Les 9 prints de Stefano “Pane” Monfeli sont maintenant disponibles sur notre shop en ligne :
http://www.galerielj.com/product-category/prints/
Retrouvez-les également dans notre exposition en cours “Paragone” à la galerie.

Stefano “Pane” Monfeli‘s risograph prints (a series of 9, edition of 10 copies each) are now available for sale on the gallery online shop: 
http://www.galerielj.com/product-category/prints/
They’re also on view in our current show “Paragone” thru April 27th. 

Pane was born in Rome in 1974. In 1996, after attending the Accademia di Belle Arti of Rome, he stopped following school to continue his studies as an autodidact, especially as a cartoonist and graphic designer.
During the 90’s the hip-hop culture established a connection with most of the young creative generations of Rome, who would express themselves through rapping, break-dancing, dj-ing and graffiti, this cultural movement involved him into practicing aerosol art, most known as graffiti writing. His experience as a graffiti writer would be an important step in his growth as an artist; it is this activity that brought him to exhibit his work in several graffiti based art exhibitions in Italy and around Europe.
The story of graffiti in Rome has been celebrated with the book Just Push The Button-Writing Metropolitano (Stampa Alternativa-Nuovi Equilibri, 2002), of which Pane is the author.
In 2000 the creative ideas of a bunch of friends gave birth to the Why Style collective of which he is a cofounder, the collective’s purpose is to filter the urban subcultures into forms of art, exploring the concrete realities and phantasmagoria of contemporary urban life. Since then the Why Style collective attended several international exhibitions, representing one of the first collaborative realities of the Italian artistic panorama. The Why Style collective is still active, now based in Amsterdam and Rome.
In 2004 Pane moved to Amsterdam, where he still lives and works, and his work developed in two directions: art and graphic design, which sometimes melt together, more specifically his work embraces; illustration, painting, installations and editorial design.

Agostino Iacurci dont une sélection d’oeuvres inédites sont actuellement exposées à la galerie dans le cadre de “Paragone“, notre focus sur les valeurs montantes de l’art urbain italien, a inauguré samedi dernier 16 mars sa peinture murale monumentale réalisée en 2 jours sur “Le Mur” à Paris. Cette peinture est visible pendant 15 jours à l’angle de la rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud et de la rue Oberkampf.

The city of Charlottesville’s website has published an article about its citizens Allyson Mellberg and her husband Jeremy Taylor on the occasion of their new two-person show “Hareball” at The Honeycomb.

“Allyson Mellberg and Jeremy Taylor are not only two of the best contemporary artists in Charlottesville—or anywhere else, for that matter—they’re also two of the sweetest and most thoughtful people you could meet. Their work draws from nature, cartooning, modern art, and the contemporary craft movement, and their carefully composed drawings, paintings, prints, and soft-sculptures depict a conflict between the natural world and the man-made. “Hareball,” is their most recent collaborative show”.

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On the eve of the opening of our new show “Paragone” dedicated to Italian street art, Lancia Trendvisions published an interview of Agostino Iacurci in which he tells more about what he is going to show :

“I’ll be displaying a series of drawings and painting on which I’ve been working, which are part of a project entitled “Elementare”. It’s a series of variations on the theme of elements, intended first and foremost as natural elements, but also as elements of a mathematical, communicative or social system. As always in relation with the discourse on language, I tried to generate my own limited grammar, giving myself some rules, with which to try and create a conversation on the relationship between man and his environment. They are drawings, so rather than be explained, they have to be seen”.

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Our friend Nastia Voynovskaya recently published an article about the art of Moneyless, who will be contributing to our upcoming group show “Paragone” dedicated to Italian street art, opening next week, Wednesday March 13th.

Read the article on Hi Fructose

“Italian street artist Moneyless apprehends nature with his mathematically calculated optical illusions. Working with street art, outdoor installations and drawings, moneyless views geometry as the primary building block of all matter. His artworks are harmonious and often symmetrical, guiding the eye with angles and repeating lines that border on psychedelia.
He began his career as an artist with traditional graffiti and transitioned to his current geometric style when he made the decision to eliminate the symbolic value of letters from his work. Aside from working on traditional 2D surfaces, Moneyless also creates installations that appear as prisms floating in space, using rope tied to trees, walls and whatever else is handy”. 

Swoon vient d’achever le montage d’une nouvelle installation de ses gravures en Floride, dont elle est originaire, au State College de Bradenton (Université d’Etat) en hommage à son père qui vit toujours dans la région. Cette installation comprend les visuels qu’elle développe depuis ces quatre dernières années et est intitulée “Petrichor” en référence à l’odeur du sol après la pluie. Cette installation temporaire sera visible jusqu’au 3 avril.

report complet sur le blog Emporium’s
interview vidéo de Swoon donnée à l’occasion d’un talk à l’Université suite au vernissage de l’installation

Swoon just completed a new installation at State College Florida, Bradenton, entitled “Petrichor” in reference to the first scent of rain on parched ground. It comprises the pictures she has created over the past four years. This installation will remain on view through April 3rd. 

Quentin Garel a contribué avec quelques pièces à l’exposition “Dialogues de bêtes” présentée jusqu’au 5 avril 2013 au Centre Culturel Aragon à Oyonnax. Cette exposition propose plusieurs regards de plasticiens qui s’interrogent sur nos ressemblances et nos différences avec les animaux. Avec notamment Nicolas Darrot, Christian Gonzenbach, Eric Pillot, Gilles Aillaud, Benoît Huot.
Un reportage pour France Télévisions a été tourné à cette occasion :
http://www.francetv.fr/culturebox/dialogues-de-betes-les-animaux-nous-parlent-a-oyonnax-131887

Alix Marie is currently completing a master degree at the Royal College of Art in London, where she recently exhibited her new piece “Under My Thumbs”, quickly purchased by a patron of the Tate : such a great encouragement for this young artist whom we showed at the gallery twice in 2012 !

Alix Marie poursuit actuellement un cursus au prestigieux Royal College of Art à Londres, où elle a récemment exposé sa dernière sculpture “Under My Thumbs” (sous mes pouces), qui fut rapidement acquise par un mécène de la Tate : un signe plutôt encourageant pour cette jeune artiste que nous avons exposée à la galerie à deux occasions en 2012.

Agostino Iacurci is a contributing artist to our group show “Paragone” about Italian street art. He’s mostly known for his large mural paintings, which where recently featured on Wooster Collective :
http://www.woostercollective.com/post/shit-were-diggin-murals-by-agostino-iacurci

Pane est l’un des acteurs majeurs de la scène graffiti des années ’90 à Rome ; il est même l’auteur d’un livre sur le sujet, Just Push The Button- Writing Metropolitano (éditions Alternativa-Nuovi Equilibri) publié en 2002. Il est également un membre fondateur du collectif Why Style. Depuis 2004, Pane vit à Amsterdam.
People Think I’m Cool – The Art and Life of Pane est la première monographie parue sur son travail co-éditée par Stussy et Damiani en 2011.

Pane is a major activist in the graffiti scene in the 90’s in Rome ; he has published a book on the subject, Just Push The Button- Writing Metropolitano (Alternativa-Nuovi Equilibri) released in 2002. He’s also a founding member of the Why Style collective. Pane now lives in Amsterdam (since 2004).
People Think I’m Cool – The Art and Life of Pane is the first book dedicated to his work, a collaborative publication by Stussy and Damiani released in 2011.