Written by timoi | 24 January 2012

THE BONE YARD PROJECT | PIMA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM | JANUARY 28 - MAY 31

 

The Bone Yard Project Videos:

 

THE BONE YARD PROJECT 2012 FEATURING RETNA, NUNCA, SANER, & HOW AND NOSM

 

SKIN

 

BONE

 

THE BONE YARD PROJECT TEASER 2011

 

Videos Shot, Cut, & Conceived By viejas del mercado (Medvin Sobio & 塚本清市)

 

Project Produced & Curated By Eric Firestone, Medvin Sobio, & Carlo McCormick

 

ARTISTS: Retna, Nunca (Brazil), Saner (Mexico), How and Nosm

 

sponsors: MTN, Montana Cans, 33third Los Angeles

 

The Pima Air & Space Museum is pleased to announce the opening of Round Trip: Art From The Bone Yard Project on January 28 in Tucson. Conceived in Spring 2010 by Eric Firestone, and organized with curators Medvin Sobio & Carlo McCormick, The Bone Yard Project resurrects disused airplanes from America‟s military history through the creative intervention of contemporary artists, taking entire airplanes and their elements out of aeronautic resting spots in the desert, known as “bone yards,” and putting them into the hands of artists. Re-imagined by Brazilian graffiti artist Nunca, an abandoned DC3 comes to life with a striking picture of an eagle leading men through the skies, and the idealized dreams of flight are able to soar once again in our collective imagination. With a nod to the airplane graffiti and „nose art‟ that became popular during WWII, the project offers a vision of the wonder by which humanity takes to the air through some of the most prominent and acclaimed artists working today.

 

Round Trip: Selections from The Bone Yard Project, will include selections from the previous exhibition along with more than a dozen cones interpreted by artists new to this project. It will feature five monumental works created on military planes by a dynamic selection of popular graffiti and street artists from around the world. The curatorial team includes Medvin Sobio, an independent curator and consultant, and Lesley Oliver of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, a longstanding figure on the Arizona art scene.

 

More than 30 artists have participated in Round Trip including DC Super 3 planes painted by graffiti artists How & Nosm, Nunca, and Retna, and a C97 cockpit by Saner, and C45 planes by Faile and Andrew Schoultz. Additionally, Nose Job artists Aiko, Peter Dayton, Shepard Fairey, Futura, How and Nosm, Mare, Tara McPherson, Richard Prince, Lee Quinones, Saner, Kenny Scharf, and JJ Veronis will be on display, along with new nose cones by artists Colin Chillag, Crash, Daze, Daniel Marin Diaz, Tristan Eaton, Jameson Ellis, Ron English, Faile, Eric Foss, Mark Kostabi, Lisa Lebofsky, El Mac, Alex Markwith, Walter Robinson, Hector Ruiz, Randy Slack, Ryan Wallace, and Eric White, among others.

 

The Pima Air & Space Museum is the largest non-government funded aviation museum in the United States, and one of the largest in the world. It maintains a collection of more than 300 aircraft and spacecraft from around the globe and more than 125,000 artifacts. The museum is located at 6000 E. Valencia Rd. , Tucson, and is open 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM daily. Round Trip is open to the public from January 28 through the end of May 2012. Further details may be found at www.pimaair.org.

Here Comes The Neighborhood | A Short-Form Docuseries

 

HCTN EPISODE 1 : INTRODUCING THE WALLS

 

HCTN EPISODE 2 : GAIA

 

HCTN EPISODE 3 : KENNY SCHARF

 

HCTN EPISODE 4 : INTERCAMBIO

 

HCTN EPISODE 5 : SANER & SEGO

 

HCTN EPISODE 6 : IRAK

 

HCTN EPISODE 7 : MARTHA COOPER

 

HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD is a short-form Docuseries exploring the power of Public Art and innovation to uplift and revitalize urban communities. The Pilot Season revolves around the Arts District of Wynwood Miami, featuring an array of internationally acclaimed and locally respected Street Artists, Graffiti Writers and Muralists.

 

In 2009, Urban Visionary and Placemaker Tony Goldman partnered with Jeffrey Deitch (Deitch Projects Soho and now director of MoCa Los Angeles) to create the Wynwood Walls. What began with a series of parking lots, loading docks, and drab rundown factory buildings, became a curation of high caliber murals from Futura, Shepard Fairey, OS Gemeos, Kenny Scharf and others. The Walls opened for Art Basel 2009, and now two years later the collection has expanded to include over thirty artists from around the world, becoming a "Town Center" in a district that has grown into one of the largest concentrations of commissioned murals in the World.

 

This year Artists, many of whom have not shown work in the United States before, were selected by Tony Goldman, Goldman Projects Arts Manager Meghan Coleman and Art Consultant Medvin Sobio of the Visual Arts Collective Viejas Del Mercado. 33third Los Angeles, Mid City Arts, and Montana Cans worked together to provide paint for the project's ambitious expansion.

 

HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD explores a unique juncture in history as a new community emerges and evolves. A progressive urban revitalization campaign is examined in the first person, using this year's new Artists and their commissions as a lens to explore a neighborhood in transition. The Series is framed by colorful overview and concluding episodes, providing the scope of past, present and future.

 

Featuring RETNA, Nunca, Kenny Sharf, The Date Farmers, Saner, Sego, Faile, Bast, Liqen, Internsi Kazki, Ryan McGinness, Ron English, Vhils, Futura, Shepard Fairey, Barry McGee, Gaia, and many more.

 

HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Directed By: Jenner Furst

Created By: Jenner Furst and Tony Goldman

Produced By: Ben Solomon

Supervising Producers: Julia Willoughby Nason & Daniel B. Levin

 

In Association With Goldman Projects

Executive Producer: Tony Goldman

Coordinating Producer: Meghan Coleman

Consulting Producer: Medvin Sobio

 

Sponsored By 33third Los Angeles & Montana Cans, & Mid-City Arts.

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Contact:

medvin sobio | art consultant

33third los angeles

montana store los angeles

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*Here are some photos taken from Juxtapoz, Arrested Motion and Design Boom.

 

I am really digging this art exhibit. Too bad I wont be attending but if you are in Arizona I highly recomend it. Great show to take the whole family or go to on a date....really. Tell all your friends.

 

Retna

Saner from Mexico

 

Faile

 

Nuna from Brazil

 

German twins based out of NY HOW and NOSM

 

Andrew Schoultz

 

and many other artists. Check out these awesome VIDEOS from Viejas del Mercado

 

 

Thanks for visiting!

 

Timoi