Joshua Allen Harris: puts a bag on the underground lattice and creates his art.
At first glance it looks like a simple garbage bag resting on the lattice of the New York subway, instead it is the brilliant idea by the street artist Joshua Allen Harris.
Joshua was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he studied graphics and illustration.
He moved to New York in 2004 to attend the School of Visual Arts where he graduated in Fine Arts.
In 2006, he launched the Air Bear project, which soon became famous all over the world.
These are a cinematic sculptures made with garbage bags that the artist models like animals, placed on the grids of the subway, that inflate and deflate by the air passage, turning magically into a bear (Air Bear) ,monkey, giraffe, and even monster of Loch Ness.
Joshua, to create his particular artworks, uses two elements: the air coming out of the underground grates and the plastic bags. The air enters the inert envelopes by giving them life and movement, its technique is called “Balloon Animal.” because that envelopes swell just like balloons.
The Air Bear Project also was used to promote a social and environmental campaign promoted by the Environmental Protection Fund for polar bear protection.
Joshua currently works as a creative consultant for major companies, creating advertising campaigns, catalogs, and showcases.
In 2012 he began to explore photography. From that moment he decides to pursue both ways: communication and photography, for commercial and personal projects.
He still lives in Brooklyn, with his wife Cameron.
Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back
Directed by Maura Astelroad for Nexo Digital in collaboration with Feltrinelli Real Cinema.
Maurizio Cattelan (Padua, 1960) is an artist who has always divided: someone thinks he is a genius and someone considers him a bluff, even there is also who is indignant of his success, describing him as a bad character for Italian and worldwide art.
But Cattelan has always skillfully played with these contradictions, working on the brink of genius and fortune-telling, attending to the artist of the bankruptcy, alternating lightness and tragedy as only Andy Warhol before he had succeeded.
Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back, the feature film directed by Maura Axelrod, tries to tell this Padua artist interviewing curators, collectors, protagonists of the art world and ex-girlfriends.
After a preview at the Tribeca Film Festival, the docu-film will be in Italian halls on the 30th and 31st of may during the Grande Arte al Cinema season, distributed by Nexo Digital in collaboration with Feltrinelli Real Cinema.