well well well, many things happened in the past two weeks, i’m going to show you their kinda unexpected happy ending…

the brasilians came here and did a lot of pieces around the city, these are just part of them, you’re more then welcome to come and see the rest in person down here!
the twins improvised this muñecos invasion even if everytime they asked me “tienes permiso para este muro?” i was giving them weird answers that all lead to a very evident “no i don’t”. this is what i really love about Os Gemeos, these guys are keeping it very real.

we also went to the beach and had amazing meals at my mom’s, they loved her food so much that they’ve painted this little kid tagging her name

how sweet is this?

on another note, you guys should check out the website of the other festival we’re doing in Lisbon - Portugal. It’s called CRONO and it will be running for one year, we just completed the first season with Blu, Os Gemeos and Sam3

have you ever heard of people falling asleep on the stencil they have been cutting for the previous three days?

this was cut, painted and in the end scratched on a wall in the very centre of town by Vhils and a few untrained assistants

between the deep stencil cutting sessions, i’ve been able to force the artist to work on some newer editions, this was a two colors screenprint, then we figured it had been too easy and we painted it again with some blu ink

then again,  the blu was too blu and Vhils went on it with some bleach to make it disappear, in favour of a weird burnt yellow here and there

this is what it looks, before and after the bleach painting

we’re really happy of the results, i’ll post more pictures soon
thanks again to vincenzo parigino, carlo garpo and totore giocherello for the precious help

more infos later

there is this saying here: “vedi napoli e poi muori” (see naples, then die)
i guess it’s about how beautiful the city is. Napoli is, indeed, my favourite city in europe.

well, i’ve been there quite often last year and i survived.
if you’ve been there too, you’ve certainly noticed that these guys, Cyop e Kaf, are the most prolific artists in the city. They paint, they paste, they are involved in “monitor” magazine and they do a lot of shit staying positive and keeping a very fresh and spontaneous attitude.

the images above are part of what they did here in just 4 days

the guys have a very original imagery and style and they work togheter passing the brush to each other, we’ve also been doing prints wich will be released soon on studiocromie, this is a little sneak preview

in the meanwhile.. Vhils got here and we’ll be in touch soon

we spent last week working with two of the newer artists on our roster, 108 and Cyop e Kaf (wich makes trhee people anyway)

108 came all the way down here from northern italy to paint the most obscure pieces ever

now, trying to avoid going conceptual, i’ll cut the bullshit and give you a fast and very personal interpretation of his work: it’s FUN!

no matter how morbid they look, when i see these big black shapes the only thing i can do is smile!

we also did three new prints, black on black, on white paper, and here we are, eating at my mom’s waiting for her approval on these dark beauties

i’ll post Cyop & Kaf pictures soon!

if this title does not ring any bell to you it’s cause you’re not a big “back to the future” fan as i am.

now,
i was wasting time on facebook and i randomly bumped into some photos of the monastery and voila! there it was! ben wolf piece, few moments before our little friend paki fucked it up!

this is our boy ben while he was doing it

vertigo anyone?

the piece is not there anymore but at least now, thanks to vincenzo parigino and his travels through time, we have some nice pictures, wich is better then nothing..

anyway, click here to know what i was talking about, here if you liked it and here if you wanna have a taste of weirdness (i dont know what they say in this last one, is it russian? anyway, it’s the chicken gag in the third episode, the worst one in my opinion)

as soon as i put everything back togheter i’ll post about 108 and Cyop e Kaf visit, walls and prints!

here we are again!
Swoon and Ben Wolf came visiting us

after a stressy email exchange the two american artists have been sweet enough to find a hole in both their crazy schedules, it was a very nice start of the festival, four days of intense work and fun, this is what swoon did:

swoon downtown

same

at the abandoned monastry

unfortunately, due to “Paki”, a little kid that misunderstood graffiti and is now fucking around with everything and everybody, we cannot show what Ben Wolf did. Ben finished his piece late, he had to take a overnight train to rome and next day, when we got to the monastry to take some pictures of the piece it was too late, paki had already destroyed it.
you little fucker

hello everybody!
i’m finally ready to announce a provvisory line up for this year festival and a provvisory opening date for the final group show.
hope you’ll enjoy it

JR - france
ERICA IL CANE - italy
NUNCA - brasil
SAM3 - spain
BLU - italy
OS GEMEOS - brasil
ESCIF - spain
108 - italy
SLINKACHU - uk
DALEK - usa
NICOLA TOFFOLINI - italia
LUCY MCLAUCHLAN - uk
SWOON - usa
CYOP E KAF - italy
DAVID ELLIS - usa
VHILS - portugal
BEN WOLF - usa
WORD TO MOTHER - uk
MOMO - usa
BASTARDILLA - colombia

there will be more artists coming, at least other 5 or 6 more. and surely some of these up in the list will wake up one day and realise he did a bad planning of his/her schedule so he/she wont be able to come in the end… by the way, some really great names are still pending, i’ll let you know more as soon as things get more detailed.

about the opening date of the show, it will probably be on the 25th (saturday) of september with preview night and dinner party for interested buyers and press things on the 24th (friday)

ill keep you posted
thanks!