Clemens Behr Black White Everything (and Me)

16.03.2010 - 30.04.2010
Clemens Behr works and experiments within space. His installations seem to take over the place, they are spontaneously build in. Mainly with cardboard, tape, garbagebags and other cheap or found material, he is trying to transform the room he works in. Through simple geometric shapes, the visitor experiences casual confusions of 2D painted and 3D existing objects. Behr mostly chooses material which originally has been made for other purposes and materials he can always rely on. Paper and tapes are cheap, always available, quickly to process, and work without electricity and malfunctions. With an easy folding technique, he quickly processes paper and fills the space with origami-like sculptures, which always relate to the given appearance of the space itself. His works can not only be found in galleries, they also pop up in public places like streets, the metro, or even outside of cities in woods or fields.

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Alex McLeod Imperial Lands

16.02.2010 - 11.03.2010
Alex McLeod creates 3D landscapes that make you want to live in them. The work is focused on the transformation of matter, and the cycle of life. His candy coated compositions combined with his sense of style, have quickly gained him international recognition. He has been included on countless blogs, including that of rapper Kanye West and numerous upcoming exhibitions worldwide including; San Jose, Toronto, Sao Paulo, and San Francisco.
The works in "Imperial Lands" were all built as, ‘virtual installations, which illustrate the idea of life cycles.’ Alex aims to simulate the idea of recycled matter, and the interconnectedness of all living things through their molecular history. Voluminous smoke stacks and grass emit from bone, while coniferous trees are stripped of their natural colour to instead share the same surface. "Imperial Lands" is displayed in LED backlit ultrathin aluminium boxes, unique pieces of art to present the first landscapes on electronic imperial acid artshow.

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Yomar Augusto & Pixotosco Caligrafia Urbana

12.01.2009 - 11.02.2010
Yomar Augusto is a brazilian artist, graphic and type designer, based in The Netherlands since 2004. Yomar Augusto aims to mix hand made work and digital media with strong typography approach. Using old post cards, old book pages and silk panels, Yomar's new work will be an exploration between silkscreen and calligraphy on different kind of materials.

Tony de Marco a.k.a. Pixotosco blends type design “haute couture” with the savage letters from his hometown, São Paulo. His series “Autropelo” subverts the “pixação” codes, overlaying messages to focus its impact. Tony is a fine artist, type designer and photographer. Hard line, romantic, agitated, former shy (worst than former smokers), gambler, dyslexic, generous, egocentric, brass faced, caring, devil's advocate.

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{ths} For All is Vanity

24.11.2009 - 18.12.2009
The pursuit of truth, absurdity of morality and irony of inhibition is the content of {ths} new show ‘For All is Vanity’ and follows his ‘Trash urban warfare porn dirt style pop’ style. His new canvases are the continuation of his 'Gluebooks', a selection of sketchbooks containing collage and filled with handwriting, rawness, dirt & pornographic images. His new work feels like a gigantic resized version of his Gluebooks from paper to canvas. An enlargement both in size and insanity. Hail to the King, Baby.

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Petrus Grapart Group Show

16.11.2009 - 20.11.2009
Exposición de las 25 obras seleccionadas en la convocatoria del concurso Grapart de Petrus. La relación del arte con materiales no convencionales, así como con objetos de la cultura popular o industriales da pie a Grapart, término acuñado por el artista plástico David Hernández (Limow) para denominar obras realizadas con grapas como principal elemento. La exposición se enmarca dentro de los actos de celebración del 50 aniversario de la grapadora 226 y el taladro 52 de Petrus.

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Juju's Delivery Destroy All Monsters

13.10.2009 - 03.11.2009
Second stage of her solo exhibition mini-tour for Juju's Delivery, aka Barcelona-based german artist Julia Schonlau. Over 40 new drawings with their unmistakably essential and direct strokes. Juju's Delivery on Destroy All Monsters: "We create monsters to materialise our nebulous feeling of angst. And to control our fear we chasten our negative emotions and fight the monsters. But it is a fight which can not be won, as long as you fight something you acknowledge its very existence".

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WrenchMonkees Gorilla Punch

01.09.2009 - 06.10.2009
Built by Copenhagen motorcycle collective WrenchMonkees, "Gorilla Punch" was created to be part of an exhibition in the Danish Museum of Art and Design. WrenchMonkees builds bikes to ride everyday. Simple, mechanical expressions, unique custom bikes for people who love riding motorcycles. The approach applied by WrenchMonkees with their customs is very special, working from found or donated motorcycles to create low budget, but highly original unique motorcycles. "Gorilla Punch" is no exception, using a stock engine and frame, but also using pieces from other bikes, achieves great results. An atypical art exhibition to show a very atypical mechanical sculpture.

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Defi Eat

07.07.2009 - 04.08.2009
A line that becomes more and more simple but full of expression takes us quietly into Defi's new fantasy. "Eat" is here to spread colors and needs. Overfeed us with nothing. To freeze all moments in front of us. Animals, objects, sensations that desperate need to go out and take on the street, are now fixed and locked up. They are mutating and searching their own materia, where to be comfortable, to be voracious, to feed on the viewer´s reactions. Inspiration is so simple and real as hunger. I can´t get no satisfaction.

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Wagner Pinto Floating

09.06.2009 - 30.06.2009
Wagner Pinto presents his own pictorial world for the first time out of his home country, Brazil, in a Eurotour of 3 complementary solo shows (London, Barcelona and Milano), entitled "Floating", to present drawings, paintings and silk-screen prints inspired by the act of believe and faith, in different religious and folklore´s concepts materializing imaginary situations, mental impulses and fine energies which are represented by the artist vocabulary which brings out the forces of the nature, "orixas" mythology, "candomble" religious icons and the mistery about the "Ayahuasca" culture.

To Wagner Pinto, this sensory universe is an inexhaustible source of possibilities that fills in the imagination and makes possible an original representation, without esthetic stereotypes, on a very common issue of brazilian culture. The shows will transform in a fertile and dreaming landscape free of any interpretation. The idea is bring up to the surface, to the senses and views of visitors a floating universe, where even waves of thoughts have a rhythm, harmony, body and color, becoming the invisible visible to human eye, and in this way, try to give a new direction to abstract art.

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Anton Unai Metomentodo

05.05.2009 - 05.06.2009
"I shall soon reach the moon with no projectiles aid. There shall be my Paradise, and I shall find the lost souls that I love. The philosophers. And they will look at me and say... Who are you to be among us?.. And I will say ¨I am Philosopher, Metaphysician, Rhymer, brawler and musician. Astronaut and dueler. Here lies Anton Unai, who is everything and nothing." In this his first solo show in Barcelona Unai´s presents a reflection of urban landscapes reinventing modern life garbage.

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®ocho número atómico

18.03.2008 - 24.05.2009
ROJO® cellebrates its 8th aniversary selecting more than 60 incredible artists to present "número atómico", the largest of the OCHO group exhibition series scheduled to take place this year, in different cities around the world. More than 150 artists are to be part of this ®artspace network world group show, that will run through world class galleries until August 2009.

Artwork by: Clayton Brothers, Tofer, Boris Hoppek, Mark Jenkins, Ric Stultz, Leah Tinari, Robert Hardgrave, Heiko Müller, Bruno 9li, Sergei Sviatchenko, Masha Krasnova-Shavaeba, Apo Fousek, Neasden Control Centre, Sergio Mora, Andrew James Jones, Superblast, April Gertler, Michel Ducourneau, Anna Taratiel, Sosaku Miyazaki, Carla Barth, Jon Burgerman, Talita Hoffmann, MWM, Wagner Pinto, Jorge Ochagavia, Pietari Posti, Chet Purtilar, Fupete, Defi, Fellowsisters, Filip Berendt, Antonio Bokel, Javier Tles, Claudio Parentela, Natalie Huth, Frank Kalero, Luca Palatresi, Lolo, Jeronimo Ruedi, Maria Donata Napoli, Motomichi, FKDL, Fillippo Minelli, Miguel Avecilla Varela, Ben Summers, Cristina Guitian, Nacho Tatjer, Limow, Fabrizio Contarino, Kareem Rizk, Mario Wagner, Anton Unai, Luke Chueh, Morgan Blair, Pancho Tolchinsky, Luigi Mora, James Roper, Gaston Liberto, Delphine Delas, Sitnie Waerts, Oriol Mora Grega, Benjamin Moore, Laurent Cairoli, Pandarosa, Yomar Augusto, Derrick Hodgson, Christian Rex Van Minnen, Alexander Egger.

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Justine Ashbee Electric Threads

10.02.2009 - 06.03.2009
"The amorphous entities and reaching tentacles emerge and take form much like the navigation of a surfer within a wave. These drawings are executed purely by hand, using Sharpie pens. I begin with a curve, from which lines and forms begin to emerge, evolve, morph, and grow organically, in an intuitive flow, while maintaining delicate, elegant precision. The methodology is rhythmic, spontaneous, and direct, reducing interference with mark-making. Much like zen calligraphy, they are improvisational, and intuitively composed, where the physicality and the mark making become one. I’m utilizing stark, amorphous lines to trace the movement and human experience of the non-linear and imaginational realms. Through this intuitive visual language, a negotiation of the visceral and everyday human experiences of beauty and pleasure, and feeling are given voice." Electric Threads is Justine Ashbee's first european solo exhibition.

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Eboy Pixorama

13.01.2009 - 04.02.2009
Pixorama is huge supercomplex urban scenes built out of hundred of parts which themselves are build with eBoy's magic object: the pixel. Pixorama is the culmination of a modular and object oriented work style that introduces reusability and remodulation of its atomic parts. Like the real cities, Pixoramas are living objects that constantly change and grow. Pixorama is not a comment but reality in itself.

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Diva Sol negro

09.12.2008 - 08.01.2009
Reflecting the current state of her artistic evolution, the series Sol Negro coincides with the launch of the new compilation book of the same name. Human birds and mammals which behave like insects, and humanoid hybrids donning aerial and aquatic vegetation. Solitary beings, mating beings and communal beings. Entities which unfold, ethereal and earthly at the same time. Fossilized, nourished by the matter of the world, rooted in the surface of the atmosphere, like an extension of the essential nature of perpetual flow. Bright specters, both material and intangible, which exist, and are possible, by depending on their inner sense of light, their vibrant bind which allows them to be, and to be seen.

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Meomi Color Cloud Seeding

11.11.2008 - 03.12.2008
Gardeners. Farmers. Warriors. Sowing. Planting. Harvesting. The land in the sky where creatures and monsters delight. Travel with Meomi to this world of fantastical vegetation and feathers. Fabric & paper prints. Painted wooden rain drops. Color seeds will drop into your eyes and sprout cloud trees.

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Anna Taratiel aka Ovni Orbitas

14.10.2008 - 04.11.2008
Ovni has a particular style of controling the spaces with her deformed figures twisted in thin and multicolored lines. She has already made two solo exhibitions in Lisbon and Milano this year, besides taking part of the Urban Affairs Festival in Berlin next to artists like Zosen, Kafre and Tom14. In her first solo show in Barcelona Anna Taratiel aka Ovni presents structured compositions born as infinite landscapes, dimensiones and colors, a true mix of organic and static shapes.

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Sosaku Miyazaki 4Panties

09.09.2008 - 02.10.2008
White, black, red, blue, yellow, green, pink, flash light, paint and cut and paste are the tools Sosaku Miyazaki uses in his latest solo show in order to transport us into a colorful world, introducing us to the lives of ordinary figures, dealing with the absurd and chaos of everyday life.

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Eltono Bermellón

08.07.2008 - 08.8.2008
To expose street art in a gallery is always delicate, outside its normal surroundings the work usually loses its sense. In order to solve this problem, Eltono always tries to create a relation between the street and the gallery. For the exhibition "Bermellón", the artist presents/displays collages of wood found in the streets of Barcelona which will use as the support to paint his "invertidos" inspired by art originally made in the streets. The "invertidos" paintings are inverted interpretations of original works that are in the public space, thus, the artist, works with the emptiness makes the reference to the original ones, without reproducing or falsifying them and simultaneously questioning the limits of outdoor and indoor exhibitions.

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Marcel.lí Antúnez Roca Hibridum Bestiarium

04.06.2008 - 04.07.2008
Hibridum Bestiarium presents for the first time "The Singing Instructor" interactive installation together with a superb amount of new drawings, mounted over a mural intervention that Marcel.lí will paint over the walls of the ®artspace gallery. This exhibition will also feature the release of Marcel.lí Antúnez's 240 pages monographic book published by ROJO®

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MWM 20/20

13.05.2008 - 30.05.2008
Matt W. Moore, painter, designer and illustrator, started with pencils, then spraypaint, then brush, and now also does digital topographical maps of his day dreams. The ideas, shapes, colors, and flow have been the same abstract ideas of a lifetime. The tools have changed... the vocabulary has grown, but the balance has not been lost. MWM's show is a personal celebration of his abstract art and design across disciplines and will feature a full 3D mural installation integrating new "Vectorfunk" works printed on textile and new paintings on canvas. Vernissage will also see the release of his first monographic book published by ROJO®.

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Albert Bertolin Amo a mi perro

08.04.2008 - 09.05.2008
Albert Bertolín's work is basically a detailed observation of the human behaviour. The subject is represented with simple elements but featuring many detail which makes it sink in the most banal and hedonist needs, represented as a grotesque circus, where different creatures kidnap human attitudes in order to represent with kind violence, the populated psycotic scene generated from loath, illusion and most obsesive desire. His first solo exhibition in Spain is a display of a full force selection of original artworks.

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Sergei Sviatchenko The Trip

04.03.2008 - 04.04.2008
Sergei's work might look confusing or surreal, but the recontextualisation of familiar everyday objects with the use of photography, graphics and sounds, in Sergei Sviatchenko’s hands, turn into scarp contoured, sculptural expressions. His first exhibition in Spain is a display of full force original collage artworks, together with the presentation of his monographic book entitled "Less" published by ROJO®.

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Nike Dunk ID Experience

25.02.2008 - 01.03.2008
NIKE opens a temporary shop inside ROJO®artspace Barcelona where you can buy virtually your pair of Dunks ID Exclusive.

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Laurent Cairoli Talking Mute

07.02.2008 - 01.03.2008
From silence to roar, motion to fixity, LC extends the metamorphosis and nails down the troublesome and innermost vibrations of the human soul in his series of portraits. Here the digital image - dull and immaterial in its appearance - is being impacted by the painter's stroke right to the pixel, echoing its immanent darkness.

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®out Vernissage

05.02.2008
Vernissage event of ROJO®out, International Outdoor Urban Art Exhibition sponsored by J&B.

Artwork by: Zosen, Chet Purtilar, Sosaku Miyazaki, MWM, Sakristan, Albert Bertolin, Diva, Jon Burgerman, Meomi, 310k, Evgeny Kiselev, Tofer, Cristiano Trindade, Jinyoung Shin, Sergei Sviatchenko.

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Fupete Punkie Totalista

09.01.2008 - 01.02.2008
Fupete, italian artist and regular ROJO® contributor presents an impressive display of talent in a new series of original artworks on canvas.

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Onitsuka Tiger shop

11.12.2007 - 20.12.2007
Onitsuka Tiger squats ROJO®artspace Barcelona and transform it in a big shop during 9 days, in order to make a wholesale of its actual collection.

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Hombre López Fotomatón

04.12.2007 - 04.01.2008
An exhibition of the different series from pictures, taken obsessively by Hombre Lopéz since 1999.

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Don't Sleep European Tour 2007

01.12.2007
A tour combining two of the UK’s most innovative, and exciting creative projects; Secret Wars & Daydream Network. The tour bus will travel for 30 days, a live showcase from the continents finest street artists, in 6 amazing venues across Europe.

Don't Sleep artists: Teck1, Jimi Crayon, The London Police, Wayne Horse, Morky, Wany one, bros, Alfa, Odisy, TV Boy, Inocuo, Dixon.

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Jon Burgerman Hypercolourphagia

08.11.2007 - 30.11.2007
A surprising collection of works that teeter dangerously along the point of palatable joyfulness and sickly overload, questioning notions of consumption and the folly's associated with over indulgence. Hand-drawn works are broken apart and deftly reassembled digitally, keeping the rawness of Burgerman's sketchbook scrawls whilst tempering them with a sugar encrusted pallet. A new collection of super saturated, frenzied textile prints exposed in a new format that allows you to adquire a limited edition print in any size you want.

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Sakristan Out of here

10.10.2007 - 03.11.2007
Life and works become a field of constant experimentation. Erasing the limits between aesthetic codes, artistic techniques and disciplines, the ideas and processes that appear in Sakristan's diaries jump from the pages to the real life and the other way around in a constant to go and back that it makes her artistic work inseparable of her vital experiences.

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Bruno 9li Tormenta

12.09.2007 - 06.10.2007
Everything boils in the flames of now - chaos, myths, streets, frenesi, trance, death and rebirth, what is natural and supernatural. The newest works by brazilian artist Bruno 9li.

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Riding Barcelona A Tale of Skate and Passion

05.09.2007 - 07.09.2007
Group photo exhibition, showing a selection of images taken by Sem Rubio, Patxi Pardiñas and Alberto Polo.

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Tofer Take Walks

05.07.2007 - 07.08.2007
An stounding compilation of explicit and usual day to day live pictures where Tofer scatters his memories, feelings and fantasies looking for a unique reaction on seduction and distress. A unique, exclusive limited edition essential to fans of the poetic urban & daily extreme. Photographies printed on textile exposed in gigantic format.''

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ROJO®egal head in the box

27.06.2007
Evento de presentación del nuevo número impreso de ROJO® que incluye trabajos de 31 artistas internacionales durante el finissage de la expo de Aya Kato en ROJO®artspace. Presentation event of ROJO®'s newest printed issue featuring new artwork by 31 international artists, happening during the finissage event of the Aya Kato's exhibition in ROJO®artspace.


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Aya Kato sleep traveler

31.05.2007 - 27.06.2007
Indefinite time heroes and warriors, inmense eye ladies of incomparable beauty, impossible love stories in dream places. Aya Kato's art exhibition will take you to a world that seems distant, but that lives inside each one of us. It is Aya Kato's first exhibition in Spain.

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