Montreal, May 13th 2013 - Headlining of the Festival International Montreal en Arts (FIMA), the currently in vogue Gaia will perform during the Urban Totem project. Rightly, street art is everywhere in the public area. That’s why we would share and join in this urban movement with our Urban Totem project which will gather Gaia and four artist collective around five totems. Enjoy the show from Thursday 13th to Saturday 15th of June, from 12h to 20h, Emilie Gamelin square.
Gaia is a Baltimore-based artist, known for employing a wallpaper-like technique: using wheat-paste to adhere large scale linoleum prints onto billboards and building exteriors. Working in cities that range from Baltimore and San Francisco to Amsterdam and Seoul, Gaia is one of a legion of anonymous street artists who take the urban environment as a platform for creative expression and social activism. Through artistic interventions, Gaia, who operates under a pseudonym that refers to the Greek earth goddess, has explored such issues as immigration and segregation, the need to foster the presence of nature within urban contexts, and the economic motivations that can weaken communities through irresponsible development.
IN THE PRESS
“In his art, which has an end-of-the-world aura, Gaia confronts issues of environmental degradation, gentrification, immigration, segregation and urban development. He is well known for his black-and-white portraits of city planners, rich men, politicians who changed cities, and of humans morphing into animals.” – The Washington Post
“among the names you’ll see again and again these days is Gaia...he’s an artist-of-the-moment, and prints of his that were for sale at a recent exhibition at Ad Hoc Art in Bushwick sold out.” – The New York Times
“Although his reputation has spread around the city, the country, and the world, he's an artist in his youth. Engaging and exuberant — not pretentious or self-conscious — he knows what he's doing, and he loves it.” – The Baltimore Sun
