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great line-up! Good to see the dutch are represented! Love his work! one of my faves is this:

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THANKS GUYS ! gearing up to be quite a year and hard to believe we're 15yrs old. Unruly teenager time, we'll be digging deep into DIY and PUNK's influence on the culture and how it developed from content to form and back again. Some great speakers and artists lined up and out.

The full schedule for this year's conference will be released early next week but the theme for this year is Situationism and Play i.e. taking a less critical-theory based approach to street interventions and looking at the ludic tendencies in street art/culture. With it being the festival's 15th Anniversary we thought it a good time to take stock and assess how the movement has evolved over this period, particularly in light of increasing academic and commercial interest in the genre. The DIY tradition practiced by the likes of Jamie Reid, Futura and Martha Cooper provides a particularly interesting frame of reference for this debate, and their presence alongside the likes of Ernest Zacharevic, Ella & Pitr and Bortusk Leer etc. sketches out a nice lineage too.

Anyway, here's the first press release for anyone interested.

Beneath the paving stones, the beach

NUART FESTIVAL 2015 – FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
Festival: 3 – 5 September; Exhibition: 6 September - 11 October

Celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, Nuart Festival - the world’s leading celebration of street art - will take place on the first week of September, 2015.

For the fifteenth year running, renowned artists from around the world will descend upon Stavanger, Norway with murals, installations and interventions popping up across the city. Tou Scene centre for contemporary arts, a former 19th century brewery, will host the festival’s indoor exhibition.

Nuart Plus, the festival’s annual symposium of academic and industry debates, artist presentations and film screenings will take place at Scandic Stavanger City hotel from Thursday 3 – Saturday 5 September. Here, key figures such as Evan Pricco (Juxtapoz), Jaime Rojo and Steven Harrington (Brooklyn Street Art) and critic and author Carlo McCormick will come together with artists and academics to delve into the culture’s roots and reflect on its place within the wider contemporary art canon. The three day programme is open to everyone, free of charge, and central to Nuart’s efforts to encourage critical discourse around street art in an accessible and democratic way.

Alongside the recurrent theme of Situationism, this year’s festival will explore notions of play and the ludic tendencies within street art and urban culture. From Jamie Reid - pioneer of the punk visual aesthetic - to conceptual artist Harmen de Hoop, photographer Martha Cooper and abstract graffiti pioneer Futura, leading practitioners from across the spectrum of street art will demonstrate how they approach their craft within the subject of play.

Nuart’s education programme - the largest street art education programme in the world - reaches out to over 2,600 children to teach them how to make their own artwork using techniques such as stencilling and wheatpasting. Devised in partnership with Den kulturelle skolesekken (a Government funded initiative for art and culture), the programme aims to inspire the next generation of street artists, thus ensuring the culture’s sustainability.

Founder and Director, Martyn Reed says:

“The focus of this year’s festival is once again Situationism, which initially inspired punk and more latterly the street art and activist movements we see today. We’re looking to establish where the culture of street art comes from and where it could potentially go: we want to get deeper and attach this culture to a long tradition of unsanctioned creativity on the streets, so that the powers that be don’t brand it as a “fad” as they did with graffiti in the 1980’s. The DIY aspects of Situationism, punk, graffiti and street art are closely aligned with traditions of play, and their connection all the more pertinent this year with the likes of Jamie Reid and Futura confirmed.”

Nuart is initiating a number of satellite projects to mark the festival’s landmark 15th Anniversary:

In collaboration with the newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad, Nuart will launch The Aftenblad Wall: a 6m x 3m billboard erected in the east of the city and a new permanent site for art in Stavanger. Contemporary artists unaccustomed to working in the streets will be invited to adopt the scale and visibility of advertising to present their work in the public domain, with Canada’s Sandra Chevrier the first participating artist.

Nuart is also attempting a world’s first with the French artists Ella & Pitr who, alongside partners Block Berge Bygg, are set to create the world’s largest outdoor mural in Klepp on the outskirts of Stavanger. The finished work will cover 21,000m2, the equivalent of 5 football pitches.

Join us in celebrating 15 groundbreaking years: both for Nuart and the thriving, important and enduring art form we represent.

A full programme of events and schedule will be announced in the coming weeks. In the meantime, please visit www.nuartfestival.no for more information on this year’s artists and check back soon for updates on Nuart Plus, workshops, street art walks and satellite projects.

For interview and image requests please contact:

Martyn Reed : Founder, Director, Curator
James Finucane : Manager
Sesella Knutsvik : Festival Coordinator


Nuart Festival 2015 artists:

Bordalo II (PT), Bortusk Leer (UK), Dolk (NO), Dotdotdot (NO), Ella & Pitr (FR), Ernest Zacharevic (LT), Futura (US), Harmen de Hoop (NL), Icy & Sot (IR), Isaac Cordal (ES), Jamie Reid (UK), Martha Cooper (US), Martin Whatson (NO), Outings Project (FR), Pejac (ES), Pixelpancho (IT)

Introducing The Aftenblad Wall, with Sandra Chevrier (CA)

Exhibition opening dates:
Saturday 5 September at 19:00, Tou Scene
Exhibition period: Sunday 6 September – Sunday 11 October
Opening hours: Wednesday – Friday 12:00 to 17:00 / Saturdays and Sundays 11:00 to 16:00
Closed Monday and Tuesday
Entrance fee: 70kr adults/40kr concessions

Website: www.nuartfestival.no
Facebook: www.facebook.com/nuartfestival
Instagram: www.instagram.com/nuartfestival
Twitter: www.twitter.com/nuartfestival

[gab]

Great line up!!!! Last year was my first and for sure not the last:)

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Sneak peak of one of the upcoming prints in the Nuart Anniversary Boxset, this from Futura. 15 years, 15 Prints. Anniversary Boxset, limited to 100 sets. Join the Nuart Festival FB event and our instagram pages to receive news first.

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If anyone is considering going to this, then stop considering and get booking!
We booked one of the cheapest rooms in one of the cheapest hotels today.
There were two rooms left.
Everywhere is filling up fast.
I couldn't of wanted for a better holiday this year, and can't wait for my first visit to Norway!

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Terrific, drop us a message when you get in mate.

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A radical departure for Norway's DOLK for Nuart Festival. These murals, based on the "buff" mark and abstract expressionism will form part of a global series of new works spanning from Norway to New Delhi.

[Ottomatik]

^^^^^^^

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Aug 21, 2015 21:53:18 GMT 1 @martedanielsen said:

Terrific, drop us a message when you get in mate.

Cheers!

[natstan]

A bold and unexpected change for dolk, though nothing too exciting.

[Henrik]

I think its really fresh, looking forward to seeing more of dolks new work. Suprised that it hasnt gotten more attention on the forum, probably because of the hype around dismaland.

[danbongo]

Aug 23, 2015 12:46:55 GMT 1 Henrik said:

I think its really fresh, looking forward to seeing more of dolks new work. Suprised that it hasnt gotten more attention on the forum, probably because of the hype around dismaland.

As a concept it's been done better

it's surprisingly awful if I'm honest, good luck to him I hope he finds a path that works for him

[Ottomatik]

Aug 23, 2015 12:46:55 GMT 1 Henrik said:

I think its really fresh, looking forward to seeing more of dolks new work. Suprised that it hasnt gotten more attention on the forum, probably because of the hype around dismaland.

May be a great thing that it's not getting attention.
Not sure that many will feel the same way you do about his 'new' work.

[11]

Is he actually painting anything under 'the buff' otherwise (for me) it isn't even a 'buff', Just a bad roller job

This has some attraction to it but the rest.....scratches head and doesn't really know what to say 

[diogoo]

I'm with 11 regarding this "new" works by Dolk.
Actually I'm more interested in seeing what Bordalo II and Ernest Zacharevic have prepared.

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Whilst Dolk is killing Stencil Art, Ella & Pitr (FR) are just finishing off the worlds largest mural ?

[tab1]

this is what happens when you take away the stencil and rely on free hand and thought from stencil artists!

bit of pun here , the one thing with his past works were he thought up the concepts and drew images from scratch rather than just copy a image which alot of stencil artists do .

suppose with  the success of the last 4 years he can afford to have freedom in his ideas , if this new work translates to prints , the current edition number of 300 needs to be -250

[bsimkin]

I almost spit my coffee out looking at these new 'works.' Don't know if that's the reaction Dolk is looking for, but quite frankly, don't know what he's thinking with this direction. The downward trajectory in his career continues.

[Jeezuz Jones Snr]

Aug 24, 2015 19:25:03 GMT 1 tab1 said:

this is what happens when you take away the stencil and rely on free hand and thought from stencil artists!

bit of pun here , the one thing with his past works were he thought up the concepts and drew images from scratch rather than just copy a image which alot of stencil artists do .

suppose with  the success of the last 4 years he can afford to have freedom in his ideas , if this new work translates to prints , the current edition number of 300 needs to be -250

Good post

[bone]

Hot garbage

[natstan]

We should have seen it coming. Anyone recall 3 x chief? This 'new style' is god awful.

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Dotdotdot

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Ella & Pitr

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Martyn Whatson

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Oh, and apparently, the world's largest mural.

www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-worlds-largest-outdoor-mural-pops-up-in-norway_55e066b0e4b0b7a9633896d0

[cyberkid]

Aug 22, 2015 1:04:12 GMT 1 Ottomatik said:

^^^^^^^

YEEEEEEEAH !!! :-)))

[tas]

Love Pejac's mural for Nuart! Pictures below for those without Facebook.

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Kept this a little on the down-low for obvious reasons.

RELEASED TONIGHT 1900HR AT THE OPENING OF NUART FESTIVAL.
15 years, 15 artists. An exclusive boxset limited to just 100 copies to celebrate 15 years of the Nuart Festival.

Boxsize : 33 x 33cm
Print Size : 30 x 30cm


Jamie Reid, Futura, Isaac Cordal, Mobstr, Martha Cooper, Pixel Pancho, Bortusk Leer, Icy & Sot, Sandra Chevrier, Ella & Pitr, Fra Biancoshock, Dotmasters, Martin Whatson (Handfinsihed), Dotdotdot, M-City (Original work).

Price : 8500Kr/675 GBP + 5% tax for the full set.

First come first served on boxes left over after opening night. [e-mail] to reserve.

At this price, it's a no brainer.

Boxset 2015 by Martyn Reed, on Flickr

[Bamboo Charcoal]

I just want the Futura. Anybody?