In order to celebrate his birthday each year MR WANY holds a three day Graffiti festival inclusive of a Hip Hop Jam and Exhibition featuring talent from all over the world. AMAZING DAY is back again in 2013 and looks like it’s going the be bigger and better than ever!
The festivities start (this friday) 15th of March and continue through to Sunday the 17th. Presented by The Urban Cultural Association ‘ARTEFICE’ in Collaboration with Free Compania Arts and Crafts Social.
Here are the details:
AMAZING DAY 2013
Back to the roots
Happy b.day to MR WANY.
2013 – Held in Locate Triulzi, MILAN.
INTRODUCTION
When it comes to Hip Hop Culture, the word “jam” refers to an impromptu moment of encounter and exchange, where writers, Bboys, MCs and DJs from different places, tackle the same space. Writers often develop collective works with a ‘single theme, as in previous years, for example: 2011, Staggioni of life, 2010 The Divine Comedy of Dante, 2009 Tribute to cartoonist Bode … So creating an impromptu moment and letting those that are contaminated by vibration, the ability and the incentives that the artists creating and releasing, giving rise to unique paintings that mark the path of a culture in constant evolution that moves through the streets of our cities to the most important galleries.
EVENT
AMAZING DAY Brother 2013 is the most important international art event expected in Italy this year. Amazing day was founded in 2007 with the idea to celebrate the birthday of one of the most popular writers of all the boot: Mr.Wany, in the last 23 years Mr. Wany has been distinguished by his artistic qualities, becoming the personification of street-art. Unexpectedly, the event has grown from year to year exponentially moving to different cities. The first of which were held in Bologna, Genoa and Milan, involving seeing world-famous artists who respect and show affection for the birthday boy, showing that distance is no barrier. The area that will host the 6th edition Locate Triulzi, Milan.
The event will feature several stages:
LIVE PAINTING
This year there will be about 30 to 40 crews featuring artists from all over the world, such as the Swiss Heavy Artillery crew, Kade and Wes 21, PUF, BN, TDK crew from Italy and many others who will paint in order to liven up walls legally granted to the artists in an effort to brighten the city. The theme this year will be ‘cultural’. Artists will begin to paint the morning with a plan to finish sometime in the afternoon. The live painting will be distributed to the top two walls, the school gym Locatelli, and subway adjacent to the school Locatelli.
ARTISTS:
Pantone (ES), Wes21 (CH), Kkade (CH), Alert (UK), Gebes (DK), Jiroe (UK), Relay (UK), Twesh (IT-UK), Hunto (IT-UK), Krazer (ES), Eight (IT), Loyd (IT), Krio (IT), Phen (EN-ES), Wubik (IT) Bans (IT), Chief (it), Meth (IT), Skolp (IT) Mind (IT), Syrians (IT), Rae (IT), Mr.Wany (IT), Mars (U.S.), Royal Shine (IT), Zero (IT), Raptuz (IT), EricsOne (IT), Blef (IT), Word (IT), Hemo (IT), Font (IT), KNZ crew (IT), Ches (IT), Dayak (IT), ZeroT (IT), Spra (IT), Refreshink (IT), Carot (IT), Pomos (IT), smake (IT), Imen (IT), Cre (IT), Pongo (IT) and many more …
CONTEST
ILL FAME SCHETCH contest.
BREAK DANCE
Contest 2 VS 2
DJ: TWICE (Original bboy from Natural Force Crew)
The selection and the final will take place on Saturday 16 in the
afternoon from 16:00 to 18:00.
1st PLACE
300 Euro
2nd PLACE
2 tickets + travel + accommodation for the Red Bull BC One Qualifier.
3rd PLACE
Wear clothing fluid.
DJ:
– TWICE (Natural Force Crew)
JURY:
– CIMA (Rapind Soul Move)
– FABIO LOOP (Fluid Wear)
– Matteino (Natural Force Crew)
WORKSHOP
Breaking Saturday the 16th from 11:00 to 13:00
Loop with Fabio, cost 10 Euro.
presents itself to 10:30 at the location.
CREW REGISTERED:
– Simba & Dezz-it / RAW Muzzlez (Rome)
– froz & Bk / BANDITS crew (Milan)
and many more …
to subscribe send an email here:
project@theamazingart.com
EXHIBITION
The curator of this year will be Caporosso Michele, a young but talented expert curator of street art and graffiti. The exhibition will be divided into two parts, one part will be devoted to works on paper made by many artists since 1996 to date for the magazine Ill Fame (Mr.Wany, Seak, Giving, Bean, Storm, Chob and many others)
to see some previously held exhibitions in Milan: www.theamazingart.com
The second part will see the works of different artists on canvas but of a different nature including a strong backround of urban writers, tattoo artists, illustrators, street artists, sculptors, cartoonists, etc … Giving the opportunity to enjoy a more attentive audience the most intimate aspects of each artistic personality, even on a more solemn as the canvas. And ‘provided an explanatory catalog of the exhibition, the artists and their works.
ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION:
PANTONE (ES)
Berst (NZ)
Moneyless Pirisi (IT)
Mr.Wany (IT)
POETRY (USA)
REMI ROUGH (Uk)
WES 21 (CH)
KKADE (CH)
HUNTO (IT_UK)
2501 (IT)
CONCERT / PARTY
The party as well as the whole event will be held at the gym on a Locatelli Locate Triulzi a short walk from the train station, where we will stand in the self-produced large yard. It all ends with a party on the 16th night in which they will perform and DJ Mc, nationally known rappers but also young talents from 18:00 / 19:00 until 24:00 so
you can admire the walls.
Concert:
DJ KAOS & CRAIM
Show Case:
HYST & JESTO,
BOOM DA BASH
SANTIAGO
MIX UP feat. Infa & Covi
INKASTRO & PART,
Mouri + SEMERARO,
GALAN,
LOW CASH GANG
and many more …
Here are some images from the artists and previous years at Amazing Day.
More info: project@theamazingart.com
www.theamazingart.com