Mick La Rock at Miami Art Week: Wynwood, Art Miami and The Sagamore Hotel
This week is Miami Art week. Mick La Rock will be present at different locations in the city.
From assisting Gallerie Vroom &Varossieau in their booth at Art Miami to painting a mural for the Urban Legends art show and annual collector's lunch at the Segamore hotel or just hanging out at Wynwood Walls meeting old friends from the graffiti-streetart scene: Mick is all over town.
The results of one week Miami:
Terrace at The Sagamore Hotel, South Beach.
Mural in Little River/Little Haiti
ARTE TV: The Rise Of Graffiti Writing
ARTE TV newly released an important retrospective documentary about the development of the art of Graffiti Writing in NYC and Europe. Mick La Rock was asked for consultancy and interviewed. Here the full story.
Always wanted to know how the New York way of graffiti writing made it's way to Europe and further developed there? Watch the new online series The Rise of Graffiti Writing on Arte.tv/de!
Curated by Lars from Copenhagen and directed by René Kaestner, this 10 episode series brings you the full insight. With interviews with most of the important artists from the 80's and 90's in NYC and Europe, and many never before published film footage, this document can be regarded as an important new retrostpective on the scene.
Because of her role as guest curator of the 'Graffiti. New York meets The Dam' exhibition at the Amsterdam Museum (2015), Mick La Rock was invited for consultation about the influence of NYC graffiti on Amsterdam. Together with the film crew she visits hidden old tags by Quik and Shoe, and explains how gallery owner Yaki Kornblit brought many NY artists to Amsterdam for shows at his gallery where important musea like Boymans, Groninger Museum and Louisiana Copenhagen bought work. She introduces Yaki and his former gallery partner Vincent Vlasblom, who brings one of Rammellzee's most incrtedible drawings with him. The rest of the story is told by the artists involved: Boris Tellegen Delta, Niels Shoe Meulman, Bando, Mode2 a.o. A must see!
The whole series can be viewed online from 24 November 2017 to 24 November 2019.
All episodes: THE RISE OF GRAFFITI WRITING
