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Snowy R.U.A. Happy 2010 – Part 1

anouk — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:26:04 +0000

Although R.U.A. festival has passed for the Brazilian writers who were in Rotterdam this summer, for Rotterdam it is far from over!

The art remains standing strong, in all types of weather and last week it has been snowing like crazy in Holland.

Our one and only, hardcore photographer Evert Eijkelenboom regularly makes his trip around town, to shoot some new images…

These ones we couldn’t keep for ourselves!!

We would like to use this opportunity to wish you all a fantastic and artistic 2010!

Enjoy!

Horoiwa in the snow

Onio's nowy detail

Full size snowy Onio

Distant Speto in the snow

Speto snow

Snow Yusk

NRC HANDELSBLAD…In the news!!

anouk — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:06:45 +0000

And we reached the news again…!

yeah!!

Nice article...!

Ramon quebrando tuuuudooooo!!

anouk — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:26:04 +0000

No words can express the extraordinary colour explosion and velocity in which Ramon Martins is paintig his wall. If you’d go on a ride with Ramon in his cherry picker, you’d feel as if you’re participating in a video game. He’s managing his machine playing with the buttons flying up and down like crazy…Ramon is definately not the one who takes weeks before he dares to go to the top! (Yusk…!?) Whoever is afraid of hights should not go with him. The luxury though – to be able to observe his work from close – is worth everything!

Menina doida

De longe

Menina

Moranguinho no peito

Mão

Pintando

Pintando mais

Gente…Saudade Pô!!

anouk — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:36:55 +0000

Yusk and Horoiwa left the scenery now…It is very strange to slowly see everybody finishing his wall and going his way after being like a family for such long time…
There are always crazy things happening and it is always a lot of fun to see how everybody has to struggle to really reach the end…
Because these pictures illustrate well…that is was a little hard for Yusk to finish…there was a tree in the way…and we had to find a way to get it out of the way without violating dutch laws…

in the bush...?

Yusk...which wall are you actually painting?

Fininshed...not yet!!

Is Yusk really painting?

anouk — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:31:42 +0000

The other day I was making one of my rounds visiting all the walls and when I arrived at Yusks wall…I saw Stile painting. Both where having lots of fun tagging around a bit…

working hard....

Yusk and Stile

Yesterday I did that same kind of round…and found Yusk a little shocked and with his face almost green at the foot of the cherry picker looking up as if something horrible happened to his work. I thought someone had painted over, or something must have been wrong with the machine…when I noticed that someone else was painting his wall…
Did I actually catch Yusk at a wrong moment…does Yusk actually paint his own art? What is going on here? Where we all believing that we where looking at a real Yusk, and now…in the end we have to discover that it’s not true? Who is that misterious artist that isn’t afraid of hights? And who did finish Yusks wall…?

Stuntman Samurai

Superrr hoogwerker

What can i say...?!

Just watching...

Is that true...? Finished...?

Geen gekkigheid, maar gekkenwerk

anouk — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:28:29 +0000

Yusk can’t reach the limit with his cherry picker…the building is too high…!! Gekkenwerk. Testing the limit of the machine, it seems it can drop backwards any moment very scary! But he doesn’t desist and works very fast to catch up with time…

The beginning...

The first scetch...

Fast forward...

Gekkenwerk!!

Day 5

Red choque...

Checking...

Yusk and his “gekkigheid”!

anouk — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:49:21 +0000

Finally we can proudly announce that yet another wall can be added to the list that is slowly growing!! This time it is Yusks time!

Yusk was very anxious to start but when he finally got the cherry picker of the right hight (27meter!!) it was a little scary in the beginning.

Horoiwa, already experienced in driving the machine is teaching every single member of the team.

And then…the black latex…lots of black latex…27 degrees Dutch sunshine and black, lot of black latex…

Horoiwa teaching Yusk

The WALL...

Medo da altura ou do guindaste....?

The beginning of a high wall...

Chilling and gambling

carol — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:24:20 +0000

Finally the boys got to eat feijão again and after that it was time for a laid back relaxing time at the new space designed to meet professional and recreational needs. Actually, on this day we did more than relaxing and talking about art. Heavy drinking, smoking and major gambling activities went on through out the night. Even though a lot of people lost money, Yusk took everybody’s lunch money, and at the end there was an overall sense of being part of something special, or maybe it was just the booze talking.

: bang

: oh, no!

: now yusk has to pay beer for everybody! (photo: seth nicolas)

text by gustavo faria

Cans lists

carol — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:14:01 +0000

The work starts to get shape! Over 2.000 cans have been ordered! Colour, please!!Yeah!!

Check the lists from a few of the artists.

Thanks Montana, Germany.