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Questo e' cio' che il mio amico M.B. ha scritto per la mostra da Bobeche dal titolo BAU BAU Sesiete di Ancona o siete di passaggio, ma ad ancona non vi perdete lo spettacolo di visitare almeno una volta lo store e gustarvi la mostra. Ci sono infiniti varchi in giro per la città. Bau Bau esce di casa si cala lungo scalinate fra pareti gialle e tetti spioventi e porte sgangherate, attraversa gigantesche rotonde frastornanti. Vede gabbiani sulle carcasse di pesce, poi un cavallo rosso, immobile, su un muro arancione. C’è una vetrina inaspettata, la osserva, ne è risucchiato. Capita spesso a Bau Bau di venire risucchiato. Gli alberi hanno spesso cortecce argentate e virgulti carnosi. I baobab sono così. Bau Bau ne osserva uno da vicino, abbraccia il suo tronco grasso e gibboso e da quel momento la sua vita non sarà più la stessa. Dico ciò perché Bau Bau si è ritrovato in un luogo che non aveva mai visto. Ci sono molti alberi, molte fronde, è una foresta di baobab ma il sottobosco è denso di fronde. Bau Bau le discosta in cerca di luce e quando il sole filtra fra il fogliame, i raggi si infrangono su cose per terra. Hanno forme oniriche e funzionali, morbidezza ammiccante, disciplina geometrica. Sono grandi bulbi, pieni di cassetti aperti o ornati di bottoni. Bau Bau si siede su una poltrona, una di quelle dai cuscini soffici, violacei. È una poltrona girevole e Bau Bau inizia a roteare, si sente come un cane che voltola per terra, si sente una creatura irriverente. Guarda i lampadari appesi al soffitto. Ora gli alberi sono scomparsi. La foresta si è tramutata in un giardino dove grappoli di lampadine gli ricordano che si è scordato di tutto. Il sole che diventa sole, il tempo che non si ferma. Prima viene la corsa, il colore, la linea che diventa mare, il mare che corre sulla spiaggia, la spiaggia che rotola verso il cielo. Le linee si chiudono, si aprono, respirano, raramente si intrecciano alla pesantezze, ma non temono neanche quella. Non temono i giganti che emergono dal mare e si posano sui tetti delle case. O i volti dagli occhi a spirale che spuntano dietro le porte. O una fila indiana di pensieri che procedono lungo solchi di parole. Fiotti di immagini scatenano il piacere della regressione, una scarica liquorosa si innesta alle radici del collo. Bau Bau ha il volto incapace di stare fermo e produce un flusso di spigolosità espressive. Il luogo dove Bau Bau continua a girare su se stesso, avvitandosi sulla sua poltrona, è profondo. Contiene una disposizione di mobili che se potessero parlare, emetterebbero un boato potente, quello del tempo che si è accumulato sulle nostre spalle. Bau Bau non è solo in questo momento. Non lo è più, non lo è mai stato. Sente un brulichio di voci crescergli nella testa, è un rumore dal forte timbro dialettale. È un suono irriverente. Ci sono foglie che si tramutano in mani e mani che si tramutano in occhi. Ora è il momento di uscire. Le mani e gli occhi che incontra lungo il marciapiede lo salutano con il suo nome, gli fanno tutti Bau Bau e lo abbracciano, irrefrenabili. Bau Bau è contento, sicuro, non sente né paura né esaltazione, ha attraversato tutte le prove necessarie ora che muove le gambe, che tende le braccia, che sorride immaginando la sua città, le sue cose, i suoi immensi fossili silenziosi sbocciare ogni secondo. Bau Bau si ritrova in una piazza, su una panchina, dentro un bar, in un campo da calcetto con le porte dai pali colorati e le reti a brandelli. Conosce una donna che ha i capelli riccioluti, nerissimi, le dice tu sei Afrodite, sei nata dalla schiuma, la schiuma dei tuoi capelli è nera perché il mare era notturno. Bau Bau si affaccia da una grande casa con le pareti trasparenti, c’è il mare che sciaborda sul cornicione della finestra e una barca piena di donne e di uomini gli si fa incontro e i passeggeri a bordo gli fanno tutte e tutti “Bau Bau”, lo chiamano tutti per nome. «Ma potrò io mai lasciarvi con la sete e con la fame?» Dice lui ridendo, e li invita dentro casa, la casa dalle pareti trasparenti. L’Afrodite ricciuta frigge un piatto di fave per tutti su un grande tavolo, tratto fuori da una epoca iniziata e mai finita. Ovunque grandi baobab crescono silenziosamente, altre donne e altri uomini arrivano dalla città, scivolano attorno ai tavoli mentre il sole fa il sole nel cielo. La foresta si fa sempre più rigogliosa e vasta. Grandi bulbi spuntano dal terreno, si schiudono. Se non fosse per le persone che quando parlano fanno anche, con irriverenza, Bau Bau, se tutto il vociare dal timbro dialettale fosse un po’ più pacato, si sentirebbe la musica che viene dal profondo del bosco.

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Giacomo Bufarini aka RUN just completed a monumental mural in Croydon called the Thinker Child in Croydon, South of London as part of the Croydon Rising Festival. “The Thinker Child” brings a whole series of considerations and reflections by the artist.

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Collab by Italians Lucio Bolognesi aka Basik (@basik) & Giacomo Bufarini aka RUN (@giacomorun) in Firenze, Italy (2019) #basik #giacomorun #firenze #italy #firenzestreetart #artedistrada #streetart #mural #colorwall #streetartnews #instastreetart #streetarteverywhere #streetarttoday #streetartglobe #urbanphotography #artphotography #welovestreetart #graffitiwall #graffititoday #streetartistry 📷 via Insta artist | bit.ly/2P4HPJV (bij Firenze, Tuscany, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8tNWPXlW7A/?igshid=1sic4daz96mab

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Giacomo Bufarini, aka RUN, an internationally-acclaimed artist whose work can be seen all around the world, has spent the last few weeks painting Mary - Origin and Destination on the outside of St John with St Andrew Parish Church on Meeting House Lane.

Giacomo said: “It is really important to me to bring art to the streets, I believe that I have a responsibility as an artist to help connect the public with the arts.

The work is part of the council’s improvement programme for Meeting House Lane. Southwark Council funded the project with the generous support of St John with St Andrew Parish Church and The Lady Peale Trust.

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RUN ‘ The Thinker Child’ new mural for the Croydon Rise Festival

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Giacomo Bufarini aka RUN just completed a monumental mural in Croydon called the Thinker Child in Croydon, South of London as part of the Croydon Rising Festival. “The Thinker Child” brings a whole series of considerations and reflections by the…

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Italian street artist Giacomo Bufarini aka Run TIme Traveller Artist Man

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Who Needs Canvas? In Dakar, Street Artists Express Their Visions on Sides of Homes

DAKAR, Senegal — On one wall, the painting of a marabout, a Muslim holy man, peers out from behind a line hung with laundry. Nearby, a poster of an African woman in a bustle has been pasted to a house. Still further along, women socialize in front of a wall covered in an intricate black-and-white abstract pattern.

These are the painted houses of the Médina, a poor and working-class neighborhood near downtown Dakar. The neighborhood has welcomed street artists from all over the world to practice their craft in what the founder of the project calls the open sky museum. Dozens of wall paintings dot the neighborhood, bringing color to usually drab cement walls, and adding to the flourishing international art scene in Dakar.

Artists from not just Senegal but Burkina Faso, Algeria, Morocco, Congo, France and Italy have come to paint on these walls. They in turn have brought art lovers and tourists into a neighborhood where they otherwise might not go, to mingle with people they otherwise might not meet.

The wall art of the Médina “can bring together people who normally don’t even see each other,” said Mauro Petroni, a ceramist who has lived in Dakar for many years.

Street art seems to come naturally to Senegal, where many small shops are adorned with images of what they sell. Paintings of scissors signify tailors; heads with fancy hairstyles advertise barbers; images of cows and bowls of milk herald the ubiquitous sweet milk shops; a drawing of a sheep broadcasts the presence of a vendor serving grilled meat.

Shop art is commissioned by the shop owners, and sometimes painted by them too. But to paint on a house in the Médina neighborhood, it helps to go through Mamadou Boye Diallo, known as Modboye.

Mr. Diallo, 31, was born and raised in the Médina, the son of an elevator operator. He dropped out of school at 15 to become a break dancer and rollerblader. He got to know the art scene by working as a messenger, delivering fliers on roller blades for art galleries.

In 2010, he created Yataal Art, a nonprofit arts collective, and painted the first wall in the Médina with friends. The beauty of it is that “you don’t have to take a nice shower and wear perfume” to see the art, Mr. Diallo said. Among street artists seeking a wall to paint on, Mr. Diallo became the man to see.

“You have to pass by him in order to work in the Médina,” one of the street artists, Doline Legrand Diop, said. “He functions a bit like a curator.”

Ms. Legrand Diop lived in Dakar for many years and has two children by a Senegalese man, though she now lives in France. Her pictures of black people dressed as aristocrats, her #remakehistory project, can be seen on the walls of the Médina.

In the beginning, it was not always easy to convince homeowners to let people paint on their walls.

“They wanted money,” Mr. Diallo said. But as the project caught on, they wanted to keep up with their neighbors.

“It’s for the community,” said Tonton Kaba, a retired chauffeur, who has a Legrand Diop collage on his house.

Abdoulaye Camara, known as Père Djim, allowed an artist to paint the word “suba,” Wolof for tomorrow, on his house. He makes furniture of wood and animal horns on the street in the Médina, home to many artisans, so he could relate.

Still, what residents expect and what artists deliver are not always the same thing. Giacomo Bufarini, an Italian artist who goes by the art name Run, painted the wall of a house with a giant silhouette of the woman who lived there. He incorporated a window into her head, like a window into her mind.

Rather than being impressed by the concept, she complained that he had left the peeling paint on the window frame. “I told her I’m not like a decorator,” Mr. Bufarini recalled, sounding both peeved and guilty.

Another artist, Ernesto Novo, had to tiptoe around a large bull while he painted a row of African statuettes onto a wall last March. The animal is still there (as is the art).

The spirit of the open sky gallery is improvisational, just like the lives of many of the artists. Traveling through West Africa from France, an artist called the Wa, who would not give his real name, wound up in Senegal by accident, after his visa expired in Mauritania, and he and his friends drove to Senegal “for a beer.”

Mr. Bufarini recalled that after finishing his painting, he, Mr. Diallo and friends celebrated by going for a fish barbecue on the beach. Having no barbecue, they cooked on refrigerator racks scavenged from the trash, after burning off the plastic coating.

The painted-houses project has gotten so big that this year, Delphine Buysse, a Belgian curator, has arranged for artists in residence to live at a luxury hotel in Dakar, the Pullman, for a week, while painting in the Médina.

One of the most recent wall paintings was a collaboration between Kouka Ntadi, a Congolese-French artist, and Barkinado Bocoum, a Senegalese artist. Mr. Ntadi painted abstract portraits in black-and-white, and Mr. Bocoum added folksier portraits in bright colors.

Mr. Ntadi loved sharing the neighborhood with the commercial artists of the barbershops and the milk stores.

“I would say there is not really a border between the two in Africa,” he said. “It’s not like in France or the U.S. where there is a snobbism about art, and you can’t be in marketing. So for sure, we can still be an artist and make a design for a bottle of milk or a side of beef.”

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First Marrakech Street Art Festival MB6 - Street Art

The Marrakech Biennale decided in 2016 to display its program in public spaces and free of charge to reach a wider group of people. Following this decision, they founded the first Marrakech street art festival: The MB6 Street Art Project. Eleven renowned international and local street artists were invited to paint murals in key public spaces all over the city. Follow us to the bustling streets of Marrakech for a visit to the highlights of this street art festival.

“MB6” Marrakech Street Art Festival Highlights

An amazing area to discover some of the works of the Marrakech street art festival is the “Place des Épices”. It is right in the heart of the red city. Here on the rooftops, Lucy McLauchlan, Alexey Luka, Yesbee and Kalamour integrated their murals right above the vivid spice market. Enjoy a great view of these works at the terrace of the Café des Épices while sipping coffee and smelling the spices and herbs being traded below.

Nearby, while walking through the narrow streets of the medina, you can see Sickboy’s big colourful wall. A local guide told us that watching the artist working on this wall during the street art festival motivated one of the neighbours to ask for the leftover paint to create his own piece of art.

A bit hidden but nearby the Jemaa El Fna, you can find a big impressive wall: Remi rough and LX. One transformed a dull wall of a parking lot into an abstract colourful canvas.

Moving south and pretty close to the Kasbah, you will find Dotmasters‘ work. Aware of the local culture, he decided to paint massive red and pink roses: Morocco is famous for its superb rose oil.

Another large scale mural is located right outside the Bahia Palace. Giacomo Bufarini aka Run was the lucky artist who could paint this busy area at the street art festival. He left his recognisable imprint on its walls. If you look around the corner, you might find a flying carpet!

Last but not least, a masterpiece by MadC. She painted a magical colour explosion on a red Marrakech house wall reminiscing the Marrakech street art festival forever.

Find Marrakech’s Street Art on the Map

While it was a bit difficult to find street art in Marrakech some time ago, it finally arrived. Now it is quite easy to stumble upon. Hopefully, more similar projects will pop up soon.

If you want to discover all these artworks in person, the interactive map below shows their location. With a bit of preparation and by taking a cab for the longer distances, you can easily visit them in just a few hours. The current status of the map is from mid 2016, but I will upgrade it on October 2017 during my next visit.

First Marrakech Street Art Festival MB6 – Street Art was originally published on One of a Mind by ABURY

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Se sei in Ancona domani Gioevdi' 31 Maggio ... Due indiani metropolitani che lavorano " sulla strada" si incontrano e creano una situazione psicomagica. Run, Giacomo Bufarini artista underground, esponente internazionale della street art illustra al pubblico la suo opera frutto di un lavoro sui banchi del libraio ambulante Pierluigi Sonnino l'ultimo bouquiniste di Ancona. Ore 19: presentazione dell'artista, esposizione dell'opera. Ore 19, 20 abbraccio e danza dell'albero. Accensione delle candele e incensi. Musica sciamanica.Atto psicomagico. Ore 19,50 lancio in volo dell'aquilone. Ore 20 15 aperitivo allo Chalet 4 Fontane.

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Los Angeles

Some process shots of artist Giacomo Bufarini, aka RUN, making heads for MAN IS GOD at LA’s Howard Griffin Gallery. RUN creates works that beguile, hurling those within eyeshot up against their own mythologies into a whirling dust storm of collective ancestral memories — monoliths and Easter Island and shadowy dirt-buried rituals — before politely setting them back down in a cold wooden chair outside the gallery, half-lidded and thirsty for water. At least that’s what happened to us. And Jesus likes it, too. 

Show ends tomorrow, babies. Get ye.

Photos by Alexander Laurent. 

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On View: Giacomo Bufarini aka RUN’s “Parabola di G” at Howard Griffin Gallery

by Sasha BogojevPosted on December 5, 2014

Italian street artist RUN began painting murals on abandoned walls in Bologna and Florence in the 1990s and was one of the essential figures of the Italian underground scene, as well as the European street art movement. His unique and highly recognizable style is constructed of interlocking hands and faces in bright, arresting colors. A prominent local artist, he has also painted murals all over the world, from China to Senegal. These travels have inspired a lot of his work, which is focused on anthropology and the human form. He has been exploring these themes both on the streets and in his studio since his move to London in 2007 On November 27, RUN opened a unique exhibition and sculptural installation in London’s Howard Griffin Gallery titled “Parabola di G.” This is his first show under his real name, Giacomo Bufarini, and an important step in his career transition from street to studio art. Following the semi-autobiographical story about his own voyage of self-discovery, Bufarini is both the creator and protagonist of this show. Playing with reality and metaphors, the story is told through an expansive series of pen and ink drawings that collectively makes up a book.

Displayed within a complex sculptural installation, which emphasizes the events from the story, the highly detailed drawings share fantastical tales about finding a purpose through countless real and surrealistic, spiritual experiences. During his last seven years of studio work, Bufarini mastered a wide range of media and techniques, including wooden sculpture, printmaking, etching, drawing, and monotyping on wood, canvas and paper. His varied technical skills have allowed him to create an elaborate and unique installation as “Parabola di G.”

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Italian street artist RUN began painting murals on abandoned walls in Bologna and Florence in the 1990s and was one of the essential figures of the Italian underground scene, as well as the European street art movement. His unique and highly recognizable style is constructed of interlocking hands and faces in bright, arresting colors. A prominent local artist, he has also painted murals all over the world, from China to Senegal. These travels have inspired a lot of his work, which is focused on anthropology and the human form. He has been exploring these themes both on the streets and in his studio since his move to London in 2007.

On November 27, RUN opened a unique exhibition and sculptural installation in London’sHoward Griffin Gallery titled “Parabola di G.” This is his first show under his real name, Giacomo Bufarini, and an important step in his career transition from street to studio art. Following the semi-autobiographical story about his own voyage of self-discovery, Bufarini is both the creator and protagonist of this show. Playing with reality and metaphors, the story is told through an expansive series of pen and ink drawings that collectively makes up a book. Read more on Hi-Fructose. 

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Parabola di G, Giacomo Bufarini (via internazionale)

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from Lebanon ALAY 2017

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BAU BAU da Bobeche vintage store Don’t miss it ! My solo show at Bobeche Ancona 11 Maggio 2019 Free entry