concept chosen this year by the collective: trust in Infart means believe in the city that hosts it, have confidence in the potential of a small actuality that can attract the attention and interest of the European artistic scene.

Entrance to all the locations of Infart Festival is free.

Friday, 2nd September

Civic Museum ∙ from 6 p.m.
Vernissage of exhibition “Vulpes Pilum Mutare”

Street Culture, new punk, freaks, pop surrealism at the new museum of Bassano del Grappa, where Carolina Lio and Infart Collective have invited 40 Italian artists to face new languages of the contemporary art with the ambitious and original project “Vulpes Pilum Mutare”. The exhibition will be open until September the 10th and a catalogue will be printed.

Ezzelini’s Castle ∙ from 9 p.m.
Kids Of Grime Exhibition
Jammer (London, uk) – Live Show

In the marvelous setting of Castello degli Ezzelini will go on stage the first Kids Of Grime, a musical and photographic show focused on the urban culture in London known as Grime. The exhibit will be open all weekend long, and it’s curated by the Italian photographer and blogger Verena Stefanie Grotto. There will be Grime rhythms in all the areas of the castle, thanks to different dj set and also to Jammer, ive show, one of the leading figures of this London phenomenon.

Saturday, 3rd September and Sunday, 4th September

Ex-Garage Nardini ∙ from 4 p.m.
INFART Rooms Exhibition

At Ex-Garage Nardini there will be the site specific installation of some of the most extroverted Italian artists: Ufocinque, 108, Guildor, Aeighenes, Diego Knore, Koes, Pablo Pace, Sika, Cera and Giovanni Pasini. This is not only a urban space redevelopment but also a creation of a real outdoor atelier that will provide a 360° crowd’s involvement. The peak of the exhibition will be on September 4th with a finissage aperitif.

Saturday, 3rd September

Arena Cimberle-Ferrari ∙ from 4 p.m.
INFART Outdoors Exhibition
Kenor & H101 (Barcelona, sp) – Live Performance

The walls of Arena will be street artists’ canvas: from Spain Zosen, Kenor and H101 and their colorful geometries; from France the precision and graphical sign of Remed, Amose, Tilt and Honet; and also Won ABC from Germany, Steve Locatelli from Belgium and Nychos from Austria. Un A melting-pot of shapes, symbols, creative and different personalities for creating a unique and one-shot work.
There will be refreshments stands and a Shop Area where you can buy official Infart merchandise and others urban culture products.

Arena Cimberle-Ferrari ∙ from 6 p.m.
EASTPAK HAPPY NEW YEAR
Savage Skulls (Stockholm, sw), Ackeejuice Rockers & guests

In the evening at Arena Cimberle-Ferrari there will be late summer coolest party: Eastpak Happy New Year, the Eastpak event lands in Bassano after several stops in Europe. Special guest the Swedish duo Savage Skulls, which will bring for the first time in Italy their tropical house that has made them one of the leading groups on the important American label Mad Decent. Sharing the stage Ackeejuice Rockers, Infart musical project, back from numerous performances in Italian clubs and fresh winners of the URSA Major Remix Competition by Trouble & Bass label from New York and Dj Cyco alongside Lady Gisa

Shindy Club ∙ from 11.30 p.m.
INFART After-Party

Nic Sarno a DJ, a Music Producer and a multimedia artist from Milan, considered one of the founders of the italian’s dance new wave, along with Crookers, The Bloody Beetroots, His Majesty Andre and Congorock, will play at the After-Party @ Shindy Club. Entry is only allowed to members.

Sunday, 4th September

Arena Cimberle-Ferrari ∙ from 6 p.m.
INFART Outdoors Exhibition
INFART MUSIC
HATE BOSS – Live Show, LRST, Dj Boma, Esh & guests

Also Sunday is dedicated to the music, with the live show of HATE BOSS, a band that combines the power and impact of a rock concert to the frenetic redundancy of a dj-set.

IN INFART WE TRUST is possible under the patronage of the Regione Veneto and the Comune di Bassano del Grappa and under the business that support it: : Ditta Bortolo Nardini, NewEraCap, Eastpak, Fuoribiennale, Montana Cans, Grafiche Leone, Rival, Offine micrò and Sem

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Humanoid: Infart Indoors Exhibition

Con Humanoid, Infart Collective regala una visione morbosa dell’essere umano.
Arti mozzati, sguardi maledetti, figure sacre, individui cupi, demoni, dittatori, robot e un’intera famiglia pronta a lasciare la città sorridendo, dopo una terribile esplosione atomica.

Ma non ci voleva tanto a capire cosa si sarebbe trovato di fronte il pubblico, bastava leggere i nomi degli artisti!
Dast | www.deliriohouse.com/residents/Dast
Stefano Zattera | www.deliriohouse.com/residents/StefanoZattera
Elena Rapa | www.elenarapa.blogspot.com
Thomas Raimondi | www.thomasraimondi.com
Orticanoodles | www.orticanoodles.com
Pixel Pancho | www.pixelpancho.com
Diego Knore | www.diegoknore.com
Koes | www.koes.it
Manuel Pablo Pace | www.deliriohouse.com/residents/ManuelPabloPace
Giovanni Pasini | www.giovannipasiniart.com
Cera | www.ekosystem.org/tag/yano

sono davvero esseri umani?
Lo sono nella misura in cui qualcuno li ha convinti di esserlo,
ma nella realtà sono il risultato della società sempre meno umana!


Scarica gratuitamente il nuovo mix di Ackeejuice sound!

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Artist showcase: Simone El Rana

Simone El Rana is a goldsmith with 20 years of experience. Simone El Rana is not just this, is an artist.
He draws inspiration from one of his greatest passions:tattoo. His creations, his works – for saying’ properly – are connected with the classic symbolism of the tattoo world and bring along with another passion: the art imagery. And so here is a show of christian iconography, subjects closed together and infused with the religious world. El Rana’s most used subjects are: Ex Voto, Madonnas and what we might call “ Saint Relics”. His jewels are little manifestations of this fervent creative spirit, his works are the proof of a sensitivity and artistic knowledge without equal.

A universe populated by drawings that look like old-timed litographies.
Skate and snowboard become a support of the stylistic interpretations. These objects give up their original function to become something new, ready to let rise to new life
El Rana’s work seem small altars, a kind of “place” to stop and follow through its reflection on the daily. A deep atmosphere where a man pray for grace , salvation and light, drifts through this place.

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Translation by Francesca Pozzobon

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Artist showcase: Laurie Lipton

He was 4 years old when he began to draw, but the subjects were not those of today. Surely there weren’t all these delicious skeletons and expressive craniums. Laurie Lipton is from New York and she’s slightly obsessed with the death, and if not from the death, from all that is well away from life. That said, Laurie Lipton is undeniably and clearly a genius. Her works, all in pencil, are inspired by the “ Flemish School”. But she doesn’t paint, she just uses simple and thin lines, that if approached each other they give life to compositions with a very special light. Extraordinary shades and depth of field. And the only tool she uses, we repeat, it’s a pencil.

Durer, Memling, Van Eyck, Goya and Rembrandt, but also Diane Arbus, are the other characters who populate the world from which it draws its inspiration of this no longer young artist. She has tried for month to copy these artists, to reproduce a technique that was only hers “ unique and incomparable, I wanted something that no one has done before” she says. And here they come, with the grace of a compulsive-impulsive person hunting for peace and his talent: troops of skeletons reborn for the pleasure of our eyes. The choice of black-and-white is a consequence. This duotone, due to the instrument used, reminds old photos and old time television and gives to his wonderful works a spooky and crystallized atmosphere

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Artist showcase: Zosen

Zosen’s shamanic enthusiasm delves into ritual, folklore, and symbolism to develop his own iconography and art practice that critiques the current social and political climate.  His work builds a playful narrative with abstract characters and symbols that dance across cityscapes boldly breaking rules and expanding the dialogue with the city. 

Born in Buenos Aires, Zosen developed his art practice on the streets since he was 11. Moving to Barcelona at the beginning of the ’90s he was influenced by skate culture and the punk and Do It Yourself movements and started to experiment with different styles, combining “classic graffiti” and crazy characters.
In 2001 became a long time member of Barcelona’s infamous ONG (Ovejas NeGras or ‘Black Sheep’) crew.

Zosen continues to expand his creative practice with performance,illustration,video and collaborations with artists across the globe and he is co-founder of the street-wear label, “Animal Bandido” with designer Clàudia Font.

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Interview with Göla

We continue the serie of interviews with international street-artists, this is the time of Göla, a character who is “came from the world of fairy tales” that decided to paint the world with its bright colors and imaginative forms.

Because of the strange language here with this elf is expressed, there is no English translation, you can try google translate but it’s better that you learn his language!

INFART: Ciao Göla, ci conosciamo da un pò di anni, ma chi sta per leggere questa intervista penso sicuramente sia curioso di capire chi sei, da che mondo arrivi … hai voglia di presentarti brevemente?

GÖLA: Che posso dirti amigo mio, arrivo dal mondo delle favole come tu ben sai!.,. Mi piace pensare che con il maggigo mondo dell’ arte mi sono incontrato per la prima volta quando ero ancora bambino, quando facevo disegni sui fogliacci di casa con i colori a spirito ed i pastelli. Andando a spulciare tra quei disegni ho notato che il mio immaginario odierno si poteva gia scorgere in quei segni infantili. In realtà poi la mia traiettoria ha avuto uno sviluppo nel percorso istituzionale del sistema artistico, nel senso che ho frequentato il liceo artistico a Ravenna, per poi approdare all’Accademia di Belle arti di Bologna. Durante questo percorso mi sentivo denaturato, come forzato ad un approccio creativo che non mi apparteneva, sai quando ti insegnano la bella maniera al liceo o quando all’ accademia il professore vuol convincerti che una certa poetica è inadeguata… Durante quegli anni ero in forte disaccordo con l’istituzione, sebbene oggi riconosco di avere appreso nozioni che sono state preziose per la generazione del mio stile personale; ero alla ricerca della mia forma, fu cosi che il quarto anno di accademia lo passai a Barcellona grazie al progetto Erasmus, e li mi scontrai con la potenza del panorama Street art che imperava in ogni dove per le strade del centro e delle periferie di Barna. Uno stile libero, “colorato”, ma anche naif alle volte dagli echi infantili, era il 2004, mi ritornano alla mente immagini di Chupet, Pez, Lollo, Chanoir, Zosen, Galo, la Percha, Kram, Pyu, e altri ancora…Oltretutto in quegli anni stavo praticamente vivendo con Ueia Lolta, ed anche il suo modo ed il suo immaginario condizionarono molto il mio segno, per anni.
Oggi posso dire che il mio modo di esprimermi ha trovato un equilibrio tra i tecnicismi accademici e la ricerca per la forma semplice e di impatto del primo periodo a barcellona, i continui viaggi e le fascinazioni dei diversi stili cosi conosciuti (non solo del mondo dell’arte murale) hanno fatto il resto.

Guardando il tuo lavoro, spesso cerco di capirne il significato, vedo colori e forme, riempimenti particolari (peli, punti, linee, squame,.. ) tutto questo mi ricorda un qualcosa di organico, riconducibile alla natura…
Spiegami un pò il tuo immaginario, quello che vuoi trasmettere a chi si trova davanti ad un tuo lavoro.

Il mio campo di indagine preponderante è il rapporto tra l’essere umano ed il resto della biosfera, le relazioni che questi ha con e sul resto della vita sul nostro pianeta in termini di sfruttamento ma anche di fascino ancestrale verso le diversità ed i “poteri” della natura. Il mio immaginario è nutrito sia dalla denuncia degli orrori della vivisezione, dell’evoluzione assistita, dall’ industria genetica, che dai poteri totemici delle divinità animali che ancor oggi dopo secoli di cultura religiosa monoteista esercitano un certo potere sulle menti umane; la cultura dell’”altro” del mostro dell’ultraumano, il mutante… I miei impasti figurativi sono molto spesso delle mappe, delle allegorie minate di simboli che vogliono portare l’attenzione del fruitore verso uno o più messaggi, ogni elemento della composizione ha un preciso rimando metaforico ed ha una sua funzione nella lettura dell’opera in toto.

Ultimamente ti stai muovendo abbastanza: Brasile, Canada, New York, Barcellona, vedo sia disegni sui muri che installazioni, come funziona il tuo lavoro quando ti sposti, quali sono le priorità che ti dai nei tuoi viaggi ?

Ultimamente mi sento fortunato, perchè sto viaggiando (che è la mia grande passione, nonché l’unico modo per placare la sete di conoscenza e soddisfare la voglia di salterellare del mio spirito elettrico) invitato a sviluppare un progetto da diverse associazioni o identità. Per esempio il prossimo dicembre ritornerò in Brasile, nella città di Curitiba, per lavorare a quella che secondo me sarà una bellissima esposizione chiamata HIBRIDO incentrata sul mio lavoro e quello del mio amico Auma, un creativo di Curitiba, una mostra che comprenderà quadri, pitture murali e installazioni di grande formato.
Nei miei transiti cerco sempre di regalare al luogo che mi ospita le emozioni che la nuova avventura genera in me sotto forma di murales o installazioni extemporanee generate con materiali incontrati lungo il cammino e non, ma soprattutto cerco di dedicare tutto il tempo che posso all’avventura stessa, alla scoperta di mondi nuovi al farsi permeare dai colori, le sensazioni, le forme, le persone, che popolano l’habitat del luogo, perché si sa come diceva anche Joe Strummer: “No input, no output”.

Un’installazione che mi è piaciuta tantissimo è quella dei nidi sistemati sui tetti in Canada ..
Mi racconti come ti sei organizzato, come è nata quest’opera?

Dunque quel pezzo era nato a livello embrionale grazie ad un progetto che avevo steso in forma cartacea quando presentai l’adesione per la residenza artistica del periodo primaverile al centro EST NORD EST di Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, un piccolo centro urbano sulle rive del Saint Laurent non lontano da Quebec City. Il progetto immaginava di trasformare visualmente il paese in un prototipo di agglomerato urbano del futuro in cui esseri umani e animali possano convivere in una situazione urbana appunto. Quando mi invitarono a realizzare il progetto mi resi conto che il paesino era perfetto per il mio intervento ed era gia incline a quest’idea, nei cortili delle abitazioni molto spesso ri ritrovavano abbeveratoi per uccelli e dispenser per scoiattoli, era facile scorgere le marmotte nei ritagli di terra tra una casa e l’altra, sebbene le connessioni tra gli stessi umani non erano cosi vivaci…
Fu divertente cimentarsi nella creazione utilizzando materiali del luogo, ricordo che andai al limitare del bosco dinnanzi casa di Denis, il maestro di laboratorio, a collezionare grandi quantità di un arbusto infestante simile al Sanguinello in compagnia del mio machete, ero un vero tagliaboschi del nord, ah ah ah. Con quegli arbusti costruì poi il nido; nella stessa residenza realizzai anche un’ altra scultura, un altro sauropode dei boschi che chiamai Sauropode Silvestre. Il progetto prevedeva la creazione di una ventina di animali fantastici da dislocare in vari punti del paese per dare al passante la sensazione di stare in una macro installazione, ma aimè il tempo non me lo concesse, la residenza era di 2 soli mesi, spero di ritornare sul progetto un giorno.

Come affronti l’ambiente della galleria? Quali sono i temi che vuoi proporre ad un pubblico per una mostra?

Direi che i temi che mi guidano sono sempre gli stessi con la differenza che il fruitore della galleria è un fruitore gia predisposto ad un input, con un bagaglio di digestioni artistiche più voluminoso alle spalle, quindi la risposta al pezzo è distinta, nel bene e nel male.

Hai avuto delle influenze in campo artistico, chi ti ha ispirato, in che modo ?

Sicuramente l’influenza maggiore sulla creazione della mia poetica è stata determinata dalla scelta di divenire vegetariano quando avevo 16 anni (fu una gestazione attraverso il 15° anno di età, in quell anno decisi di togliere un animale alla volta dalla mia dieta dal più grande ,la mucca al più piccolo la vongola, e al compimento del sedicesimo anno mi trovai ad esser vegetariano, ma questa è un’altra storia).
Non posso negare che da un punto di vista concettuale/ideologico più che formale la scoperta del filone della Transgenic Art mi aprì un mondo, e penso ad artisti come il collettivo Tissue Art and Culture o lo stesso Eduardo Kac sebbene condivida solo in parte il suo operato, o ancora pittori come Alexis Rockman, o Frank Moore, ma come ripeto da un punto di vista più ideologico.
In una certa misura credo di essere stato stimolato anche dall’immaginario gore e dalla grafica di certe band grindcore specialmente quelle dell’etichetta Relapse Record, e dalle immagini al microscopio, dalle tavole mediche, ma anche dall’illustrazione anni 70 e 80 per bambini, mi piacevano molto i Barbapapà, e Siamo Fatti Cosi, ve lo ricordate vero?
Si sicuramente i cartoni animati hanno avuto una grossa influenza su di me, quando ero piccolo ne facevo scorpacciate, da quelli di Walt Disney a quelli giapponesi, dai contemporanei ai retrò; i miei genitori avevano uno studio di fotografia nel paesino in cui abitavamo, e ricordo che clandestinamente vendevano vhs pirata, quindi il materiale filmico non mancava a casa mia in un periodo in cui quasi nessuno dei miei amici possedeva un videoregistratore in casa, per me quindi era un immagini surreali a go go.
Influenze…credo che ogni singola esperienza ed ogni immagine assorbita più volte nel corso della vita influenzi il tuo modo di costruire un immagine se sei un creativo, che siano immagini di cartellonistica o dei grandi autori studiati a scuola o scoperti in galleria o ancora immagini sacre delle culture antiche o la scoperta di un nuovo tipo di albero che non avevi mai visto prima.
Credo però che le vere influenze che determinarono il riarrangiamento del mio stile figurativo, soprattutto nel periodo che segue la fine del mio percorso accademico, sono derivate dal lavorare insieme agli amici.
Penso che il mio approccio artistico fu fortemente influenzato dalle conoscenza e dalle esperienze di vita passate insieme a vari personaggi, ci fu chi mi influenzò a livello grafico come Zosen, chi nell’ emozione del creare il segno come Kenor, chi nella scelta delle icone visionarie come Ueia Lolta, chi ancora per l’espressione libera dagli schemi come Pyu, e ancora Otica e Tom14 e……..
Amici 1000,, c’è da imparare sempre,,,

Xtravagance Core, cos’è ?

Xtravagance Core è un progetto che porto avanti parallelamente a Göla, alle volte i due progetti convergono nella creazione di installazioni o performance specifiche.
Xtravagance Core è un collettivo/band che ho fondato nel 2005 insieme al mio amico Tosgh (a.k.a. Lord Brugard) che lavora sullo spaesamento percettivo sia in campo visivo che sonoro, con un approccio scanzonato e colorato. È un progetto che si nutre delle estetiche delle sottoculture do it yourself (punk, noise, grind…) che fonde con paesaggi e sonorità provenienti da altre sottoculture scelte a“random”, tipo: disco, walzer, polka,samba, musica balcanica, canzoni per bambini… in una sperimentazione sonora che noi chiamiamo Zap Core. Come dicevo il progetto Xtravagance Core unisce alla componente musicale anche quella visiva, lavoriamo principalmente su costumi e scenografie che si rifanno ad un estetica a metà tra il saggio teatrale di fine anno delle scuole elementari e i Muppet/Power Rangers in atmosfere non-sense di colori caleidoscopici.
Ultimamente abbiamo lavorato alla produzione di 2 spettacoli “musical”: “La Caduta delle Babylon Towers”: un’allegoria tra le torri gemelle e la torre di Babilonia in cui la scena clue è un combattimento di wrestling tra mostri di cartone colorato! Ah aha
e “Carnevality”: l’avventura altisonante del piccolo Tibody, un giovane alieno che gli Xtravagance aiuteranno a scappare dalle fameliche grinfie de L.E.F.B.I. ,e ritrovare la strada di casa (in teoria ah ah ) una storia di mutazioni, o meglio dette digievoluzioni di mostri, grandi scenografie, e guerre di coriandoli.
Nel corso degli anni il progetto si è nutrito di varie collaborazioni e formazioni distinte, poi ha trovato la sua dimensione in una formazione da 4 elementi, io, Tosgh, Dudankamion e Sibbode.
Ora stiamo lavorando sulla creazione del nuovo dvd con gli ultimi lavori video ed audio, avrà l’aspetto di una raccolta di videoclip inediti per i nuovi temi e video documentazioni delle ultime performance e concerti, stiamo pensando di aggiungere anche un cd di sola musica per chi volesse fruire della parte audio.
Comunque per chi volesse esaminare materiale audio, video o fotografico circa il progetto lo puo trovare su www.myspace.com/xtravagancecore o su Facebook nel profilo Xtravagance Core.

Quali sono i tuoi prossimi progetti ?

Nell’immediato futuro tornerò a Barcellona il mese prossimo per un’action painting con gli amici del vecchio collettivo “Los Martinez”, poi a novembre seguirò gli andamenti della mostra itinerante Artaq un premio internazionale di street art che mi ha selezionato.Ma soprattutto come dicevo alcune righe fa a dicembre me ne torno in Brazil per lavorare sulla mostra Hibrido, non vedo l’ora!!!! Vi annuncio brevemente anche che durante l’aprile del 2011 sarò a Parigi con la terza tappa del PROYECTO RITUAL (www.proyectoritual.blogspot.com) un progetto itinerante che sto vivendo con i miei fratelli stregoni di Barcellona, Kenor, Zosen, H101. La brujeria vive!!

C’è qualcosa che vuoi dire, qualcosa che non ti è stato chiesto con questa intervista ?

Vorrei aggiungere solo una cosa, e la gente che conosco che sta leggendo queste righe forse lo avrà gia capito,…….. 50 ammmigo!!!
ah aha ha , gente sognate,e seguite i vostri sogni, vivete intensamente perchè la vita è adesso e qui, come dicevano qualche decennio fa, fatelo, spero di incontrarvi nei miei pellegrinaggi per queste terre, Powa!

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Interview with Marvin Tiberious Crushler

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This is the first of a serie of interviews with some of the most interesting international street-artists.  We tried to go beyond the standard interview, investigating the issues that drive the artist to express themselves with their own language.

Let’s start with Marvin Tiberious Crushler, the alter-ego of Ryan Spring Dooley

INFART: Hi Marvin ! an American Street-artist , a bit from Milan, but now in Naples . Who are you and what did you bring here in Italy?

MARVIN: I naively arrived in Italy just for discovering the Renaissance, I stayed for the decay. I like the decay, because push people – that always have to fend for themselves – handling with certain liberties and , warts and all, having certain reason in many reason, also cultural reason. In Milan, the few serious structures that offered cultural activities were unauthorized. In Naples everything in unauthorized.

I remember a gift, a little book of photocopies, with a magenta cover, all handmade. A tons of draws telling histories. Shapes fuse together, come out and change. It’s sheer expressivity. All instinct…no rules! Or maybe there are some processes’ rules that makes you produce like this?

A friend of mine who knows me and my way of working for long since, has suggest me to strain to create some editorial processes. I’m trying this in my video works , sometimes it helps having some bounds , also when I write in Italian I manage the best I can on poetic expressions, that maybe for the others have no sense. Few moths ago a jerk off boozer, when he stopped for a moment to talk me about football and greatest ever Naples football club, he confessed me his love for the unknown in art and in the human expression. It often happens to me ending up in mystical speeches with assholes at 4 am; this help you understand that Vittorio Sgarbi or some other famous art critics, have to hugely self celebrates….you know, I’m pretty agree with that dude that hadn’t even idea that Parma was in Italy, art is beautiful when is a mystery, maybe I look for number one, but, hey , it’s so nice representing or discovering something that has no specific reason. That dude, which was a dandy art critic, told me that he went to work abroad, you know, Parma, Novara, Zurich.

What do you want to communicate when you paint in the street?

The first times I wanted to create something didn’t shut. I thought to draw angels outside the churches because it seemed strange to me contain all that spirituality in some hither and thither barracks. I believe that beauty stay too much in some kind of boxes like computers and television, also Street Art is everywhere in Internet. Everyone knows it, but everyone likes it because it’s easy. I have to say that when I paint in the street, I get lost even more with this idea of unknown, I like the fact the some people, late at night, push drugs, clean streets,make a row, but few people paint: I feel like being part of something ridiculous and powerful; I like the idea of explaining this moment, leaving something strong and powerful on the wall.

How do you face/ How do you handle (with) the exhibitions, (with) the claustrophobic world art and (with) the suit-and-tie men looking at your works?

When I was young, I saw people selling second-hand cars at the dealer near my house, they seemed to me the douchebagest people in the world, but they really wanted to do well their job, they were trying so hard,using stupid energy and wearing ugly ties,that they can ruin half world with the smog.

I would not have the force to do that kind of job, congratulations to them that have build a business world with our madness. Holy shit, you know that for a period, when I was 15/16 years old, I worked in a Moquette factory and my superior was also a dealer for the Hell’s Angel, he told me to hide me for hours among huge smelly moquette tapes while he was doing “business”. So that no one catch us and they though we were working somewhere….I don’t care about claustrophobia!

I ‘ve seen many of your stop-motion videos, they are interesting, you can see all and some, from stencils, to paintings, you insert objects, you create an harmony between sight and hear. Because also the music it’s important… What is for you this kind of work? What give rise to the realization of a video… maybe it’s one of the methods used for enhancing even more your imaginary?

I liked the idea to paint something that made people dance. It’s easier create a drink than make people dance,or maybe a song or a video o something that feeds and pinches you somehow. When I was a kid my mother took at home a lot of musicians and dancers. She was a contemporary dancer and she worked for an agency that managed blues gigs. Maybe I missed that side of my life that matches very well with the vitality that art can have. How sad are the artist many times! Also Hip-Hop and people that pose as Street really pisses me off, it seems that smoking pot it’s the only dance that pay homage to our current culture. I wanted to see someone dancing: that’s why I do these video.

What are your influences, who are the artists or the persons that, in your opinion, who’ve helped you to open you mind?

There’s a lot of people that influences me, also when I see people sinking , that’s make me think that in my own small way I could help bring something new or, at least, some different energy in certain communities/milieus. A living matter in Italy is that that nobody moves, it seems that lay oneself open means the absolute death and so remains only characters and not real people. I’m sorry that people that influence me and give me a lot from the human point of view, fail to dedicate totally themselves to an art activity that makes you feel useful. I know that I can distinguish myself or feeling that detachment due to another place of origin, but I realize that there’s no time to spare and there’s so much work to do, I like people who are always something new to do, not to brag but for work but to work on; more or less are all like this, but many don’t lose control, would be the end of the character.

Naples. Now you’re living there…can you describe it to me?

There are times that seems me a beautiful place, maybe for the sea or for tastes, but this tastes are always the same. For what concerns the cultural point of view I think commands a rhetoric based on an ancient pride, this pride goes around in the museum like zombies in Michael Jackson’s video “ Thriller”. They do many exhibitions of Conceptual art that to my mind seem a kind of very comfortable gray matter. Street Art is something that more or less everyone does, there’s an hairdresser who sticks various things, all the Berlin’s poster artist, there’s Francesco – the movin’ guy- and his plexiglass’ paste up which are totally sick. Generally it seems that the Second World War has just ended and they have yet to recover and mean business. This could be swell or very sad, it’s up to you! It’s not an easy place to live, one night a friend’s girlfriend run to me shouting; “ They have a gun, you have to save him, you have to save him!” I run towards two covered-faces dudes who were holding the gun to my friend’s head and I thought: “ What the hell I’m going to do now, what the I have to do here, with these two hands and this blond hair.” And now…let’s see!

Busstop: A film with drawings by Eric Sweet and Ryan Spring Dooley

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Interview by Diego Knore
Translation by Francesca Pozzobon

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Garage Nardini – The Creative laboratory of Urban Art

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Hello Nasty! On  the weekend  of 3-5 September, the mild-mannered town of Bassano del Grappa was hit with an extreme  makeover of creativity by 60 national and international artists  and writers wielding spray cans, paintbrushes and  much more ― in the 4th edition of INFART, the festival dedicated to Urban Art.

For 3 days,  the Garage Nardini space became an open-air canvas of street art and the  walls surrounding the old  Nardini distillery were transformed into a writer’s gallery, infusing new life to the expansive zone.

Other areas  transformed for the occasion were the Cimberle  Ferrari arena, invaded by murals, the Ezzelini Castle with a sculpture exhibit and  graffiti projections on the walls, and the castle  tower with  works displayed inside.

Visiting  the 3 hosting areas, I was amazed by the fact that  INFART  was able to transform this dainty little  town into a pulsing heart of street art,  attracting not just enthusiastic local youths  but a good  number of international visitors while creating  a healthy dose of curiosity  by  “traditionalists”.

This  type  of  event  is  not  new  to Nardini Garage; for  the past  few  years  this  space has  been transformed into a creative  laboratory and, we’re always curious  to see the next metamorphosis of these walls.

What’s  next?   Stay tuned…

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INFART 2010 – HELLO NASTY!

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Padlocking the gates of the Cimberle-Ferrari Arena on Sunday night was one of the saddest moments of our whole summer but it was also when we could look each other in the eye and say: “We did it.” What are we talking about? INFART, one of the most important urban art festivals in all Europe, a three-day exhibition all about art and music that took place on September 3rd, 4th and 5th, in the center of Bassano del Grappa, in the province of Vicenza, just about an hour from Venice.

Infart 2010 Hello Nasty
photo © Alexandra Romano

This year’s edition, dubbed Hello Nasty!, attracted 60 artists from all over Europe to the Veneto region.
Taking stock,
we realized that this festival had the largest audience ever, and was a magnet for critics and media, all with positive feedback.

It all started on Friday September 3rd, with the vernissage of the INFART Indoor exhibition inside the Ezzelini Castle, a medieval fortress dating back to the 12th century. Here, some selected artists showed off their paintings and sculptures and presented video performances and installations. A few DJ sets, boosted by a stereo system worthy of any good club, created the perfect soundtrack for the visit in the rooms, guard-house and towers of the building.

Castello degli Ezzelini
photo © Shannon Sadler

The next day, Saturday September 4th, it was time for Infart Outdoor at the Cimberle-Ferrari Arena and at the Garage Nardini, both in the city center. The most informal, let’s say, the most urban part of the festival took place here and attracted masses of people. Entering the Cimberle arena, the walls were covered with graffiti and drawings, painted by artists such as Roa, Bue The Warrior, Kenor, Steve Locatelli, Orticanoodles, C215, 108 and many others, leaving their mark with an ever-lasting collage.

Orticanoodles Roa 2501
photo © Alexandra Romano

From early afternoon well into the night, music was the big draw for the fourth edition. Many DJs had the chance to get on the mixer: Pink Is Punk, Dj Spiller, Ackeejuice, Dj Color, LRST to name a few.

Sunday September 5th , there was an encore of yesterday’s success with a great turnout and more music; the event ended late at night after the performance of the Italian champion of the ITF competition, DJ Color.

Infart Party
photo © Shannon Sadler

On Sunday, a few artists and international guests left, but others arrived and stayed on until Monday; Bassano del Grappa gets like this when the event is on: there’s this freshness of globality, a melting pot of genders, ages and origins and the part we like to emphasize. Art and music dissolve into each other perfectly and attract thousands of people from all over Europe to this small town, populated by just over 40,000 people. On the first week-end of September, Bassano was like Milan or Rome or even Berlin, but with something different: immersed in nature, with fields and hills all around.

Roa Bue Zosen Kenor H101 Gola

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Infart Collective

With this first post we introduce our association Infart and explain how we operate to promote urban-art through unconventional exhibitions and events.

Infart

The Infart project was born in 2007 with two flash editions (respectively in June and September 2007) that saw the participation of some of the best emerging Italian street culture artists. Both of the two editions of the event were organised in pure underground style in a private home in Cittadella (Padova), that was made available for association through the whole weekend. The building was emptied out and turned into a 360 degrees art object for a selected number of amateurs and connoisseurs (that were selected and invited mainly via web) to enjoy some of the best street artists’ work realised directly within the architecture. The experiment did work indeed and the results were astonishing: within a very short time Infart was well-known all over Italy. The first edition included 600 visitors that came over mainly for fun, and turned into 1500 at the second edition in September.

Street-art Bassano del Grappa

Graffiti Veneto

Stencils Vicenza

Infart Collective, pleasantly surprised and amused by the unexpected success, raised the bar and decided to involve the most established artists both in the national and European street culture scene for 2008: this is The Third Infart, a nationwide event with European guests, two public locations and a month long exhibition at the Civic Museum of Bassano del Grappa. The result: The Third Infart becomes the absolute n° 1 event for 2008 all over Italy, aligning Bassano del Grappa to Milan and Rome in terms of qualitative outcome and size of the project.

Say yes to Infart

Urban art installations

The Third Infart was held in Bassano del Grappa on September 6th and 7th 2008. For the very first time, and for two consecutive days, the whole European street art scena has gathered in the same area: the pick of national and international artistic avant-garde reunited in the dedicated areas inside the Arena Cimberle–Ferrari, the Garage Nardini and the new section of the Civic Museum in Bassano del Grappa.

Stickers

Outdoor exhibition

The Third Infart has involved 87 artists, some Italians  (from Milan, Rome, Turin, the Veneto region etc…) and  others from major European Capitals (London, Barcelona, Madrid, Vienna, Paris…). The event scored the first place in Italy for number of artists and dedicated areas for painting: 1.300 square meters of painted surface /area, 350 square meters of exhibition area, 50.000 visitors in two days, a kick-off party to the beat of Infart Music’s DJs Ackeejuice, Esa a.k.a. El Prez and a music event in the main city square to celebrate the festival.

Indoor exhibitions

Gallery art

Atom plastic senor blanco

A more traditional indoor exhibition – displaying canvasses and objects produced by the artists – added up to the two outdoor locations: the Infart Indoor Exhibition took place at the Civic Museum in Bassano in September and hosted the first Italian art toy custom show in collaboration with Atom Plastic, scoring over 5.000 visitors with free admission/entrance. The artworks on the dedicated walls of the event represent a special artistic heritage, an open air museum that speaks about the national and international street art avantgarde.

The 3-4-5th of September 2010 was held Infart 2010 – Hello Nasty!, the 4th edition of this festival with the same successfull formula, but we will tell you more in the next post!!

In the meantime you can visit www.infartcollective.com for more info, follow Infart on Twitter, become a fan of Infart on Facebook, be a friend of Infart on Myspace, take a look of Infart pictures on Flickr or watch the Infart videos on Youtube!

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