Posts Tagged ‘Mr. Brainwash’

New Street Art Sculptures and Miniature Monuments

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
The Brooklyn Griffin, © Robots, GiantRobots.co.uk

The Brooklyn Griffin, © Robots, GiantRobots.co.uk

Robots an art collective in London creates public interactive sculptures, giant robots, from recycled furniture, old wood and rejects from leftover trash that prove for them, that ‘one man’s rubbish is another man’s treasure.’ The two artists, former movie-set builders, Jimmy Bumble and Leonard White, also constructed the Brooklyn Griffin on a trip to New York last year.

Slinkachu's Relics, 2009. Photograph: Slinkachu ©Slinkachu

Slinkachu's Relics, 2009. Photograph: Slinkachu ©Slinkachu

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One Life, One Day: Inside the Mind of Mr. Brainwash

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

By JRS

Mr. Brainwash, aka Thierry Guetta, holding court over his maze on West 13th Street

“If you do something you love, you become an icon, because you do it so well that in one moment, everybody appreciates it,” says Thierry Guetta, leaning back in a paint-splattered Eames lounge chair in the middle of his newest exhibition, Icons. The street artist-turned gallery sensation went on to talk about his time spent decorating the walls and sidewalks of New York: “The street is just a large gallery to me. Even the people that don’t like it are obligated to see it. There are no rules on the street, there is just freedom. Thousands of people can see it.”

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