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Detailed Exhibit Details of Highlights of “Graffiti Utopia” Theme Exhibition | HYPEBEAST

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Detailed Exhibit Details of Highlights of “Graffiti Utopia” Theme Exhibition | HYPEBEAST

The “Graffiti Ideal Country” exhibition held in Beijing 798 this month was co-sponsored by ABS CREW and Huansha Art. The nearly 1,000-square-meter exhibition hall gathers more than 180 works of different styles from ABS CREW and more than 50 graffiti artists around the world. The entire exhibition revolves around the development, evolution and evolution of street graffiti, bringing the audience into a whole new world of graffiti. When talking about the original intention of creating this exhibition, ABS CREW said that it “hopes to return to the source of graffiti”.

The entire exhibition starts from the basic form of street graffiti, and brings four main areas: TAG, TUP, PIECE and STREET ART, which respectively represent the TAG graffiti signature that shows the creator’s personality; THROW- UP graffiti; font graffiti PIECE fully colored with effects and backgrounds; and STREET ART art form born from graffiti, thus showing the development and evolution of street graffiti.

The following three ABS CREW members will personally introduce the highlights of the “Graffiti Utopia” to you. In addition to covering traditional graffiti creation, they also bring a number of special installations that “three-dimensional” graffiti. The new possibilities of street graffiti art in today’s Street Art context.

“Shockwave”

Author: NOISE (ABS CREW)
Size: 5.6mx 2.7m
Material: FRP three-dimensional sculpture/paint
Year: 2022

ABS CREW:NOISE magnifies every teenager’s heroic dream in “Shockwave”, and by paying tribute to the comic “Dragon Ball” that has a huge impact on it, he imagines himself as an omnipotent “four-armed graffiti warrior”, leading to the creation of ideals through graffiti. status. Re-understanding the “touch” of the past and examining the “perspective” of the present, those buried passions and impulses are released by the audience pressing the spray paint on the other end of the sculpture, and the constant confrontation between prosperity and decline, black and white, yin and yang.

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“ABS Broken Wall”

Author: SMER & SEVEN (ABS CREW)
Dimensions: 7.5mx 3m x 0.9m
Material: polystyrene foam/polyurea paint/spray paint
Year: 2022

ABS CREW:The “broken” in “ABS Broken Wall” does not simply describe the state of the wall itself, but the verb “destroy, break through”, which not only conveys the free will in the spirit of graffiti not to be “besieged” by “high walls”, but also implies ” “No breaking, no standing” innovation consciousness. The wall is broken, and the three letters of “ABS” are still prominent, which also depicts the team itself as a microcosm that stands firm and solid as a rock.

《Bring Back To Life》

Author: ANDC (ABS CREW)
Dimensions: 4.17mx 1.69mx 1.23m (the whole device)
Material: automotive stainless steel/automobile glass//rubber/paint
Year: 2022

ABS CREW:This is a classic JDM model MR2, the full name is “Mid Engine, Runabout, 2 Seater”, which literally translates to a mid-engine rear-wheel drive two-seater. It is not only the beloved car of “Chen Haonan” in the “Young and Dangerous” series, but also represents the JDM belief in animations such as “Initial D” and “Wangan MIDNIGHT”. It’s a pity that there is no JDM culture anymore, which is also a big regret in our hearts, so this time we use graffiti to give this old car a chance to “resurrection”. It is a story of youth, a past feeling, a “East Ying Ferrari”.

《BE WATER》

Author: SEVEN (ABS CREW)
Dimensions: 2.6mx 2.1mx 3m (the main body of the sculpture) 9m x 9m x 4.2m (the whole installation)
Material: FRP/photosensitive resin/wood/Boing sheet/silver onion wire/spray paint
Year: 2022

ABS CREW:“BE WATER” pays tribute to Bruce Lee’s classic “water” philosophy, which communicates graffiti culture, Hip-Hop culture, art, and even the philosophy of everything – against sticking to conventions, against institutional restrictions, flexibly and freely expressing oneself, and exerting unlimited creativity, just like The spray paint is pressed by the hand, and the free creation is like a spring.

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《NYC Subway》

Author: ABS CREW & MASK
Dimensions: 12m x 2.8mx 0.5m (the whole installation)
Material: wood material/spray paint
Year: 2022

ABS CREW:During the golden age of graffiti culture, graffiti artists fought an ongoing battle with train companies to use trains as moving canvases. The subway has played a huge role in promoting the development of graffiti culture. In that era without the Internet, the subway put on a “coat” wrapped in graffiti and traveled between cities and neighborhoods. As a representative carrier of graffiti, it became a platform between artists. bridge of communication. In the work “NYC Subway”, we restored the appearance of the New York subway, paying tribute to the most classic train graffiti era.

“Vegetarian Group A-01”

Author: SMER & SEVEN (ABS CREW)
Dimensions: 4.1mx 1.9mx 0.6m (the main part of the floor) 4.1mx 3.6mx 0.35m (the hanging part)
Material: glass fiber reinforced plastic/steel pipe/paint/hollow brick
Year: 2022

ABS CREW:“Su Group A-01” is not so much a tribute to “Gundam” by ABS CREW, but rather a man’s romance, with a little simplicity, middle school, paranoia, and a passion for machinery. I don’t want to interpret this work too much, because it is a kind of tacit understanding in blood that needs no words, just like graffiti to ABS CREW. “DNA moves”.

“Magic Flash”

Author: SMER & SEVEN (ABS CREW)
Size: 5.5mx 2.15mx 1.1m
Material: polystyrene foam/polyurea paint/spray paint
Year: 2022

ABS CREW:We have been exploring more possibilities for graffiti, stripping the graffiti fonts from the walls and using sculptures to make them more three-dimensional. This time, we added a layer of “shell” that is breaking open on the surface of the font sculpture, and used fluorescent spray paint and purple light to present a “breathing light” effect. Of course, we prefer to call it “beating pulse”. Being organized together with the “shell” is actually an emotional expression that life is about to bloom. It echoes our graphic expression of breaking through graffiti, and symbolizes the transformation process of the work’s form.

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《COVER》

Author: Huang Yulong
Dimensions: 2.8mx 1.5mx 0.5m (the whole device)
Material: FRP/painted
Year: 2022

ABS CREW:“COVER” reflects the author Huang Yulong’s current understanding of father and son. Its uniqueness is that in the future, the space where the work is located will be different, the meaning and level of the work will be different, and the audience’s understanding will also be different. Depending on the environment and the content of graffiti on the wall, this work will present more connotations and surprises.

Detailed Exhibit Details of Highlights of

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In addition to various graffiti-themed works, the exhibition site also features “LUMINOUS MAZE: A Mirror of Light”; “WORKSHOP: Everyone is an Artist”; and “GIFTSHOP: Out of the Gift Shop”, and The interactive areas such as the “AIR BLOCK · Sneakers Culture and Art Exhibition” with the theme of sneakers are designed to bring a full range of immersive viewing experience to the audience. Friends in Beijing should not miss it.

“Utopia of Graffiti” Art Exhibition
Venue: Ceramics 3rd Street, 798 Art District, Beijing – 798 ART FACTORY
Exhibition period: July 3 – September 4, 2022
Time: Sunday to Friday: 10:00-18:00; Saturday: 10:00-19:30
Ticket price: RMB 98 (weekday ticket) / RMB 108 (full day ticket)

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