"JUST's breathtaking photos are dramatic documents of daring graffiti artists in action. Through them you can vicariously experience the danger and thrills of rooftop writing." - Martha Cooper.

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Zevs's portrait by JUST

Also titled as "The emerging art fair" and happening at the same time as Art Forum, Preview Berlin is the kind of art fair that really catches our attention. It's obvious that there is a kind of art for each person and each aesthetic taste, and after having previously attended both fairs, we can openly say that Preview Berlin is one of the most exciting art events in Europe. It's not a big fair, but you know: less is more. Specially when the selection of galleries and artists represent a really contemporary point of view on creation and experimentation.

Leaving this aside, the edition of this year has been reduced to a minimum size. Where each gallery had a concrete space for their disposition in a pavilion, this year there was just one big hall with a shared space for all proposals, with only one artist/instalation per gallery. Nothing else. We suppose that's another consecuence of the well-known economical crisis that has affected all kinds of markets. Still we can't consider the  Preview Berlin as disappointing, because 95% of the proposals were great pieces, most of them really interesting ideas that represent the real emerging art scene. But we hope it won't turn out into the "submerge art fair" and that next year it will rather return to the concept of the previous editions, instead of decreasing even more.

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Heide Fasnacht


Olaf Mooij


Olaf Mooij


Iris Kettner


Iris Kettner


Jan de Pooter


Stefan Rohrer


Stefan Rohrer


Stefan Rohrer


video by Stefan Rohrer


Andrea Lehmann


Andrea Lehmann


Robert Kunec


Robert Kunec


Michael Johansson


(detail) Michael Johansson


Michael Johansson


Tobias Köbsch


Tobias Köbsch


(detail) Tobias Köbsch

We have uploaded a new video about the exhibition "Belio & The Effect 2000 Generation”! This time, apart of the set up and opening of the main exhibition at Neurotitan, our videographic summary also includes images of the "Birthday Party" we hosted (together with Jason Forrest and his crew) after the opening, as well as the set up and opening of the exhibition "Belio Unrevealed" by GeeOhDee at Box32 gallery.

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For those of you who still don't know them (of couse! they are anonymous). This is not just a collective of artists refusing to reveal their identity. Regarding the strong identity of their works, they are something else. Incredible installations, big mash-ups of pop objects, and a characteristic positive-negative touch of all their pieces.

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In this exhibition the artists strike a balance of their art and life thus far, to which they gave a shape over the last several years. Not only do they recall their former statements on the essential questions of the present, but they give an interested audience an idea of their further development.

Here you have some pictures of their last installation at White Square Gallery:













The exhibition can be visited until December 12th, 2009. At:
WHITE SQUARE GALLERY| WSG GmbH
Mauerstr 83/84. D - 10117 Berlin
www.whitesquaregallery.com

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Digital collages from Belio 005: Japan


Different alternative designs of the Belio early covers


Javier IA and the complete image published as three different covers for Belio 020: Revolution


Original collage for the double cover published for Belio 008: Chaos
(More pictures in our Flickr)

It’s hard to catch up after mounting and inaugurating two exhibitions and a Birthday Party in Berlin, all in one weekend. As of right now, we already have uploaded pictures from the party we did with Jason Forrest and his friends at Eschloraque. Here we leave 3 of them. Check out the rest on Belio’s Flickr.

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Photos by Javier IA

The artist Toño Camuñas is back in town. New artworks and new exhibition. This time it will be at El Rincón in the 26th Espíritu Santo street (Madrid. Spain) during september.

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Past week we discovered the work of this pretty young (just 21 years old) video maker from Netherlands, via Motiongrapher. He just graduated for 'Communication and Multimedia Design' in Breda, but he commented to us "I found my own path in motion graphics and filmmaking. It doesn't matter which school you attend, you create yourself in your own free hours at home." And that's probably what we liked from him, the direct way of saying things, making all look simple and friendly, apart of the great skills with programs like After Effects, Cinema4D, Photoshop, etc. But i think the best would be to let him to introduce by himself:

When we thought about celebrating our 10th anniversary the first idea was to make a party... A Birthday Party for Belio, right? So here you have it!

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photos by Marco Microbi:

The second stop of the Belio X10 tour is arriving to Berlin. During the next week we will be preparing all for the great event. The show "The Effect 2000 Generation" will display at the walls of Neurotitan Gallery more than 150 pieces from designers, illustrators and artists from all over the world, some of them pretty well-known, others are young promises of the graphic scene.

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Works by: Paul Insect, Superdeux, Jon Burgerman, Besdo Garsía, Btoy, Deno, Delkographik, DG PH, Dzgnbio, Eduardo Bertone, Dr. Alderete, Kenor, Geso, Grande Graphix, HYP, I Am I Can, Josep Solé, Miguel Angel Martin, Mr Muju, Niark1, Okuda, Raoul Sinier, Rebel One, Saddo, San, Saner, Sergio Jiménez, Vertico's Puppets, Vasava, Zosen, Catalina Estrada, Base 23, Escif, Integral Apparel, Official Classic, Alex Trochut, Gee.Oh.Dee, Botlek, and many more...


work by VVFactory + CB4

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The exhibition is about 3 collectors showing stuff from their personal collections, their favorite artists. There will be art toys from Kaws, Futura 2000, Ron English, James Jarvis, Pete Fowler, japanese stuff, vintage robots, etc. More info here

In collaboration, IdN and Belio present the DVD IdN v16n3: The World of The Typeface. A special DVD with 47 videos, articles about Stefan Brüggemann, Andrew Byrom, Keetra dean Dixon, Hey Ho, Axel Peemöller, Kay Rosen, Corriette Schoenaerts, Strange Attractors Design, Toko, Andrew Townsend, and so on. A total of 104 minutes + wallpapers, fonts, a videogame, etc...

Right now here at Belio we are working hard on our upcoming book editions, which will launch in autumn. One of them is the Die Young book 008 dedicated to mexican graffiti artist Saner. Taking the book production as an opportunity, we have invited its protagonist to come to Spain and leave his mark and art on the streets of Europe.

Prayer. Pez Street, Madrid. (Photo by Javier IA)

Belio SPC by Saner. (Photo by Javier IA)

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Belio SPC entrance.


Monte Igueldo avenue. Madrid.


Saner on mission.


Saner + Besdo Garsía. Orcasitas, Madrid.
(All pictures by Javier IA)

Hey! it's 1st of september already!! The deadline to participate in our next Belio is OVER...

NO! Wait a second... Ok! let's say that we are going to wait 15 DAYS MORE. So if you, lazy ass ;) want to take part in Belio, publish your work in a book and show it to your mam, so she will stop asking about your "artistic life". That's your chance! Do not miss it again!

“We Are All Savages” by Jose Miguel Méndez

We keep celebrating our 10th anniversary! And now it’s the turn of our stop in Berlin. The following week we will be installing and opening two different shows there. By one side the Belio X10 show that you know already, but by other side we will present a solo exhibition of Gee.Oh.Dee [Pablo & Javier IA., designers and directors of Belio's projects] that will show for the FIRST time inedit designs and images from all those ten years of Belio.

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As side show of Belio X10 and opening one day before, Belio Unrevealed presents some of the original designs and digital collages created for the successful issues Belio 010: Toys [2002] y Belio 005: Japan [2000], but specially a collection of different versions of all the published covers.

Did you know that Belio 020 was published with 3 different covers that all together form a big image? Did you know that also the cover of Belio 008 had two different versions distributed? ...And, that Belio 012 and Belio:CD:War was done as a game with two different 3D vehicles manipulated and crashed by each one of the Gee.Oh.Dee designers? Did you know that the cover of Belio 023 had two absolutly different versions and the published one was elected by a secret vote between different designers? Do you know who is in the cover of Belio 014? And... What about Belio 025... Did you know that the face in the cover is a mixture of Javier IA and Pablo IA? Would you like to see the original picture?

All that is something that nobody has seen before and that Pablo & Javier IA has kept as secret files, they declare about them "each Belio has been special, and the cover was our playground to resume and express our ideas about the subject selected. It was our very best piece for each issue of Belio, sometimes we have even done fifteen different versions". Do you want to see it all?

Gallery Box 32
Boxhagener Str. 32. 10245 Berlin.
Mo- Sa, 12.00 – 20.00 h.
www.myspace.com/box_32

Our dear friend Nicholas Di Genova has published a new book. It’s a small one, 24 pages, and black and white... but it contains some of the black and white drawings he has done over the last year and a half, right after our successful DY005 book, which is till avalaible at our store. This new one has been published by Koyama Press, a small publishing house based in Toronto... The book has been called Wunderkammer No. 1 and the idea is that in about a year or so there will be a Wunderkammer No. 2, then hopefully a No. 3, and so on...

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In other news, he also take part recently in a collective show in Toronto called “Young Canada” at LE Gallery. And he was featured on Kanye West's blog (a popstar in the USA) which has earned a great amount of new fans... Who doesn’t love his awesome drawings?

If you want more, here there is an advance of some new drawings in process that he has been doing the last days:

The Swatch Young Illustrators Award is the most renowned competition awarding creativity and innovation in personal contemporary illustration and graphics. It encourages and supports designers in their artistic practice and offers them an international and worldwide recognized platform. And now is calling for Submissions until the 30th of september!!

Design by Julien Vallee.

Die Young Collection & Galerie Box 32 are proud to present the first solo show of Besdo Garsía in Berlin. Refered to him as “one of Madrid’s best kept secret” on Ekosystem website, he is one of the most talented graffiti writers of Spain. After so many years painting walls all over Spain and specially in his home town, Madrid; he presents this great chance to see his new studio works that he has been developing during the last year.

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Gallery Box 32
Boxhagener Str. 32. 10245 Berlin.
Mo- Sa, 12.00 – 22.00 h.
www.gradecustoms.de

Here you have an advance with some new pieces:


Ariadna One Luv


Mar Profunda 6


Totem

Get ready! Few days ago Agile Partners and the musician Jason Forrest has released a new application for your iPhones and iPods touch... The World’s First Fully-Featured Sample Instrument, called Star6 and already avalaible in the iTunes App Store.

With this new program music lovers and live performers alike can create and shape a huge variety of sounds from their own samples or free presets, but appart of that there is many different and entertaining options... Well! I think you should better watch this video, where our dear Jason Forrest explain it far better than us:

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“From hip hop to rock bands to solo vocalists or improvisers, today’s music world sees almost every style of music using computers to provide soundtracks, ambient textures and synthetic beats to accentuate their performance,” said Forrest. “This isn’t just a ‘DJ app’ – it’s a fun, dynamic and powerful tool that helps musicians like me produce these same sounds on-the-go and perform them in front of a live audience. Star6 gives musicians of every level a pro-quality, performance-ready sample instrument in their pocket.”



You can take a look to a live demostration live perform (here), and pretty soon he will be presenting it in Berlin. So, stay tuned! Follow them at their: Facebook fan page and Twitter or directly in www.star6app.com