Saturday, 25 April 2009

The opening of the "Ship of Fools" art gallery

The opening was great, we had a nice party and very good art! Art by: 3ttman & Remed, Andy Rementer, Aryz, Bob London, Botlek, Craoman, Dav Guedin, Elzo, Emmanuel Polanco, Erosie, Gnot Guedin, Iwan Smit, Jody Barton, Jon Burgerman, Jos Verwer, KOA, Leendert Masselink, LouLou & Tummie, Raymond Lemstra, Superoboturbo and Waste!









Pictopia!

It's a little late but we've been so busy that I've had no time to post about our great trip to Berlin and Pictoplasma. So it was a blast, great people, great art, lots of inspiration and lots of fun! Here are some pics to get an idea.











Monday, 30 March 2009

The best guest you could ever invite!

So, we've invited Remed and 3ttman to join the Ship of Fools, and don't we know it! They've made us a wicked mural and had a blast. Guys thanks a lot, it was brilliant! Here's the video to prove it:


Tuesday, 24 February 2009

We have a scoop!!

Yes it's true, we have a scoop! Its been a little bit quiet on the blog front, because of holidays, sick days and working late days, but I have some news... On april the 3rd the Ship of Fools gallery will be opening! For the first expo we have an amazing line up of artists, come on over if you want to you're more than welcome. The exact time will follow shortly.

For our first expo we have: Andy Rementer, KOA, Craoman, 3ttman, Remed, Raymond Lemstra, Superoboturbo, Jon Burgerman, Jody Barton, Waste, Elzo Durt, Iwanus Smit, Bob London, Aryz, Emmanuel Polanco, Dav Guedin, Gnot Guedin, Jos Verwer, Erosie and LouLou & Tummie.



Remed



Raymond Lemstra


KOA


Superoboturbo


Jon Burgerman


Jody Barton


Emmanuel Polanco


Elzo Durt


Dav Guedin



Craoman


Bob London


Waste



Aryz


Andy Rementer


3ttman



Iwanus Smit



LouLou & Tummie



Jos Verwer


Gnot Guedin


Erosie

Monday, 24 November 2008

Village Petstore & Charcoal Grill

Banksy's pet store, it is closed now. But this video gives a nice impression, and it's hillarious!


NOTCOT: Banksy's Village Petstore & Charcoal Grill from Jean Aw on Vimeo.

Great little prints..

A nice little shop for great prints, our little friends of printmaking. Check out some of their new stuff!











Tuesday, 28 October 2008

A waterboard thrill ride

At the moment we are working on an exhibition on tortures for Museum GoudA. And so we come across a lot of examples of torture on the internet. We stumbled upon the artist Steve Powers, who made an waterboarding installation in Coney Island. For just one dollar you can see an animatronic torturer waterboard an orange jumpsuited prisoner. Pouring water over the cloth covered face, and up the nose and mouth, the prisoner experiences the process of drowning and struggles at his restraints. This is of course done with a robot. But Steve also did a real live waterboarding for the sake of art.


Steve was an New York graffiti artist who wrote in Philadelphia and New York under the name of Espo. Nowadays he claims no longer to make graffiti but he does murals, designs clothing, books and makes installations. Here is some of his more (seemingly) cheerful work.





Appealing art

Appeel is a virus spreading through interacting individuals.

Surfaces are covered by thousands of coloured stickers laid out in a grid. Peeling a sticker off leaves a white spot in the grid, people hence start individually and collectively changing its appearance. Once off the wall, the stickers ask to be sticked somewhere: people begin putting them on objects, walls, people, they collect them, they compose new images, they write messages. Slowly the little stickers spread, appearing further away from their source and occupying space.

Appeel inherits basic principles of interactivity and generativity applied to purely analogous means. Its immanent potential of penetrating regulated public and private space counterpoints its apparent plainness. The dot spreads with the promise to ironically mark its carrier as a symbol of sale and possession.


Tuesday, 7 October 2008

A health tip

Who said that wine is good for your arteries? I think these designer agree!


Clean grafitti

Alexandre Orion from Brazil makes beautiful graffiti without using paint. He scrapes, cleans and rubs the dirt of the walls until the original color appears. It has an unexpected beautiful result and this kind of graffiti isn't illegal so, the police can't charge him with anything.