February 2012
4 posts
THE ROCKS STUDIO #2
When I was walking around The Rocks on the first day I felt like I was in middle of a labyrinth. The streets there are from another age, which make them not have much sense nowadays. I can imagine it being perfect for the time they were built, there were no proper architects or engineers around so it grew in a very organic way. As in “we need the horses to go from here to there”, and...
THE ROCKS STUDIO #1
After one day of wondering around The Rocks I managed to collect a lot of stuff. The intention is to investigate and roughly map the neighborhood in all the connections it has to me and to all the levels of the complex modern environment (internet, imagination, memory, etc.). Thus, I was quite drawn into collecting the rocks of The Rocks, there is something about the coincidence of names that I...
RESIDENCY
I’m doing a residency at the historical district of The Rocks in Sydney. It is the result of a collaboration between The Rocks Pop-Up Project and the National Institute for Experimental Arts (COFA/UNSW). Over the next days (maybe weeks) I’ll be posting updates of how things are going.
NEW HOME
I just moved my websites to new places. My artworks now virtually live at www.bernardobento.com and my design portfolio is at www.behance.net/bernardobento
January 2012
2 posts
ESPORTE?
“Não posso considerar algo esporte que, se feito fora do ringue, dá cadeia” - Armando Nogueira
“I can’t consider to be sport something that if done outside of the ring, people would go to jail for” - Armando Nogueira
December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
2 posts
“Has the role of artist changed over the years? to which Richter replied: It’s...”
– Q&A ahead of Gerhard Richter’s retrospective at the Tate Modern on October 4, 2011
October 2011
1 post
VIDEOS
New stuff! Check out the videos here and paintings here.
September 2011
3 posts
BRASIL?
Ainda pensando nessa história de “imagem do Brasil”, me lembrei de uma coluna do Sérgio Malbergier na Folha de S. Paulo há uns meses atrás - “Brasil, um cenário em busca de roteiro”. Vale a pena ler aqui.
JOSH COCHRAN
Great illustrations, check out here.
August 2011
1 post
“Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It’s the only thing left in...”
– Philip Guston
CLICHÊ
Novo restaurante brasileiro na Oxford St em Sydney. Até quando vamos carregar o clichê de “samba, suor e sacanagem”? Por sinal me fez lembrar de um episódio do Hermes & Renato, como sempre imbatível.
July 2011
3 posts
TROPICALISMO
Avistei isso escrito num túnel no centro de Sydney, do nada. Curioso não?
AUSTRALIA
This is the first picture I took in Sydney, I didn’t have any idea that I’d end up working at this store. Awesome times, cheers to Alice, Denis and Simon! Lots have happened since then and now I’m going back. I’ll undertake the Master of Fine Arts at the same beloved COFA. Wish me luck!
Divide & Kreate mash up of Adele and Gnarls...
June 2011
4 posts
IN THE WORLD THAT I SEE
In the world I see - you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You’ll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You’ll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you’ll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of...
EXHIBITION UPDATE
Due to some unpleasant and unexpected issues with the courier service, I won´t be able to participate on the “You Are Not In Control” exhibition.
EXHIBITION
I’ll be participating on the collective show “You Are Not In Control” which is gonna be on at the Netil House, London, between the 23rd of June until the 7th of July. Unfourtunately I won’t be able to be there, but I’d be happy to receive feedback from the ones that go. So, if you happen to be in London by this time pass by 1 Westgate Street and drop me a line about...
May 2011
1 post
LATTE
You´ve got to admit. This is funny. Via FFFFOUND!
April 2011
3 posts
“Kafka, in everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
JOÃO LOUREIRO
How cool is this?! Check more of his work at Galeria Vermelho.
STUDIO
The office on a “casual Friday”.
March 2011
3 posts
HOUSE
Is he starting to control my life?!
GLOBAL SERVICE JAM
This last weekend I participated of the Global Service Jam at the Feel The Future headquarters in Curitiba. It was an awesome experience, really had lots of fun and managed to get to know some interesting people. Congrats to Kléber Puchaski, Feel The Future crew and all the Global Service Jam organizers. The event was great! Looking forward to 2012.
Get to know more about the project here.
February 2011
2 posts
NEW
To celebrate the beginning of the amazing month of March, I did a new design (with new content) to my website. Take a look here.
ACCEPT THE MYSTERY!
- It doesn’t make sense. Either he left the money or he didn’t. - Please. Accept the mystery. - You can’t have it both ways! - Why not? Larry Gopnik and Clive’s father, A Serious Man.
CHUCK WEBSTER
Fuckin’ awesome! Check out more here.
January 2011
1 post
EXHIBITION OPENING
Pictures of the opening of the collective exhibition that I’m participating at “ACASA” gallery in Curitiba, Brazil. The graffiti on the outside wall of the gallery I did with my brother Tom14, who also participated in the show.
December 2010
1 post
EXPO COLETIVA
Estou participando de uma exposição coletiva juntamente com Tom14, Sebastian e Guadalupe. A expo vai rolar na galeria “ACASA” (R. Benvindo Valente, 312) no próximo dia 19 de dezembro (domingo) a partir das 16h00. Ela fica até fevereiro. Chega mais!
November 2010
1 post
COFA ANNUAL 2010
My painting at the COFA ANNUAL 2010. The show goes from 22nd until 29th of November at Carriage Works, Redfern, Sydney.
September 2010
1 post
August 2010
1 post
July 2010
2 posts
DONE AND DUSTED
“Done and Dusted” is the Rex Irwin Art Dealer Prize for Masters by Coursework.
You can come along and take a look at what the graduating Painting Master students from COFA (as me) have been doing lately.
It’s on from 26th to 30th of July of 2010. The judging and official drinks are gonna happen on the 29th (Thursday) from 6 to 8 pm at COFA Space: College of Fine Arts - E...
MASSIVE UPDATE!
Check out the new drawings, paintings and sketches here.
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
2 posts
CONOR HARRINGTON
An awesome way of merging graffiti and painting. Check more here (via “booooooom”)
April 2010
2 posts
“O único problema de dias de chuva é molhar a meia… “Pour your misery...”
JULIE MEHRETU
I came to discover Julie Mehretu’s work some days ago and founded it very inspiring. There’s definitely something about this architecture / expressive lines that amazes me. I actually believe that I’m being quite influenced by her lately, anyway… Take a look here.
March 2010
2 posts
February 2010
4 posts
PORNOTOPIA
“The converge of sex and design makes perfect sense. Both are compulsively visual and tactile; both offer a realm of sensual pleasure and hedonism; both are treated as recreational activities; and both are viewed in openly self-preoccupied, consumerist terms”.
Rick Poynor, Designing Pornotopia
MILLS & MORTE
On the next 20th of February is the opening of the exhibition “Something Amazing About Harry - Secrets and Signs” of my friends Dominique “Mills & Boon” Hindmarsh and Susannah “Post Morte” Thorne. Their amazing artwork explores the curious case of Eugenia Falleni, the infamous “man / woman murderer” who scandalized Sydney on the 20’s....
“Por que todo mundo que tem um rádio na mão e uma camiseta de staff acha que está...”
MIKE PARR
Definitely one of my favorite Australian artists so far. Learn more here.
January 2010
2 posts
BOOM!
“I came up with a new game-show idea recently. It’s called The Old Game. You got three old guys with loaded guns onstage. They look back at their lives, see who they were, what they accomplished, how close they came to realizing their own dreams. The winner is the one who doesn’t blow his brains out. He gets a refrigerator”
Chuck Barris, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind