Dutch Artist Menno Baars and NYC Street Artist TMNK Go Nude. While the two artist had never met before, yesterday they collaborated at the Batavia Art Festival on a large-scale nude painting. Created live on stage, the two artists painted both canvas and the two nude model. Photo John Phielix. TMNK (The me nobody knows): I'm just an artist. a NOBODY. More interested in making art than making a name for himself, Nobody began his extraordinary artistic production outside the influence of the art galleries world. Showing his poignant, provocative, and bold art under the moniker of The Me Nobody Knows or simply NOBODY, he deliberately used the pseudonym to emphazise his similarity with the other talented artists in this community ignored by the art world. In the great tradition of synergies among artists which reveals the desire of contaminating their art, the collaboration with his fellow street artists (Avone, Ski, 2Esae) has brought to life works of great intensity. A Soho-born street factory that considers the Big Apple sidewalks as the only possible stage, these artists collaborate without ever losing their own individual perspective and their own creative message. Nobody: "I hope my paintings make future generations think and ask questions. I would love to be a part of a future discussion on politics, economy, culture 100 years from now. I simply paint what’s in my head and in my soul. I throw my pebble in the pond hoping it ripples outward a great distance, hoping someone anyone is moved by this disturbance I’ve caused." (Part of interview by Ceilee Sitt, Brooklyn Street Art, Modern Urbanisms, Manhattan, NY, 2011)

26 juni 2011

NYC Street Artist TMNK and Dutch Artist collaborates

Liberty Nudes 3&4, Menno Baars & TMNK, copyright protected 2011, models by Pink-Models, photo: John Phielix©

While the two artist had never met before, yesterday they collaborated painting together.

TMNK (The me nobody knows): I'm just an artist. a NOBODY. More interested in making art than making a name for himself, Nobody began his extraordinary artistic production outside the influence of the art galleries world. Showing his poignant, provocative, and bold art under the moniker of “The Me Nobody Knows” or simply NOBODY”, he deliberately used the pseudonym to emphazise his similarity with the other talented artists in this community ignored by the art world. In the great tradition of synergies among artists which reveals the desire of contaminating their art, the collaboration with his fellow street artists (Avone, Ski, 2Esae) has brought to life works of great intensity. A Soho-born street factory that considers the Big Apple sidewalks as the only possible stage, these artists collaborate without ever losing their own individual perspective and their own creative message.

Nobody: "I hope my paintings make future generations think and ask questions. I would love to be a part of a future discussion on politics, economy, culture 100 years from now. I simply paint what’s in my head and in my soul. I throw my pebble in the pond hoping it ripples outward a great distance, hoping someone anyone is moved by this disturbance I’ve caused." (Part of interview by Ceilee Sitt, Brooklyn Street Art, Modern Urbanisms, Manhattan, NY, 2011).

Not Defined Menno Baars TMNK 150x150cm 2011

TMNK and Menno Baars june 2011 at Baarsfabriek studio

Investment firm Turn Around Concepts represents TMNK in the Benelux region.