#jason botkin

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Jason Botkin, Le M.U.R. XI, Paris, 05/2017

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Chris Dyer & Jason Botkin Collab street art

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Jason Botkin, Paris XIII, may 2015

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Jason Botkin

[hifructosemag]

Montreal-based artist Jason Botkin recently returned from Cancun, Mexico, where he created a series of murals and installations for the second annual Festival Internacional de Arte Publico, a week of art making that took place at the end of February. In collaboration with Jeremy Shantz, Botkin created a series of humorous, mask-like pieces with movable features that viewers could reconfigure a la Mr. Potato Head. Public engagement and collaboration are at the heart of Botkin’s whimsical work. He is a co-founder of the collective En Masse, which invites its members to co-create sprawling monochromatic murals. Though Botkin’s painting style has an instantly recognizable palette and texture, he has no problem adapting his aesthetic to work with that of other artists. Today we take a look at his pieces from FIAP as well as some other recent work.

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[hyperallergic]

(via University of Chicago Whitewashes Commissioned Mural, Artists Claim Censorship)

The University of Chicago whitewashed a mural created by visiting artists to the school without consulting the artists or the organizer of their visit. The school says the mural was painted over in response to complaints from local residents in the neighborhood where it was painted, but the artists involved are calling it censorship.

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Durante el Festival Internacional de Arte Público que se realizó del 13 al 16 de febrero 2014 en Isla Holbox y en la concha acústica del centro del pueblo, los artistas plásticos Jason Botkin y Curiot, pintaron dos fantásticos personajes ataviados con corales e iconografías de las culturas autóctonas de México referidas a la dualidad. En rigor, la dualidad es un fenómeno exclusivamente terrestre pero a través de ella, nuestros ancestros se tornaron universales, reconocieron la importancia de las sombras y observaron que la luz puede cegar si se busca obstinadamente; por lo tanto, en sus rituales, el bien y el mal fueron representados en equidad plástica. Para nuestros mayores, el espíritu y el cuerpo así como la noche y el día, nunca estuvieron separados, formalizaron una unidad y los seres humanos se situaron en un universo estratificado en tres niveles: cielo, tierra e inframundo. Esa percepción existencial definió el lenguaje plástico de la obra que Curiot y Jason Botkin realizaron en Holbox. Sentados en la playa y con la vista dirigida al sagrado espacio que une al mar con el cielo, en 15 minutos se pusieron de acuerdo y durante tres días sus trazos simplemente fluyeron:

Literatura y Mundo maya .- http://literaturaymundomaya.blogspot.mx/2014/03/jason-botkin-curiot-en-holbox.html

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magical Caribbean hut by Curiot and Jason Botkin for IPAF (Holbox Island, Mexico)