SMART CREW members DCEVE, SNOEMAN, ELMO and others transform the SIXTY SoHo lobby over several days prior to the hotel’s renovation; creating an interactive graffiti landscape and the beginning of SIXTY SoHo’s re-imagining until destroying the entire landscape with sledgehammers.
Tag / Destruction
Kidult – No Gallery, No Master
Infamous graffiti vandal, Kidult, is back with a new video entitled “No Gallery, No Master.” The video features the artist creating his signature destructive fire extinguisher tags, while narrated by the artist himself.
Kidult – Exstinctor Propaganda
Following his paint attack on high-end fashion store Marc Jacobs, Kidult has released a video to coincide with his worldwide sculpture giveaway. Exstinctor shows a short clip of Kidult bombing the Marc Jacobs store in Paris and also follows him setting up one of his 10 signed and numbered sculptures, all of which are waiting to be found and the locations will be known to the public in due time. Peep the street terrorism after the jump!
Rowena Martinich – Afterglow
In November 2011, Rowena Martinich undertook a residency and exhibition at Galerie Lorenzetti in Lyon, France. Invited by the director of the space – Lyés Sidhoum, Martinich created a work (Afterglow) which functioned as both a large-scale, enveloping installation piece, as well as as well as a commercial work.
Visual Damage
Here’s a trailer for Visual Damage. A new video coming out of Lisbon, Portugal showing plenty of destruction and antics going down.
Michel Le Belhomme – La Bête Aveugle
With his series “The Beast blind” Michel Belhomme tackles a delicate and painful loss or partial destruction of the shelter are among the biggest nightmares of Man. The photographer, former student and assistant Tom Drahos at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Rennes, transforms living spaces into an object of harmony with nature, and features a dramatic return to savagery. Disturbing and sumptuous sculptures of Michel Belhomme recall the work of Patrick Tosani or Loriot and Melia.
KIDULT – Visual Dictatorship
We’ve been meaning to post this up for a while now and we’re sure you’ve probably seen it in which case, but screw it. It’s going up. KIDULT’s the man.