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.
