Blog: “Inside”

"City as a Canvas" Museum of the City of New York / february - august 2014 / New York

The first time exhibition of works from the expansive street art collection of Martin Wong. Martin Wong, an East Village artist and collector of graffiti...

John Crash Matos & Remi Rough "Flow"

One is American, a legend of pop-graffiti in New York, the other is English, known for his abstract and percussive style. The two longtime friends gather around for their new show  "Flow"...

Spacejunk Art Centers takes today a close look at 17 legendary graffiti artists who made the Graffiti Story. Graffiti: the word takes its etymology from the ancient Greek word graphein which means to write, to draw or to paint at the same time …...

Alex Kuznetsov @ St.Art Strasbourg, France

represented by ART TO BE Gallery / Lille / France

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Willem Speerstra was at the very first step of your artistic career in galleries. How did you meet him? What was his role in your career?

In 2008, Willem Speerstra discovered me at group show called "Public Provocations" at the Carhartt...

The biggest collective exhibition of street art ever imagined opened in a Paris tower-block on Monday. Over the last seven months more than 100 street artists from all over the world have dropped in at the Tour Paris 13 (Paris 13 Tower) and...

Russian Abstract Graffiti Artist Kuznetsov "Abstractism" The art of abstract spray painting

Spacejunk takes today a close look at 17 legendary graffiti artists who made the Graffiti Story.
Graffiti: the word takes its etymology from the ancient Greek word graphein which means to write, to draw or to paint at the same time…
The graffiti movement started in the late 60s in the US with graffiti artists such as Cornbread and Cool Earl in Philadelphia. It is in the 70s that the movement took its rise in New York.

In Europe, we had to wait until the 80s for the movement to appear, especially in Paris, London, Amsterdam and Berlin.
Nowadays, even if the graffiti-art is « everywhere », it is still misunderstood by the public. However it finds its origins in the study of the letter; in the very beginning the first graffiti artists defined themselves – some still do today – as “Writers”.

Rapidly, different graffiti styles appeared, from "Bubble Letters" to "Wild Style", through « flops » or insertion of characters in the works.
From 1978, with the very first art galleries, graffiti artists were ask to set their work on canvas. Except from archive images of the frescos of these times, these canvases are the only lasting and concrete testimony of the beginnings of the discipline.

Spacejunk offers you the opportunity to be immerged and to see more clearly into the origins of the graffiti and, by extension, of the Street-Art. Come and discover 19 great canvases, produced between 1982 and 1992, from the new-yorker movement main artists. You will also get to see 10 “burners”, theses entirely “graffed” wagons, photographed by Henry Chalfant. In addition, some photographs from these times and images of “Black Book”, graffiti preliminary sketches, will be displayed.

That's is a unique chance to discover these historical artworks gathered by Willem Speerstra since de 80's for the Speerstra's collection. A must see in France for the first time!

Group show with Charlie Anderson (GB) Rubbish Aurel (FR) Smash 137 (CH) Nasty (FR)

The catalogue of the Speerstra Collection has arrived, to order please mail to : [email protected]