VOV at STGCC 2013!

Vinyl on Vinyl will be at the Singapore Toy, Games and Comic Convention 2013 this August 31 - September 1, 2013, at booth F56! Visit the booth if you're near by!

ACCESS, A three-man show, next week, August 28, 2013, Wednesday!

Along with the hopes of a sunny day, catch ACCESS, a three-man show featuring Nemo, Blic and Bato, in Vinyl on Vinyl next week, August 28, 2013, Wednesday!

For now, stay safe everyone!

Communication has been the main soul of connection with one entity to another. A reality that enrich two edifice upon understanding each aspect involved; common goals, philosophy, feelings and other more complex matters such as religion and politics.

Language have been the contrivance for communication, conversing of people with each other made a bond on unifying insights and ideology, creating vast power that inhibits ties with each other. Art is also one bridge on this connection, from the artist's perspective to the interpretative minds of the viewer, color combination as well as intensity, the brightness of each stroke, the thickness and impact of lines, the vast meaning that will be processed within our brains upon experiencing these connections.

Three street and graffiti artists namely; NEMO, BLIC and BATO, members of Pilipinas Street Plan (PSP), merged to showcase these type of connections, with the sole reason of providing ideas as well as thoughts on what was happening within each one of them, different interpretation of their art, from their experiences on life as well as on streets, their ephemeral beauty which will provide the key to the doors of their creative and playful minds. Experience, translate and connect:access.  

THREE DAYS LEFT TIL HERAKUT!

SEVEN DAYS TO GO!

HERAKUT in MNL!

The popular German street art duo is coming to make their mark.

August 7 – 10, 2013

Beauty is a Sanctuary exhibit by HERAKUT.  Presented by Vinyl on Vinyl and Fully Booked.  August 8, 7pm VOV

HERA + AKUT = HERAKUT.

Herakut is a symbiosis of the aliases Hera and Akut, two graffiti artists from Frankfurt and Erfurt, Germany. Their collaboration started when they first met in 2004. Both were invited to paint at the Urban Art Festival Sevilla in Spain and before that time had only seen each other’s work in graffiti magazines. To everyone and themselves it was clear that despite the fact they both focused on character painting their styles had nothing in common whatsoever. And that has not changed a bit.

The differences in Hera’s and Akut’s ways of approaching art and the painting itself are vast. Akut started doing graffiti at the age of fourteen with no artistic background. The photorealism he spray paints today is self-taught and needs a bundle of preparations consisting of a concept that has been mapped out on the computer, high resolution photo-material and a predefined assortment of aerosol paints. If this is all set, Akut patiently assembles his characters dot by dot with one eye on the concept, the other on the wall, while blending out everything else.

Hera in contrast thinks that preparing a piece is to handcuff yourself. It ties your perception to the sketch and allows no space for the influence of the surrounding atmosphere or any immediate response to the wall as a very individual medium to paint on. Different from Akut who had experienced graffiti closely connected to the hip-hop culture, Hera just felt the urge to work big-dimensioned when she originally started to paint on walls in 2001. Therefore none of the unwritten rules and restrictions of the established graffiti scene had an impact on her work although another mental boundary did: As reaction to years of strict education of artistic techniques which Hera had received as a child, she today demands as much freedom as possible for intuition and spontaneity in a painting.

Two hardbound books documenting their work have been published and sold more than 10,000 copies. “Herakut – The Perfect Merge” in 2009 and “After The Laughter” in 2011. Approached as works of art, Herakut devoted themselves to every detail of each book, from layout and paper selection, to hand drawn details.

Herakut will be in Manila this August. Their schedule of activities is as follows:

August 7 Wednesday

4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Artist’s Talk and Q&A*

Faura AVR, Ateneo de Manila University

This talk is open to the public and requires pre-registration.

Please register here: http://goo.gl/6c3af2.

August 8 Thursday

2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Artist’s Talk and Q&A*

SDA Cinema, 12/F SDA Campus

De La Salle University – College of St. Benilde

This talk is open to DLSU-CSB students only.

7:00 pm onwards

BEAUTY IS A SANCTUARY

Exhibit Opening and Book Signing

Vinyl on Vinyl, The Collective

August 9 Friday

3:00 pm onwards

Watch HERAKUT paint a mural in the design section of Fully Booked.

The Bridgeway, 3/F Fully Booked Bonifacio High Street

August 10 Saturday

3:00 pm onwards

Live painting with HERAKUT and Anjo Bolarda, Rai Cruz, and Gabby Tiongson

Bonifacio High Street

This event is presented by Fully Booked and Vinyl on Vinyl.

RUNNING EXHIBIT: Homemade featuring the Abrigo brothers

Collaborative Emergence and the environment that surrounds it. By applying various sociopolitical and cultural themes such as urban decay resulting in poverty, overpopulation, and homelessness, the artists along with their individual styles create visual tension in an attempt 

The brothers Buen, Kris, and Frances Abrigo aim to present their own interpretations of craftsmanship as influenced by the physical form that constitutes the house 

to represent how those issues challenge creativity. They are highly influenced 

by the improvisational culture that is brought about by that which is inevitable--

the force of mother nature and that which is uncertain--humankind.

As true craftsmen and masters of improvisation, the brothers construct their art using the same carpentry techniques that are applied when building a home. Individual styles brought about by different artistic influences are curiously merged to depict the invention of emerging thought patterns.

Opposing elements such as calculation and improvisation allow the artists to explore the infinite possibilities of their craft using various materials related to homebuilding such as wood and paper. The calculated risk in the physical form is evident in 

each art. Static images playfully translate into 3 dimensions as an attempt to develop visual representations of intuitive motion. Finally, the involvement of artistic simulacra in the intentional use of distortion is used in an effort to reveal the obscure 

truths in our society. 

-Jill Adolfo

Get 'em while it's hot!

 Jon Burgerman's PENS ARE MY FRIENDS book 
will be available by Friday (July 26)! 

We will only have 20 copies!!! We are open for reservations! 2,500 php.