The Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv is proud to be a partner in the European street art project DETOUR. The event is a collaboration between the European Union, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Belgium, France, Great Britain and Israel - the municipality of Holon and the Mediatheque. The event is targeting local residents and young people in the city of Holon and aims to bring the artists to collaborate together with local youth centres, such as Shevrolet. Curator of the event: Gilly Karjevsky.
Invited Romanian artists: Raul Oprea (Saddo) and Heliana Rotariu (Aitch), together with six other street artists from Belgium, Britain, Hungary and Poland, will be working in situ to create a lively, colourful work of art. The idea of DETOUR has been chosen to be the inspiration for this event. We see DETOUR in three possible layers:
1/ DETOUR relates to the way street art finds its way around the city.
2/ DETOUR relates to the complex relationship of street art and the establishment.
3/ DETOUR can act as trigger towards the alternative.
The urban event and street party on June 25 (starting 7:30 PM, 6 Golda Meir St. and including a French and an Israeli DJ, breakdance marathons and octagon contests) will sum up the design season in the city. You are all most welcome!
About the Romanian artists
AITCH Romanian artist and illustrator, she graduated the University of Art and Design in Timisoara, Romania, exhibited in many galleries from Timisoara, Bucharest, Vienna, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Berlin, Aalborg, San Jose California.
She started drawing weird chubby fantastic creatures while she was in University, as some sort of subversive reaction to the academical way of treating the human body and anatomy. She developed these characters more and more until she got to gather some of them in a book about Domestic Monsters, which will soon be published. The book contains illustrations and short biographies of monsters who are responsible for all the daily troubles like tangled hair, fear of driving in cars, waking up in the middle of the night to eat, falling asleep in class, etc.
Some of her artworks contain even bizarre religious details mixed in with fantastical creatures in nightmarish scenes - she identifies the early, boring, smelling of wax and frankincense, mornings spent in the church in her grandmother's village, as influences for the series Saints and Sinners.
She recently started to apply all her experience with character design, graphics, illustration, in hand made pillows, plushies, brooches, pendants, has been selling them in art fairs and flee markets and shops in Berlin, Barcelona, Madrid, Bucharest, Hannover etc, and has been also featured in many design and crafts magazines like Elle Decoration, The One, Luna Mag.
Contact details:
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=100000448508864&sk=info
Website:
http://aitch.carbonmade.com/
http://aitchmade.blogspot.com/
SADDO Romanian artist, illustrator and street artist, he lived in many cities in Romania - Cluj, Timisoara, Bucharest, and also one year in Berlin, and now he's back in Bucharest.
Always attracted towards a fantastical, sometimes bizarre imagery, since he was a kid watching tons of horror and fantasy movies...He learned the basics of drawing in Art University, in Cluj Napoca, Romania, but his first real important step towards what he is now as an artist, was discovering street art, and forming together with a bunch of friends one of the first street art collectives in Romania - The Playground.
He's pretty moody, and this reflects on his works which sometimes are dreamy, colorful, with a smooth fantastical feel, sometimes dark, bizarre, monocromatic and sharp lined, or rarely abstract mixes of colors, textures, graphic signs and symbols. Influenced and motivated by his girlfriend Aitch, one of his all-time favorite artists, but also by dozens of other artists whose works he follows every day on their Flickr pages and blogs, Saddo tries to filter all the influences and suggestions through his own sensibility and vision, and always pushes himself to experiment new techniques, mediums and subjects.
He doesn't have a very rational, structural approach in his creative process, but thinks that the pieces he creates are similar to dreams - collections of suggestions, details coming from lines in books, images from real life or movies, feelings, moods - all merging together into a scene or character or abstract composition.
Contact details:
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=100000633604196&sk=info
Website:
http://artworks-sale.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/saddo/
http://www.behance.net/Saddo
DETOUR
The two artists frequently work together on different art projects and shows, like the current street art event taking place in Holon. Their vision on the event's theme - "Detour" - is a playful one, mixing spectacular news, like the grey whale which was seen in the Mediterranean Sea in 2010, near the shore of Tel Aviv, with the old biblical story of Jonah and the Big Fish, originated in Jaffa - all put together on a huge egg / fish.
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