Monday, October 23, 2017
Author
TUYULOVEME
SAME SHIT, DIFFERENT PLACE
I discovered TUYULOVEME work in 2014 during holidays in Bali and I instantly fell in love with his style. After travelling for years all around the world to do some street art hunting or attend graffiti events, his work was very refreshing and quiet intriguing to me. After some research and additional street explorations, I found out that TUYULOVEME was a very prolific artist, not only in Jogjakarta where he resides today, but all over Indonesia and in many parts around the world… always the same shit but in some different place !
Having a passion for both STREET ART and GRAFFITI, I found in TUYULOVEME murals a perfect mix of these two urban art movements, maybe the “best of both world” as we say.
His technique and experience of Graffiti spraying allows him to paint some very precise lines, to create some complicated backgrounds using the entire toolbox of classic graffiti designs like Throw ups, bubbles, dots, stars and more. These broken background designs allows him to create some visual chaos and energy that are transforming blank walls into powerful canvas.
Then by adding and blending his easily recognisable and joyful spaying character into his background, he is managing to bring even more action & movement into his work, attracting the attention not only from the pure graffiti players, but also from the wider community of Street Art lovers, Art lovers and everyday’s people walking down the street.
In addition, thanks to his years of experience and technical skills, TUYULOVEME is able to transfer all the strength and the qualities of his large outdoor murals into smaller artworks without compromising his style. His use of mixed techniques and tools, like spray paint, acrylic or markers allows him to create a fantastic body of work that we are extremely proud to present to you at ALLCAPS Gallery.
“SAME SHIT, DIFFERENT PLACE” can be understand as a provocative summary of TUYULOVEME art exploration in the recent years. After travelling and painting in Russia, Australia, Philippine, Thailand or Singapore… His vision has become very clear: He likes to paint what he paint, and don’t expect his style to change anytime soon, this is TUYULOVEME style and here to stay! Therefore we are delighted that he choose Bali to write another chapter of his creative life, and we hope you will truly enjoy the works of this iconic Legend of the Indonesian urban art scene.
TRAX
founder of ALLCAPS Gallery
Friday, October 20, 2017
Author
TUYULOVEME
SICK OF YOUR STUPID SHIT
Back in 2014, NUNO and TUYULOVEME found common ground through their love for vandalism and their similar outlook on the art of life. As Graffiti gives and takes, their team-up is another testament to her universal, cross-cultural might. Graffiti is the language spoken by the few who understand her, yet her presence is violating and all-encompassing, intrusive and without prejudice to her witnesses. Most will never know what goes down on a bombing mission, let alone feel the primal satisfaction of getting away with illegal shit. It's raw and, arguably, the best fucking feeling in the world.
Graffiti is a demanding mistress, reserved only for those with an unhealthy obsession for her. Many are called, but only a chosen few get to see her in her full spreadeagle glory. NUNO and TUYULOVEME fucks with her. She's tight. This show is dedicated to her and all the times they've had to run and bleed for her. Every night out doing Graffiti is another story for the Great Record-Keeper in the Sky. Worship through the self, not of the self.
In SICK OF YOUR STUPID SHIT, Q.C. grime meets exotic Jogja. NUNO and TUYULOVEME attempt to channel ten-plus years of name writing by creating visual salads of lines, letters, and color combos. Each layer of paint, ink, and paper speaks a page off their books. The culmination of countless bombing hours, concentrated on every cut and stroke they make. While TUYULOVEME is more chill about it, NUNO is being an active hater by calling out all the poser shits trying to act relevant. Come on bluud. Stay salty.
-Adrian Alfonso
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Author
TUYULOVEME
In his latest solo
exhibition, Yogyakarta based graffiti artist, TUYULOVEME creates a concious understanding of his urban surroundings and its identity
and relationship to his unique visual style of graffiti. In DESTROY TO CREATE, the artist negotiates the notion of the
urban public domain in an enclosed controlled environment such as a gallery
space. While his artistic identity on the streets of Indonesia remains raw,
unprescribed at the very least, the gallery space provides the artist with a
different set of challenge in repurposing and negotiating spaces. How does one
bring the streets into the gallery? Essentially, street art or graffiti could
never belong in a controlled space such as a gallery. When an artform such as
graffiti is recontextualised into a gallery, what the artists essentially
addresses is the fundamental being of his artistic being and its existence
within the construct of various spaces. Climbing a billboard to bomb one’s name
presents the artist with a certain set of challenges which is unique to the
nature of the space, as is with creating a body of works for a solo exhibition
in a gallery space. TUYULOVEME’s approach of re-appropriating objects acquired
on the streets as a base for his artwork becomes the pertinent link in his
attempt to negotiate his urban artistic persona to exhibiting his works in the
gallery. Breathing new life into banal, decrepit objects as street signs and
others allows him the same artistic mobility and freedom, akin to the act of
defacing a decaying wall or billboard on the streets. In creation, there must
always be an act of destruction. This is the cycle. DESTROY TO CREATE.
ZERO for TUYULOVEME
