Paul Klee, famously, said, “A line is a dot that went for a walk….”

”Gone Wandering” is a collaborative project that presents free-transformation of found material into a ‘three-dimensional drawing’, to be experienced both mentally and physically. Through collaborating the artists attempt to push and pull the wandering line into unforeseen territories.

Gustav Wideberg (SE), second year student, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Fine Arts
Robin Wasch (NL), graduated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Fine Arts, 2009
Brendan Jaks (US), first year student, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Fine Arts

Please join us at the opening on 3 juli from 18:00 till 22:00

Up untill juli 18th the exhibition can be visited on Friday’s and Saturday’s from 15:00 till 19:00 or by appointment.

For further information Please mail contact@kindregards.nl

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With Kind Regards

I live in Milan but my hometown is called Pesaro, which is located in the center of Italy, more precisely I lived in a district called “Pantano” which means swamp/bog.
Pantano in the 90s was a place where many kids used to go to bars and gain their territory also by fighting and making graffiti crews.

As a kid these things constantly came to my mind. I still remember the most dangerous places to avoid because of the street fights or for the drug dealers businesses going on. I grew up seeing graffiti taking more and more place in my city, especially in the sewers, where the halls of fame were.

I later  moved to Milan to study, now it’s been about 4 years more or less, and I understand how the world works outside the province reality.

My passion for tattoos was born when i was a kid. At the age of 8 or 9, I remember seeing my mum getting tattooed her arms in the most traditional style you can imagine. The tattoo studio had these awesome old-school tattoo flash designs on the walls which totally caught my attention. Seeing those great drawings on my mum created a great desire to reproduce them on me; but the economic resources for my own tattoo gear have always been limited until a few years ago.

After seeing one more tattoo website, I finally decided to start by tattooing a parchment on my leg with a sewing needle and ink.
The day after I couldn’t sit still so i went out and bought a kit of those Chinese shit, and I immediately filled my knee of drawing not really giving a fuck of the hygienic or technical standards, I have to say.

Then, thanks to my friends who believed in me and “gave” me their legs, over time, I learned the basics and started from there.

My work comes from a personal collection of images and ideas that I see and that comes out by living. At this moment the medieval inocography, alchemical images and old school tattoos flash designs are my favorite things. Im also influenced by graffiti from the 80s, 50-60s horror album covers, or ugly airbrush designs seen in theme parks, every day I’m always looking for new images that stimulate me. I often take a layout from medieval engravings, and I begin to draw lines.

I sometimes work with watercolors and ink and other thin tips markers to create different hatches so then I can photocopy the work and spread them out!

Lately I’ve also started using the airbrush to make Jeans jacket patches, it’s a funny technique to learn so it is inevitable to make funny elements such as lightning and chrome skulls!

I’m really into people’s tattoo ideas on what they want to be done, and for me, this is a good starting point, because I find myself interested in drawing things that otherwise I would not do by myself. From a certain point of view it really helps to grow artistically, while for other projects I’m starting a personal work made with animated gifs and screenshots. Things close to the idea of digital folklore, which has since been my university thesis.

Currently I’m still working from home. In the near future I really would like to work in a tattoo studio, so i can have the possibility to learn more techniques and tattoo culture that I realize, by myself, it would take ages to be discovered.

You can find more work here

Select photos courtesy of Edoardo Pasero and Robots Revenge

Look out for future projects by Kind Regards with Giacomo Luchena.

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A blend of music and graffiti reminiscent of the 80′s from Italian writer PILCHI, more here

On May 22nd, he opened a solo exhibition in Atipaña Art Space. The space is located in Sopocachi, a neighbourhood in the center of La Paz, Bolivia.

Kind Regards caught up briefly with the busy Luciano to get the lowdown on his latest show…

KR: Why did you choose to exhibit in La Paz?
LC: It was very important for me to make a show in La Paz since it’s my hometown. I left my heart here since the first time I left from here.

KR: What was the inspiration behind the works featured in your show?
LC: The theme of all works is basically stuff that I see when I think of La Paz or the City of El Alto (ghetto of Lapaz and home of Luciano). I tried to show the city how I see it with my own eyes – chaotic, simple. Traffic, transit and all the buses is a very important thing in this city which is why I tried to paint them as well.

I have also tried to include typical Bolivian products found in shops.

The “Lago Titicaca” (Lake Titicaca) here is a holy lake with special power, which is something I also wanted to capture in my work.

KR: Tell us more about the work itself and how you presented it?
LC: The show features a mix of photography, paintings are mixed media made using different markers and acrylic color on plywood reinforced with stronger wood.

The sizes vary between 120cmx120cm  and A4. I also included pieces which capture some typical lettering from bus signs (including the destination names).

A run of 30 t-shirts were also made to coincide with the show (all of which sold at the opening).

The show will run from May 22nd – June 5th.

More information on the artist can be found here: http://www.lucianocalderon.com/

BK2B
Time  21 – 27 may 2010
Opening 21 may, 5 – 22 pm
Location Kind Regards

The working method for this group project was based on the children’s game “Chinese Whispers”. This is usually played by a group sat in a circle and starts when one person whispers a short phrase to their neighbor. That neighbor then whispers what they thought they heard to the next one, and so on, until it reaches the person who started, who then announces to the group what the original phrase was. The last person then reveals what the phrase has transformed into through the chain of misunderstandings.

For this project the first participant wrote down a “whisper” and passed it on to the next who used this material as a point of departure to create a work for this exhibition. That participant then wrote down their idea as a reaction to the phrase they were given and the work it produced, and passed it on to the next artist.
And so on.
BK2B applied this method to their artistic process since it serves the intention central to their basic concept – which was to create a group process in which the works were linked and the artists influenced each other.

The works from this process will be on view for the first time at this exhibition, inviting the audience to investigate the workings of this chain reaction and its underlying relations.

Participants:
Re’em Aharoni, Haviv Ajzenberg, Jeppe Lauge, Felicia v. Zweigbergk
Duarte Castel Branco, Simeon Cieslinski, Lena Glucksman-Nilsson, Nervous Neighbour, Lisa Jacobs, Ewa Rocco K Kenell, Yukari Matsumoto, Alejandra Silva, Robert Alex Petersen, Alfa Rós Pétursdóttir, Allan Rand, Linn-Marie Staalnacke, Kristina Schroeder, Rosalie Vos, Mr. Masaharu

from several blogs, sites, flickrs, tumblrs etc.