Augarten brennt – NetRagua

“Augarten brennt” is a contest for street artists supported by the Porzellanmanufaktur Augarten (Augarten porcelain manufactory). Dating back to a privilege given by the emperor to Claudius Innocentius du Paquier in 1718, the Augarten porcelain manufactory is Europe’s second oldest producer of hard-paste porcelain. For the project “Augarten brennt” – Street Artists could participate via Facebook and Twitter through a group called Paint the City. Messages were posted by a mysterious activist called Net Ragua (backwards=Augarten) announcing that he would spray a historical monument as a protest. A protest for more space to express urban arts. Soon afterwards a video was posted on Youtube showing a group breaking into the Augarten porcelain manufactory spraying all it’s interior. This video was banned 3 times from Youtube and generated a huge buzz. A couple of days later another video showing various Graffiti pieces from Austrian Artists ended with a link to the www.augartenbrennt.at website, where all the information for the artist contest was presented. By public voting people could participate and choose their favorite piece. The top 3 works will be produced by the Augarten porcelain manufactory. At the end of the project the top 3 pieces will be auctioned at the Dorotheum Vienna.
Big up to Augarten porcelain manufactory for making such a project possible! Thanks to Ms. Claudia Uth, Ms. Barbara Goess and the whole Augarten porcelain manufactory Crew

Check the Website and have a look at all the great artworks – thanks to all the artists for being part of this culture clash!
www.augartenbrennt.at

Credits:
Mag. Claudia Uth (Augarten porcelain manufactory)
Director Products & Marketing

Alexander Schoenburg (4E7)
Daniel Irsiegler und Alexander Predl (Predl von Pretz)
Bernhard Blum (A-A-A All-Austrian-Arts)
FungWei Pai (FWP)
Stefan Moerth (CrunchTime)
Hutan Vahdani (Butterflies & Bunnyrabbits)
Peter Paltinger & Ergen (Uniquemedia)

NetRague Ansage #1

NetRagua Ansage #2

NetRagua – Augarten Einbruch

AUGARTEN BRENNT from net ragua on Vimeo.

Download the exclusive “Augarten brennt” anthem – Pack die Farben aus and all the remixes – by Stereotyp aka Stefan Moerth (CrunchTime)

Netragua / pack die Farben aus . mp3 version

pack die farben aus / barefoot remix

Netragua / pack die farben aus / Claymore remix

Netragua /pack die farben aus./ Leroy Brown remix

NetRagua – Pack die Farben aus Video

NetRagua – Graffiti Jam @ Porzellanmanufaktur Augarten

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SIOSEH #32 “Addictive” – StreetArt | Graffiti

Sioseh #32 Curated by Butterflies & Bunnyrabbits

Exhibition Sioseh #32 – Street Art / Graffiti

Artists:

A1one – Busk – DBS – Deep Inc.- DNM – Die Made – El Lasso – Franke – Holy Sin – Keramik – Knochenmann – Kryot – Muecke – Nychos – Robert Huttinger – Serge Wottafak – Skero – Smurf – Stereotyp – Tony Hell

special guests – Dave Huettner, GRL Vienna, CCK and Michael Ornauer

Sioseh # 32 ist die vorletzte Auflage des von Sissi Farassat herausgegebenen Kunstmagazins, welches seit nunmehr 10 Jahren vierteljaehrlich erscheint.
Sioseh ist persisch und bedeutet 33, womit auch die Ankuendigung erfolgt, dass insgesamt 33 Nummern der Zeitschrift geplant sind.

Man erwirbt mit Sioseh ein wertvolles Einzelstueck, kein Exemplar gleicht dem anderen, jedes Stueck steht als Kunstobjekt fuer sich selbst.

Sioseh ist das Gegenteil einer Publikumszeitschrift, ein “Miniatur Magazin” das ebenso klein wie kostbar ist und welches den kooperierenden Kuenstlern ein Forum bietet, das zur Kommunikation und Auseinandersetzung mit dem Publikum aufruft. Den Kuenstlern werden hinsichtlich ihrer Beiträge keinerlei Vorgaben gemacht, ihr agieren innerhalb des Magazins ist eigenverantwortlich.

Ausgabe #32 traegt den Titel ‘Addictive’ und wurde diesmal in Zusammenarbeit mit Butterflies and Bunnyrabbits, Sabotage Filmproduktion, The Message und Inoperable Gallery Vienna produziert.
Das Thema der Ausgabe, die in Kooperation mit dem Projekt ‘Artists in Residence’ der Sabotage Film produziert wurde, ist ‘Street Art’.

Jene kontroversielle, und dem ersten Augenschein nach von saemtlichen kommerziellen Strukturen befreite Form der Kunst im oeffentlichen Raum, die ganz im Gegensatz zur klassisch bildenden Kunst nicht fuer die Ewigkeit geschaffen ist und deren Kuenstler sich in ihrer Anonymitaet im Grenzbereich zwischen blossem Vandalismus und popikonenhafter Verehrung bewegen.

In einer Zeit in der kuenstlich gehypte Produkte den globalen Markt mit ihren zahllosen Optionen und Auswahlmoeglichkeiten ueberfluten, in der die Frage nach der Realitaet des Lebens scheinbar zur Bedeutungslosigkeit verblasst und in der Sichtbares bewusst uebersehen wird, beinhaltet oft nur das Unsichtbare, das Geheimnisvolle, jene vermeintliche Wahrheit die den Menschen seit eh und je beschaeftigt, aufreibt und fasziniert.

So beeinflusst auch der anonym agierende Kuenstler, der Street Artist als das unbekannte Wesen, die Meinungen der Menschen im urbanen Raum ueberall dort wo er seine Spuren hinterlaesst.

Text by Robert Huttinger 2008

Concrete jungles and the search for truth

Robert Huttinger for SIOSEH #32

The anonymous artist producing his work exclusively in and for the public space, has had a long standing tradition throughout all ages. With the rise of exhibitors and gallery owners and their need to generate income, the artist soon found himself in a position where a creators name weighted more than the subject matter of his creation. With a brand name built and utilized to calculate the products retail price, art was soon traded like a relic, selling for millions at Christie’s, to collectors who paid for the exclusive connection to its mythological creator, rather than for a painting depicting sun flowers.

With the middle class on the rise and mass production enabling infinite replications, art was liberated from gallery spaces and transformed to an affordable product, aimed at adding quality to the modern families life. Creative individuals soon started experimenting with the sterile concrete structures the social housing revolution gave birth to.

Plain walls became a painters canvas overnight and steel structures were turned into a writers page on weekends, the process spawning the illegal street artist, who in the view of the public mind, was looked at as a destructive, allegedly photophobic, lazy low life type. Rigid laws and closed circuit cameras were put in place to intimidate and keep those infamous individuals from causing harm to publicly owned property, keeping the rampant jungle away from the yet uninfected concrete.

Working on space owned by the public, the street artist creates without the publics consent. Unlike the successful legal artist who gains popularity using traditional marketing strategies, the illegal artist accomplishes the same by utilizing obfuscation techniques to stay anonymous. Liberating the creation from the creator and emphasizing the impact of his work by negating any liability or responsibility related to the creation, he successfully manages to stir up public perception.

The street artist creates art that is property only to itself, depicting stories of urban wildlife and dropping colorful spores of inspiration to sprout in concrete jungles.

Noun: concrete
1. A strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water

Adjective: concrete
1. Capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginay

Noun: jungle
1. An impenetrable equatorial forest
2. A location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival
3. A place where hoboes camp

This is how we roll… – thanks to all for the great day – peace!