kiki valdes projects 

lexus "darkcasting"

social media campaign

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Artist Kiki Valdes was selected including only two other Miami trendsetters to help brand the new Lexus Hybrid. Six major cities were picked for a reality style show/commercial for the car. The premise for the program is for the host comedian Whitney Cummings to drive in the car with each guest. Kiki drives Whitney around Miami’s art district then ending at his art studio. The branding for the car was a younger, hip and green friendly demographic that are educated, enjoy fine foods and are cultured in the arts.  

To view more of this campaign visit Dark Side of Green.

COMMISSIONED ART

 CNN MIAMI HEADQUARTERS

CNN en Español commissioned Kiki Valdes to create a painting for a private proceeding the company had for their top advertisers at the ViceRoy in Brickell, Miami FL. It’s one of the most important parties CNN has for its Latin American clients. The president of CNN en Español requested that the painting be hung in Miami’s new CNN production studio built in Brickell Key.

KIKI VALDES CREATES ART

LECTURES 600 YOUNG

COLOMBIANS IN MEDELLIN

Medellin’s social media outreach program Medellin Digital invited Kiki Valdes to give a lecture on art and social media. The major confernece was called TagMe. Kiki spoke to 600 young Colombian professionals and university students. He also created a painting for the city of Medellin. The painting now hangs in the Medellin Digital headquarters. The event made headlines in all Colombian major newspapers sparking wider interest in social media for the country. Kiki is good friends with Oscar Morales who organized the 1 Million Voices Against the FARC protests that got worldwide attention. Morales efforts and those of Medellin Digital with TagMe took place around election time made this an important part of Colombia's history.

 heineken mural project

commission for

KIKI VALDES ORGANIZES

EXHIBIT/PARTNERSHIP

WITH RUINART CHAMPAGNE

Kiki Valdes strongly believes in creating strong dialogs with the art community. He calls it cultural diplomacy. He likes to contribute his part to add to the discourse. He organized the exhibit 20(12): Twenty-Twelve at the Miami Art Space. The show featured 12 artists and their ideas of the future. The exhibit had a private soft reception sponsored by Ruinart Champagne. Ruinart commissioned Valdes to make a piece it can auction for a charitable trust. The event had 50 exclusive guests and was featured in Ocean Drive Magazine. Some reviews of the show are below.

Artlurker: Contemporary Art Newsletter Review

Knight Arts Review

some video features on

KIKI VALDES

Kiki Valdes- Secret Knowledge & Hidden Chaos from Chris Sullivan on Vimeo.

Here are some short features that can help you further  know contemporary artist Kiki Valdes. His work is aggressive, firm, historical and romantic. His paintings tap into age old truths about life and all its complexities. Kiki is often used in campaigns because his work taps into very human feelings and his personality is likeable and inviting into the creative world.

An Afternoon with Kiki Valdes from David "UpnUp" Cabrera on Vimeo.

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Design by Michael B. Myers Jr.

BLOOD AND

PERSONALITY

Type A:
While outwardly calm, they have such high standards (perfectionists) that they tend to be balls of nerves on the inside. Type A's are the most artistic of the blood groups. They can be shy, are conscientious, trustworthy, and sensitive.

Type B:
Goal oriented and strong minded, type B's will start a task and continue it until completed, and completed well. Type B's are the individualists of the blood group categories and find their own way in life.

Type O:
Type O's are outgoing, and very social. They are initiators, although they don't always finish what they start. Creative and popular, they love to be the center of attention and appear very self confident.

Type AB:
Type AB's are the split personalities of the blood groups. They can be both outgoing and shy, confident and timid. While responsible, too much responsibility will cause a problem. They are trustworthy and like to help others.

Compatability by Blood Groups:
A is most compatible with A and AB

B is most compatible with B and AB

AB is most compatible with AB, B, A and O

O is most compatible with O, and AB

5/19/2009 11:49:40 AMFind out what blood type you are and see if it matches your personality.

'TYPE A'
Type As most often described themselves in ways related to the following characteristics: sensitive to the needs of others, good listeners, detail oriented, analytical, creative and inventive. Type As may seem calm on the outside, but inside, you’re filled with anxiety and worry. You’re perfectionists and often shy and sensitive. Usually introverted, you’re stable and thoughtful. You make good listeners and are sensitive to color and your surroundings. You like to be fashionable and are up on the latest trends, but never flashy or gaudy. You like romantic settings and often shun reality for fantasy worlds. A is most compatible with A and AB in the love department. Common career choices: accountant, librarian, economist, writer, computer programmer, and gossip columnist.
Blood Type A - Tend to be cooperative, sensitive, clever, passionate and smart. Often bottling up anxiety in order to get along with others, they may hold in their emotions until they explode. Many are tense, impatient and unable to sleep well. While they are capable of leadership positions, they may not take them because the stress is not good for their tightly wired systems.

'TYPE B'
Blood Type B's often described themselves in ways related to the following characteristics: subjective, easygoing, creative, original and flexible. In another study, Type B's scored significantly higher on "intuiting," indicating a preference or sixth sense information; and they scored high on the "intuiting/feeling" combination, indicating that they tend to be insightful, mystical, idealistic, creative, globally-oriented, people-oriented and good at imagining. They also reported that they learned best through listening, then reflecting on and interpreting what they had observed. Perhaps the nomadic life of the steppes contributed to long hours given over to talk as well as ample time for meditation and reflection. Type B's can be very goal-oriented and often complete the ambitious tasks set before them. Outgoing and very charming, you’re good at reading people and providing support. Though critical of appearance (but not your own), you aren’t picky and are unlikely to dwell over the little things.
Type Bs are impulsive individualists who often create their own path in life. You are very strong and optimistic. B is most compatible with B and AB lovers. Common career choices: cook, hairdresser, military leader, talk show host, and journalist. Blood type B individuals tend to be balanced: thoughtful like A's and yet ambitious like O's. They are empathetic, easily understanding others' points of view, yet often hesitating to challenge or confront. Chameleon-like and flexible, they make good friends. 

• Type A: Reserved and prone to worry, sensitive perfectionists such as Britney Spears and Adolf Hitler.

• Type O: Decisive, self-confident, curious, and ideal for sport, including Elvis Presley and the Queen.

• Type B: Cheerful, caring, flamboyant free-thinkers such as Jack Nicholson.

• Type AB: High-maintenance, distant, suited to arts, such as Mao Zedong.

Kim's eyes are one of a kind.

Versace!!

My brother is

The other day I was at the supermarket with my brother...Then when we reached the checkout line, I realized something. My brother kind of reminds me of someone...then it dawned on me...

#WINNING

Very interesting work from the artist Vadis Turner. Turner is having an opening exhibit April 7th in New York City.

Exhibition will be held at Lyons Wier Gallery

New York,  April 7 - May 7, 2011

For more info about this show, check out

Lyons Wier Gallery

Ms. Turner’s work is an intersection where color theory, abstraction, assemblag and feminism meet head on. The artist’s innate color sensibilities and energy pay homage to the New York School of Abstract Expressionist and Action painters like Joan Mitchell and Willem De Kooning, by employing broad strokes of color. Through Ms. Turner’s exquisite and unique use of materials such as ribbon, clothing, antique quilts, lace and yarn, the artist continues to explore and exploit traditional “feminine” materials and creates a contemporary dialogue as found in the works of artists such as Petah Coyne and Shinique Smith.

Turner states, “During the creation of my marital Dowry and Reception (Permanent Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art), I became interested in the aesthetic bridges between diverse rites of passage. Elaborate ceremonies honor, idealize and purify the subject as they transition from one life chapter to the next. The subject simultaneously embodies a climax and demise. A new identity is conceived. An old identity dies. In this body of work, elements of ceremonial adornment are partnered with various processes of decay. Satin ribbons and flowers are fixed in a stilled state of destruction and removal inspired by fire or mold. Through consumption and repurposing, each process re-imagines the beauty and energy of change and loss.”

Ripe Dirt/Fresh Burial 2011, Ribbon, clothing, antique quilts, mixed media, 60 x 60 in / 152.4 x 152.4 cm

Want to live in Paris?

Photo by David UpnUp.

This is a detail of a piece titled "Hurricane, Erosion Hoop Dream." 2010

To view the photos: UpnUP Daily

Opening Ceremony by Terry Richardson.

Via: TheHypeBR.com

Cartman of South Park

sculpture by

colin

christian

This is so good. This was done by Florida sculptor Colin Christian for the South Park exhibit in New York City at the Opera Gallery. His work is usually so different. But one thing is always apparent, high skill! Source: South Park Sculpture.

RARE PABLO PICASSO

INTERVIEW 1966

-RTBF: you really like the word love, Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso: Yes, even the girl who interviewed me for I do not know what newspaper, I told her: "Ah, you know, for me, only love counts, is not it ?

-RTBF: you like people?

-P.P. : Everyone, I loved passionately, and I even think I would like a door knob, a chamber pot, whatever.

RTBF-: do you like TV?

-P.P. : I have it. I started a day because there was the wedding of Princess Margaret. Someone loaned me a TV and I saw the parade of the princess. And I kept the television and I continued to watch.

-RTBF: what would be great when you were on camera, this would leave you alone release. You would be so capable of doing great things for viewers and you would invent news things for them?

-P.P. probably. Sometimes I find wonderful things on TV, very nice things I like and that interest me. But sometimes it's terrible things. I say this because we are both here alone. Ah, this is not true, because everybody listens!

-RTFB: If you had to choose yourself the time, the paint, the canvas which should you survive, what is this painting, that period?

-P.P. I do not know. It's difficult. Done so with the intentions of the moment, the time and the state in which everyone and myself we are. It's difficult. At the time of Guernica, Guernica I did because it was a great disaster, even the beginning of many others that we followed. But finally, it is. It's personal. Basically, these are the memories that everyone writes.

extrait de l'unique interview de Pablo Picasso en 1966. Tiré du film de Pierre-André Boutang: "Treize journées dans la vie de Picasso"

Uncontacted Amazon Tribe: First ever aerial footage from Survival International on Vimeo.

Uncontacted Amazon Tribe: First ever aerial footage