(TOGETHER) WE ARE ART
Artists: we(‘ve) work(ed)
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Andreas Fränzl Vienna, AustriaAndi Fränzl, is mainly known as leadsinger of vocal groove project Bauchklang (BAUCHKLANG), Dj and curator at St.Pölten art scene – and art community LAMES (LAMES) and Festspielhaus St.Pölten (Café Publik) and more. Fraenzl studied graphic design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and has been working in the art scene for many years. He designed numerous flyers, posters and record covers. He also created special illustrations, paintings and drawings as well as personal notes and sketches.
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ANIS Chile, Abusa Crew
Anis is born 1988 in Santiago. She is an artist and illustrator based in Valparaiso. iOnArt invited her to Vienna to fight together against FGM. She is known for her colourful women with big eyes. Her comic style pieces are in connection with canvas, murals, Graffiti and urban art.
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Anthony Lister Brisbane, Australia
Anthony Lister is a pioneer of street art movement Australia. In his opinion, he is a freedom fighter aka time traveller. Lister began painting on the streets at the age of 17 and never stoped. He studied at the Queensland College of Art. His scrawling, figurative style employs charcoal, acrylic, spray paint, and oil. He has also collaborated with many well-known artists and personalities including Blek le Rat, Space Invader, Mark “Chopper” Reid, Nick Cave and many more. Noted as one of the top 50 most collectable Australian artists, Lister’s work for example are included in the collections of National Gallery of Australia. The first rule of painting is to take everyone else out of the equation, he has said. “I am the viewer, so I don`t underestimate my viewers. They see everything and I just have to assume that they are me. I can`t paint for anyone else.”
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Anya Mielniczek Canada
Born in 1990, Anya Mielniczek is a Toronto based Polish-Canadian artist who grew up between the city in Canada and the country sides of Poland. As a mixed-media artist, her work explores combinations of both fine art and street dirt mediums.
Mielniczek takes easily discarded materials such as plastic bags and candy wrappers adding value to what otherwise is considered trash, while drawing attention to our consumeristic tendencies and the implications this has on our environment. Inspired by waste, moody images and the treatment of our natural resources her pieces are emotionally charged, experimental and responsive to the time and place she’s creating in. The artist’s work is both figurative and representational, compiled of layers, textures, and the energy felt in unaltered lines. Decidedly playing between a real and fantastical aesthetic forming a greater narrative pertinent to environmental change –informing herself as well as viewers, of the obstacles our finite world faces in light of our hyper consumption.
Having graduated from Queen’s University in 2012 with a BFAH, Mielniczek completed a year long fellowship with The Living Arts Centre in Mississauga in 2014 and most recently was an artist in residence for a 9 week duration at INSTINC Studios in Singapore, 2016.
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Bauchklang – Vocal Groove Project Austria
BAUCHKLANG (literally “belly sound”) is a five-piece “vocal groove collective” from Austria. With a unique mixture of human beatboxing, mouthpercussions and vocal sounds, they are covering a musical landscape stretching from Electro over Minimal, to Dub and Hip Hop, using only their voices on the way. Formed in 1995, Bauchklang released their debut album “Jamzero” in 2001. Not only the support from the Austrians (Bauchklang won 2 Amadeus Awards for “Best Album” and the “FM4 Award” in 2002) this album also brought them to the renowned international Festival “Transmusicales de Rennes” in France. READ MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauchklang
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Boicut Vienna
from Austria, lives and works in Vienna. He has big influences and has been inspired by skateboard graphics and popular culture. His work is intuitive and illustrative. Boicut passion combines impulsive lines and shapes.
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Cario Germany
Cario aka Andreas Timm has been an active graffiti writer in the Hamburg scene since 1988 under the name Cario. From 1992 to 1999 he was editor of one of the first graffiti magazines in Hamburg called Daily Bombs. For many years he was a member of the team of Backspin magazine and also contributed to the book “Eine Stadt wird bunt”.
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Chris Noelle aka TOFA Linz, Austria
A creator whose interdisciplinary talent easily breaks with the common rules of a single jobdescription – his story is quiet outstanding from others and reads itself more like a myth: from a former bike-pro career in the 90s,- Chris Noelle merged all his knowledge into media related art, today working under the moniker TOFA. A complex artistic way of life. Chris has teached filmediting and crossmedia-design at different Universities, showcased his work at TedEx, Ars Electronica and appeard in magazines like Vogue, Fastcompany, IdN, Art Magazin, Men´s Health, Page and StreetwearToday and companies such as Diesel, Lacoste, Red Bull, Microsoft, Sony, Carhartt, Carlsberg, Warsteiner and Converse have booked his creativity for exhibitions and campaigns. Chris also spreads his knowledge by lightpainting workshops and tutorial series and he is Austrias embassador of the Light Painting World Alliance (LPWA).
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Cix aka Antonio Triana Mugre Crew, Mexico
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Claudia Kragulj Austria
Claudia was born in Vienna in 1972 and studied cultural and social anthropology and Art history in Vienna and Utrecht (1990-99). At the University of Applied Arts Vienna I completed the postgraduate course “ecm – Exhibition and Cultural Communication Management” (2006-08), which deals with exhibition theory,
and practice. With the master thesis “Decolonizing the museum – strategies for a critical examination of ethnographic narratives” she completed the ecm training. With the topic “Post/colonial gaze, gaze regimes and gaze direction – aspects of the decolonization of the gaze in contemporary art” she finished my studies “Art and communicative practice as well as design, architecture and environment” at the same university in 2016.
From 1999-2014 she worked at KulturKontakt Austria and was there for seven years in the field cultural mediation. Since December 2014 she has been doing practical art education at a grammar school in Mödling or working as a freelance art and culture mediator.
Furthermore, by the side she is an initiator of the Gumpoldskirchner Kunstkreis and member of the association for Cultural mediators and intAct. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Armenia.
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DANTE ARCADE SPAIN
The style of the work is a collage built in a way similar to newspaper or magazine clippings. Each fragment belongs to a different style, influence or epoch, inspired by everything classical and arcade. Nostalgia, retrofuturism, classic American comics, pop art, and Memphis design are the attributes that define the work. The new with the old, the classic and the modern.
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David Leitner El Salvador
David leitner is a visual artist from austria, currently based in vienna.
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DJ Maseo De la Soul Brooklyn – NY – USA
Producer / DJ / part-time MC Vincent Mason a.k.a Maseo a.k.a Plug 3 from Brooklyn, NY and is a HipHop legend of De La Soul. Therefore, he was a founding member of HipHop history.
They helped numerous other important acts in HipHop as they introduced to the world Mos Def, a Tribe Called Quest and were the first major act to work with deceased hiphop icon J-Dilla on a major single.
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Dru Blair USA
Dru Blair grew up in Columbia, S.C. He is photorealist airbrush artist and instructor. While his works are mostly, shirt-, high technology helicopter and airplane paintings, he has also been selected to portray many Star Trek novel covers, as well as such diverse subjects as the well known Budweiser Bullfrogs, and dozens of magazine covers. In 1988 he won the National Airbrush Excellence Award.
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DXTR The Weird Crew, Berlin (GER)
DXTR started painting graffiti in ’99 and is an artist and freelance illustrator, currently living in Berlin/Germany. He worked with clients such as Amnesty International, Art Directors Club, Nike, Wired Magazine and Patagonia among many others and exhibited in cities like Berlin, Hamburg, New York, Washington, Detroit, Boston, Vienna, Rome and Shanghai. In September 2011 he founded the art collective THE WEIRD together with his friends, a group of 10 urban artists spread over Europe and focussing on large scale muralism.
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El Lasso Vienna, Austria
Doodling and drawing has always been a passion of mine. Even today I recognize every page of my old school books based on my drawings around texts and images, including those pages where my my mind just wandered somerwhere else.During a trip to Germany at the age of twelve I became aware of graffiti. I started to invest my money in spray cans. Then I redesigned the garage of my parents as well as other sorts of things. Years later I painted a lot on the legal walls in Vienna. That’s when I met other painters and became a member of the Graffiticrew !Bande!, followed by exhibitions and graffiti assignments. In addition to graffiti, I also made a name for myself in art actions in street art in Vienna. Because of my carpentry apprenticeship I was able to combine a lot in terms of craftsmanship and art. My pictures are shaped by all kinds of situations and thoughts in my life. I try to use my pictures to handle things that concern myself. Refering to nature is important to me personally and also in my work. In addition, I spend a lot of time with sports (skateboarding, snowboarding, climbing and surfing). In sports you can experience a lot, which is also reflected in my work.
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Farbenkind Vienna, Austria
Currently I am studying graphic design and advertising and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Moreover I also do freelance work as an illustrator and graphic designer.
I am passionate about creating, old & weird things , fleamarkets, plants and coffee. My love for drawing and creative work has always been there “ I am basically drawing since I can remember. Dedicating my life to creativity and art was probably the best decision I`ve ever made, even if I am not sure where this will lead me. But I know that drawing and painting is what I really enjoy right now, where I can express myself or just create some random funny stuff.
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Farid Rueda Mexico
Farid Rueda, a Mexican street artist, combines graffiti with
Mexican popular culture and history. He is best known for his murals and large-scale works.
Rueda was born in Morelos, which officially bears the title of the Free and Sovereign State of Morelos.
He attended the famous ENAP – Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas or National School of Fine Arts.Although he learned a lot during his studies at this college, Rueda eventually decided that he was not satisfied with ENAP’s programme and made the tough decision to leave without graduating. Together with artist Seher, he began his career as a street artist. Inspired by artists such as John Baizley, Stuntkid, James Jean, Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt and José de Ribera, he continues to find inspiration in various styles and moments in art history.
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Fefe Talavera Brazilian, São Paulo/ Mexican
Born in 1979 Fefe was brought up as a native half Mexican, half Brazilian in São Paulo.
Interested in all kind of underground movements, the typical and unique stylistic freedom of the internationally renowned Street Art and Graffiti scene of her hometown made an important impression on the artist. Fefe Talavera`s monster paintings are metaphors for strong and subconscious human emotions like anger, fear, dreams or desire. Inspired by the darkness and the light innate in the dualistic world we inhabit, the colourful fantastic beasts which she connects with the dark side of her inner self stand for the artist`s cultural roots as well as the primary and powerful energy of her work in the streets all over the world and the light she finds in the darkness. Fefe, who is influenced by Mayan or Aztec mythologies and her Mexican heritage, is most well known for her monsters made of cut out letters from concert announcement posters found all around the streets. The glued collage like figures are related to the artist`s admiration for typography, books and prints, but also to her will to somehow free the letters from their fixed meaning as words, sentences or texts, by showing their formal qualities as well as by reminding us that all kind of language is rooted in the direct expression of human affects, not in the function to command them.
