Service is his only product
Font love letters on walls – Stephen Powers / ESPO. Available from various galleries. Book: A love letter for you: Brick Valentines on the Philly Skyline (DAP Publishers). Studio shot by theselby, more here.
Volume
Ernest Pignon Ernest
Do you remember street art? Ernest Pignon Ernest has put up his first ephemeral piece of art in 1966.
Muralismo
Back to the roots of murals – excerpts from the book
Muralismo. Arte En La Cultura Popular Chilena./Mural Painting. Art in Chile’s Popular Culture.
More images of classic murals in Chile here.
Full bleed – New York skateboard photography
The book ‘Full bleed – New York skateboard photography’ has been out for a while. What makes it so good is, it shows the multiple facets of skateboarding: The characters, the spots, the side action, the tricks, the fashion, and the city that is New York. All of which is constantly changing is archived in this compendium. There would be one thing to make it better: More background info about the photos and an easier way to interrelate the info with the pages, since the numeration is missing. Have a look inside.
Cat Tuong Nguyen
Photoworks by Cat Tuong Nguyen. More images here and here, and a view into the book ‘Underdog suite’ (Scheidegger & Spiess 2009). You guess the artist is originally from Vietnam and you are right.
Bernd Uhde – Urban Surfaces
From Bernd Uhde´s ‘Urban surfaces’ series, gallery Kunstgut Hamburg, book available from Seltmann+Söhne. The photos are taken from a helicopter or hot-air balloon. AirRealArt.
ARTSHit / Escif “Muros y paredes”
96 pages, hardcover, 150 signed copies available from artsh.it. His finest works until 2010 and a conversation with X, Y and Z about the street as an area of creation (in Spanish only). Watch out for Escif’s feature in the February issue of Juxtapoz and for his show at FIFTY24SF in summer. Street <-> Art.
Public hyperbindings
Lorenz Estermann analyses Eastern- and Central European industrial buildings from the 60s and 70s and overstates their aesthetics when he builds smalls scale models of them. He then places these objects in the middle of nowhere (and in galleries like LEVY /Hamburg and Röpke / Cologne) and takes photos or videos of them. Fun time! He also works on paper. For more info see this excerpt from his book “Public hyperbindings” (Hatje Cantz, 2010).
Blackdrop island
From the `Blackdrop Island’ series by Klara Källström / Stockholm. Read more about the project at The SIP.