Via Matteo Renato Imbriani, Bari, Italy
July 1st – July 9th 2013
Commissioned by Dopplegaenger Gallery for the city of Bari
Thanks to everybody at Dopplegaenger Gallery: Antonella and Michele, Vittorio, Eugenio. The crane operators: Carlo and Giovani. And LUCE for the help!
Doppelgaenger Gallery
Via Verrone 8, Bari, Italy
June 25th – September 15th 2013
8 Linee attraverso 4 Punti – Randomly generated mural painting – Mural executed for the Fresh Flâneurs show in Doppelgaenger Gallery.
“8 lines made of 4 points” – Following a very simple set of predetermined rules, I painted eight lines; each one of them was made of four points randomly positioned on a defined plane.
Katowice Street Art Festival
Organized by the Culture Institution of Katowice
Katowice, Poland
April 17th – April 24th 2013
11 m. X 20 m. façade in Szopienice neighborhood.
Many thanks to the whole Katowice Street Art Festival crew and their amazing volunteers. Additional pictures by Bartek Barczyk.
International Montessori School of Beijing
Beijing, China
April 12th and 15th 2013
Automatic mural painting experiment during two days with 51 kids. 62 lines were painted.
Thanks to Jaime, Sierra and all the kids from the International Montessori School of Beijing.
Praga neighborhood, Warsaw, Poland
April 2012
Project curated by Vlepvnet Foundation
During April 2012, I worked on a social project with kids from the Praga neighborhood in Warsaw. Because of their social environment and other factors, they don’t have an easy life and spend most of their time hanging out in the street. The Vlepvnet Foundation and the GPAS association organized the project, This Way to give them an opportunity to collaborate with contemporary artists and create a mural in their neighborhood. Our mural was painted on Mała street.
Using their help and input, we created an “abstract alphabet” using simple geometric shapes. Then, combining stencils, we painted the words that they chose on the wall. The first two days, we organized a workshop to define the letters of our alphabet and to cut the stencils. During the next 5 days, we completed the mural using the words and sentences that the kids chose.
For those who want to translate the mural, here is the alphabet and a Polish to English translator. (Using the virtual keyboard and pressing the “Alt+Ctrl” key you will be able to use the Polish special characters.)
Click on the picture to see a bigger image of the mural.
The last day, we painted the entrance of V9, the Foundation Vlepvnet headquarter.
Thanks a lot to Vlepvnet and GPAS and in particular to Mati, Mateusz, Maciek, Gołota, Goro, Zrazik and Tomek.
Urazurrutia street #20, Bilbao, Spain
September 2011
Mural painting commissioned by Sc Gallery
More about this project here: www.eltono.com/en/exhibitions/eredu
Outomatic Festival
M van Museum, Leuven, Belgium
July 2011
Mural project on a wall of the M van Museum; in collaboration with MOMO – The full documentation of our participation in the festival is available here: www.eltono.com/en/projects/tiensestraat
La Quiñonera
Santa Cruz 111 Col. Candelaria, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico
July 2011
Mural commissioned by Anonymous Gallery
On June 30th, 2011, the exhibition, Antes de la Resaca opened in the MUAC (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo de México DF). The curators organized a retrospective of the spaces created, and innovative proposals put forth by Mexican artists during the 1980’s and 90’s such as La Quiñonera, Temistocles 44, and La Panaderia. The exhibition is a review of projects and artists who passed through those spaces and the work they produced. In conjunction, Nestor Quiñones organized the exhibition Espacios Flexibles in collaboration with Anonymous Gallery (New York) and La Curtiduria (Oaxaca) to give continuity to La Quiñonera as an exhibition space in parallel with the MUAC program.
Taking advantage of the fact that I was passing through Mexico on my way to the US and that Anonymous Gallery (the gallery that supported my PLAF project in 2008) was about to open a new space in the capital, they invited me to be a member of the exhibition “Espacios Flexibles”.
In the 1980’s, La Quiñonera was very important to Mexico’s national art scene and many well known artists who I admire passed through there as they began their career. It was a great honor for me to present my work in a space so beautiful and so meaningful. Hector and Nestor Quiñones, two distinguished brothers who have worked hard to make this project happen, took me in for four days and, with the help of all, I painted a wall in one of the terraces on the second floor.
Thank you very much Nestor, Hector, Rodolfo, Laura, Joseph, Paola and Zapata.
