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New Graffiti Work from ABOVE

paul0v2 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:40:14 +0000

I'm glad to announce that our friend and graffiti master ABOVE just uploaded his portfolio with some amazing new work. If you are a fan of graffiti work and street art you will love to see these murals and stencils. From art galleries to huge graffiti murals, ABOVE has done it all. Take a look.

To visit his website with some fresh updated work go to www.goabove.com

ABOVE recently spent some time in Miami and here is what he left behind

Here is some more work from around the globe

About the author

Hi there! I'm Paulo Canabarro, 26 year old web designer - paulocanabarro.com I'm from Brazil currently living and working out of Providence RI, USA. I'm truly passionate about design of all kinds, finding and sharing inspiration here has become part of my life. If you like to know more about me or get in touch visit my website paulocanabarro.com Stock me at Twitter and Dribbble

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"When In Rome" Grafitti Design at the Roman Colloseum by Above

aloa — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:39:33 +0000

We have reported about grafitti artist ABOVE - based in California - numerous times. He started his Grafitti Europe Tour in June where I talked to him about his projects in Copenhagen, Berlin, and Madrid. Now he sent us a great video from the Colosseum in Rome.

WHEN IN ROME... from ABOVE on Vimeo.

I found this "gladiator" in front of the Roman Colosseum where he was asking 5 € from tourists to take a photo with him. I bargained with him and got waaay more than i could of ever imagined.

To get some more impressions

Where to find him on the web

GoAbove.com - Personal website, portfolio & shop
Vimeo.com/above - Movies of his grafitties

About the author

Aloa is the moniker of the german/greek graphic designer/filmmaker & musician Alexis Papageorgiou. Im glad to share great artistic work with the readers on Abduzeedo. Contact me on aloa@abduzeedo.com or follow my Twitter and Facebook page

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ABOVE's Europe Tour Update: Madrid to Berlin

aloa — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:22:42 +0000

ABOVE, a very talented grafitti artist, continues his europe tour and keeps on sending us fresh & brand new graffities; After his "Naked-Truth"- Installation in Copenhagen he now visits Madrid and Berlin to spread some of his messages.

We've been showing you great work of ABOVE already, like his easter special or the "Union Jack"-Print. For more information read the exclusive Abduzeedo interview with ABOVE. He just left old Cali for fresh and new Europe and keeps on sending us great photographs and videos of his brand new projects.

We have been reporting about his Naked Truth Graffiti - a street installation with grafitti stencils added - which you can find in the middle of Denmark's capital Copenhagen. Now he finished more awesome pieces in two great cities: in Madrid, Spain, and in Berlin, Germany

Ease my tears - tease my ears in Madrid

EARS, TEARS, & FEARS. from ABOVE on Vimeo.

Berlin Wall in Germany

BRIDGE THE DIVIDE from ABOVE on Vimeo.

Where to find ABOVE in the web

GoAbove.com - portfolio

About the author

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Grafitti Artist ABOVE Starting Europe Tour

aloa — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:05:00 +0000

ABOVE, a very talented grafitti artist, just started his europe tour; trying to spread his messages all over europe's hot cities. Starting in Denmark, he spends the next 5+ months touring around Germany, Italy and lots of other great countries.

His latest project is "The Naked Truth" - a street installation with grafitti stencils added - which you can find in the middle of Denmark's capital Copenhagen. I wonder if there are any Abduzeedo readers from Copenhagen who have already found it.

Pictures and movies of "The Naked Truth"

THE NAKED TRUTH from ABOVE on Vimeo.

Where to find ABOVE in the web

GoAbove.com - portfolio

About the author

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ABOVE's new UNION JACK PRINT + Free Print Giveaway

aloa — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:14:30 +0000

Above presents his new UNION JACK Print and will give away 1 of his designs to someone that can describe at least 1 thing you like about the print, and 1 thing they don't like so much or would change about it.

PRINT NAME: “UNION JACK ARROWS”

EDITION SIZE: 70 REGULAR EDITION (RED/BLUE) + 20 SPECIAL EDITION (ORANGE/GREEN)

PRICE:
REGULAR EDITION (RED/BLUE) = 69.00 BRITISH POUNDS
SPECIAL EDITION (ORANGE/GREEN) = 99.00 BRITISH POUNDS.

LIMIT PER PERSON: 2 PRINTS PER PERSON TOTAL *(ONLY 1 SPECIAL EDITION PER PERSON)

PAPER/INK: 7-COLOR HAND PULLED SCREEN PRINT ON 22 IN. X 15 IN. ( 56 cm. X 38 cm. ) LENNOX 100 ARCHIVAL WHITE 250 GSM.

*EVERY PRINT IS CUSTOM EMBOSSED, SIGNED, DATED AND NUMBERED BY ABOVE.

AS ALWAYS, ABOVE DESIGNED AND SCREEN PRINTED EVERYTHING HIMSELF. IT DOESN’T GET MORE PERSONAL THAN THIS!

PRINT INFO: Above first painted these UNION JACK Arrows in LONDON during his “2005 EUROPEAN TOUR” where he painted and installed his signature Arrow’s in 14-countries. We think this prints image and reflection transforms the already good looking UNION JACK motif transform into something mesmerizing. The directional symmetry of the arrows going up and down are a great balance with sharp colors to draw you in even closer. Above spent a lot of time making sure each print was “perfect” and we all agree that this is his best screen print has pulled thus far. We hope you enjoy this print as much as we do. We thank you in advance for your support.

MORE PRINTS OF ABOVE

WHERE TO FIND ABOVE ON THE WEB

GoAbove.com - Portfolio & Website
Above Shop - Above's shop

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Interview with Graffiti Street Artist ABOVE + Print GiveAway

aloa — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:58:14 +0000

Above is an extremely talented artist whose work can be seen all over the world. I had long discussions with him about his awesome Graffiti Tour to South America and the Sign Language Tour where he visited 26 countries. Every each of his masterpieces has a special message. Enjoy the many projects this young artist has done.

Information about the print give away at the bottom of the page

Ljubljana, Slovenia 2006

I CAME BACK THE NEXT DAY TO TAKE SOME PHOTOS OF THIS PIECE. I WAS SURPRISED WHEN I SAW A MODEL ALREADY POSING FOR A FASHION SHOOT IN FRONT OF IT! THE MODEL LOVED THE ATTENTION AND I WAS ABLE TO TAKE A FEW PHOTOS OF MY OWN.

Copenhagen, Denmark 2005

Athens, Greece 2006

1. First of all we would like to thank you for taking the time to provide abduzeedo.com with this interview. Please tell us more about your art and design background and what made you become an artist and designer?

Thank you as well for having an interest in the artworks! My "artist" background basically started with my family. Both my Parents are artists and growing up as a young kid there was always art supplies to play with and experiment. I consider my family upbringing very fortunate and responsible for why I started and am curious in art. When I was about 15 I was already skateboarding and many if not all of my skateboard friends were tagging and painting trains. Because of my upbringing with art and an interest already established in creating It was just a matter of time before I too got into tagging and painting trains in California. I did the traditional letters but became bored with this coded language or style. In 2001 when I was 19 I moved to Paris, France to focus on making a new style in the streets. At that time there were just a handful of artists making "street art" that was not about letters but instead an icon/character/symbol that would represent their name or idea. For me I changed from writing the letters "A-B-O-V-E" to a symbol of an Arrow pointing "ABOVE."
Years later back in the United States I started to make a physical wooden arrow complete with glued on fabrics and a word on each side of the arrow. The process of making these wooden arrows is about the extent of my "Design." I like to make things with my hands so designing on the computer just is not what I am interested in at the point in my life.

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This Word/Play was painted on the outside of a 4th grade classroom. While the young students were inside learning how to put 2 and 2 together, I was outside trying my best to do the same!

2. You recently completed your 6-month word tour. Please speak about this project.

The South Central Tour was an intense 6-month long tour starting in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil and ending in Mexico City, Mexico. I was fortunate to have many contacts in most of the major cities thru south and central America that helped out with a floor to sleep on and who knew the city. The South Central tour was a progression from the SIGN LANGUAGE TOUR (2006) as during the South Central tour I was still doing Word/Play's but instead I was painting them on the wall much much larger. The South Central tour allowed me to make longer, and more elaborate sentences, questions, and puns painted on the walls.

SOUTH CENTRAL TOUR 2007-08 (Full Length) from ABOVE on Vimeo.

3. I love the idea of your Sign Language Tour in 2006. How did you came up with the concept and how did you implement the idea.

The Sign Language tour was a progression from the 2004 U.S.A. tour. In 2004 I designed the idea of how to hang and install the wooden arrows high above the city streets. Since each arrow has 2 sides and is constantly spinning around that it would be unique to paint 1 word on each side of the spinning arrow. In 2006 for the Sign Language tour I was able to do just that. Each arrow had 1-word on each side so the concept was that when the wind would spin the hanging arrow that a silent "Sign Language" dialog would be seen from the viewer below. The most challenging part was since I painted the Word/Play on each arrow before the tour I would walk around any given city along the tour at night looking for the perfect match of location and the word/play. For instance hanging an arrow in a busy intersection that read "HONK/HORN" or in Amsterdam that said "RED/LITE" (for the red light prostitution district) or even in sunny Barcelona that read " HACE/SOL" (It's sunny in Spanish). My goal with making each arrow as relative and specific to the location/atmosphere was that the viewer could easily make the connection and relate to this silent message.

SIGN LANGUAGE TOUR (2006) from ABOVE on Vimeo.

4. What are your tools of the trade? Explain for example how you created the "Playground Valentines Day Special"?

The PLAYGROUND LOVE piece was created out of cut out stencils I made. My tools for the trade really depends on what surface I am working on as well as what type of message I want to get across. For instance I felt like making this piece with a stencil because there was a lot of small and fine detail that if I were to paint that piece with spray paint the detail would get lost. As an artists I want to try and take on new mediums and applications so i can learn and work on my weaknesses.

PLAYGROUND LOVE from ABOVE on Vimeo.

5. How do people react on your work? Have you every got any trouble because of your graffitis?

It seems like they either love or hate it. Trouble because of graffiti, Yeah. I've been arrested more than I would like to talk about.

6. What, for you personally are the pros and cons of being an artist?

PRO'S: Being able to travel, meet new people, experience life at it's fullest and being challenged to try new things.
CON'S: Little/no Money, and going to jail about 2 times a year.

7. How does your job as an artist and designer influence your life? Do you feel that you see things around you differently for example?

Traveling has had such an important impact on the way I look at things. When I am in a new country or city everything is new and there are no "filters" for what I am able to absorb visually. When I was hanging the wooden Arrow Mobiles from overhead telephone lines my perception and eyes were constantly looking "above" to see what type (if any) overhead lines were available to hang an arrow on. I remember being in Prague with some friends and I was extremely excited to see that in the center of the city there were a lot of overhead wires. My friends were confused as to why I was so happy and I explained to them it was because of these overhead telephone wires. They all looked up and said that they never noticed them being there, even thought they live just 2 streets away.
So yeah perhaps I do see things differently?

8. Can you give us example of your upcoming projects?

I am currently living in California, and I hope to go back to Europe for the summer, then return to Buenos Aires around the end of the year. I love it in Argentina!

SouthCentral Tour (PART 1 OF 4) from ABOVE on Vimeo.

SouthCentral Tour (Part 2 of 4) from ABOVE on Vimeo.

SouthCentral Tour (Part 3 of 4) from ABOVE on Vimeo.

SouthCentral: Part 4 (The Final Chapter!) from ABOVE on Vimeo.

9. What are your favourite 5 websites, and why?

hmmm, let me think.

Vimeo.com
NotCot.org
WoosterCollective.com
Wikipedia.com
Abduzeedo

because all of them have new content regularly.

10. Once again, thank you very much for the interview. As a final word, do you have any tips for upcoming artists and designers?

Not really, I think I have said too much already.

Where to find Above in the web

GoAbove.com - Portfolio
Vimeo.com/Above - Videos

Free Print Give Away

ABOVE is kind enought to give away one version of his limited edition "Put 2 and 2 2gether"-Print for the Abduzeedo Reader. Just leave a comment about what you like most in ABOVE's work. He will pick the winner in the end of the week.

You can get this Print for just 44 $ - and other great Prints - in his shop

More work of this artist.

SKOOL OF HARD KNOCKS from ABOVE on Vimeo.