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Happy 2016!

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Hello, Colorhood: The official welcoming party 

On December 9th at 7pm, we are launching the new Colorhood.com online gallery shop at Energiea, among the friendly faces that have been encouraging Atelierul de Print for the last 3 years of events & experiments. Colorhood.com will keep on supporting Romanian artists, especially by stepping forward and becoming a magnet both to international artists and illustration collectors worldwide. Tuesday, December 9th, all 46 artists featured on Colorhood.com are invited to our launch event. We will exhibit some of the famous Red Bull coolers turned into functional art objects by the artists who participated in the Red Bull Curates: Canvas Cooler Project. We’re also putting together a small collective exhibition, gathering the newest artworks selected from our 350 illustration collection. Moreover, we are happy to surprise our audience with 2 colorful live performances: KITRĂ is Colorhood’s special guest and he’s fixing a live printing session using the old-school etching press and some linocuts created exclusively for the upcoming event. His artworks will be printed during the event and the participants will be able to take them home. KITRĂ aka Nicu Duță is an illustrator and toy designer based in Bucharest. His multidisciplinary practice spans across media, incorporating illustration, street art, toy and graphic design. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kitrart WE SINGING COLORS will be playing their colorful songs for our special audience. We Singing Colors is an indie-pop band from Bucharest, Romania. It all started in 2011 as a solo project of Andrei Hategan (The Amsterdams). In 2014, they launched their first album “Made of wool, made of heavy metal”. The band: Andrei Hategan (voice, acoustic guitar), Roxana Niculae (voice, keyboard), Vlad Ionescu (drums) and working close with a bass player - Narcis Axinte (Harlequin Jack). Website: http://wesingingcolors.wix.com/band Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wesingingcolors Partners: Designist.ro, Sub25.ro, Decât o Revistă, The Re:art, ArtWe, Șapte Seri, Formaje, decosieco.ro, Neapărat.ro, Igloo, ROD Cărturești, The Work-Out. Free entrance. 

Event on Facebook.

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@ ARTmaroc - Art & Design Boutique by Acuarela

On November 28th we had some fun at the ARTmaroc – a colorful art and design boutique launched by Acuarela. Beautifully refurbished objects (such as old chairs and sleighs turned into creative shelves), many friends and a cozy ambiance made us feel just like home (actually, the home we dream of).

The shop gathered tiny and precious objects, books, jewelry, uncanny lamps and decorations, and lots of special gifts created by Romanian artists and designers. 

We showcased some of our newest illustrations dressed up in fancy frames and Mario was great with managing a video mapping show on the wall occupied by our prints.

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Our story:

In 2010, after having tried all the possible jobs in the local creative industry, two high school friends decided it was time to go with the flow and start their own printing studio.

Since then, they had been gathering around in their Lilliputian studio a handful of young artists, tons of enthusiasm and, one by one, hundreds of illustrations.

Colorhood started out as Atelierul de Print, an artistic community helping out and spreading young talents all over Romania, by making contemporary art more accessible to the public.

By curating a wide selection of illustrations, the tiny printing studio soon became an unconventional gallery space, where artists meet for checking out the community news, for brainstorming over new artistic ideas or for sharing their talents with young apprentices, during special workshops.

In the context of a kitsch-indulging society, we decided it was still worth trying to make the world around us a more colorful place, by canceling the dictatorship of the bad general taste and by constantly inspiring the beauty seekers (yes, you right there!).