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【Break the Barrier】Site-specific Graffiti

Ting Ting Art Space is opening a new art space, a the renovated version of 50-year stone building — Tektite House, located in Tianmu, Taipei.  Curators Sphinx Ting and Gong Jiayan conceived many new creative ideas on this outstanding  activity.  Young Artist Project was planned to support young artists. The graffiti exhibition No.1 “Break the Barrier” in 2021 was launched during the transformation of Tektite House. With Tin Tin Studio and Curators planning the renovation and interior design, it is expected to be open to the public in the third quarter of this year. The design ingenuity perfectly combines history and creativity in the space.

 

Art Show at Construction

In the past, graffiti was seen as a social movement, and was often mistaken for uneasiness that created chaos. However, with the advancement of art, graffiti art has been accepted by the world, forming an indispensable artistic expression in contemporary art.

The purpose of this “Break the Barrier” is to use graffiti art to provoke public to have deep understanding perspectives of new generation. Through graffiti, one can overcome the epidemic, race and culture, as well as the existing knowledge of art. With the art show, Tektite House is turning a new page , remodeling into Ting Ting Art Space .

Site-specific Art

The art exhibition has invited the graffiti artists Art Show for the main visual design. Art Show is committed to promoting street culture, and is into various fields such as hip-hop , graffiti, design and education, and has important representative significance in the hip-hop world.

In addition, the exhibition also presented the art works of a well-known writer in the circle of graffiti, the studio Mess-Age E. Mess-Age E  works share a reputation all over the world, the team directer Faso & Miss N  actively communicates the world’s first-hand graffiti information with art lovers.

It is worth mentioning that the exhibition space will use the original appearance of the Tektite House before the renovation, and use the current situation before the renovation to create graffiti art, creating a brand-new exhibition experience and feeling, injecting complete hip-hop street elements, and more art, music. Incorporating dance into the exhibition, this will be one of the most hip-hop, Chill, and most anticipated art exhibitions after the Lunar New Year.

Ting Ting Art Space 

BREAK THE BARRIER 021 Graffiti Art Exhibiton

Ticket-Free

No. 111, Tianmu E. Rd., Shilin Dist., Taipei City 111037 , Taiwan

now – 2021 / 03 / 01 Mon. 02:00 pm – 08:00 pm

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Rafa Macarrón at Phillips ‘New Now’

Rafa Macarrón’s Viaje al Espacio, 2020

Works by young emerging artists were well received at Phillips’  ‘New Now’ at 4/28 in London, with several pieces achieving prices more than double their presale estimates.

Our artist Rafa Macarrón achieved the second highest price with his renewed work < Viaje al Espacio > in the auction, selling for £239,400. It had been valued between £100,000 and £150,000.

About the artist

Macarrón, born in 1981 in Spain, is one of the most notable emerging artists known for his vivid dreamscapes, drawing inspiration from comic strips and the amorphous structures of French painter-and-sculptor Jean Dubuffet to the immersive works of Chilean Surrealist Roberto Matta.

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Jose Macias

Jose Macias

Hyperbole: A rhetorical figure of thought that consists of exaggerating or  diminishing what is said. 

“These landscapes are called hyperbolic for obvious reasons. They are  exaggerated landscapes, exacerbated with large oil fillings and with an almost  sculptural pretense. The roots are fundamentally expressionist and in the  horizons only the horizon line would be left to arrive at pure abstraction. In This  horizon line, heaven and earth, contaminate each other, making it impossible to  discern where one begins and where another ends. It produces its contemplation  or memory, which is why it is a type of painting that wants to directly appeal to  emotion, to that spring that almost always remains asleep and which is beyond  our control.

These landscapes change into a different and emotional language. My intention  is that the viewer, when looking at them, feels that a set of emotions and  sensations of some memory that floats or resides sheltered in some unknown fold  of that immense drawer that makes up memory are relived. It is about painting painting, visceral and primal without further pretense. 

When I paint I do not seek to make a copy of reality. On the contrary, what I want  is to represent a parallel reflection where landscapes are evoked, intuited or  apprehended from the fragility of a memory or of an instant. A kind of emotional  flash where memory recovers a landscape like a reverie, like a spark caused by a  slight memory file that swarms through our heads and that sometimes wants to  come alive again. So they don’t look like reality, nor do they need to”.

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Nicolás Romero

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Nicolás Romero began twenty years ago signing and doing graffiti in the streets of his native Buenos Aires, a city that was living the hangover of a military dictatorship that had lasted eight years and that at that time understood street art as an expression of freedom. He moved away from graffiti to start developing a mural work with which he experiments and plays with its symbolic charge in his confrontation with public space.

At present, Nicolás is developing his work around the “Dead Natures”, with which through the union of elements he has found a way to use the image as a means of social reflection and anthropological research. He works through traces that he finds in his most immediate context, the result of the social network and symbols born from the coexistence of social, cultural and economic factors. From soft drink bottles to religious prints, political symbols, contemporary icons or something as apparently innocent as fruits and vegetables are part of these compositions that he uses as a bridge to talk about more complex realities.

 

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Paolo Pilotti

Paolo Pilotti lives and works in Rome, where he was born in 1982. Pilotti Is an Italian painter of Italian art groups “New Pop” and “Italian Newborn”.At the age of 3,he picked up his first colouring crayon, with his left hand and hasn’t stopped colouring since. His innate passion for art has guided him throughout his education: after his highschool diploma at Art school, he went on to achieve a Master’s degree at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, in Painting, with his final thesis on the Anatomy.Over the years, his work has been on display in several personal exhibits, as well as group exhibits in various art galleries accross Italy.

Paolo Pilotti’s art is a carnival of colours, a jamboree of sparkling shades. When there isn’t full nudity, lurex, latex and a precious selection of embroidered fabrics transform the art pieces in a shimmering parade that astonishes the eye of the observer, leaving mouths wide open in amazement and instilling a bizarre desire to touch.Pilotti has a skilled hand, which serves a flashy immagination.

The anatomy remains the focal point of his work and the human body becomes an inexhaustible source of compositions, sometimes pushed to the limit, which implies a conflict between beauty, tradition and the human anatomy itself. Botox lips for brawny Marvel comic heroes, masculine faces on voluptous bodies, adult heads on infant bodies. Pilotti’s surgical aesthetic flaunts hyperbolic beauty pushed to the extreme and driven beyond the beauty standards of traditional figurative art, but perfectly part of the era which we live in, ruled by the dogma of the “filler”.There is a striking conflict in his work, extended on two levels: the first, visual, more related to the image, to the signifier of the work of art itself.The second level, relates to the underlying message, intrinsic in its meaning, but oxymorically glossed.In every single piece, Pilotti tells a different story and at the same time maintains his very personal morality unaltered: the need for bilateral art and opposing concepts in the contempory society he lives in.

 

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Moisés Yagües

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Moises Yagues was born in Murcia, Spain in 1972. A self-taught artist, he has studied a variety of techniques from painting to printmaking and film. He is one of the resident artists at “la Persiana Naranja”, an art and studio space in Murcia. Now a master printer, he has exhibited his work in several European countries. His latest work comments on the very controversial issue of immigration and the arbitrary nature of borders.

Moisés Yagües imagines the interior of the human head and body as a place where stories take place, where ideas come to life and take literal meaning. His cartoonish characters, full of energy and tenderness, already cause smiles all around the world due to his exhibitions in Germany, Mexico, Chile, China, the United States and Japan, to name a few.

His admiration for the great masters appears in ‘Parallel Universes’ through two recreations of works by Mark Rothko and Pierre Mondrian, intervened by his recurring “helpers” who, with their rollers, ladders, scaffolding and paint buckets, strive to finish the art piece. These tiny characters also appear populating a game of Tetris, to which they help to bring order.

His figuration of surreal situations and schematic characters finds its influences in comics, illustration, pop art and street art, among others. He continues his search of the freest creation and a completely personal universe, with a fresh and carefree style, a well-established iconography and a desire to tell stories that has also led him to a facet as an illustrator of books for children and adults. He has also been the recipient of various awards and scholarships such as the Casa Falconieri in Italy or the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation in Mallorca, and artistic residencies in China, Romania, Slovenia, Italy and Germany.

 

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Eva Poyato

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Eva Poyato (Eva) was born in Spain in 1972 and graduated from the University of San Carlos with a master’s degree in graphic arts. She specializes in the use of materials such as wood, Yakuza, hand-made paper, metals, modeling clay, collage, ceramics, etc., and works with dexterous hands. 

In her studio, the tables are always filled with paper, fabric, paste, wood, branches, wires, hooks, seeds, all kinds of elements, and countless small objects shaped on paper, canvas or sculpture. Compared to the chaotic tabletop, her artworks are mainly clean and orderly, like a kind of minimalism, clean and smooth images, without any extra burden or weight to the viewer. Eva brings us works like fairy tales, in her eyes, everything in the world seems to be simplified into poetry.

 

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Óscar Llorens

Oscar Llorens has worked with international media such as The Washington Post and Fauve World, as well as corporate organizations such as Coca-Cola, the United Nations, and Cirque du Soleil for over 15 years. This commercial illustration work is complemented by freelance work in plastic art, with solo and group exhibitions in Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, New York and Mexico City. Inspired by all aspects of life, Llorens’ paintings are sometimes full of vibrant colors, with a touch of quirky and cartoonish imagery, and sometimes in plain or faded black and white. As fluid as he is between these two styles, he is skilled in traditional hand-drawn techniques as well as digital tools.

Llorens’ childhood fantasies were inspired by Japanese anime, such as Gatchaman, Mazinger Z, and Ulysses 31, until the age of 14, when he was introduced to the animated legend, Cyberpunk’s classic Akira. Akira” at the age of 14. In this vein, he did not hesitate to choose Tokyo as the land of creative fervor, and appropriated a large number of well-known Japanese anime characters such as Totoro, Atomic King Kong, Hello Kitty, etc., as a copy and interpretation of Tokyo’s rhapsodic journey.