KOSMOPOLITE ART TOUR 2011

After 10 memorable editions highlighting diversity, exchange and intercultural enrichment, Kosmopolite has become a major event and reference in the graffiti world acting as an ambassador for Street Art and Graffiti, ever reaching out to a wide and international audience. By taking root in urban reality, graffiti as a budding form of artistic expression and experimentation undeniably takes part in the challenging of our contemporary cities’ functional and dysfunctional processes.

In 2011, from Jakarta to Sao Paulo, Graffiti takes center stage for this new edition of the Kosmo Art Tour. In Paris and Bagnolet, artists shall work hand in hand to allow each and every one of us to enjoy graffiti’s artistic wealth and diversity. With a novel collaboration between the Kosmopolite and Paris Hip Hop festivals, the Kosmo Art Tour 2011 inaugurates a new approach to cultural exchange and transmission both in France and throughout the world. With its rebellious but ever reaching out artists, Graffiti takes special care this year in extending its support to the victims of the Japanese Tsunami. An action inspired and led by the artists is therefore organized in favor of Japan.

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In this final fifth episodes, If graffiti art is blossoming all over the world, there are as many ways of practicing it as there are cultures to take it over. Brazil and Indonesia are part of the new scenes, where new pictorial trends have developed, often designated as New Schools. Original and inventive, these emerging scenes, in spite of the distance separating them from each other, offer many aesthetic-al and conceptual analogies. Complex-free, liberated from the classical New York influences, they are constantly innovating and mixing various influences.
Jakarta and Sao Paulo, megalopolises from developing countries, are among the most fertile lands today for the development and renewal of graffiti. The Jakarta/Sao Paulo colors exhibition is a testimonial to the dynamism and creativity of these new artistic scenes.

JAKARTA/SAO PAULO COLORS

Exhibition at the WallWorks Gallery :
GAlERIE WAllWORKS 4, rue Martel - 75010 Paris
OPENING / Thursday June 30th 2011 (from 6.30 p.m on)
1st to 9th July 2011
From monday to saturday - 2 to 7 p.m
Entrance free of charge

Featuring: Nsane5, Darbotz, Kims (Indonesia), Binho, Bonga (Brazil).

NSANE5 / facebook.com/nsane5
Young emerging artist from Jakarta, Nsane5 is already recognized for his talent and creative freshness. He works on a highly colored graphic universe, blending classic graffiti influences with Street art culture.

DARBOTZ / thedarbotz.com
Darbotz draws his inspiration from the city. The rush and fury of Jakarta are at the core of his work. Along the years he has managed to develop a very strong personal style.

KIMS / twitter.com/#!/kimswell
Kims has developed his act as a graffiti artist rather late in his career, which explains that far from a traditional conception of this artistic expression, he works a lot on signs which he repeats endlessly on the walls of Jakarta, playing on colors.

BINHO / flickr.com/photos/binhone/
An internationally recognized artist, Binho is one of the pioneers of Street Art on the streets of Brazil and South America, with a practice initiated in 1984. He works on canvas and also develops his art in other fields such as design, fashion or sculpture. A federative figure, Binho is also a local hero, the organizer of the first biennale of graffiti and Street Art in Sao Paulo in 2010.

BONGA / facebook.com/profile.php?id=1569992082
Living in Sao Paulo, Bonga is an artist whose work takes fully into account his social and cultural environment. Painter working in the Sao Paulo favelas as well as in museums of contemporary art such as the MUBE, he represents all the artistic richness of the Brazilian graffiti scene. His work is mainly figurative in orientation. He’s fascinated by the marks that time leaves on his characters. Wrinkled and worn, his portraits are true to Brazil, a cosmopolitan country blending urbanism and nature, modernism and tradition.

For more info go to kosmo-art-tour.com or facebook.com/profile.php?id=1722777172

CREDITS

Video :
The Notorious Nsane5 / nsane5.blogspot.com

Music :
Gelka - When You Gotta Go You Gotta Go