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KNOWN Gallery / Main Room
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Born in Paris in the 7O’s, Bom.k discovered graffiti during his youth, as the southern suburbs he grew in covered themselves with the tags and throw ups of the movement’s first generation. With the help of a few school friends, he quickly initiated himself to the mystery of spray cans on his neighborhood walls until Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper’s Subway Art and Spraycan Art definitely converted him to the noble art.
After moving to the South of France for a few years, Bom.k returned to live in Paris and created the Da Mental Vaporz in 1999 with Iso and Kan. One monumental wall after the other, the crew continuously kept pushing the esthetical boundaries of graffiti, developing groundbreaking themes for the times, such as madness, life in the peripheral suburbs, social exclusion, fear and hate.
With the new century, the crew opened up to a new generation of painters in the 2000 years, welcoming artists like Jaws, Gris1, Brusk and Dran and more recently Sowat and Blo in its ranks. Together, the 9 members of this iconoclast collective traveled the world, England, Spain, Denmark, Belgium and Australia, to participate to numerous festivals, put together ambitious DIY shows and above all, paint whatever comes in there way.
.....toOo Continue Reading knowngallery.com/exhibitions/current/
Opening reception January 11, 2014 | 8-11pm
On view: January 11 - 25, 2014
™GrosléeFotoGraffíí ®2014
DMV crew website www.damentalvaporz.com/
Graffiti Futurism write up “Bom.k has always been one of a kind in France’s Graffiti scene. One only has to look at his drawings, canvases and walls to be convinced. Born and raised in Paris southern suburbs, self though by necessity, he developed his unique style in the streets and abandoned factories of his youth. Quickly, he set himself free from Graffiti’s traditional rules, to follow his own road and create a unique universe, full of distorted monsters, screaming flesh, hybrid sexual creatures, claustrophobic cities and hellish visions. toOo continue ...... graffuturism.com/2014/01/03/preview-bom-k-solo-exhibition...
KNOWN Gallery / Main Room
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Born in Paris in the 7O’s, Bom.k discovered graffiti during his youth, as the southern suburbs he grew in covered themselves with the tags and throw ups of the movement’s first generation. With the help of a few school friends, he quickly initiated himself to the mystery of spray cans on his neighborhood walls until Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper’s Subway Art and Spraycan Art definitely converted him to the noble art.
After moving to the South of France for a few years, Bom.k returned to live in Paris and created the Da Mental Vaporz in 1999 with Iso and Kan. One monumental wall after the other, the crew continuously kept pushing the esthetical boundaries of graffiti, developing groundbreaking themes for the times, such as madness, life in the peripheral suburbs, social exclusion, fear and hate.
With the new century, the crew opened up to a new generation of painters in the 2000 years, welcoming artists like Jaws, Gris1, Brusk and Dran and more recently Sowat and Blo in its ranks. Together, the 9 members of this iconoclast collective traveled the world, England, Spain, Denmark, Belgium and Australia, to participate to numerous festivals, put together ambitious DIY shows and above all, paint whatever comes in there way.
.....toOo Continue Reading knowngallery.com/exhibitions/current/
Opening reception January 11, 2014 | 8-11pm
On view: January 11 - 25, 2014
™GrosléeFotoGraffíí ®2014
DMV crew website www.damentalvaporz.com/
Graffiti Futurism write up “Bom.k has always been one of a kind in France’s Graffiti scene. One only has to look at his drawings, canvases and walls to be convinced. Born and raised in Paris southern suburbs, self though by necessity, he developed his unique style in the streets and abandoned factories of his youth. Quickly, he set himself free from Graffiti’s traditional rules, to follow his own road and create a unique universe, full of distorted monsters, screaming flesh, hybrid sexual creatures, claustrophobic cities and hellish visions. toOo continue ...... graffuturism.com/2014/01/03/preview-bom-k-solo-exhibition...
This was one of the houses that played the largest role in the history of the Irish Dominicans.
Founded by Myler de Bermingham in 1257 it was the first friary to be established in a mostly-Gaelic area. It was within the walls of a Norman enclave but its records show that it had a lot of contact with the Gaels.
Several priories were founded directly by the members of the Athenry community. This is unusual as a Province of Friars normally would decide a new foundation not a Community of Friars. Nevertheless the friars of Athenry replaced the Franciscans of Straide in 1272. They also founded the priory at Toombeola in Connemara in 1440. In 1444 they replaced the Cistercian community in Portumna and they founded a priory in the Claddagh of Galway in 1488.
Athenry also seems to have had a large number of filial houses. These may have been farm chapels with a resident friar but they are all listed as communities by James Ware in 1707. Athenry may have had small Third Order communities like the Franciscans had. These are the communities at Killtullagh, Tooloobauntemple, Ballydavid and Gortanumera. One other community, Kilcorban, is remembered as a Third Order community.
One of the Athenry friars, John O'Heyne wrote an account of the 17th and early 18th century friars that was republished in 1910. It gives a great insight into how the friars lived in that period.
After it was suppressed the friars of Athenry dispersed into the local countryside. They seemed to have a base in the area of Eiscir and Brusk. They had a dispute with the dispersed friars of Roscommon in the 18th century about which community should have the right to beg in Glenamaddy.
After emancipation the friars regrouped in Eiscir where they opened a school. The famine left the school nonviable and the school moved to Newbridge.
So a tale that began in 1257 links constantly through good and bad years to a place that considers itself the replacement of a priory that died. The Dominicans of Naas died out after the suppression. Newbridge is officially the re-foundation of Naas but is the living continuation of Athenry.
becoming a doctor shortely before burnout, but thx god also a buddhist. want read more, please, welcome-my pleasure fu and so on...im jokin' ok?
Der Autor Axel Kruschik distanziert sich von jeglicher Art Rassismus und betont ausdrücklich, dass es sich um Phantasiepersonen handelt! Jede Ähnlichkeit mit realen Personen oder ist ungewollt und rein zufällig!
Der Autor betont weiters, dass es sich um eine satirische Aufarbeitung heikler Gesellschaftsthemen handelt, die nicht ernstzunehmen ist!
Hilfseinsatz - oder: EXITUS 5 VOR 7
Es hatte alles damit angefangen, dass ich Nigger zu hassen begonnen hatte.Aber das ist eine andere Geschichte. Ebenso Fliegen.
Im Flugzeug hatte ich dann leicht übertrieben und zu den drei Valium auch noch einiges getrunken. Bier von Wien nach Frankfurt, Rotwein von Frankfurt nach Paris und Pastis von Paris nach Ouagadougou - sie wissen nicht, wo das liegt? - ist auch egal, aber der Form halber sage ich es ihnen: Burkina Faso, Westafrika, Subsahara. Kein Meer, kein Dschungel, keine Wüste, aber viel Sand, der meiste davon in der Luft. Es muss wohl am Hochdruck liegen, denn obwohl es keinerlei Industrie gibt(das Hochentwickeltste sind Dieselgeneratoren) war es der ärgste Smog, den ich je eingeatmet hatte. Ehrlich, nichts gegen eine wochenlang unentlüftete Tiefgarage.
Dann der lächerliche Flughafen. Mehr Schlaglöcher als Asphalt, ein einstöckiger Pferch mit hundert Passkontrollen(ohne dass sie das Gesicht dazu anschauen), unglaublich heiss, keine Bar. Mir wurde es zu dumm. Angeblich war der Zoll ja bestochen, denn wir hatten zirka 400 kg Medikamente mit. Also drängte ich mich brüsk vor, den Pass in der Hand hochgestreckt. Schon schrie ein Tuttelsheriff irgendwas. Ich blieb stehen, verbeugte mich, wiess auf meinen Anstecker "Medecins sans Frontieres" und entschuldigte mich. Sie keiffte weiter-ehrlich gesagt hätte ich nichts dagegen gehabt, von dieser 1,90 grossen schlanken aber muskulösen Massai in Handschellen abgeführt zu werden, eine geile (Wa)Tussi. Dann kam gottseidank der General und lotste uns durch. Ich habe noch nie sauberere Schuhe gesehen. Sogar einen Mercedes hatte er.
Ja die afrikanische Nacht...die rote Erde wärmt die Sohlen mit animalischer Energie, der Wind lebt, undefinierbare Tierlaute, Trommeln, uralte Geister umfliessen dich zart und gar nicht unheimlich, es ist etwas ganz eigenes-für mich der einzige relevante Grund, hierher zu kommen. Man fühlt sich wie im Bauch eines Tieres, eines wilden und zugleich zahmen Tieres, es ist dunkel ohne richtig dunkel zu sein, es ist warm, geborgen und trotzdem könnte jeder Schritt der letzte sein.
Ich sass dann noch bis halbvier auf der Terasse der Missionsstation, trank den Pastis aus und scherzte ordinär mit den Koreanern. Whatz yor beliif?" I'm just a little catholic" "HAHA I'm little buddhist." Fuck you I'm Atheist!" und dann auf ex Pastis. Ich Trottel musste in drei Stunden aufstehen.
Der erste Tag war der Horror. Ich war der einzige, der ein halbwegs passables Anfängerfranzösisch sprach, und es sah so aus: 2 Dolmetscher für die Stammessprachen, oder was auch immer, 1 Dolmetscherin, die mir das unverständliche Französisch der Stammesdolmetscher übersetzte, und ich, der vielleicht die Hälfte davon verstand. Das macht zusammen, von mindestens 5 stinkenden Negern angespuckt und angeschrien zu werden, eine Diagnose stellen zu müssen und die Leute mit einem Medikament abzuspeisen, dazwischen vielleicht ein paar mal mit dem Stethoskop hinzuhören(das macht Eindruck), in die Ohren zu schauen-ich sah kein einziges Trommelfell wahrscheinlich vor Dreck- Bäuche abzuklopfen, und besorgt und ernst zu wirken. Ich praktizierte quasi medizinische stille Post. Die Leute hier waschen sich nicht - womit auch, wenn wir das täten, würden wir ärger stinken , das fand ich fazinierend. Der Scheissegeruch ist ziemlich dezent, obwohl sie sich mit Sand auswischen. (Aber trotzdem nicht wegzudiskutieren). Um Tacheles zu reden, ich habe fast alles vergessen, was sie uns auf der Universität verklickert hatten, also, wäre das Sprachproblem nicht gewesen, es hätte nicht viel anders ausgesehen. Viele Dinge hatte ich auch erst gar nicht gelernt. Ich sage ihnen, ein Arzt kommt mit 5 Medikamenten aus, die er über den Daumen gepeilt verschreibt: Ein Antibiotikum bei Fieber, ein Schmerzmittel und Antiphlogistikum, ein Diuretikum bei Herzbeschwerden, Digitalis und ein Beruhigungsmittel, die ganzen hunderttausend Bücher und Fachartikel sind ein paar Hobbies von Wichsern- das wichtigste ist, den Leuten zuzuhören. Das war nur Spass, ich werde schon wieder sarkastisch.
Jetzt ein paar Worte über mich: Ich bin ein Arschloch, ein Angsthase, ein Feigling, ein Hypochonder, pervers, Neid ist meine Hauptbeschäftigung, obergescheit und gleichzeitig dumm, eine schlimme Kombination, eine Kontraindikation für alles, ich weiss manche unwichtige Dinge , aber das meiste sage ich falsch. Ich hätte nie Arzt werden sollen, vielleicht Mechaniker oder Koch, aber nie Arzt. Man sagt ja im Hippokratischen Eid, dass das wichtigste ist, nicht zu schaden. Nicht mal das schaffe ich.
Mein Gott!! Ein asiatischer Kollege hat am ersten Tag den Geist aufgegeben. Im Bus aus dem Fenster- dem nicht vorhandenen- gekotzt, dann lag er wie tot da, unansprechbar, Glasgow-coma-scale etwa 9 Punkte, ich vermutete eine Subduralblutung aus einem geplatzten Basilarisaneurysma, Menigokokken, oder zumindest ein Norwalk-Virus. Nichts davon war der fall. Ich vermutete wirklich, dass er sterben würde, bis mir seine Landsleute zu verstehen gaben, dass auch einiges an Simulation vorhanden wäre. Wenn "der Asiate" krank ist, dann lässt er das sozial auch durchblicken, inklusive starker Übertreibung. Ich meine, sie trugen ihn vom Bus in die Kirche hinter den Altar, wo er reglos dalag. Was mussten sich die afrikanischen Begleiter denken?
So viele Ärzte und nicht einmal einem Kollegen können sie helfen...
Ich wollte schon immer eine beschnittene Frau sehen, wie das genau aussieht, ob nur die Klitoris entfernt ist, oder auch die kleinen Schamlippen, ob das zugenäht ist etc.. Also holte ich mir von Zeit zu Zeit ein ansprechendes Mädchen in den Bus und liess die Krankenschwester ihr die Beine spreizen. Ich bekam zwar immer eine Erektion , aber es sah alles normal aus, schade(...).
Sylvester: Im Busch verfahren, seit 8 Stunden unterwegs, sie müssen sich das vorstellen-Radkästen verrostet und offen, so dass der ganze Sand ins Wageninnere staubt, angeschweisste Notsitze für 17 Leute in einem Bus, der (vor 30 jahren) maximal für 7 gedacht gewesen wäre, 400 kg Gepäck am Dach, Überladung, die nur durch die Last in der Fahrkabine ausgeglichen werden konnte, der Motor durfte nicht abgeschaltet werden, weil sonst nicht nicht mehr anwerfbar.
Es gibt hier kein Licht, keine Beschilderung, keine Strasse, nicht einmal Sterne, weil dauernd eine Sandwolke über der Savanne hängt. Es gibt aber eine neue Pflanzenart, die sich um menschliche Ansiedlungen verbreitet: Plastiktütenstücke, meist schwarz. Auf die Idee, das einzusammeln, oder wenigstens zu verbrennen, kommt natürlich niemand-wäre wahrscheinlich schon philosophisch. Wir hatten uns um 19.00 losgerissen, ich glaube , den Dorfnegern war es ziemlich egal, und sollten angeblich in 3 Stunden in einer Kirche übernachten(=Lehmziegelschachtel mit mit Draht befestigtem Wellblechdach). Ich möchte jetzt nicht grossartig poetisch den Mond beschreiben, weil ich das nicht kann, aber er sah durch den feinen roten Sand in der Atmosphäre aus, als gehörte er gründlich gereinigt. Die Flasche Pastis neigte sich nach nach mittlerweile 8 Stunden Fahrt dem Ende zu, ebenso die Schmerzen in meinem Sitzmuskel und die Stimmung. Ein gelungenes Sylvester.Die noch vorhandenen Fenster ratterten auf der Wellblechpiste wie Maschinengewehrsalven, so dass Schlafen unmöglich war. Irgendwann blieben wir stehen. Wenn sie glauben, in Afrika kann es nicht kalt sein, muss ich widersprechen. Es hatte maximal 8 Grad. Wir durften auch kein Feuer machen, weil das hätte Räuber anlocken können. Was soll man da machen? Eben-wir kuschelten uns am Boden(der war noch halbwegs warm, zusammen)-schwul aber warm. (Bitte verzeihen sie meine infantilen Wortspiele, aber Humor ist das einzige, was einem noch bleibt-und dann kann man sich als reich betrachten, bitte glauben sie mir das).
Als es hell wurde- eine Mischung aus Milch, Sand und Radioaktivität, fanden wir dann den Weg.
Trotzdem waren die Fahrten noch das angenehmste. Ich setzte mich ganz nach hinten, weg von den anderen, weil ich einfach zu ausgepowert war, zu reden, zwischen die Schwarzen, wobei ich mich wunderte, dass sie mir nicht den besten Platz überliessen, aber gut. Ich leerte den Schnaps in Limonade oder Wasser und goss mir ordentlich einen rein. Als die Gedanken dann angenehm zu verschwimmen begannen, pflegte ich in die Savanne hinauszublicken, in ihre beruhigende Horizontlosigkeit. Eine Ebene, endlos, gelb-grün, die Bäume in einem gepflanzt aussehenden Abstand, aber trotzdem unregelmässig, über allem die Geier am weissen Himmel und alle heiligen Zeiten ein kleines Kastell aus strohgedeckten enggedrängten runden Lehmhütten, davor winkende Leute.
"Alles , was komplizierter ist als eine Trommel, überfordert den Neger", so ein Kollege, der die Sache schon länger machte. Wahrscheinlich wäre es sinnvoller gewesen, ich hätte mir eine Leopardenfellmütze aufgesetzt und wäre um die Leute herumgetanzt, denn sie sahen die Medikamente immer nur ungläubig an und hielten sie in den Händen wie etwas von einem fremden Stern. Einmal sah ich beim Wegfahren aus dem Augenwinkel, wie kleine Buben mit einem Jod-Sprühdesinfektionsmittel herumspielten(oranger Nebel), das ich einem Mann mit einem faulenden Beingeschwür gegeben hatte.
Es stimmt aber wirklich: das Einzige, bei dem die Schwarzen mit Eifer und beachtlichem Talent dabei sind, ist singen, tanzen, trommeln- hier kann jeder Junge einen guten Rhythmus spielen- das haben mittlerweile auch die Missionare kapiert und eine Messe ist eigentlich eine Gospelchorprobe mit Aerobicelementen.
Ich bin kein Rassist. Ich wurde 4 mal in meinem Leben ausgeraubt, 2 mal von Negern, 2 mal von Zigeunern, ich wurde 3 mal zusammengeschlagen, 1 mal von Skinheads, ein mal von Deutschen, ein mal von Nigerianern, und da richtig.
Bitte glauben sie mir, ich bin kein schlechter Mensch, oder zumindest nicht schlechter als sie.
Aber ich bin bis zu einem gewissen grad lernfähig. Es kann aber auch sein, dass das nur rein persönlich ist, wer kann das wissen? Manchmal glaube ich an Gott, aber nicht , weil irgendetwas tolles passiert, sondern einfach so. Ich habe das alles in Kirchen geschrieben, ich habe ständig Witze über Jesus gemacht, ich habe betrunken gearbeitet, ich habe einen akuten Blinddarmdurchbruch diagnostiziert bei einem Jungen, dessen Mutter das egal war, ich habe ihr eingeschärft, dass er sterben würde, falls sie nicht ins Krankenhaus gehen würde, ich habe überlegt, ob ich es machen könnte, aber wir hatten weder Anästhetika noch Instrumente.
Als wir in der Nacht an dem umgestürzten Lastwagen vorbeikamen, war es zu gefährlich, nach den Verletzten zu sehen und als wir dann am Morgen das Schwein überfuhren, das wahrscheinlich die einzige Lebensgrundlage einer ganzen Familie war, lachte ich:"Todeszeit 5 vor 7". Wir konnten nicht stehenbleiben und es war mir egal.
Machen sie das mal und dann reden wir weiter. Nein, machen sie es besser nicht.
Es gibt andere, die es wieder machen werden.
Ich möchte auch noch ein offenes Wort über meine Begleiter loswerden. Die meisten Asiaten mit ihren unsterilen Akupunkturnadeln, mit ihren Moxa-Brandhütchen, die sie mit Leim um schmerzende Gelenke herum anklebten, anzündeten, bis hässliche Brandwunden entstanden- jeder seine eigene wirre Theorie um Energieflüsse entlang der Wirbelsäule oder von der Milz zum Arschloch- ich glaubte ihnen nicht.
In ihrer Heimat sind sie meistens keine Ärzte, es gibt beispielsweise einen, der ist Musikprofessor und einen anderen, der Techniker ist. Sie kommen ein paar mal im Jahr nach Österreich, scheffeln Geld, weil sie per se nur gutsituierte Leute behandeln, die dementsprechen grosszügig sind, da den Behandlungen für die, die im Endeffekt nichts haben, aber schon "bei tausend Ärzten" gewesen sind, anscheinend einen gewissen exotischen Placeboeffekt haben.
Danach haben die Asiaten, so scheint es mir, etwas schlechtes Gewissen und behandeln ein mal im Jahr auch arme Leute in armen Ländern gratis. Ich meine, sie sind nett und irgendwie sehr herzlich, berühren einen gerne und lachen auch gerne, eigentlich mag ich sie.
Als ich nach Österreich zurückkam, war das erste, was mir wie üblich auffiel, die ungelenk unter Gemütlichkeit versteckte dumpfe Aggression. Redet man mit jemandem länger als fünf Minuten, entpuppt er sich als der ärgste Rassist, Nationalsozialist und potentieller Massenmörder. Ich glaube nicht, dass es Zufall ist, dass der Nationalsozialismus in Österreich und Deutschland entstanden ist, ebenso, dass es kein Zufall ist, dass er nach 60 Jahren noch so zwanghaft in Kultur und Politik vorhanden ist, bzw. verfolgt wird.
Und dass man den Leuten vollkommen egal ist. MIR war noch nie jemand so egal, wie ich es den ersten drei Leuten bin, denen ich hier auf der Strasse begegne.
Aber geben sie dem Österreicher ein Fass Bier, ein paar Doppelliter Wein, Ziehharmonikamusik und ein paar einfache Heurigenbänke, und er wird ein guter Mensch sein. Ein Österreicher sollte nie nüchtern sein und nie über den Tellerrand sehen, am besten gar nicht aus seinem Tal herauskommen.
Epilog:
Nach zirka 22 Stunden Schlaf stand ich auf. Das Zimmer in meinem Heimatort wirkte klein und fremd. Ich trank den letzten Schnaps aus, stand vor dem Klo und gleich danach erbrach ich. Ich ging auf die Strasse und in das einzige Lokal. Dort sassen ein paar besoffene Halbstarke. Ich spürte, es würde Ärger geben, aber das war mir egal, sogar willkommen, denn ich wollte endlich wieder etwas fühlen, das mir nicht fremd war. Ich hatte diesen "Ich-habe-das-Leben-gesehen-das-hat-mich-hart-gemacht-Blick" drauf, sie störte das natürlich sofort, die riechen das wie Tiere. Ich sass ganz ruhig da, trank meinen Rotwein(das einzige, das ich noch vertrug) und starrte vor mich hin. Ich bekam aus dem Augenwinkel mit, wie die Kellnerin die Jugendlichen wiederholt zurechtwiess und dabei auf mich deutete. Ich schaute möglichst böse. Sie gestikulierten und lachten. Ich stand auf und ging zu ihrem Tisch. Ich stellte mich vor. Ich sagte ihnen, ich wäre Arzt und käme gerade aus Afrika. Sie lachten noch mehr. Ich lachte auch. Wir luden uns gegenseitig auf eine Runde Schnaps ein. Das Eis war gebrochen. Halleluja!
KNOWN Gallery / Main Room
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Born in Paris in the 7O’s, Bom.k discovered graffiti during his youth, as the southern suburbs he grew in covered themselves with the tags and throw ups of the movement’s first generation. With the help of a few school friends, he quickly initiated himself to the mystery of spray cans on his neighborhood walls until Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper’s Subway Art and Spraycan Art definitely converted him to the noble art.
After moving to the South of France for a few years, Bom.k returned to live in Paris and created the Da Mental Vaporz in 1999 with Iso and Kan. One monumental wall after the other, the crew continuously kept pushing the esthetical boundaries of graffiti, developing groundbreaking themes for the times, such as madness, life in the peripheral suburbs, social exclusion, fear and hate.
With the new century, the crew opened up to a new generation of painters in the 2000 years, welcoming artists like Jaws, Gris1, Brusk and Dran and more recently Sowat and Blo in its ranks. Together, the 9 members of this iconoclast collective traveled the world, England, Spain, Denmark, Belgium and Australia, to participate to numerous festivals, put together ambitious DIY shows and above all, paint whatever comes in there way.
.....toOo Continue Reading knowngallery.com/exhibitions/current/
Opening reception January 11, 2014 | 8-11pm
On view: January 11 - 25, 2014
™GrosléeFotoGraffíí ®2014
DMV crew website www.damentalvaporz.com/
Graffiti Futurism write up “Bom.k has always been one of a kind in France’s Graffiti scene. One only has to look at his drawings, canvases and walls to be convinced. Born and raised in Paris southern suburbs, self though by necessity, he developed his unique style in the streets and abandoned factories of his youth. Quickly, he set himself free from Graffiti’s traditional rules, to follow his own road and create a unique universe, full of distorted monsters, screaming flesh, hybrid sexual creatures, claustrophobic cities and hellish visions. toOo continue ...... graffuturism.com/2014/01/03/preview-bom-k-solo-exhibition...
Exhibition in London...
GX Gallery is delighted to welcome, for their debut London exhibition, the Paris-based graffiti crew, DaMentalVaporz. BomK, ISO, KAN BRUSK, JAW and LIME originally met in 1999 while writing, tagging, bombing and painting immense urban frescos, in the streets of Paris. The DMV members will be creating another masterpiece live on the night of the private view. This show is a rare opportunity to see the streets of Paris in a London Gallery.
GXgallery
43 Denmark HIll
London SE5 8SR
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7277 2658
Web: www.gxgallery.com
Zurbamateurs H -1 Avant départ du défilé de la biennale de la danse 2006
C'EST SLAMAVILLE !!!
Adrien, Anne Laure, Anne Laure et Anne Laure, Alice et Alice, Alain et Alain, Alise, Amy, Annabelle, Audrey, Aline, Albane, Alexine, Angélique, Arnaud, Anne, Anne Lise, Aurélie, Aurélien, Barbara, Béatrice, Bénedicte, Bernard, Besma, Brigitte, Brusk, Catherine, Camille, Claire et Claire, Clémence, Corinne, Carole et Carole, Chantal, Charlotte, Charlotte, Charlotte et Charlotte, Christine et Christine, Christian, Christophe et Christophe, Céline, Caroline, Cécile et Cécile, Cyril, David, Daniel, Danielle, Diane, Didier et Didier, DJ Pee, Denis, Dom Dom, Elodie et Elodie, Emmanuelle, Emilie et Emilie, Eszter, Emmanuel, Elise, Erika, Fiona, Frédéric et Frédéric, Farielle, Florence, Florent, Flora, Fanny, François, Françoise, Gaëlle, Géraldine, Géraldine et Géraldine, Gil, Grégoire, Hélène et Hélène, Hassiba, Henriette, Inès, Isabel, Jany, JC 001, Jean-Paul, Jean-François, Jean Marie, Jérôme, Julie et Julie, Karine, Korem, Laura, Laureline, Lionel, Laurence et Laurence, Laurette, Lydia, Maëlle, Maena, Marie Claire, la Mag et Magali, Maïa, Mélody, Marjolaine, Marjorie, Maria Dina, Maria, Marion, Marie-Françoise, Marie-Pierre, Maëlle, Manon, Manuelle, Marc, Marie et Marie, Marine, Martine, Mathilde, Mathis, Maud, Max, Mélodie, Netnapha, Nicolas, Nadia, Nadine et Nadine, Natacha, Noémie, Nourdine, N'Zeng, Olivia, Olivier et Olivier, Pauline, Paula, Pascal et Pascal, Pascale, Pèrine, Philippe, Priscille, Psychostic, Raphaël, Romain, Romaric, Ruth, Sabrina, Sam, Sandra et Sandra, Sarah, Sarah et Sarah, Sergio, Stéphane, Solange, Solène, Sophie et Sophie, Spagg, Stella, Stéphane, Sherazade, Sylvie et Sylvie, Thierry, Valérie, Vincent, Violette, Virginie, Xavier et Yamina
KNOWN Gallery / Main Room
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Born in Paris in the 7O’s, Bom.k discovered graffiti during his youth, as the southern suburbs he grew in covered themselves with the tags and throw ups of the movement’s first generation. With the help of a few school friends, he quickly initiated himself to the mystery of spray cans on his neighborhood walls until Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper’s Subway Art and Spraycan Art definitely converted him to the noble art.
After moving to the South of France for a few years, Bom.k returned to live in Paris and created the Da Mental Vaporz in 1999 with Iso and Kan. One monumental wall after the other, the crew continuously kept pushing the esthetical boundaries of graffiti, developing groundbreaking themes for the times, such as madness, life in the peripheral suburbs, social exclusion, fear and hate.
With the new century, the crew opened up to a new generation of painters in the 2000 years, welcoming artists like Jaws, Gris1, Brusk and Dran and more recently Sowat and Blo in its ranks. Together, the 9 members of this iconoclast collective traveled the world, England, Spain, Denmark, Belgium and Australia, to participate to numerous festivals, put together ambitious DIY shows and above all, paint whatever comes in there way.
.....toOo Continue Reading knowngallery.com/exhibitions/current/
Opening reception January 11, 2014 | 8-11pm
On view: January 11 - 25, 2014
™GrosléeFotoGraffíí ®2014
DMV crew website www.damentalvaporz.com/
Graffiti Futurism write up “Bom.k has always been one of a kind in France’s Graffiti scene. One only has to look at his drawings, canvases and walls to be convinced. Born and raised in Paris southern suburbs, self though by necessity, he developed his unique style in the streets and abandoned factories of his youth. Quickly, he set himself free from Graffiti’s traditional rules, to follow his own road and create a unique universe, full of distorted monsters, screaming flesh, hybrid sexual creatures, claustrophobic cities and hellish visions. toOo continue ...... graffuturism.com/2014/01/03/preview-bom-k-solo-exhibition...
KNOWN Gallery / Main Room
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Born in Paris in the 7O’s, Bom.k discovered graffiti during his youth, as the southern suburbs he grew in covered themselves with the tags and throw ups of the movement’s first generation. With the help of a few school friends, he quickly initiated himself to the mystery of spray cans on his neighborhood walls until Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper’s Subway Art and Spraycan Art definitely converted him to the noble art.
After moving to the South of France for a few years, Bom.k returned to live in Paris and created the Da Mental Vaporz in 1999 with Iso and Kan. One monumental wall after the other, the crew continuously kept pushing the esthetical boundaries of graffiti, developing groundbreaking themes for the times, such as madness, life in the peripheral suburbs, social exclusion, fear and hate.
With the new century, the crew opened up to a new generation of painters in the 2000 years, welcoming artists like Jaws, Gris1, Brusk and Dran and more recently Sowat and Blo in its ranks. Together, the 9 members of this iconoclast collective traveled the world, England, Spain, Denmark, Belgium and Australia, to participate to numerous festivals, put together ambitious DIY shows and above all, paint whatever comes in there way.
.....toOo Continue Reading knowngallery.com/exhibitions/current/
Opening reception January 11, 2014 | 8-11pm
On view: January 11 - 25, 2014
™GrosléeFotoGraffíí ®2014
DMV crew website www.damentalvaporz.com/
Graffiti Futurism write up “Bom.k has always been one of a kind in France’s Graffiti scene. One only has to look at his drawings, canvases and walls to be convinced. Born and raised in Paris southern suburbs, self though by necessity, he developed his unique style in the streets and abandoned factories of his youth. Quickly, he set himself free from Graffiti’s traditional rules, to follow his own road and create a unique universe, full of distorted monsters, screaming flesh, hybrid sexual creatures, claustrophobic cities and hellish visions. toOo continue ...... graffuturism.com/2014/01/03/preview-bom-k-solo-exhibition...
KNOWN Gallery / Main Room
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Born in Paris in the 7O’s, Bom.k discovered graffiti during his youth, as the southern suburbs he grew in covered themselves with the tags and throw ups of the movement’s first generation. With the help of a few school friends, he quickly initiated himself to the mystery of spray cans on his neighborhood walls until Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper’s Subway Art and Spraycan Art definitely converted him to the noble art.
After moving to the South of France for a few years, Bom.k returned to live in Paris and created the Da Mental Vaporz in 1999 with Iso and Kan. One monumental wall after the other, the crew continuously kept pushing the esthetical boundaries of graffiti, developing groundbreaking themes for the times, such as madness, life in the peripheral suburbs, social exclusion, fear and hate.
With the new century, the crew opened up to a new generation of painters in the 2000 years, welcoming artists like Jaws, Gris1, Brusk and Dran and more recently Sowat and Blo in its ranks. Together, the 9 members of this iconoclast collective traveled the world, England, Spain, Denmark, Belgium and Australia, to participate to numerous festivals, put together ambitious DIY shows and above all, paint whatever comes in there way.
.....toOo Continue Reading knowngallery.com/exhibitions/current/
Opening reception January 11, 2014 | 8-11pm
On view: January 11 - 25, 2014
™GrosléeFotoGraffíí ®2014
DMV crew website www.damentalvaporz.com/
Graffiti Futurism write up “Bom.k has always been one of a kind in France’s Graffiti scene. One only has to look at his drawings, canvases and walls to be convinced. Born and raised in Paris southern suburbs, self though by necessity, he developed his unique style in the streets and abandoned factories of his youth. Quickly, he set himself free from Graffiti’s traditional rules, to follow his own road and create a unique universe, full of distorted monsters, screaming flesh, hybrid sexual creatures, claustrophobic cities and hellish visions. toOo continue ...... graffuturism.com/2014/01/03/preview-bom-k-solo-exhibition...
O’Heyne in his book, THE IRISH DOMINICANS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, wrote: The Restoration of Charles II. brought comparative peace, and the fathers returned to Ireland in large numbers. In 1666, according to Father Peter Walsh's (O.S.F.) Remonstrance there were 200 Dominicans in Ireland. Public chapels were opened once more in Galway and other towns, whilst the open-air ministry was , pursued with unabated vigour in other places. The great school, carried on near Athenry, at which our author was educated, seems at first sight a unique example of education under difficulties. But it was probably only one of many other rural places of education, conducted by friars, which had their prototypes in the old monastic schools of Ireland, and were maintained more or less constantly through the intervening centuries. Else how could the education of priests, for instance, have been kept up, as it undoubtedly was? Dissensions arose about this time in Ulster with the Franciscan fathers, who claimed certain foundations as their own, which the Dominicans also, at that time forty-five in number in that part, laid claim to; and the difficulty of ascertaining the Dominican claims was increased by the circumstance that they had not restored the Order very completely in that province before the Cromwellian period.
In 1736, Father Edmund Burke, an alumnus of that school, compiled an account of the fortunes of the Athenry community, during the seventeenth century. It appears from this account, that Father Ross Mageoghegan, the Provincial, and some other fathers petitioned Ulick Burke, earl of Clanricard, for some place to dwell in near their old abbey of Athenry. He gave them a wood in an unfrequented place between two lakes, called Coilascail (or Brosk) where they erected a small convent and began to receive novices. After being established there for some years, they began courses of the classics and of philosophy and theology, and were able to introduce Regular Observance.
Driven from their retreat by the Cromwellians, they returned at the Restoration and approached the successor of the earl of Clanricard about their convent. He generously gave them as a free gift the wood and adjoining land, on the sole condition that they should offer three masses annually for himself and family. The fathers, thereupon, settled down, and began as formerly to receive novices. In 1678, they opened their school on a much larger scale, and it became so famous in a short time that students flocked to it from every part of the kingdom. Several of these afterwards became bishops and other ecclesiastical dignitaries, and others made a mark in the professions of the law and medicine. The students were scattered here and there in the wood and adjoining country, living in small batches, each batch under the direction of a tutor, in little wooden huts constructed by themselves, their food and clothing being sent to them by their friends. In the morning they all came together in an open space in the wood for lessons and dispersed again to their huts when the work of the day was over. The school was begun and ended with prayer, the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin being always recited before the students dispersed in the evening.
This school was broken up for a few years, during the persecution consequent on the “Popish Plot," but was resumed in 1683, the year in which the author of this account received the habit of the Order in this very place. He tells us that there were at least one hundred of his name, Burke, in the school at the same time. The school had to be closed in 1691, owing to the Jacobite war in Ireland, and the confiscation of the Clanricard property was followed by the eviction of the fathers from their place of refuge. Father Burke's manuscript is preserved in the archives of St. Clement's, Rome.
Exhibition in London...
GX Gallery is delighted to welcome, for their debut London exhibition, the Paris-based graffiti crew, DaMentalVaporz. BomK, ISO, KAN BRUSK, JAW and LIME originally met in 1999 while writing, tagging, bombing and painting immense urban frescos, in the streets of Paris. The DMV members will be creating another masterpiece live on the night of the private view. This show is a rare opportunity to see the streets of Paris in a London Gallery.
GXgallery
43 Denmark HIll
London SE5 8SR
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7277 2658
Web: www.gxgallery.com
KNOWN Gallery / Main Room
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Born in Paris in the 7O’s, Bom.k discovered graffiti during his youth, as the southern suburbs he grew in covered themselves with the tags and throw ups of the movement’s first generation. With the help of a few school friends, he quickly initiated himself to the mystery of spray cans on his neighborhood walls until Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper’s Subway Art and Spraycan Art definitely converted him to the noble art.
After moving to the South of France for a few years, Bom.k returned to live in Paris and created the Da Mental Vaporz in 1999 with Iso and Kan. One monumental wall after the other, the crew continuously kept pushing the esthetical boundaries of graffiti, developing groundbreaking themes for the times, such as madness, life in the peripheral suburbs, social exclusion, fear and hate.
With the new century, the crew opened up to a new generation of painters in the 2000 years, welcoming artists like Jaws, Gris1, Brusk and Dran and more recently Sowat and Blo in its ranks. Together, the 9 members of this iconoclast collective traveled the world, England, Spain, Denmark, Belgium and Australia, to participate to numerous festivals, put together ambitious DIY shows and above all, paint whatever comes in there way.
.....toOo Continue Reading knowngallery.com/exhibitions/current/
Opening reception January 11, 2014 | 8-11pm
On view: January 11 - 25, 2014
™GrosléeFotoGraffíí ®2014
DMV crew website www.damentalvaporz.com/
Graffiti Futurism write up “Bom.k has always been one of a kind in France’s Graffiti scene. One only has to look at his drawings, canvases and walls to be convinced. Born and raised in Paris southern suburbs, self though by necessity, he developed his unique style in the streets and abandoned factories of his youth. Quickly, he set himself free from Graffiti’s traditional rules, to follow his own road and create a unique universe, full of distorted monsters, screaming flesh, hybrid sexual creatures, claustrophobic cities and hellish visions. toOo continue ...... graffuturism.com/2014/01/03/preview-bom-k-solo-exhibition...
KNOWN Gallery / Main Room
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Born in Paris in the 7O’s, Bom.k discovered graffiti during his youth, as the southern suburbs he grew in covered themselves with the tags and throw ups of the movement’s first generation. With the help of a few school friends, he quickly initiated himself to the mystery of spray cans on his neighborhood walls until Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper’s Subway Art and Spraycan Art definitely converted him to the noble art.
After moving to the South of France for a few years, Bom.k returned to live in Paris and created the Da Mental Vaporz in 1999 with Iso and Kan. One monumental wall after the other, the crew continuously kept pushing the esthetical boundaries of graffiti, developing groundbreaking themes for the times, such as madness, life in the peripheral suburbs, social exclusion, fear and hate.
With the new century, the crew opened up to a new generation of painters in the 2000 years, welcoming artists like Jaws, Gris1, Brusk and Dran and more recently Sowat and Blo in its ranks. Together, the 9 members of this iconoclast collective traveled the world, England, Spain, Denmark, Belgium and Australia, to participate to numerous festivals, put together ambitious DIY shows and above all, paint whatever comes in there way.
.....toOo Continue Reading knowngallery.com/exhibitions/current/
Opening reception January 11, 2014 | 8-11pm
On view: January 11 - 25, 2014
™GrosléeFotoGraffíí ®2014
DMV crew website www.damentalvaporz.com/
Graffiti Futurism write up “Bom.k has always been one of a kind in France’s Graffiti scene. One only has to look at his drawings, canvases and walls to be convinced. Born and raised in Paris southern suburbs, self though by necessity, he developed his unique style in the streets and abandoned factories of his youth. Quickly, he set himself free from Graffiti’s traditional rules, to follow his own road and create a unique universe, full of distorted monsters, screaming flesh, hybrid sexual creatures, claustrophobic cities and hellish visions. toOo continue ...... graffuturism.com/2014/01/03/preview-bom-k-solo-exhibition...
DMV in Denmark -> 100 Meter Project @ Galore 2011
18th - 20th August 2011
Da Mental Vaporz (France) - Blo, Bom.k, Brusk, Dran, Gris, Jaw, Kan, Sowat
Dreyk The Pirate (Greece), Erosie (Netherlands), Graphic Surgery (Netherlands), Grito (Spain), Lints (Denmark), Ripo (USA), Roa (Belgium), Scie (Ireland)
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Thanks everybody...
It was a pleasure to meet all of you.
See the finish wall here
November 21 - December 19 2009
www.flickr.com/photos/brooklynitegallery /sets/72157622316...
What does it mean for an artist to “survive” in a tough economic climate? Can business ever be “bad” for a diligently working artist? Making an honest living ---in a group show like NO OTHER, these artists, some legendary and some suitably hungry, will dissolve the line between utility and luxury for an exhibition entitled, "GO GET YOUR SHINEBOX".
If you’ve spent time in a "third world country", you’ve had a chance to see kids carrying ingeniously designed work boxes, set up for
shinning shoes. We find that the variety and exuberance of these objects perfectly captures our world climate.
With the global economic downturn and the hardship it has caused blue-collar workers throughout, we find it fitting to explore the
world’s simplest way to make a living— SHINNING SHOES. We are planning an exhibition around just that-- SHOESHINE BOXES.
However a "SHOESHINE BOX" should not be taken in the most literal sense of the words. These objects, our inspiration, have all been created out of necessity- a need to earn money, or further, to survive. We push “the need to survive” beyond its literal context, commissioning our favorite established and emerging artists to design their own, "SURVIVAL BOXES".
A shoeshine box is a medium, a framework, the boundaries of which have not been pushed ...till now.
UNIFIED ARTISTS
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MISS BUGS
JEF AEROSOL
SWEET TOOF
PURE EVIL
BEN EINE
DAIN
INKIE
BEN FROST
STEN
LEX
JACE
LUKE INSECT
VARIOUS & GOULD
KUUK
CEPT
WILL BARRAS
5003
DDOCK
PHIL ASHCROFT
JOE BLACK
THUNDERCUT
K-GUY
ANTHONY LISTER
AIKO
GAIA
JON BURGERMAN
STEFF PLAETZ
DAVID WALKER
RYCA
SKEWVILLE
PENNY
BILLI KID
SADDO
PAPER MONSTER
DANIEL LUMBINI
3TTMAN
OZMO
PERU ANA ANA PERU
REMED
FEFE TALAVERA
EVOL
SPECTER
OLIVER WINCONEK
ZBIOK
MYMO
LUDO
ELICSER
KNOW HOPE
BROKEN CROW
GAETANE MICHAUX
AUGUSTUS THOMPSON
COLLIN VAN DER SLUJIS
KOSBE
SPQR
M8
HUSH
NEB THE STRANGLER
DEREK SHUMATE
ZOOT
FUMAKAKA
JORGE GALVAO
MEDO
EL MATO
AJAMU WALKER
PRESTO
RODRIGO LEVEL
EMA
NONOSE
MIKE FALES
IVICA CAPAN
PLIMSOUL
JO PEEL
THE KRAH
RAFAEL SILKS
BLO
DESTROY & REBUILD
JAW
KAN
LIME
OSIK
ANU SCHWARTZ
JACE RIVERA
SOWAT
ROSTONE & DRED (Readerswives Collective)
TIKA
RICHARD DIX
JOAQUIM STEVENSON-RODRIGUEZ
CELSO
CAKE
AME72
BRUSK
KAIS DHIFI
GEOMETRIC BANG
DARKCOULD
MARVIN CRUSHLER
LEAST WANTED
MANO DE PAPEL
TEN13ONE
KLONE
KNOX
FRANCK DUVAL
ROBOTS WILL KILL
RAE
Pont des Arts 12/06/2015 08h50
Un matin de bonne humeur est la moitié de la bataille...
ParisPeople (more candid street shots made in Paris)
O’Heyne in his book, THE IRISH DOMINICANS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, wrote: The Restoration of Charles II. brought comparative peace, and the fathers returned to Ireland in large numbers. In 1666, according to Father Peter Walsh's (O.S.F.) Remonstrance there were 200 Dominicans in Ireland. Public chapels were opened once more in Galway and other towns, whilst the open-air ministry was , pursued with unabated vigour in other places. The great school, carried on near Athenry, at which our author was educated, seems at first sight a unique example of education under difficulties. But it was probably only one of many other rural places of education, conducted by friars, which had their prototypes in the old monastic schools of Ireland, and were maintained more or less constantly through the intervening centuries. Else how could the education of priests, for instance, have been kept up, as it undoubtedly was? Dissensions arose about this time in Ulster with the Franciscan fathers, who claimed certain foundations as their own, which the Dominicans also, at that time forty-five in number in that part, laid claim to; and the difficulty of ascertaining the Dominican claims was increased by the circumstance that they had not restored the Order very completely in that province before the Cromwellian period.
In 1736, Father Edmund Burke, an alumnus of that school, compiled an account of the fortunes of the Athenry community, during the seventeenth century. It appears from this account, that Father Ross Mageoghegan, the Provincial, and some other fathers petitioned Ulick Burke, earl of Clanricard, for some place to dwell in near their old abbey of Athenry. He gave them a wood in an unfrequented place between two lakes, called Coilascail (or Brosk) where they erected a small convent and began to receive novices. After being established there for some years, they began courses of the classics and of philosophy and theology, and were able to introduce Regular Observance.
Driven from their retreat by the Cromwellians, they returned at the Restoration and approached the successor of the earl of Clanricard about their convent. He generously gave them as a free gift the wood and adjoining land, on the sole condition that they should offer three masses annually for himself and family. The fathers, thereupon, settled down, and began as formerly to receive novices. In 1678, they opened their school on a much larger scale, and it became so famous in a short time that students flocked to it from every part of the kingdom. Several of these afterwards became bishops and other ecclesiastical dignitaries, and others made a mark in the professions of the law and medicine. The students were scattered here and there in the wood and adjoining country, living in small batches, each batch under the direction of a tutor, in little wooden huts constructed by themselves, their food and clothing being sent to them by their friends. In the morning they all came together in an open space in the wood for lessons and dispersed again to their huts when the work of the day was over. The school was begun and ended with prayer, the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin being always recited before the students dispersed in the evening.
This school was broken up for a few years, during the persecution consequent on the “Popish Plot," but was resumed in 1683, the year in which the author of this account received the habit of the Order in this very place. He tells us that there were at least one hundred of his name, Burke, in the school at the same time. The school had to be closed in 1691, owing to the Jacobite war in Ireland, and the confiscation of the Clanricard property was followed by the eviction of the fathers from their place of refuge. Father Burke's manuscript is preserved in the archives of St. Clement's, Rome.
KNOWN Gallery / Main Room
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Born in Paris in the 7O’s, Bom.k discovered graffiti during his youth, as the southern suburbs he grew in covered themselves with the tags and throw ups of the movement’s first generation. With the help of a few school friends, he quickly initiated himself to the mystery of spray cans on his neighborhood walls until Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper’s Subway Art and Spraycan Art definitely converted him to the noble art.
After moving to the South of France for a few years, Bom.k returned to live in Paris and created the Da Mental Vaporz in 1999 with Iso and Kan. One monumental wall after the other, the crew continuously kept pushing the esthetical boundaries of graffiti, developing groundbreaking themes for the times, such as madness, life in the peripheral suburbs, social exclusion, fear and hate.
With the new century, the crew opened up to a new generation of painters in the 2000 years, welcoming artists like Jaws, Gris1, Brusk and Dran and more recently Sowat and Blo in its ranks. Together, the 9 members of this iconoclast collective traveled the world, England, Spain, Denmark, Belgium and Australia, to participate to numerous festivals, put together ambitious DIY shows and above all, paint whatever comes in there way.
.....toOo Continue Reading knowngallery.com/exhibitions/current/
Opening reception January 11, 2014 | 8-11pm
On view: January 11 - 25, 2014
™GrosléeFotoGraffíí ®2014
DMV crew website www.damentalvaporz.com/
Graffiti Futurism write up “Bom.k has always been one of a kind in France’s Graffiti scene. One only has to look at his drawings, canvases and walls to be convinced. Born and raised in Paris southern suburbs, self though by necessity, he developed his unique style in the streets and abandoned factories of his youth. Quickly, he set himself free from Graffiti’s traditional rules, to follow his own road and create a unique universe, full of distorted monsters, screaming flesh, hybrid sexual creatures, claustrophobic cities and hellish visions. toOo continue ...... graffuturism.com/2014/01/03/preview-bom-k-solo-exhibition...
Teaser by Vect at Vimeo
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DMV in Australia...
Exhibition "Le Venin" in Melbourne at RTIST Gallery
16 Feb - 04 Mar 2012
www.rtistgallery.com.au/exhibits/da-mental-vaporz-crew-fr...
www.facebook.com/events/381313581884149/
www.invurt.com/2012/02/08/exhibition-da-mental-vaporz-le-...
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The prolific French graffiti crew Da Mental Vaporz is leaving France with its artic weather conditions and presidential elections delirium to enjoy sunny horizons down under.
Armed with spraycans, the DMV crew consisting of Bom-K, Blo, Brusk, Dran, Gris1, ISO, Jaw, Kan, and Sowat are boarding the Australian continent with their individual style, from old school lettering to calligraffiti and figurative painting with a touch of dark humour.
With monumental murals and exhibitions across Europe, Latin America, New York, Moscow or Hong-Kong, the Da Mental Vaporz crew members are both known collectively and individually. Dran was even invited by Banksy for two solos shows at POW in London.
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RTIST Gallery - 63 116 303 434
29 St Edmonds Rd, Prahran, Victoria, Australia
(03) 9018 5181 | admin@rtistgallery.com
THE DOMINICANS OF KNOCKMORE (Co Sligo)
About six miles to the south of Ballindoon there is a townland called Knockmore. It is on the Sligo side of the border with Roscommon. The remains of an old church are there as is there a Holy Well. They are both located on private land. Continuing south for a further six miles leaves you in Knockvicar – this is also a listed Dominican site with no documentation to support it.
The well is unspectacular and looks more like a puddle. The chapel ruins were higher in living memory but have been knocked down by cows bumping into them. Nevertheless the outline of the church and some of the stones are still visible. There is an old cut-stone shed near the well that served as a school in previous times although not in living memory. The present school is two hundred yards away.
The mention of a Dominican presence in Knockmore, Co. Sligo was discounted by Thomas Burke in his work Hibernia Dominicana. His doubt hinted that the Knockmore in question would have been another Knockmore in County Mayo. There is a substantial ruin of a church at a place called Friarstown in Knockmore, Co. Mayo. This ruin is half way between the established communities at Straide and Rathfranpark. The Mayo site could have been either Franciscan or Dominican. The Franciscan claim is dubious because the nearby communities at Rosserk and Moyle were in conflict with each other and the friars would have been unlikely to found a third community. The Domincan claim is dubious because the Hibernia Dominicana says that Knockmore was in the county of Sligo.
My first visit to Knockmore in Sligo brought no results. The name is obsolete and local people had never heard of any place called Knockmore nearby. The area is now called Derrynaslieve. The local historian had heard of it and I met him on a second visit. The site of the church and the well are both on his land. I had gone about three fields too far in my search.
The presence of a Holy Well appears consistent with other places of Dominican activity in rural Ireland. The order is associated with wells at Toombeola, Toormona, Brusk, Esker, Knockanure and Naas. These wells were gathering points for the Gaelic Irish and it is quite possible that the friars of Ballindoon served the Pattern Day at Knockmore, Co. Sligo. The presence of a small church indicates that the community was more permanent than simply attending to Pattern Days.
The presence of a school in the area could also hint at covert Dominican activity in the early eighteenth century just as at Brusk. Certainly there is enough evidence to suggest that the friars of Ballindoon or Sligo were active in this area.
Maybe the friars worked in Knockmore, Co. Sligo and Knockmore, Co. Mayo and Knockvicar was also part of the story. The presence of friars in Knockmore and Knockvicar from Ballindoon (or Sligo) would not be improbable. The local population is sparse and dispersed. Rather than founding new priories a few of the brethren might have worked these areas and a few may have remained resident. The presence of an old church in the area is certainly not a construction by the local Elphin diocese as they were established in Kilmactranny two miles further north. Without discounting the Mayo possibility it is safe enough to presume that this was an undocumented filial house of Ballindoon and that Father Burke had been informed correctly.
Dran, Bom.k, Sowat, Brusk, Lime, Kan, Iso, Blo & Jaw
du 28 mai au 31 juillet 2011
• blog.vandalog.com/2011/05/dmv-at-work-in-france/
• glltn.com/blog/2011/05/da-mental-vaporz-toulouse-opening/
• butterflyartnews.com/2011/05/30/toulouse-fr-da-mental-vap...
• www.flickr.com/photos/s-butterfly/sets/72157626693357019/...
• Video "Breaking through Da Mental Vaporz" by Wemotion
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Galerie d'Art Contemporain GHP
TOULOUSE /
11 DESCENTE DE LA HALLE AUX POISSONS
+33 (0)5 61 52 67 08 / espaceghp.com
DU LUNDI AU VENDREDI DE 13H À 19H
LE SAMEDI DE 14H À 19H
KNOWN Gallery / Main Room
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Born in Paris in the 7O’s, Bom.k discovered graffiti during his youth, as the southern suburbs he grew in covered themselves with the tags and throw ups of the movement’s first generation. With the help of a few school friends, he quickly initiated himself to the mystery of spray cans on his neighborhood walls until Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper’s Subway Art and Spraycan Art definitely converted him to the noble art.
After moving to the South of France for a few years, Bom.k returned to live in Paris and created the Da Mental Vaporz in 1999 with Iso and Kan. One monumental wall after the other, the crew continuously kept pushing the esthetical boundaries of graffiti, developing groundbreaking themes for the times, such as madness, life in the peripheral suburbs, social exclusion, fear and hate.
With the new century, the crew opened up to a new generation of painters in the 2000 years, welcoming artists like Jaws, Gris1, Brusk and Dran and more recently Sowat and Blo in its ranks. Together, the 9 members of this iconoclast collective traveled the world, England, Spain, Denmark, Belgium and Australia, to participate to numerous festivals, put together ambitious DIY shows and above all, paint whatever comes in there way.
.....toOo Continue Reading knowngallery.com/exhibitions/current/
Opening reception January 11, 2014 | 8-11pm
On view: January 11 - 25, 2014
™GrosléeFotoGraffíí ®2014
DMV crew website www.damentalvaporz.com/
Graffiti Futurism write up “Bom.k has always been one of a kind in France’s Graffiti scene. One only has to look at his drawings, canvases and walls to be convinced. Born and raised in Paris southern suburbs, self though by necessity, he developed his unique style in the streets and abandoned factories of his youth. Quickly, he set himself free from Graffiti’s traditional rules, to follow his own road and create a unique universe, full of distorted monsters, screaming flesh, hybrid sexual creatures, claustrophobic cities and hellish visions. toOo continue ...... graffuturism.com/2014/01/03/preview-bom-k-solo-exhibition...
THE DOMINICANS OF KNOCKMORE (Co Sligo)
About six miles to the south of Ballindoon there is a townland called Knockmore. It is on the Sligo side of the border with Roscommon. The remains of an old church are there as is there a Holy Well. They are both located on private land. Continuing south for a further six miles leaves you in Knockvicar – this is also a listed Dominican site with no documentation to support it.
The well is unspectacular and looks more like a puddle. The chapel ruins were higher in living memory but have been knocked down by cows bumping into them. Nevertheless the outline of the church and some of the stones are still visible. There is an old cut-stone shed near the well that served as a school in previous times although not in living memory. The present school is two hundred yards away.
The mention of a Dominican presence in Knockmore, Co. Sligo was discounted by Thomas Burke in his work Hibernia Dominicana. His doubt hinted that the Knockmore in question would have been another Knockmore in County Mayo. There is a substantial ruin of a church at a place called Friarstown in Knockmore, Co. Mayo. This ruin is half way between the established communities at Straide and Rathfranpark. The Mayo site could have been either Franciscan or Dominican. The Franciscan claim is dubious because the nearby communities at Rosserk and Moyle were in conflict with each other and the friars would have been unlikely to found a third community. The Domincan claim is dubious because the Hibernia Dominicana says that Knockmore was in the county of Sligo.
My first visit to Knockmore in Sligo brought no results. The name is obsolete and local people had never heard of any place called Knockmore nearby. The area is now called Derrynaslieve. The local historian had heard of it and I met him on a second visit. The site of the church and the well are both on his land. I had gone about three fields too far in my search.
The presence of a Holy Well appears consistent with other places of Dominican activity in rural Ireland. The order is associated with wells at Toombeola, Toormona, Brusk, Esker, Knockanure and Naas. These wells were gathering points for the Gaelic Irish and it is quite possible that the friars of Ballindoon served the Pattern Day at Knockmore, Co. Sligo. The presence of a small church indicates that the community was more permanent than simply attending to Pattern Days.
The presence of a school in the area could also hint at covert Dominican activity in the early eighteenth century just as at Brusk. Certainly there is enough evidence to suggest that the friars of Ballindoon or Sligo were active in this area.
Maybe the friars worked in Knockmore, Co. Sligo and Knockmore, Co. Mayo and Knockvicar was also part of the story. The presence of friars in Knockmore and Knockvicar from Ballindoon (or Sligo) would not be improbable. The local population is sparse and dispersed. Rather than founding new priories a few of the brethren might have worked these areas and a few may have remained resident. The presence of an old church in the area is certainly not a construction by the local Elphin diocese as they were established in Kilmactranny two miles further north. Without discounting the Mayo possibility it is safe enough to presume that this was an undocumented filial house of Ballindoon and that Father Burke had been informed correctly.
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Born in Paris in the 7O’s, Bom.k discovered graffiti during his youth, as the southern suburbs he grew in covered themselves with the tags and throw ups of the movement’s first generation. With the help of a few school friends, he quickly initiated himself to the mystery of spray cans on his neighborhood walls until Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper’s Subway Art and Spraycan Art definitely converted him to the noble art.
After moving to the South of France for a few years, Bom.k returned to live in Paris and created the Da Mental Vaporz in 1999 with Iso and Kan. One monumental wall after the other, the crew continuously kept pushing the esthetical boundaries of graffiti, developing groundbreaking themes for the times, such as madness, life in the peripheral suburbs, social exclusion, fear and hate.
With the new century, the crew opened up to a new generation of painters in the 2000 years, welcoming artists like Jaws, Gris1, Brusk and Dran and more recently Sowat and Blo in its ranks. Together, the 9 members of this iconoclast collective traveled the world, England, Spain, Denmark, Belgium and Australia, to participate to numerous festivals, put together ambitious DIY shows and above all, paint whatever comes in there way.
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Opening reception January 11, 2014 | 8-11pm
On view: January 11 - 25, 2014
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Graffiti Futurism write up “Bom.k has always been one of a kind in France’s Graffiti scene. One only has to look at his drawings, canvases and walls to be convinced. Born and raised in Paris southern suburbs, self though by necessity, he developed his unique style in the streets and abandoned factories of his youth. Quickly, he set himself free from Graffiti’s traditional rules, to follow his own road and create a unique universe, full of distorted monsters, screaming flesh, hybrid sexual creatures, claustrophobic cities and hellish visions. toOo continue ...... graffuturism.com/2014/01/03/preview-bom-k-solo-exhibition...