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Brutalist gem in Basel, Switzerland. Picture taken by me on 11 June 2023. It now serves as temporary artist studio space until it will be demolished later this year to make room for a luxury apartment building. More information about this building is unknown to me.
@sosbrutalism
#sosbrutalism#brutalism#concretebrut#beton#brut#betonbrut#basel#demolishedbrutalistarchitecture#rawconcrete#brutalistarchitecture#gentrification
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Faculty of Information Sciences, university of Madrid 2018 (photos Mick La Rock)
Heavily neglected on the outside. @sosbrutalism
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Hiphop evolution showcase 26 & 27 May 2018 @ OBA
In de Hip-Hop Evolution Showcase at OBA the story of the voyage hiphop has made will be shown by means of urban dance theatre, storytelling, spoken word, rap, dj-ing, beatboxing, breakdance/bboy-ing and graffiti.
Saturday 26 May 20:00h: Hip Hop Evolution Showcase
Talented youngsters and professionals like Gideon Everduim (a.k.a. Gikkels) and Yahmani Blackman take us through the history of the hiphop-culture on stage. The showcase is directed by theater director Dorothy Blokland. Mick La Rock created a classic Hip Hop graffiti- piece stage prop: (text continues after photo)
SMIB x BLAKA will kick off the showcase at the Hip Hop Forum with a panel-audience discussion about the African roots of Hip Hop and contemporary Hip Hop slang.
Sunday 27 May from 11:00h: Hip Hop Evolution Showcase JUNIOR program
Workshops for kids 6+ with Dutch Hip Hop Royalty like: Beatboxing with Andre Accord, Shirt customizing with the world famous PATTA, De rappende voorlezer KiddoCee will read children's story from books for the little ones, The legendary DJ Allstar Fresh, DJ Kendis & Rockefellababe will spin the 1's and 2's in the silent disco, Breakdance with pioneers The Rocking Chairs and last but not least kids can draw graffiti on NYC subways with Mick La Rock.
At 15:00h a junior version of the Hip Hop Evolution Showcase performance.
#hiphop#hip hop history#graffiti#stylewriting#breakdance#bboying#dj#djing#scratching#beatboxing#patta#dj allstar fresh#patta.nl#dj kendis#gikkels#SMIB#BLAKA#Kiddo Cee#Andre Accord#Rockefellababe#The Rocking Chairs#Rocking Chair 5#OBA#Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam#Hip Hop Evolution Showcase#Dorothy Blokland#Untold#Gideon Everduim#rap#rappin'
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Save Our Haring
Current project: 'SAVE OUR HARING'. In collaboration with Gallery Vroom&Varossieau, the KeithHaring Foundation, Stedelijk Museum and BallastNedam La Rock is trying to preserve the 1986 Keith Haring mural in Amsterdam.
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RTL Van Liempt Live: 'Street Art naar het Museum'. 08 April 2016
RTL Talk show host Paul van Liempt talks with guests Hugo Kaagman (stencil graffiti artist), Ann DeMeester (artistic director Frans Hals Museum and Mick La Rock about whether street art should or should not be shown in musea.
Video can be viewed on RTL Van Liempt Live (link)
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AT5 Straten Van Amsterdam 'Zeeburgerdijk'. 20 Dec. 2016.
For Amsterdam's popular local TV station AT5 Mick la Rock was interviewed about the one of the last excisting graffiti hall of fames of the city.
Video can be viewed on AT5.nl (link)
#Amsterdam#Amsterdam graffiti#Graffiti#Graffiti history#AT5#Straten van Amsterdam#Street Art#Zeeburgerdijk
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ART TUBE : 'We Live Art: The Art of HipHop', Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Feb 2015.
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and Aruna Vermeulen, director of HipHopHuis Rotterdam invited Mick La Rock at the Boijmans' depot to have a look at the 1980's New York graffiti collection.
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Mick about the Boijmans Van Beuningen graffiti collection: (BLADE, QUIK, SEEN, ZEPHYR, NOC167, RAMMELLZEE)
03:52 - 05:28
06:30 - 08:46
10:31 - 14:14
ArtTube.nl is a collaboration video platform of the biggest Dutch art musea. For more information: www.ARTtube.nl
#Yaki Kornblit#Blade#Zephyr#Rammellzee#Noc167#Seen#Quik#Graffiti#Graffiti history#New York#Amsterdam#Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen#HipHopHuis Rotterdam#Aruna Vermeulen
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Collaboration Mick La Rock and Blade - Helsinki Art Museum. 27 March-06 April 2018
A new collaboration between NYC's King of Graffiti Blade and Mick La Rock takes place March 27th – April 6th 2018. Both artists have been invited to decorate a bridge at the Baana, a busy outdoor cycling and walking track, located just steps away from the Helsinki Art Museum.
Blade and Mick la Rock each have a 15 meters wide and 4 meters high mural to paint on either side of the bridge. Interesting detail is the presence of wall paintings by OsGemeos and Egs along the same track.
Apart from the outdoor mural Blade will create an indoor mural for the exhibition, whereas Blade is leading and Mick is assisting.
Opening of the Graffiti exhibition @ HAM in Helsinki – April 6th 2018.
More info can be found here: HamHelsinki/GRAFFITI
Blade and Mick have created work together previously on various occasions.
#Helsinki Art Museum#Graffiti#graffiti exhibition#graffiti show#Blade#Blade king of graffiti#Urban art#Baana#HAM#urban contemporary art
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Friday Night: Keith Haring October 13th 2017
Mick La Rock has been invited to a round table conversation with artists Brian Elstak, Jasper Krabbé and Jan Rothuizen. Het Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam organized a Friday Night special about the return and the display of The Velum of Keith Haring.
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Consultancy for Christie's : Auction Graffiti collection Martin Visser
‘The only crime is people not recognizing graffiti as true art!’ – article for Christie’s graffiti auction.
Graffiti works on paper from the collection Martin Visser were offered for auction at Christie’s Amsterdam. This collection was acquired in the early 80’s at Gallerie Yaki Kornblit. For the online auction Christie’s devoted an online catalog accompanied by an article about the legendary Gallery Yaki Kornblit.
Via the Amsterdam Museum Christie’s was introduced to Mick La Rock, who guest curated the exhibition 'Graffiti. New York Meets The Dam'. Mick La Rock is befriended with Kornblit. On Yaki’s request Mick became his spokeswoman about his gallery and story for the article.
Author: Alastair McVeigh, additional interview material provided by Mick La Rock.
The article can be read here: http://www.christies.com/features/New-York-artists-and-the-Amsterdam-graffiti-scene-8169-1.aspx?sc_lang=en
#New York graffiti#Christie's#Martin Visser#Collection Martin Visser#Yaki Kornblit#Gallery Yaki Kornblit#Rammellzee#Dondi White#Daze#Zephyr#Bill Blast#Quik#Graffiti
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Consultancy for ARTE TV: Documentary: THE RISE OF GRAFFITI WRITING.
Always wanted to know how the New York way of graffiti writing made it's way to Europe and further developed there? Watch the new online series The Rise of Graffiti Writing on Arte.tv/de!
Curated by Lars from Copenhagen and directed by René Kaestner, this 10 episode series brings you the full insight. With interviews with most of the important artists from the 80's and 90's in NYC and Europe, and many never before published film footage, this document can be regarded as an important new retrostpective on the scene.
Because of her role as guest curator of the 'Graffiti. New York meets The Dam' exhibition at the Amsterdam Museum (2015), Mick La Rock was invited for consultation about the influence of NYC graffiti on Amsterdam. Together with the film crew she visits hidden old tags by Quik and Shoe, and explains how gallery owner Yaki Kornblit brought many NY artists to Amsterdam for shows at his gallery where important musea like Boymans, Groninger Museum and Louisiana Copenhagen bought work. She introduces Yaki and his former gallery partner Vincent Vlasblom, who brings one of Rammellzee's most incrtedible drawings with him. The rest of the story is told by the artists involved: Boris Tellegen Delta, Niels Shoe Meulman, Bando, Mode2 a.o. A must see!
The whole series can be viewed online from 24 November 2017 to 24 November 2019.
All episodes: THE RISE OF GRAFFITI WRITING
#Art consultancy#the rise of graffiti writing#arte#arte.tv#Graffiti#graffiti art#graffiti history#amsterdam#new york#Graffiti New York Meets The Dam#yaki kornblit#Vincent Vlasblom#Vroom &Varossieau#LarsCopenhagen
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ARTE TV: The Rise Of Graffiti Writing
Always wanted to know how the New York way of graffiti writing made it's way to Europe and further developed there? Watch the new online series The Rise of Graffiti Writing on Arte.tv/de!
Curated by Lars from Copenhagen and directed by René Kaestner, this 10 episode series brings you the full insight. With interviews with most of the important artists from the 80's and 90's in NYC and Europe, and many never before published film footage, this document can be regarded as an important new retrostpective on the scene.
Because of her role as guest curator of the 'Graffiti. New York meets The Dam' exhibition at the Amsterdam Museum (2015), Mick La Rock was invited for consultation about the influence of NYC graffiti on Amsterdam. Together with the film crew she visits hidden old tags by Quik and Shoe, and explains how gallery owner Yaki Kornblit brought many NY artists to Amsterdam for shows at his gallery where important musea like Boymans, Groninger Museum and Louisiana Copenhagen bought work. She introduces Yaki and his former gallery partner Vincent Vlasblom, who brings one of Rammellzee's most incrtedible drawings with him. The rest of the story is told by the artists involved: Boris Tellegen Delta, Niels Shoe Meulman, Bando, Mode2 a.o. A must see!
The whole series can be viewed online from 24 November 2017 to 24 November 2019.
All episodes: THE RISE OF GRAFFITI WRITING
#The rise of graffiti writing#arte tv#new york graffiti#european graffiti#curating#art consultancy#new york#amsterdam#amsterdam museum#vroom &varossieau#yaki kornblit#vincent vlasblom#futura#lee#daze#lady pink#Boris Tellegen#Niels Shoe Meulman#Bando#Mode2
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7 Compositions, Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst Zuidoost / Centre for Visual Arts Southeast, Amsterdam 2014
For CBK Zuidoost (Center for Visual Art, Amsterdam Southeast) graffiti artist Mick La Rock created 7 large works for the public space.
7 Compositions is a reaction to Sarah Payton’s video installation What it seems to be. Both artworks were exhibited from September 6th 2014 at the square in front of CBK Zuidoost.
Mick La Rock visualized her fascination and love for the modernist ‘raw concrete’ architecture of the Bijlmer estate.
Both works talk about people's relationship with the city and with eachother as city inhabitants.
For this exhbition Mick La Rock published a leporello, with the 7 works in postcard size.
3 of the Compositions were added to the CBK collection and can be rented or purchased.
For more information:
CBK ZUIDOOST, Anton de Komplein 120, 1102 DR Amsterdam, T. 020 25 25 401
W. www.cbkzuidoost.nl E. [email protected]
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Au Bonheur des Dames, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. 2013
Famous Polish artist Paulina Olowska invited Mick La Rock to collaborate on a mural for her exhibition "Au Bonheur des Dames" at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
To suit the exhibition's concept Mick La Rock and Olowska designed a piece in the typical Amsterdam-Parisian graffiti lettering style of the mid-80's. Their inspiration being Niels Shoe Meulman, Bando, Emile Zola, Kazmir Malevich and Lady Pink.
21 September 2013 - 27 January 2014.
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Urban Art! Biennale 2013, Museum Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte
'Urban Art !'. Urban Art Biennale 's second edition at Museum Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte.
24 March 2013 - 03 November 2013.
#UrbanArtBiennale#WeltkulturerbeVoelklingerHuette#Urbancontemporaryart#arturbaincontemporain#streetart#graffiti art
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Dutch National Opera presents De Madrigalen. Exhibition by Mick La Rock, Raquel van Haver, Auke Vanderhoek, Loidys Carnero
DUTCH NATIONAL OPERA AND BALLET
In spring 2017 4 upcoming artists of the Amsterdam South East region were invited by the committee of the Dutch National Opera and Ballet to show their work during the enactment of Monteverdi's Madrigals.
For this 2017 version of Monteverdi's opera The National Opera & Ballet's decor-and-costume atelier functioned as stage. Two halls were refurbished for the enactment and lobby. Aileen had the privilege to finish her large piece at location.
Participating artists:
Mick la Rock – visual artist / muralist
Auke Vanderhoek - photographer
Loidys Carnero – furniture designer / visual artist
Raquel van Haver – visual artist / painter
#Nationale Opera en Ballet#Dutch National Opera#Mick La Rock#Exhibition#Abstract art#Abstracturbanart#Abstract urban contemporary art#arturbaincontemporain#arturbain
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ArtUnit, Haarlem 2012
In 2012 artist Chrystl Rijkeboer scouted Mick La Rock for a one month solo exhibition in Gallery ArtUnit. ArtUnit was a one-window-gallery in the historical center of the city of Haarlem, NL.
For the exhibition in Mick created a site specific hanging installation, made from acrylic painted wood.
01 August 2012 - 31 August 2012
ArtUnit stopped in 2014.
#ArtUnit#ArtHaarlem#ChrystlRijkeboer#Abstracturbanart#arturbain#arturbaincontemporain#Urbancontemporaryart
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