Nuclear Fairy, IRLO & Omar
While gentrification in New York and the politics of cleansing tend to erase legendary traces of graffiti that inspired artist all over the world, street art flourishes in Eastern European cities. Bucharest, Timisoara, Cluj, Arad are just some of the places where you can find works by Nuclear Fairy (Linda Barkasz), IRLO (Laurentiu Alexandrescu), and Omar (Marwan Anbaki). Their art, combining lowbrow esthetics, figurative graffiti and an unusual approach to text, gives life to grim walls and starts a dialogue with the medium, be it a phone booth, a billboard or a cardboard box. The artists, all in their early twenties, are working both individually and collectively as Zacuska Senzual.
RCINY invited these artists for ten days in New York to leave their mark on the walls of the Romanian Gallery, to meet their peers and engage in collaborations. The evening is co-hosted by Wooster Collective, one the most prominent street art projects on the web. The exhibition runs through August 15. Their work inspired Marina Draghici, a New York-based costume and stage designer, to invite them to create their own version of African musician Fela Kuti's Shrine on the walls of 37 Arts Theaters. The Fela Kuti Live show can be seen starting July 29.
SIMULTAN: Temporary Tactics
Video art and experimental music In a smooth transition from walls to digital spaces, join us for a presentation of SIMULTAN Video and Media Arts Festival followed by a projection of the best short video art from the past three editions.
SIMULTAN is an international platform for audio-video concepts supporting new movements and trends in contemporary culture, such as video art, new media, soundart, experimental and electronic music. The first three editions of SIMULTAN showcased over 150 short videos from more than 20 countries and staged 23 audiovisual and sound projects from Great Britain, France, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Japan, Austria and Romania.
www.simultan.org
FREE ADMISSION. RSVP at icrny@icrny.org, 212-687-0180.
[Artwork by IRLO]
