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El Mac x Safewalls

Lori — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:10:44 +0000

Recently, I shared my friends at Safewall’s “What the heck are we” video.

Now, in the month of March, SAFEWALLS makes its second stop — in Houston, the largest city in the American state of Texas. The Cirque du Soleil show selected for Houston’s trio of artists is OVO. With a musical backdrop inspired by Brazilian styles, OVO explores insects and their ecosystem, a visually charged subject that afforded fantastic creative possibilities to our three chosen artists. Shag, El Mac and Jason Limon poster designs have been revealed yesterday and are available for sale in the SAFEWALLS shop. Each poster is a limited edition!

Check out the latest video interview with Safewalls Artist El Mac

SAFEWALLS | HOUSTON 2011 | El Mac from SAFEWALLS on Vimeo.

What is Safewalls?

Lori — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:08:52 +0000

Our friends at Safewalls have a new video all about their project with artists such as Ron English, Frank Kozik, Jon Burgerman, Sweetoof, Glenn Anderson, Shag, El Mac and Jason Limon. Check ittttttt!

SAFEWALLS | WHAT IS SAFEWALLS? from SAFEWALLS on Vimeo.

Safewalls

Lori — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:14:51 +0000

This past December in Miami I had the pleasure of meeting Andre Bathalon and Yan Cordeau of the Safewalls Project. They were referred to me by a trusted source, Ximena Becerra of Montreal’s Yves LaRoche Gallery, to come and have a chat/brainstorm about their project- which really just ended up with us making joke after joke, laughing uncontrollably, and my poor attempts at French, as they are also Quebecois.

Jokes aside, the project is really interesting. The premise to pairing Cirque de Soleil with artists is the long history of poster art with circuses. Starting way back in the 15th Century, traveling circuses have relied on heavily illustrated posters to allure curious visitors.The Safewalls Project updates the vintage poster by pairing it with cutting edge street artists from around the globe. Deriving their name from the reference to legal spots for street artists, the posters from the Safewalls Project will also be exhibited on a year long tour, with limited edition prints of each available. Each month a pop up exhibition with three featured artists will coincide with Cirque de Soleil performances. As the exhibition travels and, it will add three more artists, accumulating more and more pieces, growing in size as time goes on.

In the meantime, Andre and Yan are unleashed on the country, visiting cities from LA to Vegas to Houston, seeking the artists to be featured for each place. Thus far, the project has collaborated with artists Glenn Anderson, Jon Burgerman, Sweet Toof, SHAG, El Mac, Jason Limon, Frank Kozik, Chet Zar and Amy Sol, and are eagerly combing the world for their next collaborators.

SAFEWALLS | LONDON 2011 (1/3) from SAFEWALLS on Vimeo.