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ETERNIA: Get Caught Up Mixed by DJ LAW

E dropped me an email before the holidays with her latest mix-joint. I synched it to my ipod and proceeded to catch my flight home. If you haven't heard of this Toronto-based rapper ETERNIA, then you have to feed your head with a tasty treat as she drops another mix tape "Get Caught Up" mixed by DJ LAW containing some gems from the past and present. A mondomedeusah music recommended selection for your head-piece.

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ETERNIA 'Get Caught Up' Mixed By DJ LAW

Re-Introducing // produced by Ant B aka Mr Cincinnati
Dynomite (2005)
Foul Child (2009) // produced by Ant B aka Mr Cincinnati
Stuck Up (2000) // produced by Apathy
Spring Fever (2003) feat DJ Killajewel // produced by Simahlak
Real Frequency (2003) // produced by Jake One
God's Story (2004) // produced by Mercilless
Perfection feat Promise & Grimace Love (2004) // produced by Amir the Terrorist
Day in the Life feat Tona & Maestro Fresh Wes (2008) // produced by MoSS
Victorious feat G.Knight (2004) // produced by Mercilless
Destiny (2007) // produced by Apathy
On and On (2007) // produced by Mez
Balance (2004) // produced by Kenny "Bounce" Neal Jr.
Everything (2004) // produced by 9th Wonder
Herstory (2005)
Let's Go (outro) // produced by Ant B aka Mr Cincinnati

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Chile Estyle

December 10, 2009 until December 23, 2009 // Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art // W. Hollywood, CA // Curated by Pablo Aravena

For the first time in North America, Chile Estyle will showcase work from a comprehensive selection of the top tier of Chile’s contemporary urban muralists.

From the end of the Pinochet dictatorship in the early 90’s until now, Chilean street art has literally exploded into a highly developed style, bearing strong influences from Mexican muralism, 60s – 70s political mural brigades, wildstyle graffiti and Brazilian graffiti and pixação (a unique stylistic cross-pollination with street art from Sao Paulo in the mid-90s). These influences, paired with Chile’s distinct history of propaganda art and muralism dating from the 40s, give rise to the myriad of strongly developed personal visual languages and artistic self-expression seen on the streets of Santiago, Valparaiso and other cities in Chile.

The Chile Estyle featured artists, Cekis, Inti, Horate, La Robot de Madera and the duos Aislap and Agotok, are representative of the first and second generation of artists that started working on the streets in the Post-Pinochet era. The exhibition will consist of new works on canvas as well as site-specific individual and group mural installations in the gallery.

Cekis, one of Latin America’s pioneering figures in graffiti and a seminal voice in Chile’s graffiti scene takes his inspirations from Latin American muralism and themes. His skill for figuration calls to mind the work of artists such as Botero and Diego Rivera, with a unique dimension added by his potent cultural interchange with Brazilian artists in the mid 90s. Murals by Cekis can be found in Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Valparaiso, Seville, Zurich and Hamburg, but it wasn't until he established himself in New York in 2004 that his work began to transform in concept, size and medium. It was here that he re-discovered his Latin American heritage and its graphic roots, allowing his themes to become more social and less personal. To date, he has had exhibitions at The Rotunda Gallery, Ad Hoc Art and The Aurora in New York and has participated in mural projects in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Baltimore.

Horate, another old school street artist with a background in stencils and graffiti now brings us a highly developed painterly style which explores themes of nature, animals and abstractions. While he works mainly in Santiago and Valparaiso, Horate for this show draws upon his experiences as a national park attendant in the famous Torres del Paine national park, creating a rich, Patagonia-inspired body of work.

Inti, hailing from Viña del Mar and working mainly in Valparaiso, works with a unique spectral albino iconography, which he combines with symbols and icons from pre-Colombian cultures to create sophisticated, near-abstract figurative work. He has exhibited and worked in Chile, Norway, Sweden and France.

La Robot de Madera from Quillota is a member of the second wave of artists to paint on the streets of Chile in the contemporary style. He has a distinctly personal figurative language, painting only human forms with text and abstract backgrounds reminiscent of the work of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and the political mural group Brigada Ramona Parra. He works mainly in Valparaiso and other towns in the V region of Chile.


Aislap are an internationally recognized duo from Santa Rosa in Santiago. This neighborhood has produced many of today’s leading Chilean street and graffiti artists. Aislap’s murals and canvas work are enhanced by their background in traditional graffiti; they have been present on the streets of Santiago since 1996. Known for colorful work which contrasts strong characters with symmetrical abstractions, they have been featured internationally in books and magazines and most recently participated in the TAG exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris.

Agotok are a self-taught duo inspired by graffiti and the mural work of the Brigada Ramona Parra. Like Aislap, this collective comes from Santa Rosa. By incorporating Chilean folk and popular cultures with social and political themes, they create artwork firmly rooted in common people and their everyday lives.

This important exhibition showcases a very Chilean visual fabric that will dazzle and offer an insight into a powerhouse of South American street art. The selection is based on strong individual styles which, when grouped together, offer a perspective of the themes, styles and cultural flavor present in the contemporary Chilean street art scene.

Pablo Aravena: Curator
Chile Estyle exhibition.

www.carmichaelgallery.com

Scope Miami Art Show 2009

Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art Invites you to meet at Scope Miami 2009 Booth # 127. Featuring works by: Simon Birch, Boxi, Case, Hush, Mark Jenkins, Nunca, Sixeart and daily site specific installations by Aakash Nihalani. Also limited edition prints available from The London Police and Ellis G.


VIP Preview Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 11h00 until 18h00 // Please RSVP to: rsvp@ carmichaelgallery.com // 2136 NW 1st Ave. Miami, FL 33127

Open Daily December 3-5, 2009: 11h00 until 19h00

December 6, 2009: 11h00 until 18h00

Aakash Nihalani

Aakash Nihalani's artwork consists mainly of isometric rectangles and squares. He selectively places these graphics within his work and on the streets of New York to highlight the unexpected contours and elegant geometry of his chosen surface. Outdoors, all execution of a piece is done on site with little to no planning. “We all need the opportunity to see the city more playfully,” he says, “as a world dominated by the interplay of very basic color and shape. I try to create a new space within the existing space of our everyday world for people to enter freely, and unexpectedly disconnect' from their reality. People need to understand that how it is isn't how it has to be. My work is created in reaction to what we readily encounter in our lives, sidewalks and doorways, buildings and bricks. I'm just connecting the dots differently to make my own picture.”

Hush

Hush's work is a sensory assault of shape, color, and character. With a technique that involves building up and tearing down layers of paint and images as he works, he expose the conflicts between power and decay and innocence and sexuality. His content, which synthesizes anime, pop-infused imagery, graffiti, and graphic design, offers a unique perspective of Eastern and Western culture.
Hush trained as a graphic designer and illustrator at Newcastle School of Art and Design. He currently lives and works in Newcastle.

Simon Birch

Simon Birch's dramatic large-scale oil portraits are breathtaking in their scale and sophistication. Combining a refined treatment of color and astute awareness of textural rhythms, the artist's deeply personal style fuses striking figuration with abstract deconstruction. His ability to identify, shape, amplify and reduce raw physical and internal passion enhances his portrayal of fluid human motion and fragmented emotional states.
Born in Brighton in 1969, Birch's entry into the formal art world was singular. With no conventional training, he left the UK for Hong Kong in the mid-nineties, where he made his living as a construction worker in order to fully pursue his artistic goals and finance his early exhibitions. He has since established himself as one of Asia's most collectable emerging artists.

Sixart

Sixeart's mixture of psychedelic abstraction and comic book inspired figuration has become an essential element of the urban fabric in his hometown, Barcelona. His work has a childlike innocence that is combined with an almost hallucinogenic sense of second sight. Sixeart's highly personal visual language features a host of recurring figures and animals, which he applies to canvas and sculpture with equal flair. The dreamlike quality of his work shows an affinity with Surrealist artists, particularly Joan Miró, another native of Barcelona.

Boxi

Boxi is drawn to the incongruous narrative in figuration. A dark disillusioned romanticism pervades throughout his work, in which material boundaries are dissolved and perceptions are altered. He articulates confrontational themes such as paranoia, isolation, disappointment, love and grief through hand cut, multi-layered stencils, often life-sized, which offer a comforting solidity within his abstract landscapes.

Born in Kent in 1974, the artist completed his studies at the London St. Martins School of Art with a BA Fine Arts degree in Painting in 1996. He has lived and worked in Berlin since 1999.

Mark Jenkins

Mark Jenkins is an internationally acclaimed American artist known for the mixed media sculptures and street installations he places throughout urban and environmental settings, sometimes with, but often without, permission. Jenkins' process involves dry casting everything from fire hydrants and toy ducks to baby dolls and human “dummies” with clear box sealing tape, often dressing the latter to appear scarily life-like. Simultaneously camouflaging into their surroundings and eliciting spectacular amounts of attention from passersby, these sculptures have been observed lounging atop billboards, slumped over cafeteria tables, panhandling in the streets, emanating from street poles, drowning in bodies of water, clinging to statues, overturning street signs and more in locations such as Belgrade, Vienna, Washington D.C., London, Barcelona, New York, Moscow and Seoul.

Nunca

Sao Paulo based artist Nunca has developed a unique pictorial form of communication, employing bold colors and lines to evoke the ancient traditions of the Brazilian people. His works reflect what he sees as the inner character of the Brazilian people, fighting for survival in the modern metropolis, and create a timeless dialogue between ancient and modern. The faces Nunca depicts are based on members of the public whom he sees while walking through the city. Although they are created with acrylic or spray paint, they often have the look of ancient woodcuts or etchings.

case

Andreas von Chrzanowski (aka case) combines technical expertise with innovation and irony to investigate the parallels that exist between the conflicting states of convention and controversy. Widely recognized as one of the best photorealistic spray paint artists in the world, he manipulates beauty in a dark, thrilling and provocative manner. His groundbreaking technique has set new standards and established a global collector base and fan network.
Born in Germany in 1979, von Chrzanowski studied Art Restoration and Conservation at Erfurt University of Applied Sciences. He currently lives and works in Frankfurt.

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