Volvo Art Session 2011 Art Book

After 9 months from the Volvo Art Session at the main station of Zürich (CH), organized by Eqal, the event reached his end with the presentation of the book "Volvo Art Session 2011" during the Kunst 11 art fair in Zürich.

The book is the result of the work that the photographer Michel Comte made during the 5 days of the event in february 2011. During the exhibition, where were presented big prints of selected pictures and the Volvo car painted by Wes21, a personalized copy of the book was given to each artist of the Volvo Art Session (DAIM, Wes21, Donovan & Onur, Pius Portmann, Nevercrew, Blackyard, C-Line, Yummy Industries, Michel Fr, Sukibamboo).

Book details: Publisher: Edition A&Z, Zurich / Switzerland. 144 pages. Language: German / English / French. Size: 30.5 x 30.5 cm. Available on DAIM's online store.

 

Live and Explore!

In april 2011 we were invited by a crew of UK based journalists (Redwood Group), from the Volvo's LIV magazine, to partecipate in theyr "European Art Movement" project. The basic idea was a trip trough Europe on their Volvo XC60 with three stops, one for every selected artist. The stops were Bornholm in Denmark (Anne Sofie Meldgaard), Leipzig in Germany (Metulczki) and Lugano in Switzerland (us). We had to choose a place to realize a work and we decided to do that on the top of the "Balestra" Carpark in the center of Lugano. 

The work we realized represents a kind of exploration: the astronaut is a person who visits places that few humans can see, looking at things with wonder and, of course, for the first time; he discover them. The car instead explores the inside, lives the place in detail; it knows it and it's part of it. The article and the interview are published on issue n°2 - 2011 of LIV magazine and also as video documentary on Volvo's website. 

You can see the artwork by CLICKING HERE, the video interview by CLICKING HERE and you can read the article HERE.

Volvo Art Session!

After some week we finally can show the final product of the Volvo Art Session created by Eqal and Volvo: the picture of our completed painting on the Volvo car and some video (like the one about us and the final timelaps with all the artists in the right order).

The final video was shown during the Car show in Geneva, with Michel Comte pictures and the Volvo Art-Car painted by Wes21.

Some picture of the making of (click to enlarge them). In the first one we work on the first sketch of the paper-Octopus and we start with the car decoration. In the third one we're partecipating at the photo-shooting with Michel Compte and we're painting on Melanie Winiger (more pictures here). In the fifth picture there's a view of the Volvo Art Session into the main station of Zurich.

First half of february!

As written some week ago, we're working on different things at the moment. Some are still in progress, some are arriving to an end and some are finished (but not ready to be published). The 10.02.2010 we partecipated at the Volvo Art Session and today we finished the sculpture for Costa Crociere (ready to go on foundry), a really different project compared to our usual works, but ordered with this style. 

Soon we will show more and better of both works, but at the moment there are only frames taken from a video and from the live webcams for the Volvo Art Session performance, and pictures of the "making off" for the Costa Crociere sculpture.

There's a little problem with our website's art galleries: we can't update them. We will soon rebuild it totally, but for the moment it's possible to DOWNLOAD OUR PDF PORTFOLIO to see our main works.

Oh! There's also a video made with frames from the webcams by Ledfilms:

 

Costa Crociere

Waiting for the Volvo Art Session!

 

The 9th of february starts the "Volvo Art Session" in Zürich, at the main station. We are between the 10 artists invited by the organizators of the event (www.eqal.ch) and we have to paint this thursday (10.02.2011), from the 15:00 pm to the 01:00 am. 

The rest of the artists are: C-Line, Blackyard, Yummy Industries, Daim, Lowrider, Pius Portman, Sukibamboo, Donovan & Onur, Wes21.

Every artist has to paint on a Volvo car and on a canvas on the background, painting on the previous artist's artwork. The final product will be a video and there will be also the photographer Michel Comte during this 5-days-event, wich will end the 13.02.2011 night.

More info, a timeline with all the artists, live webcams to see the event, and more on www.volvoartsession.com