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Chris Pastras: Still Truckin’
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Forget art in order to feel it. Forget the hype and follow the spirit of influences.
Modart Cover Artists: Will Barras, Bobby Puleo, Ed Templeton, Space Invader, Bo130 and Microbo, Andy Howell, Koralie, Chris Bourke, Neasden Control Centre, Victor Castillo, Lucy Mclauchlan, Hadley Howes and Maxwell Stephens, Mike Swaney, Adam Neate, Vincent Skoglund.
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In the history of art, our most original aesthetic responses have often been towards works that had not been considered art as such and in these communities there was an intense will to create without considering the implications of this so called art: Creativity for the sake and rush of creativity.
Artists Exhibited: Jim Avignon, Lance Mountain, Bo130, Microbo, Ed Templeton, Natas Kaupas, Jamie Lynn, Will Barras, Angela Boatwright, Shepard Fairey, Mathias Fennetaux, Jeremy Fish, Same Flores, Kami, Lucy Mclauchlan, Andrew Pommier, The London Police, Yogi Proctor, Adrian Nyman, Galo, Dave Kinsey, Loomit, Smash137, Morcky Troubles, The Boghe, Wayne Horse, RuediOne, Stefan Strumbel, Caia Koopman, Neasden Control Centre, Guillaume Desmerets, Logan Hicks, Victor Castillo, Christophe Lambert and Vincent Skoglund.
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Modart is not mere ‘mode’ as in fashion. It is rooted closer to ‘mode’ of transport; tied to the movement of passionate creative energy/ideas as they become well executed actions; tied to activism, art and raw investigations of emotion. Overwhelmed by the creativity and positive force coming out of skateboard and urban art activist scenes, Modart began documenting and sharing the voices of these coming communities in the form of exhibitions and than in 2004 a bi-monthly magazine.
The street is less about artistic practice then it is simply the place where we come face to face with each other, go beyond and become part of a shared social aesthetic.
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On the curbs and in the mountains, under a wave or banging off a rail, it is happening today as if there were no tomorrow; knees are scraping, hearts are struggling, evolution demands aesthetics follow suite.
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Disturbanity Graphics on Compromise
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On the occasion of the Scope Art Fair (New York, 2008), Modart is pleased to present the work of three artists we have been working with and admiring for several years: Will Barras, Logan Hicks and Vincent Skoglund.
With articulated beauty, all become accessible, yet in this access it is evident that to capture or create these images, each artist has braved unknown territory and succumbed to the urge to communicate its existence.
While each excels in the exploration of a different medium, movement and landscape are shared investigations in all of their works, pulling the viewer into the duality of an image and then dragging perception subtly into a vulnerable position again.
Information on back issues, current projects and available artwork: harlan@modarteurope.com Information on the opening of the Modart Gallery in Cologne, Germany (May 2008): anne@modarteurope.com
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The work of Will Barras is an exploration of movement, a trip that deforms the figurative image in fluent emotional lines. It is at once scarring and sweet. As fragments of stories curl off his pen or brush, he describes his style as ‘within this moment;’ illustration and painting helping cope with and release whatever influence he is absorbing right now. Together with Mr. Jago and their friend Steff Plaetz, Will is one of the pioneers of the Doodle School, scrawling their collective experiences into illustrated moments and fragmented narratives before Graffiti, Doodling and Character Design had broken into the frames of our broader visual language.
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“I try to approach art in the same way a plumber might approach a central heating system, I just want to carry on doing it and just enjoy it, At the moment, I really enjoy it and hope I’m still doing this when I’m eighty, and I probably will be, because I don’t own any property and I haven’t started a pension. If I lost my creative spirit I would work in a bike shop or have a driving job...”
Will Barras at StolenSpace (London) April 3 – 20 | www.stolenspace.com For more info on Will’s upcoming exhibitions contact harlan@modarteurope.com
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Though he is considered one of the most talented artists to emerge from the snowboard scene, this is almost a lifestyle link as Will’s work speaks to the ethos and movements of a rider cutting and
spraying and slicing down some lonesome hill. At the same time however, the influences and themes in his work have nothing to do with the sport of snowboarding. Instead we find references to his passion for bicycles and women, for being lost, for darts and cricket and whatever else strikes him during a journey. While his technique lifts him up as an admirable painter, it is this continual refusal to arrive, this nearly Lacanian need to keep on and keep on that offers direct emotional confrontation when observing his work.
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www.willbarras.com
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Logan Hicks is a New York-based stencil artist whose work explores the dynamics of the urban environment. Originally a screenprinter, Logan’s work gained notoriety due to his ability to capture the sometimes mundane cycle of city life in a haunting, yet refined way with his hand sprayed stencils. Stenciling started as a substitution for screenprinting, but quickly morphed into my medium of choice. A perfect union was conceived by spraypainting stencils my subjects. The dirty and gritty nature of the spraypaint thoroughly depicted the decay of the city while the muted shine of metallic paint mirrored the faint glimmer of hope and life within the city.
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Each person is an active cell that circulates the nutrients through the city veins. I think that sometimes people do not realize how the city affects them. Each building blocks a path. Each wall blocks a view. Each door hides an opening. The city effectively blocks out the outside world and creates its own reality. The city is a labyrinth of limited possibilities. Within my work, I try to explore those microcosms that only exist in the city. The niches of city life that epitomize the urban existence. The confined spaces on subways, honeycomb living structures, the ebb and flow of people washing over the sidewalks like a rogue wave on the beach. These are the things that I notice as I walk around. I have a lovehate relationship with the city.”
Logan Hicks at Black Rat Gallery (London) July 3 2008 | www.BlackRatPress.com For more info on Logan’s upcoming exhibitions contact harlan@modarteurope.com
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www.workhorsevisuals.com
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Vincent Skoglund Vincent was born in Sweden 1974, in the small village of Kniva, Dalarna. He links his early exposure to the sites and images of the wild nature of his local surroundings, to the development of his recent photographic work. Vincent Skoglund’s LIGHTYEARS series explores the forest, using light in unusual ways. The imagery is weighted down by detail, frozen and flowing, capturing notions of waves and volts. The images appear at once meticulously defined and fairytale abstract, as if a giant brush had swept the landscape.
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Vincent Skoglund is known as one of Sweden’s most respected photographers. His remarkable photographic depictions of the emerging snowboard scene set his name on the world map in the early 90’s. Since then he has received numerous honours and covered various areas of photography, such as fashion, action sports, documentary, music and art. After being based abroad, having intense working periods of more than 300 travelling days a year, Vincent recently settled down in Stockholm.
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Vincent’s “LIGHTYEARS” at Galleri Kleerup (Stockholm) April 10 – Mars 5 | www.galleri-kleerup.se For more info on Vincent’s upcoming exhibitions contact harlan@modarteurope.com
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