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902 The magazine for professional migrant artists professional for The magazine street art editorial ISSUE 2 2019 Brexit will affect all of us; will not give us the same chances we had had before. For example we cannot go freely to Britain while Brits cannot go to Europe free. As if we will live in different continents. It will be very sad losing London as a major European city and suddenly London will be very far, very unreachable. Why this happens, as we all know it is a political matter and what politics make bad for people makes it even worse for the Middle East, or elsewhere in the world. Photo: Anmar Al-Gaboury Sigh, I think there is no worse situation in world than in Middle least. But at least we are here, in Europe, eating well and sleeping in peace …up to now; and some one of us can even donate money to the poor people, or can feed some Iraqi people with little charity or donations. talk: +358 (09) 40 554 6896 write: [email protected] view: www.eu-man.org Brexit will not allow us to donate to poor homeless Brits and I am very angry for this because there are a lot of homeless in London itself. So what about the rest of Great Britain? I am sad because we will leave membership: Our passion is to inspire and empower Annual membership the New Year’s celebration in the London Eye in Westminster, I will fee is 30e. flourish with us, help art blossom. not see Big Ben and the Tower Bridge. On the other side, Brits will Download an application Advertise your creations with us, not see the wonderful site of Lapland and other scenes in Europe like from our website: we treat them all as they should, as art. Eiffel tower or the Colosseum, the Louvre. For all that we will blame www.eu-man.org Boris Jonson and only, not the rest of the politicians. contact: For adverts contact > [email protected] [email protected] Art will have borders, walls. And we will scream loudly, because the EU-MAN market for the arts and music will be dark, the Dark Ages for art re- Talberginkatu 1 C P.O.Box: 171 turn to UK, which by the way I’m afraid will not be UK anymore but 00180 Helsinki, Finland …the 51st state of the USA. But all of us will cheer “Longa Vita es” though we lost the beloved city London. Oh dear London bye-bye, but please do not …divorce with Europe, I beg you! Amir Khatib 1997 - 2019 21 YEARS contents EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-chief Amir KHATIB tel: +358 44 333 36 63 [email protected] Avtarjeet DHANJAL [email protected] Cover: Ali NAJJAR [email protected] Maha Mustafa Jacques RANGASAMY [email protected] Avtarjeet DHANJAL AD: Thanos KALAMIDAS in focus theme: Street Art [email protected] 14-17 Copenhagen 24-30 What is the Street Art movement? * * * Ultracontemporary Biennale 32-33 Protest art ADVERTISING 34-39 What about Street Art [email protected] artist of the issue 40-43 The writing on the wall 18-22 Maha Mustafa 44-47 Graffiti is street art * * * 48-55 Street art – or crime? GENERAL ENQUIRIES [email protected] highlights columns * * * 56-58 At The Venice Biennale 56-57 fARTissimo EU-MAN Summer School In Curatorial 64 Opinion HELSINKI OFFICE Studies Venice Open Call Talberginkatu 1 C 64-67 TIme DILation P.O.Box: 171 00180 Helsinki, Finland in every issue articles LONDON OFFICE Donoghue business park 3-4 Editorial 60-62 The Art World is in Crisis Calremont Road 6 Editorial Board NW2 1RR London Office: +44 (0)208 7952972 6-7 Contents Mobile: +44 (0)7728 024968 8-13 Art News ArtNews If your art gallery or association has some art news or an event it wishes to promote in Universal Colours, then please The Last Generation Till January 5, 2020 KThe Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki Red Vienna “We are the last generation that can stop climate change”, was stated during the 1919-1934 United Nation’s climate change confer- Till January 09, 2020 ence in late 2018. The Last Generation ex- hibition by Photofuss group contemplates Wien Museum, Austria current environmental issues. As young people under the age of 26 we are particu- Vienna’s first free munic ipal election, held larly concerned about climate change, as it in May 1919, results in an absolute major- will radically affect the future for us and our ity for the Social Democratic Party. A re- descendants. form project commences, attracting much The environment is everything that exists attention from admirers abroad and fierce around us. It is simultaneously physical antagonism from opponents at home. The and mental, private and shared, cultural goal is a far reaching democratization of and universal. Now our common environ- society as well as the dramatic improve- ment is under attack because of us, and ment of workers‘ living conditions. we need to ask what we can do to save it. Photo: Ronja Tammenpää: Like nobody’s watching, 2019. Josef Bolf Ronak Till January 5, 2020 National Gallery, Prague Azeez EU-MAN Gallery, Helsinki The body of the exhibition A Premonition of Shadow consists of paintings produced over the course of the past year. These represent a compact whole in terms of both form and content. They are a synthe- sis of sorts of a range of themes addressed by Josef Bolf in his previous work, which he never entirely gave up on. In his newest artworks, he returns to scratch painting, a technique he has more or less abandoned nearly ten years ago. ArtNews If your art gallery or association has some art news or an event it wishes to promote in Universal Colours, then please Hybrid Sculpture Till January 12, 2020 Thomas Struth Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Till January 19, 2020 The title Hybrid Sculpture refers to the fact that almost none of the works looks like a Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa sculpture in the traditional sense: the art- The images of Thomas Struth (b. 1954, ists blur the boundaries between sculpture Geldern, Germany) receive their signa- and painting, performance, video art and ture character from the questions he asks design. Some of the artworks have never himself—and his viewers—about the rele- been shown in the museum before. For vance of public space, the unifying momen- the artists in Hybrid Sculpture, the aim is tum of family ties, the significance of nature not to create a ‘pure’ sculpture informed by and culture, and the limits and possibilities the classic sculptural properties such as of new technologies. Struth succeeds in volume and space. Instead, their practice transforming fundamental themes, such as centres around combining a variety of me- the instability of social structures and the dia and appropriating objects from pop cul- fragility of human existence, into images of ture and everyday life, transforming them formal elegance that elicit the audience’s by changing their size, colour or material. participation and empathy. Randa Atsuko Tanaka Ismail Till February 16, 2020 EU-MAN Gallery, Moderna Museet, Helsinki Stockholm Experience the playful works by Japanese artist Atsuko Tanaka who, in the 1950s and 1960s, chal- lenged the boundaries of art. In post-war Japan, a period infused by the overhanging threat of nuclear war, Tanaka along with other mem- bers of the Gutai group wanted to break away from academic art and start again from square one. With simple, everyday materials and rad- ical practices, they sought a new art for a new era. International ArtIf your art gallery or associationNews has some art news or an event it wishes to promote in Universal Colours, then please Coexistence Till March 1, 2020 KIASMA, Helsinki Art Prize The Coexistence exhibition looks at the relationship between humans and nature. Environmental issues, nature, and human coexistence with other organisms are top- ics of long-standing interest in art, but they have recently come into sharper focus Call for submissions amid the eco-crisis of the 2000s. The exhibition is part of Kiasma’s theme year centering on ideas about good life. The International Universal Colours Art Prize The exhibition on the 3rd floor invites us to consider exactly whose ‘good life’ we mean and calls into question the place habitually competition is now open for submissions. awarded to the human as above nature and other animals and as their sovereign. We are looking for striking artworks in painting, The works on the 2nd floor pursue a deep- sculpturing, art photography, digital art and 3D design er relationship with nature, a world of rites Marja Helander, Eatnanvuloš lottit (Birds in the Earth), 2017. Screenshot. and alternate knowing. from professional and non-professional, students and beginners artists. Ali Najjar Deadline: EU-MAN Gallery, Helsinki January 31, 2020 For more details please contact: [email protected] [email protected] The awards ceremony and the exhibition will be hold in March 12, 2020 BECOME A MEMBER HELSINKI OFFICE LONDON OFFICE Registration for this festival will also carry out the responsibility for us to help those who want to attend the Annual membership fee is 30e. Talberginkatu 1 C Donoghue business park opening in informing and finding accommodations and other facilities. Download an application from P.O.Box: 171 Calremont Road www.eu.man.org or write to: 00180 Helsinki, Finland NW2 1RR London - UK Office: +44 (0)208 7952972 FOCUS Copenhagen Ultracontemporary Biennale (CUB) hat is CUB? COPENHA- GEN ULTRACONTEM- WPORARY BIENNALE (CUB) is focusing on emergency art and artists who are burning to express before it is too late.
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