Andrei Molodkin has been a favourite of mine for a long long time. He has recently opened a new show at the Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, titled “Oil Evolution” which features his trademark acrylic negative space scultpures, filled with crude oil. Andrei’s works are often controversial, and over the last couple of years this has created a lot of hype around his works. This has led to several collaborations with skate staple Supreme, and snowboard industry leader, Burton. I wrote a paper on Molodkin mid last year, and i have included it after the break if you are interested in more of his works.. I have not inluded the images from the paper, but they are all available on his profiles.

for more Molodkin – www.daneyalmahmood.com

also, i am going to the curvy opening at mori gallery tomorrow night, so i will post about that when i get home, but follow my twitter if you want the sneak preview.. and then friday is SEMIPERMANENT, and i am super excited!!!! yay!

peace

qwux

dont forget, click “read the rest of this entry” to read my paper on andrei.

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Shin X Scion X Giant Robot

Shin Tanaka is an amazing artist. I have been a fan for quite some time, and i finally decided to email, asking if he would do an interview for the site. unfortunately he is a super busy guy, but he obliged by sending me a short profile! props to him, the amount of collaborations and corporate work he has been doing of late, combined with the plethora of personal projects he has been working on, i am stoked i got a reply from the email at all!

here it is, straight from magical, papercrafting fingers of Shin:

OK, you can post some of my images.
but I’m very busy, I won’t have a time to answer the interview.
I appreciate your understanding.

follow is my info, hope it will help you.

SHIN TANAKA was just a graffiti artist.
He had been looking for an interesting canvas instead of a street-wall.
One day, he hit upon an idea to draw graffiti on a toy.
But he didn’t have a good toy for it, then he made a toy from a paper as his
new canvas.
His works have two elements; ORIGAMI and STREET CULTURE.
His ORIGAMI experiences helped it when he was young.
And when he is designing, mega volume HIPHOP music is playing.
His inspiration is the beats and rhyming flow.
Because his paper toys are based on a street culture,
many artists and brands are interested in them.
Before now, over 500 artists and brands join in his paper toy project.
His paper toys have been growing with involving pop art, graffiti art,
street fashion and more.

Apr. 2005 – Paper sneakers were released
Aug. 2005 – Paper sneakers in NIKE Design Library (Portland, Oregon, US)
Sep. 2005 – Paper figure “T-BOY” was released
Oct. 2005 – Paper sneaker “BASQUIAT” (RBK/dpmih)
Feb. 2006 – T-BOY SHOW in Portland, Oregon
Feb. 2006 – Paper figure “SPIKY” was released
Feb. 2006 – Paper sneaker “Ventilator” (REEBOK) for NY FASHION WEEK
Feb. 2006 – Toy customize for nanospore in NYC
Mar. 2006 – adicolor customize for adidas taiwan
Apr. 2006 – Compound concoction in Guestroom gallery
Jul. 2006 – Toy custom for SUG SHOW (UNKLBRANDS)
Aug. 2006 – The WALLMAN custom show in Hawaii
Sep. 2006 – PAPER TOY EXHIBITION: KAMI ZOO in Berlin
Mar. 2007 – INKTHIS 2 in UK
Aug. 2007 – ROCK PAPER SNEAKERS -the paper art exhibition of SHIN TANAKA in association with NIKE-
Feb. 2008 – PAPER TOY LIVE in KENNEDY CENTER -HYPE CULTURE JAPAN-
Jan. 2009 – SYLVAN -hoophy and SPIKY BABY show- in Issey Miyake Paris, France

Thanks,

so there you go, it all started with this papershoes. the paper models of his favourite Nike trainers obviously struck a chord with the company, having collaborated with Shin on numerous occasions.

currently, you (yes, you) are invited to collab with Shin Tanaka on his Boxy papertoy. to get the template, you just have to go to his site, and send him an email, saying that you want to make a design for boxy! (below)

Boxy

so go on, head to his site, and just take a look at the amazing amount of awesomeness this guy has been pumping out!

Shin Tanaka’s Homepage – www.shin.co.nr