Kolahstudio in IRAN has just made a big event Hosted By Adrenaline -A modern Water Sports Club in South of Tehran.Spray 2011 was A Big noise , a new begining for the graffiti in IRAN. a new horizon of hope. You can see more photos and get more information at www.kolahstudio.com/spray2011
GOO:Would you please talk a little bit about your self?Where Do you live and work? and how often are you working?
Ganzeer: I live and work, for the most part, in Cairo, Egypt. I work everyday, but not in the form of street art. Depending on the subject matter and the idea I have in relation to it, I will pick a medium/venue to work in. Sometimes it'll be a wall, other times it'll be the internet, sometimes it'll be a drawing, other times writing, and for example, in the case of this week: surveying.
GOO:Do you have access to spray paint in Egypt?
Ganzeer: Sure. It's not very good spray-paint, nor is it designed to create sophisticated pieces of artwork with.
GOO:What do you use for your street art? Stencil/Graffiti style/Stickers/Pasteups?
Ganzeer: Whatever I can to get my idea across. So far, I've come to use stencils, stickers, and in one particular case, garbage bags.
GOO:Who or What are your inspirations?
Ganzeer: The work of other artists is of course inspirational. I'm a big comicbook buff, so comix have a big influence on me. But the greatest inspiration of all is life.
GOO:What do you think about recent changes in Egyptian Governmental systems?is it good or bad for you as an Artist?
Ganzeer: It's a little bit of both. It's good that the Egyptian people have risen in mass to topple the system, but changes in the system so far are unfortunately not the kind of changes we fought for, even though the government is trying to convince people that it is, using the media, and a lot of people are buying into the government's crap. As an artist, it's an opportunity to be pro-active and use one's tools for a passionate cause.
GOO:Do you do legal or illegal Street Art?
Ganzeer: I guess it would be considered illegal.
GOO:Are You aware of Graffiti scene in Middleeast? Tehran,Beirut,Dubai,etc.does it have any impact on you at all?
Ganzeer: Honestly, man, none whatsoever. Would love to travel across the Arab world more and experience it, and its people, first hand. And maybe get a chance to do a few public interventions here and there.
GOO:Are there Any other StreetArt Workers ,there in Egypt?
Ganzeer: Some of the most prominent ones in recent months, in my opinion, are Keiser, Adham Bakry, El Teneen, and Sad Panda.
Some years ago after the revolutionary Inovations of A1one(Iranian Graffiti pioneer who made a great path for Arabic ,persian and urdu Graffiti ) ,Tehran's Graffiti vibrations influenced a gerneration of youth world wide and in the middleeast. one example was Presence of A1one in The Website of Khtt.org and influencing a graphic Designer Pascal Zoghbi and Don Karl Stone (a german publisher or graffiti books).Stone went to Lebanon and helped Zoghbi learn more about graffiti and made a graffiti teaching workshop for the youth over there .... in a couple of years they made a book "Arabic Graffiti" which may be cool to see with works of eauropean designers and calligraphers +some street art examples from middleeast.But for thosewho know THe reality about the thing.... It is not a book with real information but with some Good info for beginners .There is alot which is not included in this book ,Works of Some Iranian Artists who made this path is excluded from the book ...Artists like A1one,Kozet,Khamoosh,Kaytee are those real and hidden parts of the story yet.
The publisher believes that: "'Arabic Graffiti' is an extensive and valuable reference that showcases the use of Arabic script in a contemporary, urban context. It brings together artists, graffiti writers, designers, and typographers from the Middle East and around the world who merge Arabic calligraphy with the art of graffiti writing, street art and urban culture. In addition to a rich assortment of photos featuring Arabic graffiti and street art styles, the book includes essays by distinguished authors and scene experts that explore the traditional elements, modern approaches, and the socio-political and cultural backgrounds which have shaped Arabic graffiti movements in the Middle East.
With contributions and essays by: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès, Rana Jarbou, Tala F. Saleh, Houda Kassatly and William Parry.
Includes the artwork and thoughts of: Hassan Massoudy, Malik Anas Al-Rajab, eL Seed, Hest1, Julien Breton, L'ATLAS, Aerosol Arabic, Native & ZenTwO, Zepha aka Vincent Abadie Hafez, Siska, Typism, Akut and many more."
I am so sure that all friends of Graffiti on Oil and also all arabic type lovers will enjoy to see these great pieces by A talented Artist -El SEED - who have done such an amazing stuff in Montreal - Canada lately .Stay tuned for more more pieces and news By El Seed
The new gerneration of Graffiti in Lebanon and middleeast.After Iran and A1one's Legendary Appraoches now we are seeing some bloomings from the lebanon,Egypt and some other Arab countries ....now the Academic institutes paid attention to Graffiti culture and we hope it makes it better than worst.
German Graffiti Writer Don Karl is teaching Lebanese youth to paint with spray and do Graffiti.(the project was done by help of Goethe Institute.also introduced the participants to the techniques, cultural history and social relevance of Graffiti art in the first day. The following two days were drawing and sketching for the young artists to express their thoughts on paper. During the last two days the workshop participants created graffiti on a public wall “Mal’ab al-Muharram, Bahsas” in Tripoli. The theme of the joint artwork was “Culture is dialog”.
it was a nice fact i found in web that Street art of middleeast and Islamic countries has been started from IRAN's capital city. it is also great that they have made the first ever show of its kind in 2007 a group show with participamnts from all around the world here is a video i took from Graffiti TV
Facebook Page we made For A1one and persian Graffiti
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check this hot shit/ Soon you will see a lot of Black book pages and Bside Things from A1one-Aka Tanha-From IRAN
Just Click here and join the group and cool if you make a Link from your Website or facebook Account: Click Here
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Call For Blackbook Pages
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Graffiti on Oil blog is all about its favorite process on growth of Urban Style ,arabic letters graffiti / = \so we seek to make an online track of all the process... Now, Starting the G.O.O PDF zine ...as the first issue of the seasonal publishing planned Ezine ,I invite You ! possible artists ! your kindly submittions (of your Scetches,Works on paper,B/W or in colors)for the first issue which will be promoted enough to be seen through urban art related websites.=+/.
Any Middleeastern based Urban Artists,graphic designers ,Painters and even photographers(in case of relation withthe subject) are welcomed to take part with minimum 4,maximum 10 digital images of their handworks on paper... We need more Lettering and styles than Figures and images... Alongside with the images we also need thes information to drop with your pages to be published.
Any will to help with Contributing any useful articles,Photo reviews or Independant Ads swap please contect : mr.goome [at] gmail [dot] com
Artist name: Nationality: Website URL:
Size of Digital images : Minimum 1000x600 Pixles Deadline for Sending pages+information: 30 March 2009
Email : mr.goome [at] gmail [dot] com Looking forward to some submissions from the brothers around the Arabic ,and persian language countries.
Spray art Exhibition in Tehran / Graffiti in Gallery
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Kolahstudio One of The first roots of Graffiti and Urban style arabic letter graffiti Guy A1one have an Especial exhibition /Festival of spray in two basement like galleries in Tehran ,they have rented for this Show to exhibit Original Samples of Quality spray Art and Stencil from European ,Australian and Iranian Artists to celebrate the Spray art andcuture for thefirst time in their country.
A1one says that the show gonna be great,even wit some disrespects and lack of cooperation from the younger artists but he claims he had tried his best to select and invite a Good selection of Artists Like Kozet and Rash from IRAN and Artists like Satta Van Daal (Australia),Fake(netherlands),Seldon(Australia) ,Leckomio from Germany and .... who have helped the studio to make a dish full of Good food for the audience + Gathering a Black and white magazine with educating articles about Graffiti and Street Art vs Vandalism and Consumer Culture. and having some novel Ideas of Having moder poets ,perform at the show and more are the plan which is going to be done through 16 jan 09 for a week. more info is available at the exhibition webpage : http://www.kolahstudio.com/spray1387 <
and the page from the first Exhbition of its kind in Tehran here : http://www.kolahstudio.com/spray2007 Good luck with the show and we hope to have some good photos of the show in the oncoming week.
Works Of Spray letters and Stencils from ICY a young Stencil artist living in TABRIZ city(Persian: تبریز, Azerbaijani: تبریز) is the largest city in northwestern Iran. you can see more works of ICY in irangraffiti.blogspot archive also in his flickr album.
Oct of 2008 The American University of Dubai invited Albus Cavus a New Jersey Based Artist Collective to do a workshop and collaborative mural with its art students. After a thorough tour of the campus they decided which wall they may like to work on but first it was time to get the students in sync with what they wanted to do, and introduce to them ,their own distinct method on how we create. Customarily Chor Boogie and Pose Two create from within, meaning we have no preconceived plan of what we are going to create before we create it. We trust, flow and integrate intuitively as painters, as artist and as human beings. We have come to a point of understanding the importance of the process: interacting and engaging with the moment at hand, seizing those opportunities and flowing with them…aliveness!We had no doubts that this awesome group of students would be able to flow with us but most of these students never used spray paint, our number one tool! Aware of this fact we decided to first allow the students an opportunity to play, get free and express on some canvass boards. What was supposed to be a few moments of trial and practice turned into hours joy and pure expressionism. Although these students never touched a spray can before their individuality and collective spirit shone through and they were ready to collaborate with us.This project offered Albus Cavus a great opportunity to work with photographers, painters, sculptures and enthusiast who a helped create a wonderful mural that captures the spirit of Dubai the energy of its youth and its vision to create a beautiful city with powerful art.
some word from pose2 ( Amercian graffiti writter): Experiences like these are life enriching and eye opening. Hopefully this exchange of creative energy will help raise the frequency in our hearts and minds to increasingly love, share and cultivate our beautiful future
After a thorough tour of the campus they decided which wall they may like to work on but first it was time to get the students in sync with what they wanted to do, and introduce to them ,their own distinct method on how we create. Customarily Chor Boogie and Pose Two create from within, meaning we have no preconceived plan of what we are going to create before we create it. We trust, flow and integrate intuitively as painters, as artist and as human beings. We have come to a point of understanding the importance of the process: interacting and engaging with the moment at hand, seizing those opportunities and flowing with them…aliveness!We had no doubts that this awesome group of students would be able to flow with us but most of these students never used spray paint, our number one tool! Aware of this fact we decided to first allow the students an opportunity to play, get free and express on some canvass boards. What was supposed to be a few moments of trial and practice turned into hours joy and pure expressionism. Although these students never touched a spray can before their individuality and collective spirit shone through and they were ready to collaborate with us.This project offered Albus Cavus a great opportunity to work with photographers, painters, sculptures and enthusiast who a helped create a wonderful mural that captures the spirit of Dubai the energy of its youth and its vision to create a beautiful city with powerful art.