On the meaning of TaladaNaTela: On the streets we use a dialect called TTK. We transform words placing their syllables back to front.
TALADA is equal to LATADA (meaning spray can).
A latada na tela (meaning a can on canvas) to express the ideas here exhibited. The spray can is a symbol for us that is loaded with strength and significance.
- LeandroTiCK
- photography Aaron FIRESTEIN
TaladaNaTela is a photographer from San Francisco, a painter based in Paraguay, a Colombian musician, it is four Carioca graffiti-artists, it is an Australian volunteer-cum-curator.
And it is in this fashion, as a multicultural, international, cross-class initiative that this exhibit comes to fruition allowing two plains of thought cross paths, diverge, and ultimately, run parallel:
1.- TaladaNaTela as an Art Project
From tagging walls to spray cans on murals, from suspended installation to digital photography, video and design, from paintings with brush to spray painting on canvas.
Which is low art, which is high art?
What are the implications in one´s choice of medium? If one chooses to take up a brush, or to shoot with a camera, to express with a spray can, or to create with a computer?
When and where is graffiti vandalism, and when is it simply artistic expression? How does this concept deviate, change or transform contextually when it is expressed in the streets, and then changes to an exhibition space?
WHO is the graffiti artist? Unmasking an identity, and the nature of the tag.
- design Vinícius CASH
TICK - www.fotolog.com.br/tick_camicaze
FIRESTEIN - www.pbase.com/afirestein
CASH - www.cashland.com.br/
OVELAR - www.flickr.com/photos/ocece
CAZÉ - www.flickr.com/cazesawaya
EFIXIS - www.fotolog.com.br/efixis
2.- TaladaNaTela as a Social Project and the Artist Talk
What is poor art, what is rich art?
In a city where poverty lives so visibly alongside wealth, the idea of TaladaNaTela has arisen as a direct reaction of a foreign volunteer´s experience as an Art Teacher in an education project cooperatively run by a graffiti artist in his local Copacabana community. And with that, the desire to open dialogue about the issues surrounding graffiti, its social significance, the nature of its production and exhibition - this ultimately rendering it an artform accessible to all sectors of society, accepted or otherwise.
The foreigner to RJ is afforded the privilege to slide effortlessly between the two worlds. A Brazilian is always a Brazilian - poor or affluent - for many the newcomer to RJ, ignorant to the prejudice, the marginalisation, the social constraints, the stark divisions.
If graffiti is accessible to all sectors of society in the streets of Rio de Janeiro, TaladaNaTela welcomes this same convergence at Casa CarioKa. The Artist Talk – through direct discussion with the artists - aspires to open a dialogue in a comfortable atmosphere, to invite this cross-section to engage, question, ask, explore, discover, share, understand.
And hopefully appreciate and discover the universal humanity in a common passion for art.
- photography Aaron FIRESTEIN
TALADA is equal to LATADA (meaning spray can).
A latada na tela (meaning a can on canvas) to express the ideas here exhibited. The spray can is a symbol for us that is loaded with strength and significance.
- LeandroTiCK
- photography Aaron FIRESTEINTaladaNaTela is a photographer from San Francisco, a painter based in Paraguay, a Colombian musician, it is four Carioca graffiti-artists, it is an Australian volunteer-cum-curator.
And it is in this fashion, as a multicultural, international, cross-class initiative that this exhibit comes to fruition allowing two plains of thought cross paths, diverge, and ultimately, run parallel:
1.- TaladaNaTela as an Art Project
From tagging walls to spray cans on murals, from suspended installation to digital photography, video and design, from paintings with brush to spray painting on canvas.
Which is low art, which is high art?
What are the implications in one´s choice of medium? If one chooses to take up a brush, or to shoot with a camera, to express with a spray can, or to create with a computer?
When and where is graffiti vandalism, and when is it simply artistic expression? How does this concept deviate, change or transform contextually when it is expressed in the streets, and then changes to an exhibition space?
WHO is the graffiti artist? Unmasking an identity, and the nature of the tag.
- design Vinícius CASHTICK - www.fotolog.com.br/tick_camicaze
FIRESTEIN - www.pbase.com/afirestein
CASH - www.cashland.com.br/
OVELAR - www.flickr.com/photos/ocece
CAZÉ - www.flickr.com/cazesawaya
EFIXIS - www.fotolog.com.br/efixis
2.- TaladaNaTela as a Social Project and the Artist Talk
What is poor art, what is rich art?
In a city where poverty lives so visibly alongside wealth, the idea of TaladaNaTela has arisen as a direct reaction of a foreign volunteer´s experience as an Art Teacher in an education project cooperatively run by a graffiti artist in his local Copacabana community. And with that, the desire to open dialogue about the issues surrounding graffiti, its social significance, the nature of its production and exhibition - this ultimately rendering it an artform accessible to all sectors of society, accepted or otherwise.
The foreigner to RJ is afforded the privilege to slide effortlessly between the two worlds. A Brazilian is always a Brazilian - poor or affluent - for many the newcomer to RJ, ignorant to the prejudice, the marginalisation, the social constraints, the stark divisions.
If graffiti is accessible to all sectors of society in the streets of Rio de Janeiro, TaladaNaTela welcomes this same convergence at Casa CarioKa. The Artist Talk – through direct discussion with the artists - aspires to open a dialogue in a comfortable atmosphere, to invite this cross-section to engage, question, ask, explore, discover, share, understand.
And hopefully appreciate and discover the universal humanity in a common passion for art.
- photography Aaron FIRESTEIN
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