Interview with Kai

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Interview with Kai

Kai started out as a street artist in LA at the age of 14 when he began a quest to get his father to stop smoking by plastering the city with a series of clever images which he called his “Morons” campaign.  He slowly created a buzz within the street art community and concentrated his focus on addressing social issues like consumerism and addictions. By the young age of 18, Kai was becoming more and more known and was asked to participate in a documentary series for Hudson Jeans. This caught the media’s attention and he was mentioned in Los Angeles Magazine as one of the forefront street artists of his time. He went on to study at CalArts and Ecole Nationale Superior Beaux Arts Des Paris. His style has been said to be a combination of  Damien Hirst, Banksy, Koons, Rembrandt, and Anthony Van Dyke all in one.

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Interview with Bryden Lando

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Interview with Bryden Lando

Bryden Lando was raised by wolves. Now he is an old sea captain living in Los Angeles. He designs and manufactures clothes. Also, he paints, shoots film and photos, and tries to surf occasionally.  Growing up on the island of Maui, Hawaii, Bryden Lando began painting and illustrating as a young child. Contrary to the stereotypical, laid back reputation of island living, growing up on Maui did anything but mellow out Lando’s creative drive. It hasn’t slowed to date. A multidisciplinary artist, Lando is drawn to illustration, film, painting, photography, and music and fashion design. In 2005, Lando and his brother began Future Heretics. After a growing following in Los Angeles and a great response from press with much celebrity clientele, the brand grew into a full scale men’s and women’s ready to-wear collection. Lando’s artistic sensibilities have been much sought after by some of the top bands, DJs and solo artists in music today. His ever-expanding body of work includes limited edition, custom illustrations and concert posters for some of his favorite bands including Kanye West, Crystal Castles, MGMT, Surfer Blood, Vampire Weekend and Sleigh Bells to name a few.

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Interview with VHILS

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Interview with VHILS

Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto (1987) has been interacting visually with the urban environment under the name of Vhils since his days as a prolific graffiti writer in the early 2000s. His groundbreaking carving technique has been hailed as one of the most compelling approaches to art created in the street in the last decade. This striking form of visual poetry, showcased around the world in both indoor and outdoor settings, has been described as brutal and complex, yet imbued with a simplicity that speaks to the core of human emotions, expressing the struggle between the aspirations of the individual and the demanding, saturated environment of the urban spaces he lives in, highlighting and exposing the sombre dimension that lies behind the current model of development and the material aspirations it encompasses – unsustainable, yet inebriating. An avid experimentalist, he has been developing his notion of the aesthetics of vandalism in a plurality of media – from stencil painting to wall carving, from pyrotechnic explosions to 3D modelling – which have enabled him to expand the boundaries of visual expression.
 

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Interview with Sandra Chevrier

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Interview with Sandra Chevrier

Sandra Chevrier currently lives in Montreal, Quebec. Her work takes her traveling over a broad range of fluctuating emotional enigmas and concepts that have set the standard of our modern communication. Working in a home studio, Sandra produces her work at a full-time scale, aggressively pursuing a common thread until it is worn away, leaving her to begin on a new path. She exposes the limitations within our world, our self-imposed expectations and the cages we have allowed to bar us from fullness of life’s experience.

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Interview with Yves Budin

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Interview with Yves Budin

Yves Budin is a self-taugh drawer, painter, illustrator, peintre, illustrateur from Liege, Belgium. Yves learnt to draw by spoiling his body and soul into his father's comics collection. His borther's Art book collection opened him to expressionism. Alberto Breccia and Hugo Pratt taugh Yves, one could drawn with black and white .American literature has initiated him to great voyages, the Beat Generation, the world of Jazz...   

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Rencontre avec Gothlieb Tjiackk

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Rencontre avec Gothlieb Tjiackk

Alexandre Hannesse signe ses oeuvres "Gothlieb Tjiackk". Né à Bruxelles en 1970, il y vit et y travaille. Ayant toujours été attiré par la photographie et plus particulièrement par le portrait, Alexandre Hannesse travailla durant les années 90 comme assistant chez des photographes spécialisés dans le portrait noir et blanc. Une influence qu'il gardera tout au long de son parcours, s'octroyant au passage quelques expo-concours à la fin des années 90' qui lui rapporta quelques mini-prix aux allures de grands "Trophées". En 2000, il décide de partir rejoindre un artiste au Portugal pour y faire à nouveau du portrait, une expérience qui durera un an. En 2006, fort de sa sensibilité et de son observation dans le monde qui l'entoure, Alexandre Hannesse décide de créer "Gothlieb Tjiackk", un artiste imaginaire issu d'un concept émanant d'une fusion entre art et nocivité, mais le "Nocif'Art" qui est avant tout une création, serait surtout le fruit artistique d'une société malade de ses idées, de ses produits, mais aussi de son effroyable surconsommation de masse...

 

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Interview with Gothlieb Tjiackk

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Interview with Gothlieb Tjiackk

Alexandre Hannesse signs his works as "Gothlieb Tjiackk". Born in Brussels in 1970, where he lives and works. Always tempted by photography in particular by portraits, Alexandre Hannesse worked in the nineties as an assistant photographer focused on black & white portraits. He'll follow this influence all his life as an artist. At the end of the nineties he'll take the liberty to participate in some small competition-exhibitions which ended in great trophies. In 2000 he decides to go to Portugal and work together with another artist in order to study once more the art of the portrait. He'll do this a year long. In 2006 supported by his sensibility and his keen eye on the world around him, Alexandre Hannesse decides to create "Gothlieb Tjiackk" an imaginary artist, issued out of a fusion between art and evil. He then developed "Nocif'Art", an artistic creation resulting from a sick community, its ideas and its products but also its immoderate overconsumption by people.

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Interview with Mink Couteaux

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Interview with Mink Couteaux

Mink spent his first years mostly eating paint in his father’s studio, then doodling his way through school, drawing NBA players and team logos copied from his trading card collection. After internships with ATTAK Powergestaltung and Nike Europe he graduated and moved straight to Largetosti. Working on projects for clients in the the likes of Nike, W+K, Bits of Freedom, N8 Edits and more! 4 years later in 2013 he started the Merged visible studio.

Mink's work has featured on numerous websites like Behance, Complex, Digital Art Served, idn, Illustration served, a sporting life, whudat and more....

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