Shit We're Diggin: The Photographs Of Li Wei

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JR inspires Favela in Rio

This latest project is part of a series called “Women Are Heros”.

Via PSFK

Another ego post.

I love this picture I took somewhere in London.
It looks so old...



Nikon FM2/ Digital Media

My picture and article at ArtKnowledgeNews.com

The picture and text from this post was featured on today's Home Page of ArtKnowledgeNews.com in relation to an article about the Auschwitz Museum.

A Georgian man cries as he holds the body of his relative after a bombardment in Gori.

If you flickered through tabloids web pages this weekend you might have seen this picture in one of the articles reporting violence in Georgia. I couldn’t find the name of the photojournalist who shot that. Reuters has its credit now. I just want to say that whoever took this picture could capture the essence of a dreadful and unreasonable conflict as no other war photographer has done lately.

Fashion Outraging

Feted Brazilian stylist Alexandre Herchcovitch put across his concerns about territorial conflicts around the globe in an outstanding fashion show at the São Paulo Fashion Week 2009/2. In a pitch dark stage setting, including five black hoisted flags demonstrating bereavement in each continent, Alexandre mixed patterns from rival ethnic groups in a same outfit and was raved and highly praised by the critics.

Somewhere in Spain...

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After Nature - New Museum NY

"After Nature" surveys a landscape of wilderness and ruins, darkened by uncertain catastrophe. It is a story of abandonment, regression, and rapture—an epic of humanity and nature coming apart under the pressure of obscure forces and not-so-distant environmental disasters. Bringing together an international and multigenerational group of artists, filmmakers, writers, and outsiders, the exhibition depicts a universe in which humankind is being eclipsed and new ecological systems struggle to find a precarious balance."

The Arles Photography Festival

Anyone to be found at south of France from July 8 to Sept 14 can't miss the opportunity to visit the Arles Photography Festival. The event has been receiving rave reviews and it was curated by none other than Christian Lacroix, originally from the town himself.

Elite Squad, now in UK.

Elite Squad is an out-of-date topic among newspapers and TV programs at the moment in Brazil. We can almost forget that 10 months ago, when the first bootleg copy of the movie was released to the pirate market, the production was a compulsory theme between every folk’s meetings throughout this country. Everyone got astonished due to the cruelty within BOPE (the police commando force which combats crime in Rio's slums), showed by José Padilha, film director.
Elite Squad is headline of today’s issue of The Telegraph. It seems that the gringo’s are also outraged with this dark reality that surrounds my country.

Read The Telegraph article here.

Cambodia by David Silveira

At first, this place can intimidate visitors for its poverty and destruction. But it takes one or two hours for you to walk barefoot through the sandy pavements and have a long conversation with local people, as reported my brother, David Silveira.
From one view, kids wear T-shirts with the message: Adopt-me. From the other, religious buildings considered one of the Seven Wonders of The World. David described Cambodia as the most amazing place of all the countries he has visited on his enviable Asian Trip.

Street art Locator

This website uses Google Maps technology to track the coolest graffiti s location.



http://streetartlocator.com

I've seen in the streets of Candem...

Well good drawings :)

Dali around Thames

Once more, with feeling.

Colombia has lately surprised me with good contemporary photography. The country must be very proud of having 6 of his artists in the exhibition "Once more, with feeling" at Photographer's Gallery. The world is definetely recognising this very well-thinked art.

More about it:

18 April - 15 June 2008 At The Photographers Gallery
"Once more, with feeling explores the interwoven themes of memory, repetition and performance found in each artists’ work. Using video, photography and performance, the artists explore all aspects of life in Colombia – from the violent internal conflict to the humour, youth and playfulness of this troubled country."

Hands at work, Gemeos.

I love pretending to be a Tour Guide. I'm pleased to show London's greatest sightseeing to every friend from Brazil that comes visit me. On Monday I had a big surprise. Strolling around Millenium Bridge, me and my friends could see very talented Brazilian artists "Os Gemeos" graffiting Tate's building. The siblings and many other artists are preparing the gallery for its new exhibition "Street Art", starting today.

The present I did't get last Xmas.

I'm happy. I've got a new camera. And suddenly everything has become shootable.

Seeing in the streets of Paris...

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Congrats, Reconstruction!

It has been one year since I've started posting on Reconstruction Blog. It was 120 posts, hundreds of interesting pictures, art, exhibitions, politics, bad news, good news, good ideas, more than 2 thousand unique visitors from 749 different cities all over the word, loads of good comments, loyal visitors (Thanks Ju, Alex, Luiz, Fred, Puga, Tati, Bella, etc!!), one very grateful award (Thanks Uniqlo), a lot of research and curiosity.

Congratulations!!!!

Loo Installation

The artist Nada Sehnaoui has installed 600 loos at Libano City Centre to remark the start of the Civil War.

Attention Chicken!

Attention Chicken! is a three dimensional version of the collage that goes by the same title.
Nicolas Lampert and Micaela O’Herlihy created a ten-foot rotisserie chicken out of polystyrene foam, hard coated, and then painted with latex paint and final coat of high gloss varnish.
In October, 2006 Attention Chicken! made a number of unannounced public interventions throughout Milwaukee at Bradford Beach, the woods, Walmart, National Ave, and other locations throughout the city. Reactions ranged from laughter to attacks directed at the chicken (three in one day!) More interventions and a short film by Micaela O’Herlihy coming in the future.
Micaela’s website: http://www.anarchocinemalista.com

Thank you again, Per!

What is Art?

Thank you, Per. That's really good.

Ireland shots

My almost irish friend Isabela sent it to me:

Quick insight about the last post.

I'm remembering the day I was leaving a club somewhere in Barcelona with a couple of friends, completely pissed. On the way, in the middle of a plaza, I saw a Doris Salcedo installation. It was not like the one that is on Tate main hall right now, it was just one of his usual ones: a distorted piece of furniture. I was delightful after seeing a work of the Colombian artist at that time, at that place. I shouted to my friends: look!!! How amazing! They just didn't get it. Maybe they were too drunk. Maybe a Doris Salcedo at a plaza doesn't make sense to everybody.

Warming up for the debate.

Is public art a waste of space?
I'll think about it.

For University of The Arts London Students

THE ARTS DEBATES - IS PUBLIC ART A WASTE OF SPACE?
Wednesday 7 May, 6.30 to 7.30pm
National Gallery, Sainsbury Theatre, Trafalgar Square, WC2B 5DN

University of the Arts London invites you to the last in a series of free, lively public debates exploring contemporary cultural issues.

Sir John Tusa, Chairman of University of the Arts London, will chair a panel including broadcaster Joan Bakewell, Director of the National Portrait Gallery Sandy Nairne, artist Mark Titchner and independent curator and writer Giles Waterfield, as they debate whether public art enriches our lives or wastes taxpayers' money.

Book your free place now at www.arts.ac.uk/events/arts-debates-booking-form.php

Read more at www.arts.ac.uk/events/40988.htm

The Arts Debates are inspired and supported by the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation.

Listen to audio podcasts or watch a live recording of the previous events at:
www.arts.ac.uk/events/arts-debates-live1.htm

www.arts.ac.uk/events/arts-debates-live2.htm