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My Friends at VASAVA have just loaded some cool new works.
Also don’t miss their Store/Gallery: Vallery, showing works by previously featured on FitaCola, MARIO HUGO.

Tina Berning : 100 girls on cheap paper, in NY, in Tokyo and on a book.

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Prolific New York-based Parisian artist WK Interact holds his first ever Barcelona exhibition, courtesy of Maxalot Gallery.
Never-before-seen renditions of his distinctive black-and-white action-based graphics will be featured inside and outside the gallery; his canvas the gallery walls and doors, the street outside and wooden objects found on the streets of Barcelona.
As well as limited screen-prints, mixed media painted works, and an outdoor triptych mural, the exhibition will feature an installation showing the artist’s “guerilla gear”, his work uniform and tools for pasting and bombing cities all over the world.
His graphic works, installations, and painted murals have been exhibited at high-end contemporary spaces around the world including Cooper Hewitt (New York), Visionaire Gallery (New York) and Colette (Paris).

indielisboa
INDIELISBOA is a privileged event to meet the most recent and interesting works of independent cinema from all over the world.
The main aim of the Festival is to discover new films and new directors, in the universe of independent cinema.
Keeping its attention on the author’s creativity and independence, in only three years INDIELISBOA was able to become the second most important Portuguese festival.
In 2006 were screened 300 films from all over the world to an audience of 28.000 people and to 300 professional guests.

As usual, besides the film screenings, IndieLisboa runs many other activities. Between 21 and 27 April will happen the Lisbon Talks, wich are divided in different activities: a Seminar, Panels and round tables and Master Classes.

A set on Flickr with walls painted with well-known comic strips, on this French Village (Angoulême) where the biggest Comics festival in the world is held. See an history of the festival. More info on the set.

"Sales Mioches" – Berlion & Corbeyran – 2003 by alexaaannndre on Flickr.

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Blake et Mortimer – André Juillard & Yves Sente – 2000

Monstra is coming!

Monstra’s – Festival de Cinema de Animação de Lisboa Lisbon’s Animation Film Festival – 6th edition celebrates again this year the world’s best animation, this time with Russia as guest country. This year Monstra will take place at Maria Matos Theatre and King Cinema from the 21st to the 27th May and will be the most ambitious edition to this day.

The guest country is Russia, a country that has given us some of the most unique and creative films in the History of animation. Some of its worldwide awarded cineastes will be in Portugal to present their films and to participate in workshops and master-classes. With its rich as well as turbulent artistic progression, closely related to political convulsions throughout the 20th century, Russia has been throughout History a country occupying a central position as far as author, child, modern and avant-garde animation is concerned. Baring in mind this perspective it wasn’t by chance that “Tale of Tales” (1979) by Yuri Norstein was chosen in 1984 and 2002 as the Best Animation Film of All Times by a group of worldwide experts. Gladly, in this year’s Monstra we will be able to see it.

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THE KITCHEN is an art proposal included (among other artists) on the curatorial project Trabalhar Cansa.
The Trabalhar Cansa inaugurated/opened this March in the gallery artecontempo in Lisbon.
The proposal KITCHEN integrates a main project called HOUSE, which belongs to a fictional portfolio.

The HOUSE project is a simulation of a curatorial proposal where the artists and works selection are first based in their functional potential for the construction of a living space.
The action consists of building an interior of a habitation space with art object replicas (which are mainly part of the institutional circuit), in a way to be inhabited by the collective during a pre-established period, materializing the objects and giving them a real use.

Pizz Buin is a Portuguese art collective composed by de fine artists Rosa Baptista, Vanda Madureira, Irene Loureiro and Sara Santos. Pizz Buin was created in 2005.
As a collective, they create interferences/noises in modos operandos, demystifying the media powers in art, slicing formats, vices, know how’s and creating a reflection base over the interfaces that feed the art market.
General View

General View

eaten by… (from Daniel Spoerri’s eaten by…)

cake (from Sarah Lucas’s Cake)

le déjeuner en fortune (from Meret Oppenheim’s le déjeuner en fortune)

still life (from David Shrigley’s still life)

7 Laserdeck Skateboard Show, curated by Refill Magazine

A select group of artists globally have contributed their works to explore this new technology. Only 50 limited edition decks will be produced per artist. The aim of the show is to have a series of unique decks that collectors may choose to ride or display.

The exhibition will have its first show at the MTV Gallery Space in Sydney, Australia scheduled on Thursday 29th March, to be followed later in the year by New York, LA, Japan and finally a scheduled tour of Europe.

So little time since we started together… We are now working hard to make our first exhibition happen! Next Saturday, March 10, our exhibition presenting small Collages in shape and form of Polaroids, plus a lot of Extras! – Opening is at 22:00, I’ll spin the records and there will be some nice drinks and snacks for you to enjoy!

Vanity Land, Lg Dr. Jose Barbosa, n. 20 Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

Exact Location Via Google Map

Here’s a sneak of the ‘making of’.

Some (bad) photos of the Opening

Fantasporto 2007 : 19th February to 5th March 2007

The basic idea behind the Oporto Film Festival is to promote films that seek new forms and methods of film making.
The 27th edition has the patronage of the Ministry of Culture through ICAM ? Instituto do Cinema Audiovisual e Multimédia, as well as the Oporto City Hall and the Rivoli Municipal Theatre.
Fantasporto 2007 will be hold between the 19th February and the 4th March at the Rivoli Theatre, the AMC theatres and the Passos Manuel Cinema.
The Sá da Bandeira Theatre will be the ideal setting for the Vampires? Ball, in the closing night.
As side-bars of the festival, open-air events, workshops, exhibitions, presentation of new books and DVDs, etc.