december event!

Street Art in Berlin - version 3.0
Kai Jacob's book release and photo exhibition

exhibition:

ALIAS (Berlin)

FREAK REVOLT Berlin (Mork, Grafro, EmaJones)


opening: friday 11th december from 18.00


X Lab Gallery meets Kai Jacob and his book about the Berlin street art.
The event will gather a collection of pictures to describe and celebrate the importance of this artform like a real, free and spontaneous action.
On 11th december X Lab will also presents the work of one the most clever stencil artist of the Berlin scene: ALIAS.
His pastings talk to the people about war, misery and other social themes simply realizing images of children and other emblematic figures, forcing people to think and reflect about.
Besides, in one only big exhibition will be exposed the original works of Freak Revolt, an artistic collective, which goal is to explore the idea of street art in different directions and using different recycled materials and surfaces.
(Discordant)

SUNDAY 6th dec.: from 10 am
SUNDAY EXTRAORDINAIRE!

XLAB will present his stand at XMAS FLOHMARKT at HBC Art Center
Karl-Liebknecht Strasse 9 Alexander Platz

A fantastic mixture of unfoundable collectors, useful utensils, creation generators, sharp clothings, intense items.
An indoor sunday event with awesome food, live acts, rock n roll and love to get you out of the sunday blur with care.


http://m.berlin.unlike.net/event_occurrences/107471-Sunday-Extraordinaire

TILF + TENIA exhibition photo report

more pics here:
http://www.flickr.com/xlabgallery

MINDELTILF

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NEXT EXHIBITION:
MINDELTILF

artìworks by TILF + TENIA

opening friday 13th november
from18.00

short videos projection: by Tilf
Disegni Matti fanzine new release



ElTilf is an italian artist, his school was the street, abandoned buildings,scraped walls, forgotten factories.
He paints over every kind of support and material, creating a perfect combination and harmony with the contest.
His intent is to leave a sign. Something visibile everymorning, on your way to work, a message readable by everyone.
At first he started drawing letters, then he developed his tecnique creating imaginary puppets, scary figures, dark charachters.
These expressions represent the sensations the city was giving him in that period, less freedom and more intollerance, heavyness, lack of spaces and colours.
From all this background is born MINDELTILF.


Tenia is born in 1983.
His creativity and his skillness don't come from an art school but from the street, where he has always experimented his tecniques.
He is part with TILF of the artistic collective Disegni Matti, presented at XLAB in a fanzine and in some videos made by Tilf.

PRE PUNK! opening - reportage

more pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/xlabgallery

light box ready!

PRE PUNK! the New York Music scene 1972-1977
photographs by Paul Zone
opening: 17th october 2009 h.18.00
until 10.11.09

The american photographer will present inedite photos of back stage and live concerts of young Blondie, Ramones, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed and many more from the New York undergound scene of the 70's.
The artist will be present during the opening to sign his books, meet the public and make interviews.
The day before he will be at Ramones Museum to present his books.

During the opening a selection of punk and new wave music by dj MATT SIMS ( Mount Sims) and BAROXMIX (Piatto Forte )


XLAB
CORROSIVE ART FARM
Skalitzer Str. 67
10997 BERLIN
www.xlaboratory.org


If i could hypothetically go back in time, I would choose the seventies, if I could choose where to spend my nights the choice would fall on New York City and in particular on the scene of musicians, artists, drug adicted, drag queen who used to met in Max's Kansas City at 213 Park Avenue South.Andy Warhol and his glittering and decadent court of miracles has made of this place the center of the New York underground life of that time. The stage of this american version of Cabaret Voltaire gave birth to great music realities like Debby Harry's Blondie and the Velvet Underground, and Paul Zone with his camera, member with his two older brothers of the band named the Fast, consacrated to immortality these seminal figures in the history of rock .
At the time he was studying photography at the high school and always used to bring with him his reflex, to capture emaciated faces and beautiful people close to him and concerts of bands that become essential figures for fans of rock and experimental music.
Attending, since the tender age of 11 years, cinema and music underground scene, filled with transvestites and drug dealers, Paul formed his character and his personality, for better or worse, conscious that he had a rare privilege. His shots reveales faces, uses and consumptions of most of the scenes' creative, crazy and cool aspects,among the subcultures.
He capture the period when the glitter and platform shoes left room for leather jackets and pins by mercy. The sparkle of glam scene started to get dirty in a rage and raw attitude of punk. From the New York Dolls to the Ramones. From the Stooges to Debbie Harry.

(Emanuele Sturlese)