During this years Luminale 2012, MobiLenin paints every evening on the Literaturhaus Frankfurt. Passersby are welcome to join in painting.

When?
From 15.4. - 20.4. at 21:00 - 23:00 o’clock
(Live-Performance at 21:00 & 22:00 o’clock)

Where?
Literaturhaus Frankfurt, Schöne Aussicht 2, Frankfurt am Main

Friday 18 I 20.00-22.00 I CENTRALE BIBLIOTHEEK K.U.LEUVEN I GRATIS
Saturday 19 I 19.00-22.00 I OPENBAAR ENTREPOT I GRATIS

songs that I have composed and produced during the last few weeks. Providing an experience to the audience with live-painting and playing my own music as a unity was something I have been looking forward to for long. And now it was out there, and it was greatly received by the audience as told by many viewers. The whole thing felt like going back to my roots, to the place and path that has shaped me in my childhood and teenage life.

I recently came across a phrase by Jonathan Meese, a German contemporary artist, saying ‘art forms us, not we form art’ and I started to realize how true that is. While with new types of technology such as the MobiSpray system it is possible to create new forms of art making, it is however a much more powerful experience to realize what art does with us. To me it feels that the process of making my MobiSpray art, and giving other people a chance of experiencing it live and in exhibitions through my photos and videos, it sets my creative energy free on a level I had never imagined before. Yes, art in a sense, has revolutionized and is revolutionizing my life. I more and more see the world around me much stronger through the lens of art, which is a fascinating perspective. Thus I share much of Jonathan Meese’s motto of ‘Kunst an die Macht’ - which is freely translated: ‘let art reign’. Oh, yeah what can happen with us if we let art reign? How will it form us? It seems that sometimes we may only be able to see it when we go back to our roots.

Flatriron building New York city painted with MobiSpray

Flatriron building painted from bottom to top.

Watch here a longer video (7 min) of the event.

You can find photos of the event here.

More info on the event can be found from here (in finnish only).

MobiSpray on TV news (Finnish YLE channel) on 18.1.2010

MobiSpray on TV news (Finnish MTV3 channel) on 18.1.2010

Listen to radio interviews

Main building

Meilahti campus

Kumpula campus

Viikki campus

Find more photos from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28976251@N07/sets/72157623254706686/

Dates and time of the MobiSpray sessions:
* Ma 18.1.2010 Keskustakampus, Senaatintori (Unionink. 34) klo 16-20
* Ti 19.1.2010 Meilahti, Biomedicum 1 (Haartmaninkatu 8 ) klo 16-20
* Ke 20.1.2010 Kumpula, A.I.Virtasen aukio (Gustaf Hällströminkatu 1 ) klo 16-20
* To 21.1.2010 Viikki, Biokeskus 1 (Kanslerinkaari) 16-20

MobiSpray in action from MobiSpray on Vimeo.

The MobiSpray art is about engaging in space, bringing extra tension or play to challenge peoples assumptions about an object or place. Similar to the artist Christo who uses buildings and object from the environment to create ephemeral art by wrapping them up, MobiLenin uses buildings and objects to create highly ephemeral art by painting on them with light and his Mobile phone. MobiLenin offers his MobiSpray live action painting show to event organizers globally.

Spraying outdoors on the huge frontside of the Art Basel Exhibition main hall. Yes, it was done by me.

Every evening I painted the citiy of Basel in some location that I was tempted to change into the looks as I want it. Here, I painted at the Marktplatz.

This is in some quater in the city centre somewhere.