Wednesday, August 28, 2013

DREAM CONCERTS ❘ ART SHOW BY ANDRÉ SARAIVA












André Saraiva - Dream Concerts - Artist's Studio - MOCAtv




In Paris, New York, London, and Los Angeles, show posters for dream concerts with all-star lineups have been tempting passersby and drivers to attend Madison Square Garden or the Bowery Ballroom, L'Élysée Montmartre or the Wiltern. Double-take on these worn posters and you're not even sure if they're coming up or something missed and legendary from long ago, but posted in public space, the anticipation is real. Upon closer inspection, we see that these epic concert announcements are actually paintings of lineups that only exist in the imagination of French graffiti artist André Saraiva. In this video, Saraiva takes MOCAtv to his studio at the Chateau Marmont, where he screenprints his playbills before pasting them on city streets. André Saraiva: Dream Concerts is in the Broad Lobby of MOCA Grand Avenue through October 7, 2013.