Tracing the Origins of TraseOne – From Pioneering Singapore Street Artist to Designer of a Cultural Community.Working with an international roster of artists, designers and fabricators we have the ability to manage nearly any scale project on any continent for any client. We specialize in utilizing public art programming to enhance projects and communities through cultural placemaking. With a focus on public installations, sculptures and mural projects, LeBasse Projects can design and develop public art programming that is both exciting and culturally relevant for nearly any size client or project. LeBasse Projects is an international arts consultancy that partners with its artists and clients inĭeveloping large scale experiential exhibitions and ideas. The gallery created large exhibitions with DALeast, Borondo, Alexis Diaz, Martin Whatson, Ben Eine, Agostino Iacurci… RexRomae was founded by Rom Levy. Gallery’s innovative schedule of pop-up exhibitions in vacant spaces across the world replicates the ephemeral ethos of urban art. RexRomae is an urban contemporary art gallery project that began in 2011 in London. He recently curated a section of “Urban Nation”, the first-ever Street Art Museum to open in Berlin. He is now based in Dubai and is working on Urban Art exhibition and mural projects worldwide. He is noted as one of the latest figures to help popularize street art and as an authority on the latest trends in urban contemporary art. He opened his first gallery in 2011 in London. In 2009, he launched the ‘StreetArtNews’ website to promote underground art, which widened his scope to work with a larger roster of street artists. Rom Levy has been involved with Urban Art for more than fifteen years as a writer, curator, dealer, and advisor. He use grey tones as a basis but add’s vibrant colours to break the monochrome concrete expression and bring a splash of life to his motives. His abstract graffiti and stencils are a mix of urban scenes showing the development of a walls lifetime. Inspired by artist like Jose Parlá and Cy Twombly. Into a more subtle expression blending graffiti, stencil art and decay together. His artistic expression started more political, but has developed This interest for decay has helped develop his style, motives and composition and he enjoys creating either unity or conflict between materials, backgrounds, He looks for inspirations in people, city landscapes, old buildings, graffiti, posters and decaying walls. Martin has a continuous urge to search for beauty in what is commonly dismissed as ugly, out of After following graffiti and its development, he started his own stencil production 10 years ago in the winter of 2004. Graphic design at Westerdals School of Communication, Oslo, he discovered stencils and the 1984) is a Norwegian born and based stencil artist. Playing with ideas of vandalization, urban art in “REVIVE” is a way toĭeconstruct the past and articulate the contrast between a commercially produced item and the memory it contains. This new body of work sees the prominent street artist call into question the expectations of urban art, by uprooting the medium from its urban context. Throughout his career he has examined the nature of contrasts. The spray can becomes a mode of theoretical obfuscation, warping the distance between centuries, and bringing to mind the work of surrealist artists such as Rene Magritte. This technique allows the found object to be decontextualized, by dismantling, obscuring and performing its original meaning – particularly the photograph. Black and white cameo portraits of Victoriana-era women are given spray painted masks in full colour. Furniture and vintage photographs sourced by Whatson from flea markets and auctions are ‘vandalized’ with graffiti. Found objects are reworked and repurposed to draw into question the individual status and collective value assigned to ‘raw materials’. The exhibition marks a new phase in the artist’s creative direction. “REVIVE” is curated by Rom Levy and supported by LeBasse Projects. His pieces appear in megalopolis like London, Paris, New-York, Las Vegas, Miami, Tokyo… Working primarily as a stencil artist over the past ten years, Whatson uses explosive color against greyscale backgrounds to challenge ideas of perception, possibility and imagination in the urban environment. This will be the artist’s largest and biggest exhibition to date with several installations and never seen paintings. “REVIVE” showcases a new series of work by Martin Whatson, a major name in the international street art scene, to be shown for the first time in Los Angeles. The opening reception takes place on Septemfrom 6pm to 9 pm and will be on view through October 8, 2017. RexRomae Gallery is proud to present a pop-up exhibition in Los Angeles showcasing brand new artworks of Norwegian stencil artist, Martin Whatson.
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