Among the 10th anniversary and the Effect 2000, Belio has appeared lately on various blogs and magazines: Esquire, Sleeping Cat, Miraki, Staff, Consequence Graphics, etc. Thank you all for your words and support!
Here we show you a video made by Gorka for Miraki and some links to various articles and interviews:

Today we present this video-clip that we have created about "Belio & The Effect 2000 Generation" exhibition at Apetit Gallery in Bilbao. Enjoy it!

And remember: you can visit this exhibition in Bilbao until August 17th. Then, from September 11th you can visit it at Neurotitan gallery in Berlin.

You still have twelve days to see the exhibition "Belio & The Effect 2000 Generation" at Apetit gallery in Bilbao, Spain (nº 11th. Conde Mirasol street). Although if Bilbao isn’t near to you, you can wait for the upcoming shows in Berlin, Barcelona or Madrid (+ information here). Or you can make a virtual visit to the photo-gallery that we have created at Belio’s Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/belio/sets/72157621632657875/). Here are a few pictures in advance.

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The sixth edition of the yearly exhibition Art Trek opens on August 1 st at Galerie Mekanik in Antwerp. An inspiring discovery of the contemporary alternative art scene is assured with this new international selection of fourteen young artists - the Sixth Generation. This generation engages itself in a time where digitalisation and globalisation go hand in hand with a growing desire for authenticity, crafts, creativity and personal contact. Street artists, illustrators, comic book artists and graphic designers meet each other and exchange inspiration on the internet. An initiative like Art Trek makes these meetings between creative souls possible in real life, and concretisizes the hybrid and colourful movement they are part of for the outside world.

This year the selection of artists include talented people like Brecht Vandenbroucke (BE), Brent Wadden (CA), Ephameron (BE), Escif (ES), Esther Pearl Watson (US), Gemma Correll (UK), Julien Kedryna (FR), Louis Reith (NL), Marcus Oakley (UK), Mark Todd (US), Pacolli (BR), Raymond Biesinger (CA), Sammy Stein (FR) and
Ward Zwart (BE).

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As they have announced, the owners of the deceased and beloved Copyright Magazine... Launch: a new identity, a new location (bigger and bright) and a new website. And besides all those changes, they keep intact the essence. This group of creative people willing to do anything, wanting to experience and enjoy the process. Check out their new website and their latest works in www.studiocopyright.com

Just one week! The next friday will start the Belio X10 tour... And what will you find in this exhibition? Apart of the special collaborations that great artists have sent us for the last edition of Belio, which will be printed on canvas. You will also have the chance to see some original pieces, videos, the collection of Belio stickers and inedit pieces from Abisäl D3sign, Saner, María Lujan, Silvio Diaz, Plastik Mekanik, Geso, Paolo Castellaneta and many more*.

So if you don’t want to miss it, write it down in your agenda:

X10: BELIO & THE EFFECT 2000 GENERATION
July 17 – August 17
At Apetit Gallery
OPENING: July 17, 20:30 – 23:00h.
Calle Conde Mirasol 11. Bilbao, Spain.

See you there!!

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For the first time in Italy, a new comic art masterpiece by the spanish leader of underground comics, Miguel Angel Martin (Leon, 1960). Sicotronic Records, originally published in Spain by Subterfuge Comix on 2002, is now available in a remastered version, with 24 brand new illustrations; all the artworks are on show and on sale at Galleria Miomao, Perugia, Italy. Gaudy colored pages of cracking and disturbing art: electronic music played by a human, all too human humanity.

Slaughterhouse 5, new aktionists (homage to Hermann Nitsch)

But Sicotronic Records is not only an exhibition. It is also an hardcover book, with italian and english texts, published by Purple Press, and a signed and numbered litographic prints portfolio, featuring a new three-pages comic story, A Better World, especially commissioned to the artist by Galleria Miomao, and only available in this limited edition (100 copies). And finally, it is also a new comic art reflection upon the destiny of us all. A trans-human destiny. With two special dedications: to Hermann Nitsch and C.S. Hyatt.

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Saddo & Aitch, two artists from Rumania currently living in Berlin are showing their colorful artworks at Box 32 Gallery. The exhibition includes oversized prints of some of the Saddo’s and Aitch’s older and newest illustrations, most of them made on paper with watercolors, ink and liners.

The opening is on the 10th of July at 19.00 h, and the show will be up until the 10th of August. Saddo has also participated in the last Belio edition and will be part of the collective show Belio X10 that will be touring the next months.

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This year we visited the Bread & Butter fashion fair in Berlin. BBB is Europe’s strongest and most important trade show in the Street- and Urbanwear sector. 550 brands, labels and designers exhibited at new location: The Tempelhof airport. And it looks like it was a great success regarding the amount of people we found there. Here is our photo-report:

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Our friends DGPH from Argentina have released their first comic book! TOPO, an anthology of nonsensical comics and short tales.

Molestown characters involved in new stories and heroic deeds that lead to nowhere. If you ever wondered how this loveable furry creature called Topo was born, or why Cabello is always in such a bad mood, here you´ll find the answer. That’s why the reason, the ultimate and supreme goal of this bunch of stories, is just to provide a way to know a little more about Molestown and the creatures that live on this planet; and that, at least for an instant, you can become just another inhabitant of this world ruled by Tsuchi.

DGPH are also part of the up-coming Belio X10 show and the special edition Belio:029.

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Until July 12th you can visit the exhibition by the artist Toño Camuñas in La Boca Espacio de Cultura in Madrid. There he presents his latest works, grotesque deliriums, mescaline epics and other collaborations with partners in office as Sinsentido, Dr. Lacra or Castaño. Don’t miss it.

La Boca Espacio de Cultura
Calle Argumosa 11. 28012 Madrid. Spain.

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One of the last new art centers in Spain, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Asturias, presents these days a new installation by Félix Luque, and proposes a sci-fi universe to think about, to discuss, to wonder, to dream... How can technological advances be controlled? On what ethical bases can its purposes be chosen? Who is entitled to decide on the ultimate mission of machines? Can machines destroy us?

In Chapter I – The Discovery, Félix Luque presents “a story of science fiction”, an immersive experience for the spectator that guide the interpretation of the conceptual keys inspiring the installation and its sophisticated technological recourses. Through an unidentified object, a dodecahedron, and a world related with the future, Luque offers us a mystical and poetic personal vision. The artist himself claims that “science fiction is the perfect framework for artistic expression with new technologies, given that it questions the role of science and technology in the definition of the human”. From this angle, science fiction provides a theoretical frame that allows this artist from Asturias, with an already long and recognised career despite his relative youth, to explore the very nature of digital art.

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The argentinean movie director Gaspar Noé has left us stunned once again with his upcoming film, Enter The Void. At Belio we can hardly wait for its cinematic release.

The script for Enter The Void, written by the filmmaker himself, aims to offer a very open interpretation of “The Tibetan Book of the Dead” by Bardo Thödol. The movie tells the chaotic drama of a young american who promised himself to take care for his little sister after the brutal death of their parents. Set in the streets of Tokyo, the two siblings go on a drug induced hallucinogenic voyage at the borders of life while trying to experiment with their sexuality to the fullest. Their psychedelic visions and altered states of mind grow evermore distorted. Past, present and future merge in a hallucinatory maelstrom.

Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival (2009), with the participation of renowned film director Marc Caro (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Dante 01 ,...) as settings designer and a soundtrack by none other than Mr. Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter. Moreover, the film has gone through a long process of post production due to the large amount of special effects needed for the project, involving visual artist Glennwiz.

The filmmaker has described the film as a cross between Ken Russell’s "Altered States" and Adrian Lyne’s "Jacob's Ladder", but it may also have traces of Darren Aronofsky’s "Requiem for a Dream", Jan Kounen’s "Blueberry" and Stanley Kubrick’s "2001: A Space Odyssée".

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Here we present you the second video created by Osmangranda for Belio’s 10th anniversary.




Osmangranda is a graphic designer from Vilanova i La Geltrú, a town near Barcelona (Spain), who divides his creativity in designs, illustrations, lettering and montion graphics. He has worked with studios as Xnografics or Gominola and has done designs for companies like Promsite, The Red Bull Music Academy, Music from Catalonia and Made in Bunch between others.

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Outerspace is a new space that born in Barcelona with the intention of become a neurological center in European streetwear. Integrated in the new trade show The Brandery that is going to be from the 7 to the 9th of July at Fira de Barcelona.



The show will be divided into two areas, each with its own identity. Sneaker show, under the guardianship of Sneaker Freaker, will be entirely focused on the world of sneakers with a dynamic and eclectic offer, faithful to the spirit which characterizes this world. Two different spaces will make this area a central meeting point. Sneaker Freaker Expo: Exhibition gallery of more than 500 hundreds sneakers from private collections of collectors all around the world. Stands/Show area: A selection of the best brands in sneakers will exhibit their products. Week After is the most exclusive area of the entire fair. Here the most cutting edge brands of the new generation, gaining in popularity and media support, will have a specific location restore themselves and spread their message. This will be the space dedicated for bloggers, artists, magazines and publications related to urban culture.

LatinLover is an international event that summons, explores and spreads the new trends of graphic design and contemporary local/global visual culture. Among its activities are exhibitions, conferences and launchings with the participation of designers like Patricio Oliver, Dr. Alderete, Idn Magazine or Fauna.

The festival seeks to generate a place of connection, participation and thinking in which outstanding figures of international visual creation can share their experiences and vision with the local creative community.

LatinLover is an open and free access initiative held by Andrés Bello University School of Design and Spain's Cultural Centre. It will take place during June 30th, July 1st, 2nd and 3rd at Spain's Cultural Centre’s facilities, located in Avenida Providencia 927, Providencia, Santiago, Chile.

This upcoming saturday the 20th of june the program of extreme sports and urban culture "6th Level" will broadcasts a report about Belio and its 10th anniversary. The report will consist of an interview with the editors of Belio, Javier and Pablo Iglesias, as well as the exclusive premiere of two snippets of motion graphic works created by the designer Osmangranda for Belio. Here we present the first complete piece in advance.

Saturday June 20th at 10:40 pm in “6th Level” by the spanish network laSexta television.

In parallel with the special Belio:029 X10 issue edition, Belio has organized an exhibition for the 10th anniversary of the magazine. The show compile a big selection of all new works by artists all over the world who have created a piece in homage to Belio´s special birthday. From graphic design to graffiti, throw illustration, photography or tattoo.

The exhibition aims to be traveling around different cities in the world at least for 2009 and 2010. These are the confirmed dates and venues for this year:

From July 17th to August 17th: APETIT GALLERY (Bilbao)
From September 11th to October 3rd: NEUROTITAN + BOX32 (Berlin)
From November 5th to 22nd: MISCELANEA + RAS (Barcelona)
From December 3rd to 27th: ESPACIO 8 (Madrid)

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After some months dealing with the devil Satone has found some time to show his art for first time in Bilbao, the german artist will present his new works and the book DY003:SatOne - Decisions in the SC gallery.



Satone is like a piece of industrial crafted his own style is a machine, and as such, their world of cohesion between the lines and spots that combined with his use of color make him a unique artist in the graffiti scene. But it also embodies the idea of the idyllic faithful creator of nodes that connect vectors inside and outside of a screen reaching the perfect harmony between design and art. Taking as inspiration the metropolitan area and industry, presents its reinterpretation by developing a language of her own, a reality reconfigured, which by now dreams of being authentic urban poetry.

He has been published in most journals and numerous graffiti art books. Satone has exhibited in over 10 countries around the globe (Germany, Canada, France...) and has done works for brands like Burton, Adidas and Langnese. In 2007 Belio Magazine compiled and published all his work for the Die Young Collection, This edition is nearly sold-out and you can still get one of the last copies in our online store.

The opening will be on friday, June 19. You can visit the exhibition until the day July 31. Do not miss it!

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London artists Addictive TV return to Spain in June, performing their audiovisual show at the Festival de las Artes de Castilla y León in Salamanca for the big outdoor closing party on Saturday 13th June, and for the fourth year running they headline the amazing Razzmatazz club in Barcelona on Saturday 20th June.

Known for their innovation in remixing films, Addictive TV are trail-blazers in the art of audio/video sampling. Using video turntables and laptops, their live sets are a total audiovisual experience driven by their fast paced audiovisual remixes and video mash-ups. They have just created a remix of newly released ‘The Sims 3’ game for EA.

Praised by creative innovators like Grandmaster Flash, Goldie, Stereo MC’s and the former Kraftwerk frontman Karl Bartos, the duo have performed in over 40 countries now. Addictive TV have also created web trailer for movies like Take the Lead, Iron Man, Slumdog Millionaire and Fast & Furious.



You can find a full article about them in the 028: Pop issue of Belio Magazine.