INVURT

As we head into the 35th week of our regular Transmissions video coverage, we can’t help but think that things just get better and better every time we do it – this week is a great cross section of cool art, events and videographers … checkit.

The big one this week is Colin Days video recap of the Young & Free show, and the widespread urban painting adventures from earlier this month. If you haven’t watched this one already, its a must see.

Young & Free x 941 Geary x San Francisco from Colin M Day on Vimeo.

Next up, in the same vein – Day has also posted up a piece on Anthony Lister whilst he was over there. Lets hope this is just the first of a bunch of these videos – who knows what will come next …

Lister x Young & Free x 941 Geary from Colin M Day on Vimeo.

FBI Radio hosted the Changing Lanes festival not long ago, and they have all the video to show us how it should be done!

FBI’s Changing lanes festival / ‘Live Wall’ & ‘Movement Stax’ 2011 from Daniel Repeti on Vimeo.

We love Vans The Omega, and so do Redbull – here’s a short video of Vans doing up a wall for them.

Red Bull || Revitalise (Vans the Omega) from Daniel Principe on Vimeo.

Those cool cats over at Acclaim Mag posted up this video earlier, Loius Mitchell and Backwoods curator Alex Mitchell teamed up to do a feature video on visiting Shinganist Toshi Nozuka. Dope.

TOSHIKAZU NOZAKA from Louis Mitchell on Vimeo.

T-World, we love you, and we love that your next issue is coming out soon. We also love that you’ll be putting on the only T-Shirt exhibition that’s been seen in these parts for … hmm, if ever? … at the amazing Outpost Festival thats’ coming up (more on that reeeaalll soon). Rock on – and watch this video, its grand. T-shirts rules.

T-world 7: New York tee-ser from T-world on Vimeo.

.. and saving some of the best for last, Adnate has been absolutely killing it over in Berlin. This is a video of him and Cuke painting .. yep, thats a hot air balloon! Fuck me, so damned cool.

CUKE & ADNATE – Balloon Painting from Jay Decay on Vimeo.

Well, that’s it for this week – if we see any more in the next day or so, as usual we’ll update it – until then, Transmissions will be back next week – and send us your vids if you’ve got ‘em!

It’s artists like Enix, who have been quietly working away at their passion and putting on shows of high quality, exploratory art, who often capture the imagination and heart of the aficionado within us.

The colourful and often dream like nature of his work is something that caught my attention a long time ago. Hanging out with the At Large crew up in Northcote, I met Enix within the week I arrived, and he was just someone whose company I immediately enjoyed. That we shared many of the same interests and that we were also both originally  from Perth was just as cool – and it didn’t take me long to start seeing his work popping up around the place, and to be inspired by it, and by his general creative demeanour. The reason I mention all of this, is that its fairly common for a artists personality to be reflected in their work – and there is just something within Enix’s that reflects his perfectly.

Beyond the personal, Enix just does beautiful-cool art. He has a flair for wonderfully surreal moments and scenes of meditative fantasy. With his fourth solo show, Sayonara, a "farewell" exhibition before he embarks on an international adventure, we caught up with Enix for a chat about all things good and art. If you haven’t discovered the work of this great creative talent just yet, read on, and be enlightened …

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A vulture stands over the scattered and degraded flotsam and jetsam of the urban world, peering out towards the distance, its symbolistic scavenger nature epitomised in spray and colour – it speaks somewhere inside, and you listen – its hard not to when it looms so massively above you.

Birds are only one of many icons that have feature in Brisbane street artist Fintan Magees work lately, and his combinations of earthly creatures and the debris of human civilization, seamlessly interpolated with his stylised photo realism, is more than enough to stop you in your tracks. With a rich family background, a well travelled and worldly perspective, Magees work radiates breaths of fresh air to the accumulated nuances encompassed by the term "urban art" – even given many of the plastic bags of refuse sometimes depicted within it.

There’s near air of near homely contentedness (for lack of better description to the feelings invoked) that often surrounds a Magee piece, and his use of location and the blending of a viewers perspective beyond the confines of his painted work, is second to none.

With his solo show "House Of Giants" fast approaching this weekend, we caught up with Fintan Magee to talk about the show, still lifes, and how important ones location, and the location of their work, is to an artist …

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We love seeing news of any show from Vexta, and the neonic colour queen has another one coming up in Melbourne next week, and we’re all pretty excited to see what she has come up with.

"Across Neon Nights captures fragments of that elusive moment when our dream world and wakeful realities collide by rendering them forever more in saturated hyper-reality. These works draw upon a combination of hallucinatory perceptions, imagined dimensional shifts, night terrors and impossible, netherworld desires. Within them, we witness events that would normally exist only under the cloak of darkness.

Yvette Bačinova has been creating art since the mid 2000s under the pseudonym Vexta. She is recognised for her stencil paintings and wheat-pastes, which are shaped by her observations of the debris of modern day culture. Her psychedelic, neon drenched images are an amalgamation of symbolism and urban mythology, and are, at once, intimate and universal.

Vexta’s practice is an ongoing exploration of printmaking, painting and sculpture. Her work has been widely shown throughout Australia. She has recently painted murals in Paris, Berlin, London and Bogotá. In 2011, Vexta was part of the highly revered exhibition SPACE INVADERS at the National Gallery of Australia. Her work is due to be exhibited in San Francisco in the latter half of 2011."

Bones, neon and great designs from a soaring artist – grand.

Who: Vexta
What: Across Neon Nights
Where: Goodtime Studios, Basement 746 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria
When: Show opens Wednesday August 3rd, 6pm til 9pm, and runs til 3rd August

Check out Vextas page here, as well as the facebook event page for more info on the show and this amazing artist.

As one of Perths continually rising stars, Daek is fascinated by many things – not least of which is his curiosity and infatuation with the women that he paints. His work, a composite mesh of graffiti and illustrative, painted complexity, are often light, with a hint of lustful attitude. They are also, at times, deeply personal – especially when his hands take on the subject of his friends, and the stories that they have to convey.

Aside from his hefty, and ever growing artistic talents, Daek is also the manager of Perths Last Chance Studios, one of the Wests most prominent and reputable creative hubs. Over the past few years, Last Chance has seen the launch of many of its members into the wider stratosphere of the art world, and is well known as a leading force amongst the Australian street art and low brow scene.

With Prahrans RTIST Gallery launching their second group show this weekend, Invurt wanted to highlight some of the talent that will be on display at the show. As soon as the opportunity presented itself, we contacted Daek, and asked him about life, art, and those three words that seem to drive him to create his compelling and sublime work – fascination, infatuation, and obsession …

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Sounds like the girls from over at We Make Stuff Good (who are totally rad), are putting together an event to celebrate the opening of their new online store – these girls have done some very cool stuff recently,  so get down and support them in their endeavours if you can :)

“The girls from We Make Stuff Good have been behind recent street art and cultural events such as Don’t Ban the Can, We Make Stuff Good Street Art and Bar Tours,  Sketch City and street art exhibitions at the We Make Stuff Good Gallery in Berlin.

Who: Rachee Stuff, Krystal Stuff, Cammy Stuff, Verona Stuff, Ania Stuff
What: Gallery Opening Night of ‘My Girls’
Where: Dazzleland Studios 25 Eastment St, Northcote. Tram line 86, stop 31.
When: March 5 2010, 6pm. Works also on display at the ‘Ladies Luv’ Sketch City March 13, 4pm.”

Via We Make Stuff Good

On the European mainland, Drum’n'bass vies for attention from its fans amongst a swarm of diverse cultural and musical frameworks, and yet it is artists like Germanys Tim Eliot, aka Current Value, that have managed to help persuade people from across the world that the dark and eclectic side of drum and bass can attain as much soul and musical emphasis as even the smoothest tune. With glitches and often hectic, scattered drum arrangements, Current Value wields a sense of independence in his production that, over his past eleven years of production, has helped to endearing him to fans who enjoy a creative kick in the ass to the more rigid and formulaic sounds of mainstream d’n'b.
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