®artspace Sao Paulo is back!

06.04.2010
After a short break from the non-stop 2 year successful partnership with POP in Sao Paulo, ROJO® is back with a new glamorous heavyweight partnership with 600, a superb brand new gallery space that holds several exhibition areas, a bookshop where you will be able to find all ROJO® publications available (seriously, all) and a huge backyard/playground to share your ideas with your friends while smoking those cigars no one lets you smoke while enjoying art events. The opening of the brand new ROJO®artspace Sao Paulo will see also the opening of the first solo show by Yusk Imai, a young brazilian artist, which will be the starting point of ROJO®'s "second coming" into Sao Paulo's art scene... so please be our guest, come by, say hi, check out Yusk's art, have a beer and enjoy!

®artspace Sao Paulo
Rua Maranhao 600, Higienopolis. 01240-000 Sao Paulo. Brazil
talk: +55 11 3512 3909 write: saopaulo@rojo-artspace.com

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Yusk Imai Born Into This

06.04.2010 - 08.05.2010
Born in 1982, Sao Paulo's Yusk Imai is an artist with roots in graffiti, who along side contemporaries is leading the way of a new Brazilian art movement. Typified by a style which transcends walls, canvases, streets and galleries while abandoning the preconceived notions that plague popular street art else where in the world, with a focus on expressive scenes, spiritual messages, rich and deep colors with a compositional style which is inspired by Art Nouveau.

After a short break from the non-stop 2 year successful partnership with POP in Sao Paulo, ROJO® is back with a new glamorous heavyweight partnership with 600, a superb brand new gallery space that holds several exhibition areas, a bookshop where you will be able to find all ROJO® publications available (seriously, all) and a huge backyard/playground to share your ideas with your friends while smoking those cigars no one lets you smoke while enjoying art events.

®artspace Sao Paulo
Rua Maranhao 600, Higienopolis. 01240-000 Sao Paulo. Brazil
talk: +55 11 3512 3909 write: saopaulo@rojo-artspace.com

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HuskMitNavn & Lydia Fong The Last Night

25.03.2010 – 28.04.2010
For this 37th exhibition at ALICE gallery, and for the very first time, Danish artist HuskMitNavn and American artist Lydia Fong will be presenting their latest work together. These two artists have built their reputation in the street, before being recognized by the art world. An East meets West get-together that’s been long awaited by many artists around the world. If HuskMitNavn shines by his talent, the American behind Lydia Fong is a true living legend, however pretentious this might seem to the non initiated.

®artspace Brussels
ALICE Gallery, 182 Rue A. Dansaert 1000 Brussels. Belgium
talk: +32 2 513 33 07 online: www.alicebxl.com

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The Invisible City Group Show

25.03.2010 - 08.04.2010
The Invisible City project explores the city not just as formed by physical space, but also as a collective construction, made up of the memories, desires and experiences of its inhabitants. The city should not be conceived as a unit but rather as the sum of its inhabitants’ multiple points of views which, all combined, create a multi-faceted perspective. Thus, the city is an aggregation of public and private spaces, from which emerges a shared identity allowing us to live in it. This project consists of a series of events, including a film screening accompanied by a live soundtrack, a workshop in public space, and an exhibition featuring work by visual artists from Barcelona (some of them artist residents or former residents from HANGAR visual arts production centre). These events will explore different forms of exchange and interaction between the city and its inhabitants. We will look into the perception and identity of contemporary cities, and at how art can influence their transformation, asking: Do we live in a real city or in the mirage of what it should be?

®artspace Helsinki
Myymälä2. Uudenmaankatu 23. 00120 Helsinki. Finland
talk: +358 41 7832327 online: www.myymala2.com

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Joseph Smolinski Beginning of the End

18.03.2010 - 17.04.2010
Mixed Greens is thrilled to present Joseph Smolinski’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. He will exhibit drawing, sculpture, and video related to the environment and the power struggles between nature and technology. This new body of work marks the expansion of Smolinski’s focus. Over the past few years, Smolinski created a world in which cellular communication towers disguised as trees infiltrated the landscape. There, technology proved victorious through these hybrid forms. In the new works, Smolinski visualizes a turning of the tide, where animals and nature play more active roles in their fate. A new series of drawings, titled Disconnected, directly pits animals against the parasitic cell-tower trees. Smolinski questions both the history and preservation of art and the environment as we exhaust our supply of cheap fuel. "Beginning of the End" brings these projects together to reflect on our current interactions with the landscape. It poses questions related to our constant struggle to control the environment and imagines an optimistic, though sometimes apocalyptic, view of the future.

®artspace New York City
Mixed Greens, 531 West 26th Street. NY 10001. New York City, USA.
talk: +1 212.331.8888. online: www.mixedgreens.com

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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.

®artspace Barcelona
ROJO®. Carrer Girona 61 Local 02, Eixample. 08009 Barcelona. Spain.
talk: +34 934 673 598 online: www.rojo-barcelona.com

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There is No Such Thing As a Good Painting About Nothing Group Show

12.03.2010 - 24.04.2010
The exhibition “There is No Such Thing As a Good Painting About Nothing“ focuses a comparable artistic habitus finding its provenance in graffiti and street culture. It is interesting to observe, that approximately 70 years later, in the early 21st century, three artists located in different countries developed their work independently from each other as a new form of abstract expressionism. They build upon the paradigms of graffiti writing and street art but distance themselves radically from established clichés. Ultimately, by doing so, they generate an avant-garde direction within the genre of urban art.

artists: Marco „Pho“ Grassi, Katrin Fridrik’s, Holly Thoburn.

®artspace Berlin
Circleculture Gallery. Gipsstrasse 11. 10119 Berlin-Mitte. Germany
talk: +49 30 275 81 78 86 online: www.circleculturegallery.com

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Mirabilia Group Show

11.03.2009 - 11.04.2009
To celebrate its second anniversary, ROJO®artspace Milano presents a group exhibition emblematically titled "Mirabilia". It brings togheter over 50 artists for a transversal overview of international contemporary creativity through painting, graphics, illustration, photography, sculpture, video, installation and visual poetry.

artists: Jon Burgerman, Gabriel Shalom, Atilo Navi, Toba Toba, Francesca Belgiojoso, Alexandra Nikolaev, Ester Negretti, Irina Kats, Giuseppe Romano, Egor Jagunov, Valentina Perego, Liana Ghukasyan, Luca Berto, Boris Hoppek, Mirko Canesi, Ignacia Moreno, Simone Gilard, Anna Boselli, Wagner Pinto, Giancarlo Onorato, Emanuel Jesse, Andy, Massimo Gurnari, Svitlana Grebenyuk, Francesca Jacchia, Felipe Cardena, Michele Guidarini, Irina Kats, Zak Andrea Zaccone, Ludmilla Radchenko, Flavio Carrera, eBoy, Elisa Pellacani, Eltono, Fupete, Fabio Presti, Evelyn de Las Alas, Marco Mozzato, Anna Taratiel, Sara Rupert, James Ropper, Emanuele Kabu, Roberto Castro, Juju's Delivery, Massimiliano Gatti, Marta Darder, Francesco Valtolina, Thomas Bee, guildor, {ths}, Elena Rapa, Bruno 9li, Danielericcardo Incerti e Angelo Ferreira de Sousa.

®artspace Milano
ROJO®. Via Tortona 17-19. 20144 Milano. Italy.
talk: + 39 02 894 230 87 online: www.rojo-milano.com

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Dante Horoiwa

Clayton Brothers

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Brandi Strickland

Matt Crookshank

Norman Mooney

Zhou Fan

Yoshi Sodeoka

John Millei

Shannon Taggart

Sofi Zezmer

Debra Hampton