Friday i was in Valby with my friend Michael Jeppesen (Check out his new book).
All the gallerys have now goupshows,- I don’t think they are good at all.
It’s never good when Artists invite there friends, because they are friends!!
But nice works from A Kassen from Mogadishni and Marie Søndergaard Lolk from Bendixen.
I started to paint graffiti in 1986, Seen started in 1973, before I was born..
Seen was one of the first in the world to paint graffiti, I have always even after I stop painting, looked at Seen as the king and he will always be. It was a honor the meet the man and talk to a legend..
We Went to Tom Sanford studio,- just to say hallo, and see if everything was ok…he was doing really well, and has been working a lot seens last time we were there. After a short talk about his up coming show in Copenhagen, Aaron Johnson came to pick us up! (They went to the same college)
10 minutes walk and then we came to Aaron studio…
We went in to a very nice building, and up to the 7th floor….there was a “living room” with a kitchen and everything looked like a shared studio.. but it wasen’t.. Arron is in a project, there has been going on for the last 20 years. Nearly 2000 students replay every year, for getting a studio there and the only take 15 in…so hard competition! But he came in!
Very Nice place, with good atmosfaire!
Aaron work on Plastic, and it is a really carzy process….I will try to explain it shortly…
He put plastic on a frame, (just like canvas) And then he paint on the back side, so he can’t really see how it looks like, but as he said: I have a really good feeling, and as long it turns out in a positiv way, it’s okay.
Then when hi is completly finished painting, he flips the painting down to the floor, then he put a net over the hole picture, stretch it hard, so it make the plastic more stabil, then he put a clear painting over it so the net sits completely fast at the plastic… and then.. It’s Finished!
In process…
Finished…
I know it sounds completly crazy, and maybe you don’t even understand what I try to expaine, but Aaron promised me to send a mail, where he will describe it him self…So we are all looking forward to the real story!!!
Went to Harlem to see Michael Andersons studio. Michael makes his works out of posters, he collect them all on the streets.
Small studio and posters alle over, very nice works and Michael are a cool duge.
Neon and emty boxes, cool show.
I saw an others show with Stefan in Mexico in apil.
PS1 was closed yesterday, but there was a lot graffiti in da hood.
Found Andre the Giant to day in Tokyo Toy and later i saw 2 big new and handsome OBEY poster. OBEY`s face are Andre, he was a wrestler and died back in 1993.
To day i was @ MOMA, it was a little borring and i missed some more in the collection. There was some classic as Bruce Nauman, he is allways good.
Olafur have made amezing lamps to Louis Vuitton shops around in the world.
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