Choque Cultural News

Choque @ MASP

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:21:00 +0000

For months Choque Cultural gallery have been preparing for an important show which they were asked to curate at MASP – The Musuem of Contemporary Art in Sao Paulo. The result are spectacular from some of my favourite artists such as Carlos Dias, Ramon Martins, Zezao and Titifreak. Opens November 19th for three months.

Kid Acne

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:43:00 +0000

Since January's Creative Review magazine write up, artists have been lining up to work with Grafica Fidalga (our friendly Woodtype printers). Especially if an artist is visiting Sao Paulo and Choque Cultural Gallery. Sheffield's Kid Acne produced two great prints using Woodtype text to say "Melhor Que Nada" - better than nothing and "Já vi pior" - I've seen better. On top of the type are then printed two of Acne's famous warrior girl characters in four screenprinted colours.

New shows in September

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:29:00 +0000

This September we have three fantastic new shows from MZK, Rubens Matuck and Nove. Nove's work being a particular favourite of mine.

Calligraphy Show

Fri, 01 May 2009 14:30:00 +0000

New show at Choque Cultural one of our most exciting to date, features artists all over the world with one theme - Calligraphy...

choquecultural.com.br/blogs/caligrafia

Artists include:
ANDREA BRANCO (São Paulo)
ATSUO (Kyoto/Japão)
BILLY ARGEL (São Paulo)
BINHO (São Paulo)
BRUCE BISHOP (Los Angeles)
BUIA (São Paulo)
CASPER (Osaka/Japão)
CHIVITZ (São Paulo)
CLAUDIO GIL (Rio de Janeiro)
CRAIG “KR” COSTELLO (New York)
DICE (Osaka/Japão)
DIMITRY OSKES (Russia)
DIONR (São Paulo/Porto Alegre)
DOES (Santo André)
EINE (Londres/UK)
FEFE TALAVERA (São Paulo / Madrid)
IVAN (São Paulo/Hungria)
JORGE GALVÃO (Curitiba)
JUN MATSUI (São Paulo/Japão)
LOOMIT (Munique/Alemanha)
LUCA BARCELLONA (Milão)
MAGOO FELIX (São Paulo)
MARKONE (São Paulo)
NOVE (São Paulo)
ONIO (Brasília)
PEDRO INOUE (São Paulo)
PIFO (São Paulo/Tókio)
PINGARILHO (Porto Alegre)
PRESTO (São Paulo)
HONZA (Praga/Republica Checa)
RUBENS MATUCK (São Paulo)
STEPHAN DOISTCHINOFF (São Paulo)
TONY DEMARCO (São Paulo)
TRAMPO (Porto Alegre)
TRISTAN EATON (New York)
WHIP (São Paulo)
and more...
Some amazing original pieces available.

A Forca da Rua

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:08:00 +0000

The ABC Trust presents A Força da Rua (Force of the Street), an exclusive contemporary street art project bringing together 12 of the finest artists from Brazil and the UK, including Titifreak, Inkie, Speto and Tinho, who have each created a unique piece of art that will help raise funds and awareness for Brazil’s most vulnerable children.

Choque Cultural has collaborated with ABC to coordinate and support this project.

www.forceofthestreet.com/events.htm

With exclusive prints available here..

www.forceofthestreet.com/prints.htm

LA show

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:44:00 +0000

On February 28th, Choque Cultural Gallery in association with Jonathan LeVine Gallery, presents SÃO PAULO a group exhibition featuring a number of Brazilian street artists at the SCION Space in Los Angeles. Participating artists include: Stephan Doitschinoff (aka Calma), Carlos Dias, MZK, Ramon Martins, Silvana Mello, Speto, Titi Freak and Zezão.

A few of the exhibiting artists will be in attendance.

www.scion.com/space

Creative Review

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:13:00 +0000

We are excited to have participated with the cover of the January Issue of Creative Review. See full story here...

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/cr-january-made-in-brazil

In the issue also is an article about our new Xirigravuras book and our new prints

New woodcut prints

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:13:00 +0000

As well as the production of the amazing Xirugravuras book, Choque Cultural have been busy working on new original prints. Some have been produced using the woodcuts and or a mixture with traditional Lambe Lambe woodblock print techniques. These include two prints by Derlon and one each by Daniel Melim and Jaca.

Also coming soon in stock new prints by Ramon Martins and Carlos Dias to name a few. Pictured: Print by Derlon, 50 x 70cm on traditional Lambe Lambe paper.

Please Email for sales enquiries.

Xirugravuras

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:51:00 +0000

We are proud to announce the launch of XIRUGRAVURAS our second artbook production.

Containing 28 original woodcuts created by 26 artists from the southern region of Brazil, it is hand bound and limited to a numbered edition of 400. All hand printed in a letterpress machine. 48 x 33 cm hardcover.

‘Xiru’ means bro, from brother, old fella, good friend, in the traditional way to speak, mixing the slangs of native origins with the traditional from Rio Grande do Sul state. ‘Gravuras’ means artistic woodcut.

A book made between art and friendship. Now in stock.

Illustrators Show

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:47:00 +0000

ILUSTRADORES is a review of the state of illustration in Brasil. This is unique exhibition with a huge range of established names and younger exponents of illustration. Including historical masters of this genre; Rubens Matuck, Mariza Days Coast, Alan Voss, Orlando, Líbero and Jaca. From a very long list of contributors will also be; Speto, Calma, Rafael Coutinho, Magoo, Danielone, Ete, Fabio Cobiaco, Schiavon, Marisa, Daniel Bileu, Jurubis, Whip, Carlinha Barth, SHN and MZK

Expect to find installations by Whip and Stephan Doitschinoff and all manner of sculptures, objects, ceramics and paintings by the assembled artists covering the walls. This is one jam packed show!

Choque Cultural will also be launching the incredible Xirugravuras book-object!, hand bound, it contains 28 woodcuts created by 26 artists from the southern region of Brazil.
Limited edition (400 numbered. All hand printed in a letterpress machine.

Runs from 8th November until 24th December

Trimassa collective show

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:52:00 +0000

Choque Cultural shows the urban art of brazilian's southern city of Porto Alegre, through its most illustrious representatives.
From graffiti to tattoos, comics and illustration, most of these talents have already been shown in the gallery and have, as a common feature a great sense of refinement.
Together, they don’t represent a "school" or "artistic movement", but all the artists in this collective are open to exchange experiences and influence each other.
The set is very impressive!

September 20 - October 31

Zosen and Kafre prints

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:37:00 +0000

We are proud to present two new prints with two great street artists from Barcelona - Zosen and Kafre. These artists often work together and have been particular favourites of Choque's for a long time. Zosen has visited the gallery in Sao Paulo and has spent some time working there.

The prints reflect their typical styles of work:- Black and gold, medieval inspired designs by Kafre; Fluorescent bold heraldic shapes by Zosen. A little explaination about Zosen's print - Samisdat - Samizdat was a system in the Soviet-bloc countries wherein people clandestinely printed and distributed government-suppressed literature. It can be taken to mean "Do it yourself"

Pop Revisted

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:18:00 +0000

Our current show at Choque Cultural, Sao Paulo is called Pop Revisted. For the first time we are presenting artists from the UK with individual shows by Gerald Laing, one of the UK's most significant Pop artists and John Simpson, an up-and-coming artist and printmaker. The show in association with Ocontemporary Gallery, UK. Alongside these two British artists is a solo show from Daniel Melim and small group exhibition, the aim of the show is to draw parallels between Pop art and contemporary "Urban Art".

choquecultural.com.br/blogs/exhibitions

www.ocontemporary.co.uk

Titifreak at Instituto Tomie Ohtake

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:22:00 +0000

Today I was lucky enough to visit the Tomie Ohtake Institute in Sao Paulo. To celebrate a 100 years of Japanese Immigration in Brazil this contemporary art museum (which is an amazing building - www.institutotomieohtake.org.br was presenting an outstanding show of Japanese art. The show included works by famous Japanese and Japanese/Brazilian artists from the last hundred years, to include traditional styles, modernism, manga - right up to the present day. Titifreak was invited to represent his work with an outstanding installation taking up one whole wall. Taking photographs was not allowed so I found some on Titifreak's blog that show the piece, although they don't do it justice - Outstanding work!

www.tfreak.com/exhibitions.php

Travels with Remed

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:44:00 +0000

Although he is originally from France, Remed has been adopted into the Choque Cultural family as he has spent much of his time in Sao Paulo over the last two years. We are very pleased to present his first print with us, which was created in response to his travels and time in the city.

Remed's work is often involved with word play and well as image play. In this print words mixes around some Portuguese words. Adora - Agora - Love - Now.
Alegria! - Happiness!

Daniel Melim at Cans Festival

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:18:00 +0000

Daniel Melim was one of the artists invited to the cans festival in London last week. The response was incredible!

www.thecansfestival.com

Daniel Melim and Speto show at Ocontemporary

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:11:00 +0000

Daniel Melim and Speto double-headed show at Ocontemporary gallery in Brighton.
Not to be missed collaborative show on until 18th of May...

El Tono print

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:29:00 +0000

El Tono is one of Spain's most interesting street artists.

www.eltono.com/blog

He recently made a small art tour of South America, putting on shows and creating works on the street. As part of his tour he visited Choque Cultural gallery. Choque gallery in turn introduced him to one of the last surviving woodblock printers in Sao Paulo. Together we produced a number of prints using traditional techniques. Some of the prints were used as part of installations on cheap coloured paper a small collectors edition was printed on heavy weight paper. We have a small number of both available.

Bruno 9li

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:10:00 +0000

Finally the long awaited Bruno 9li prints are here and in stock.

For more info you read more here -
www.bruno9li.com

Bruno's work has been extremely successful with shows in Barcelona and San Jose.
His limited edition book with Rojo also sold out in a matter of months.

Here's some youtubing from the book for a taste of his work...

Ramon paints Choque

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:29:00 +0000

One of our favourite painters Ramon Martins has just painted the front of our gallery. You can see more here - www.flickr.com/photos/ramonmartins/2133617204

His new "Bunny Cloud" print is also now available. We expect to be seeing a lot more from Ramon in 2008!