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      “Explosion” and “Pressure” by Julien Boudet at Art Dubai, UAE

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      San Projects, a highly regarded production company, has partnered with Stems Gallery to produce an awe-inspiring art installation in Dubai. Featuring the works of renowned French multidisciplinary artist, Julien Boudet, the installation includes two thought-provoking sculptures, “Explosion, 2023” and “Pressure, 2023”, which challenge visitors’ perceptions of reality.Inspired by Boudet’s passion for car culture in Dubai, the two sculptures pay tribute to the iconic Mercedes G Wagon, the city’s most popular car. Drawing on Boudet’s passion for basketball and the iconic AMG logo, the sculptures explore the concepts of accumulation and compression, creating a giant counterfeit AMG basketball and playing with logos and bootleg culture, which is prevalent in Dubai.The sculptures were produced locally in Dubai, adding an authentic touch to the artwork. They are in conversation with each other, creating a unique blend of art and culture. “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to showcase my sculptures in Dubai, a city that has inspired me for years,” said Boudet. “The Mercedes G Wagon is an iconic symbol of the car culture in Dubai, and I wanted to pay tribute to it with my artwork.”Visitors to Art Dubai Mina a’Salam – Jumeirah Beach Rd are encouraged to view the installation and experience the unique blend of art, culture, and luxury cars that define the city. SAN PROJECTS’ collaboration with Stems Gallery has produced an exceptional and unforgettable installation that will leave visitors with a new understanding of the world around them. Don’t miss this chance to view two exceptional sculptures that showcase SAN PROJECTS’ creative expertise.Check out below for more photos of the installtion More

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      A New Wall by Sebas Velasco in Sarajevo, Bosnia

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      Sebastián Velasco was born in Burgos, Spain in 1988. He got a Masters degree in Painting from the University of the Basque Country in 2016. Velasco started drawing when he was a child but it was only in 2004 that he began to paint in the street. He paints figurative images, mostly using oil, acrylic, spray paint and pencils.  His photographic, expressive brush stroke style reveals a precise academic technique that contrasts sharply with the rawness of the street content in his works.  In that sense, many of his canvases act as a window for us into everyday moments where strangers are caught in the act with their writer friends.  During these moments, darkness has become increasingly more important.A new wall was recently made during Velasco’s last trip to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.Take a look at more images below and check back with us soon for more updates. More

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      A New Mural by Shepard Fairey in Santa Monica

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      Shepard Fairey is American street artist and graphic designer best known for his Barack Obama “Hope” poster. One of the most famous and influential street artists of the contemporary era, his works are displayed at several prestigious museums all over the world including the Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Artistically inclined from a young age, he attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and started his first business venture, Alternate Graphics, while still a student there. Initially he created stickers, t-shirts, skateboards, and posters, which he sold via the mail order catalogs that he distributed. Along with his friends he created paper and vinyl stickers and posters with an image of the wrestler André the Giant which became very popular and earned him considerable attention. And this was just the beginning. Over the next few years his popularity grew manifold and he became an internationally renowned figure when he designed the Barack Obama “Hope” poster during the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Even though acknowledged to be a highly creative and innovative person, he has also often been accused of plagiarizing other artists’ work.A new mural was made for The Pierside Hotel in Santa Monica.Take a look for some progress shots that Shepard and his team worked on and check back with us soon for more updates. More

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      “Our Feelings” OKOKUME x CASETiFY

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      CASETiFY, the global tech accessory brand loved by artists, Gen Z, and Hollywood celebrities announced its collaboration with Spanish artist Okokume in a capsule collection featuring Cosmic Girl, the character of her own creation in Los Angeles.CASETiFY is a brand and home to the first and largest platform for customized tech accessories. Created with the highest-quality materials and most cutting-edge designs, CASETiFY’s products empower self-expression by turning your personal electronics into highly designed, stylishly slim, drop-proof accessories. Known for tapping top artists, big celebrities and creatives for its Co-Lab program, CASETiFY gives brands and individuals the opportunity to share their unique visions with the world. With 18 retail shops and growing, CASETiFY Studio provides a one-stop, visual retail experience where customers can customize their accessories on the spot.Okokume, the pseudonym behind Laura Mas Hernandez, is best known for her iconic character. Cosmic Girl, the pink-haired spirit with turquoise skin is the universe’s messenger who emphasizes the importance of protecting the environment. She travels in space and tends to planets in need by restoring them to their former glory. Through her, Okokume has exhibited in Tokyo, UTOPIA (Ginza), REALITY (JPS Gallery, Tokyo), and other major cities worldwide such as K11 Art Space in Hong Kong.Okokume’s Lowbrow-inspired style of painting reflects the influence of Japanese manga, American cartoons and street culture. Her gleeful and colourful works transport the audience into the universe of Cosmic Girl and her companions, spreading positive messages they believe in. Okokume’s cheerful and positive style is met with much popularity, making her one of the fastest-growing contemporary artists.The name of the collection is “Our feelings”. Okokume wanted to represent all those childhoods affected by wars, where she appeared on TV as a metaphor for changing their roles. And where butterflies symbolize the lives that are lost at sea. She believes that as an artist, she needs to externalize what affects her most, positively or negatively.The Okokume x CASETiFY Collection includes several phone case designs featuring Cosmic Girl and Dino, and are available for iPhone and Android Models. A number of designs will also be available for AirPods cases, magsafe chargers, air tag holders and iPad cases. More

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      WILDSIDE Yohji Yamamoto x CASETiFY

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      CASETiFY is a global lifestyle brand and home to the first and largest platform for customized tech accessories. Created with the highest-quality materials and most cutting-edge designs, CASETiFY’s products empower self-expression by turning your personal electronics into highly designed, stylishly slim, drop-proof accessories. Known for tapping top artists, big celebrities and creatives for its Co-Lab program, CASETiFY gives brands and individuals the opportunity to share their unique visions with the world. With 18 retail shops and growing, CASETiFY Studio provides a one-stop, visual retail experience where customers can customize their accessories on the spot.CASETiFY, Gen Z, and Hollywood celebrities announced its first collaborative collection with WILDSIDE YOHJI YAMAMOTO, the latest conceptual project from the Japanese artist.WILDSIDE YOHJI YAMAMOTO is an original brand that reconstructs elements extracted from the essence of Yohji Yamamoto into a casual taste with the keywords of military, work, and sports, and incorporates them into every detail. A unisex collection that has been customized more modernly and updated with functionality. Its tech accessory collection is inspired by the concept of the new project under the same name by the artist. The lineup includes a design with the popular iconic SKULL & ROSE on the entire surface of the case, as well as simple style options with a logo, all based on Yohji Yamamoto’s symbolic black colour and incorporating edgy artwork in a CASETiFY-like taste.In addition to the best-selling mirror and impact case that can withstand a drop from a maximum height of 2.5 meters, the lineup will be available in a vegan leather case type that is eco-friendly, with variations to match each design. The collection also includes a wide range of other tech accessories and lifestyle items such as AirPods cases, Apple Watch Bands, and water bottles that fit well with the WILDSIDE YOHJI YAMAMOTO apparel collection. Products will range between USD$30 and USD$85 depending on the model and design options. More

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      Tania Marmolejo “Owning My Symbols” Limited Edition Print – Available December 29th

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      Dominican Swedish American painter Tania Marmolejo and Volery Gallery have collaborated with ArtPort for her latest limited edition screenprint entitled “Owning my Symbols”. The artwork is a part of Marmolejo’s recent exhibition at Volery Gallery, Dubai — Master and Commander which is dedicated to the bravery of Iranian women in their fight to break the old constraints that have trapped them in a particular place and cultural time.The giclee + screenprint comes in an edition of 45 and measures 61 x 72 cm.Influenced by her Scandinavian and Caribbean heritage, Tania Marmolejo explores gender and identity issues. Her paintings juxtapose the intimate and personal with the monumental, creating large-scale paintings of ambiguous female facial expressions.Born in 1975, Santo Domingo, Marmolejo currently lives and works in New York.Owning my Symbols will be available on 29 December 2022, Thursday. 7PM HK Time (7AM NYC, 4AM LA, 9PM Melbourne, 12PM UK, 8PM Tokyo) at ArtPort website.ArtPort is a publishing house established in 2020. ArtPort supplies limited high-quality editions and prints by artists from the new contemporary art wave. Created around the theme of travelling, ArtPort aims to have people on board, offering them a journey through the art world and an easy way to bring it to their homes. Each edition is a unique and exclusive collaboration between ArtPort and leading contemporary artists. More

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      “Pointman – River Warrior” sculpters by Futura set to be unveiled in Singapore and Bali, Indonesia

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      Futura is known for being one of the first graffiti artists to ever depart from lettering in the early 1980s and turn to abstraction. The artist grew up in New York. A teenager in the 1970s, those years which saw the rise of the graffiti and urban art movement, he quickly took an active part in this period of great artistic emulation and soon made his own mark thanks to his unusual style. Futura, therefore, holds a unique status in the history of graffiti, both as a pioneer and iconoclast of the movement.From the turn of the 80s, he developed the use of canvas in his practice, exhibiting alongside artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring or Kenny Scharf. The key elements of the style which we associate with Futura today were already there: clouds of colour with subtle variations, fine lines that seem to be barely scratching the surface, and above all this astonishing fluidity that gives his work such a unique atmospheric mood. A personal touch and virtuosity make Futura an essential figure among urban artists today. After fifty years of career, he continues to be a painter with an ever-fertile creativity. One who was able, with his lofty abstract style, to stay relevant through the years and to free himself of reductive categories.Futura has unveiled two sculptures titled Pointman – River Warrior, set to be unveiled in Singapore and Bali as a social commentary on pollution. To demonstrate the gravity of Indonesia’s dire pollution crisis, a problem that has long been a central concern for Futura, the Pointman statues will be made out of repurposed waste materials collected together with Potato Head from the Singaporean/Bali waterways.  In Singapore, 14,300 black and white grocery bags were collected by environmental advocates, Sungai Watch, for the creation of Pointman. In Bali, everything from motor oil bottles to discarded water gallon lids sourced by a community organisation, Yayasan Kakikita were used. The Pointman statue in Singapore was at National Design Centre and another one, on a much larger scale, was unveiled in the courtyard of OMA-designed Potato Head Studios in Bali.Futura’s sculpture is an extension of Potato Head & OMA’s “N*thing is Possible” exhibition in Singapore Design Week, where they collaborate with world-renowned talents i.e Kengo Kuma, Max Lamb, Faye Toogood, and Andreu Carulla, amongst others, to showcase a visual representation of the hospitality brand’s efforts to a zero-waste lifestyle.Take a look at more images below and check back with us soon for more updates. More

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      Osona Artimur Festival in Barcelona, Spain

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      Osona is a beautiful countryside area in the north of Barcelona, Spain. The local authorities bet for a large format urban art festival where 19 new murals and artistic interventions have found a new home in the walls of 5 different villages of the region this last October.Osona Artimur gathered top artists like Zoer, Ana Barriga, Satone, Eloise Gillow, Daniel Muñoz, and Isaac Cordal among other urban art top names create 19 new artistic interventions for the 1st edition of the Osona Artimur Festival curated by B-Murals in the countryside of Barcelona, in order to produce identity portraits of each different small town, from a contemporary approach and point of view. In this rural context, muralism and street art stand up as a unique mixture of tradition and innovation.Take a look at more images below and check back with us soon for more updates.Ana Barriga Oliva in Sant Julià de Vilatorta.Wedo Goas in Prats de Lluçanès.Satone in Sant Bartomeu del Grau.Isaac Cordal in Sant Bartomeu del Grau.Nano4814 in Alpens.Contemporary and abstract pieces shutter the traditional aesthetical criteria, looking for new portraits of local identities, as the murals of Zoer, Satone, Ana Barriga, Rosh and Nano4814 display. Additionally, rural contexts become new places for researching, innovation and promoting art.Invited artists: Zoer, Ana Barriga, Satone, Nano4814, Luogo Comune, Isaac Cordal, Rosh,  Alberto Montes,  Jan Vallverdú, Marta Lapeña, Eloise GillowArtists selected by open call: Twee Muizen, Sergi Bastida, Wedo GoasArtists working on participatory processes: Daniel Muñoz, Chu Doma,  Alessia Innocenti, Mateu Targa, ZosenPhoto Credit: Monika Pufflerova & Fer Alcalá. More