Saturday, 30 November 2013

29 xpome

 
What's the best art based experience you have ever had?

Hmm, i suppose it goes back to my first year of graffiti - 2001, when i painted a woman with an embryo holding a baby with a spraycan in his hands in a tram tunnel in Sofia just before NY 2002. Then i went back to Germany to study further and few days later i got an email from a close friend with my piece on the cover of a bulgarian magazine. He had to stole it and scan it for me: ) Soon after that another friend of mine told me how fascinated he was by that piece while we were going to school, he didn't know I'd painted it. That gave me the courage to continue painting.

Where's home?

Home is where my head lays, but it's mostly Sofia, my home town.


How did this all start for you?

Very accidently. I was looking for something in a library back in 2000 when i saw a book entitled Graffiti Art #8, i opened it and said to myself - that's what you'll be doing next...

What types of art do you like?

Art with quality and sense of humor.



What would you really like to be able to do?

To draw decently haha

Recommend a song, a book and a film.

anything by the Beastie boys
anything by Kurt Vonnegut
Kontroll - 90s hungarian movie about the surreal life in the metro system there


I can see a child like sense of fun to your art would you say that is fair?

True story, i try to keep the child in me while painting. It really keeps me young and alive in a way.



What are you working on now? What's next?

I am working as an architect in an NGO, we try to keep it up transformatori.net/

Thursday, 28 November 2013

28 Mustapha Azeroual - Alterations


This work made with a pinhole camera is about the impact of past on present, so every picture contains a part of the picture before.

Check out the full series

I'd like to recommend Nils Guadagnin for his golden blanket.

Friday, 15 November 2013

22 Grégoire Orio - Dawn




And I would like to post the poem "Qui suis-je" written by Antonin Artaud

Qui suis-je ?
D’où je viens ?
Je suis Antonin Artaud
et que je le dise
comme je sais le dire
immédiatement
vous verrez mon corps actuel
voler en éclats
et se ramasser
sous dix mille aspects
notoires
un corps neuf
où vous ne pourrez
plus jamais
m’oublier.
I would like to nominate one of my friends, who is a french photographer, Mustapha Azeroual, especially for his work called alterations.

Monday, 11 November 2013

20 - Irina Stepanova - Saint Petersburg


I drew this in spring, on a wall in a hostel in this great city. It's a Saint Petersburg map with funny tourist animals.
And more of the drawing here

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Hir Andriy - VODA VEDE



Occasional Musical Recommendation - Mogwai

Great band from Glasgow one of the first post rock bands, with a more electronic sound, ahead of the release of their new record; rave tapes.

Tuesday, 5 November 2013

17 - Megan Diddie - Psychedelic Succulents


Down the Last Coast

The bluebells stretch from play-dough colored rock
Along this foggy coast cozy like a sweater
Thrifted from prior generations of Shaggy dog style
Imaginations of arrival
In a place like this

Switched myths of coastal flora
Views of the past
Colors radiate from seeds
to sky through different air

I’m southbound searching through the road
Passing by the vistas no tourist misses
Braided palms around the wheel
Keep my attention
A memory flat like a photograph 

Tim Hogan


Other artists you should consider:

Saturday, 2 November 2013

Occasional Musical Recommendation - July Talk



July Talk are the first rock band I've liked for a long time, they remind me of a lot of people but they still have their own sound.

Friday, 1 November 2013

15 - Clément Paillardon


Open up the broken cup
Let goodly sin and sunshine in
Yes that's today.
And open wide the hymns you hide
You find renown while people frown
At things that you say
But say what you'll say
About the farmers and the fun
And the things behind the sun
And the people around your head
Who say everything's been said
And the movement in your brain
Sends you out into the rain.
Nick Drake



And I would like to nominate a good friend of mind Gegoire Orio from Paris, who is making music and experimental video clips. Take a look if you have the time.

Clement