Multi-Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker
Releases Graffiti
Verite’ 4 (GV4), the Latest Installment
in a Series of Documentaries that Instructs in the Basic Techniques for
Creating a Graffiti Art Mural and Aerosol Art on Canvas .
Los Angeles, CA -- Following up on the success
of the Multi-Award Winning Graffiti Verite’
Documentary Video Series, Filmmaker Bob Bryan has completed GV4,
the ultimate Primer / Tutorial and Step-by- Step Program on Spray Can Art.
Most popular amongst Educators, the series has given outsiders a rare glimpse
into the outstanding Art and eclectic personalities behind the controversial
Graffiti Art Movement. InGV4,
Cleveland, Ohio Artist SANO (two-time winner
of The
International Graffiti Art Competition)
pulls you into the Underground Art form by showing the concepts, aesthetics,
techniques, and style needed to complete a perfect semi " Wild Style "
masterpiece (on a Legal Wall) as well as Aerosol Art on Canvas. GV4
is a "must-have-Video" for Art Instructors,
Art Students, Galleries, Museums, Libraries and Educational Institutions
who've been bewildered at Spray Can Technique. As a "unique
lesson plan," no
other program exists in the marketplace of ideas, that can compare to the
inspiration, skill and intelligence of
GV4.
" Graffiti Art, is Art first! "Graffiti"
in itself is a label applied to the Aerosol Art Culture,
and usually carries the negative connotation
that Graffiti Art is not a viable Art Form.
However, to define Graffiti or Aerosol
Art as scribbling or scrawling on a wall,
or for an artist to let his tool dictates
his or her style of work, is detrimental
to the idea of being an artist in this
Art Form. I'm an artist, that's all! My medium
of choice for the past fifteen years has
been spray paint, though I can rock with
markers, watercolors, pen, pencil, acrylics,
airbrush, or on a computer, whatever. "
Graffiti
Verite' 4has
a bold and beautiful life-affirming voice! SANO
sheds a positive light on the stereotypical misunderstandings and mystique
behind the discipline and creative process involved in Aerosol Art. GV4
takes you inside the mind of SANO
as he conceptualizes and creates his work,
while simutaneously declaring his love for the medium, the madness, and
the Art form.
SANO has a quiet
energy that can deceive the casual or uninformed observer. SANO's
quietness quickly dissolves into a fierce focused and frenetic energy once
he is resolved to the issues inherent to his current art project. This
transformation from contemplative graphic designer, to explosive aerosol
warrior is mesmerizing, as he aggressively grabs his spraycan, ready to
do battle with the wall.
SANO exorcises his
demons and repression's on the wall like noone I've seen before. The love
he has for his art is obvious in his body language, and funny verbal quips
about his many observations. Graffiti Art has provided him with an powerful
outlet to express his secret obsessions and raison d'tre.
One of the many personal issues that drives SANO,
is his mixed East / West dialectical Genetic heritage. Born
from a Japanese Mother and African-American Father, there is an internal
war constantly surging throughout his body. Alternating currents
of passive / aggression pulsation's run havoc throughout his genepool and
mind.
Captivated by this interaction, SANO's
consciousness resides as silent witnesses to this secret battlefield.
The walls provide a canvas that allow his demons to present themselves
in real time, at the speed of the spraycan. Like many aerosol artists,
the speed of the spray leaving the nozzle is key to the love of the game.
Less mental editing is done and any errors are quickly obliterated by a
bold stroke of the spray brush.
Yes, SANO is conflicted
like the rest of us, yet he has found his salvation at the bottom of a
can of Krylon, Rustoleum or Montana spray-paint. Trying to understand
SANO is both a difficult exploration and paradoxically a beautiful
adventure. The answer to this human enigma is revealed within the symbolic
images depicted in his artwork, hiding out in plain sight.
The GV4 wall
painted at Venice Beach Graffiti Pit, exhibits an overt antiwar statement,
depicting a young boy and his father attempting to escape a nuclear explosion
with a mere hand gun as protection against an insane world gone wild. On
the other side of the canvas SANO has created
a homage to the beauty of life, embodied in the countenance of a lovely
portrait of a girl whose existence is physically connected to the ravages
of nuclear war. The reality of her participation suggested by the cables
attached to her brain, symbolizes her slavish programming by an omnipresent
dominant technological society. What is suggested is that perhaps
because of her inability or unwillingness to involve herself in politics,
she is
responsible for this tragic end-of-innocence and peace. The horrorible
ultimate result of nuclear war mirrors the tragedies that SANO
experiences in his personal life, and the struggle he endures while
trying to communicate his feelings to the anonymous public.
"Cooperative and open, working with SANO
during the GV4 video shoot was a
very positive experience. After
getting to know him on a personal basis; I feel that whatever
drives SANO, also compels him to sadness.
Here stands an extraordinarily gentle man
at war with himself and a society that
is not ready to take the time to understand the
method of his madness nor the why of his
artistic statements. "
----Bob Bryan, Filmmaker
GV4
is accompanied by 25
of todays' most gifted and freshest musical
minds and bands working in the business today. Contributing 32
Original Songs to theGV4
soundtrack;GV4
is worth the price of admission just to hear these incredible musical compositions.
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