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It has been 48 hours since ROJO®tv started broadcasting. Thousands of visits and comments to congratulate ROJO® and all contributing artists had totally overblown our most optimistic expectations and has made practically impossible to reply to them all. Please accept from these lines our big THANKS for the support and the nice words that only make us think on working harder to generate platforms where artists can showcase their creations to an art receptive audience. Thank you all in behalf of all ROJO® crew worldwide and all artists participating. Keep watching, as ROJO®tv will upload new video pieces weekly.

Read some of the inmediate media reactions:

"Just launched today by Barcelona-based art publisher and artist management group Rojo, their new online TV channel Rojo TV is an artsy alternative to the others. Unlike the streaming QOOB TV, which features short movies but done more by filmmakers and designers than fine artists, Rojo TV focuses only on creative video works from artist-filmmakers..." www.coolhunting.com USA

"Le déjà très bon magazine espagnol ROJO, consacré à l'art contemporain, se lance dans l'art vidéo. Hier, à Milan, a en effet été inaugurée ROJOtv qui propose une sélection conséquente de vidéos d'art d'artistes du monde entier. Difficile de vous conseiller l'une d'elle en particulier car la qualité est souvent au rendez-vous, et comme toute chaine de télé, le meilleur reste quand même de simplement regarder et être surpris par un programme qu'on aura pas choisi. Pour ceux qui font le pont et qui ne comptent pas sortir malgré le beau temps, voici un bon moyen d'éviter la vision suicidaire des chaînes de télé traditionnelles." www.fluctuat.net France

"The folks at Barcelona’s artist and designer consortium, ROJO, have been on our radar for quite some time now. Their wonderful design books, coupled with a multitude of other artistic endeavors, have more or less become staples of our design diet. Luckily for us we’re still hungry for more, because as our preferred purveyors of Spanish design perfection, they’ve got even more goodies for us to eat up. This time the group behind ROJO Magazine is going beyond print and product collaborations by expanding into the world of video art. Their new site, ROJO TV Online focuses on bringing art fans the best video talent around, completely ad free..." www.joshspear.com USA

"A revista espanhola ROJO, dedicada ao design gráfico e uma das principais referências na área, lançou hoje o seu canal de TV na web, com a idéa de entregar material audiovisual de alta qualidade estética, experimental na maioria, feito por artistas selecionados pelo globo. O lançamento aconteceu na ROJO Artspace Milano, na Itália, em evento para convidados com muito monitor LCD (dos grandes) e banda-larga à vontade para o pessoal conferir o conteúdo. Já está no ar, para nós podermos dar uma olhada também." www.updateordie.com Brazil

"The folks over at Barcelona-based ROJO recently let us in on the news of their latest project: ROJO®tv online. ROJO, an independent organization dedicated to the promotion and support of arts, has spaces all over the globe: Brazil, Spain, and Italy, so with their new ROJO®tv, they’ve gotten one step closer towards world domination! ..." www.juxtapoz.com USA

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Group Show Start

16.05.2008 - 21.06.2008
The opening group show "Start" presents the works of the artists of the gallery. The 400m2 of exhibiting space will host the works of Ana Rito, Caitlin Masley, Carlos & Jason Sanchez, Catarina Lira Pereira, Erik Geschke, Frank Plant, Gabriel Colaço, Gilberto Colaço, Isabel Baraona, Jeff Eisenberg, Jeremy Mora, Katrin Korfmann, Maya Schindler, Michelle Forsyth, Samuele Belloni and UIU.

®artspace Lisboa
Zaum Projects. Av Miguel Torga, 14B. 1070-373 Lisboa. Portugal
talk: +351 913 176 005 online: www.zaumprojects.com

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Boris Hoppek Mascherare

15.05.2008 - 20.06.2008
"Let me make this clear. Yes, I made the c.m.o.n.s. for Opel, sorry. Again I don't have a text about the exhibition. First because i am bad with writing and second because I don't explain my work, well I just explain that I don't explain it. Why I don't explain stands for the concept of not explaining. could be - a) I use it as an excuse to cover up first that I am bad with writing or - b) my work has nothing that has to be explained, or - c) it has something, but I don't want to explain just a small part of it not to mention all the subliminal elements and interpretation variations I don't know of. Whatever, let's say its all together." Mascherare is Boris Hoppek's first solo exhibition in Italy.

®artspace Milano
Via Tortona 17-19, Zona Tortona. 20144 Milano. Italy.
talk: + 39 02 894 230 87 skype: rojomilano

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Nathan Jurevicius Reformation

15.05.2008 - 31.06.2008
Internationally renowned artist, toy designer and illustrator Nathan Jurevicius returns to Magic Pony with Reformation, his first North American solo exhibition in four years. Featuring a variety of media, this exhibition includes a series of vividly hued ink and watercolour drawings, animations, large-scale sculptural installations and a print edition. Nathan has also produced a limited edition bronze owl sculpture, exclusive to Magic Pony. While his career thus far has spanned both commercial design and fine art, Reformation reflects a deeper engagement with his artistic process and materials, while simultaneously demonstrating a highly imaginative, philosophical approach to storytelling.

®artspace Toronto
Magic Pony. 694 Queen St West. Toronto, ON. M6J 1E7. Canada.
talk: +1 416 861 1684 online: www.magic-pony.com

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MWM 20/20

13.05.2008 - 30.05.2008
Matt W. Moore, painter, designer and illustrator, started with pencils, then spraypaint, then brush, and now also does digital topographical maps of his day dreams. The ideas, shapes, colors, and flow have been the same abstract ideas of a lifetime. The tools have changed... the vocabulary has grown, but the balance has not been lost. MWM's show is a personal celebration of his abstract art and design across disciplines and will feature a full 3D mural installation integrating new "Vectorfunk" works printed on textile and new paintings on canvas. The vernissage event will also see the release of his first monographic book published by ROJO® and will be honoured with the artist presence.

Vernissage: Tuesday 13.05.2008 from 20.00h to 22.00h

®artspace Barcelona
Carrer Girona 61 Local 02, Eixample. 08009 Barcelona. Spain.
talk: +34 934 673 598 skype: rojobarcelona

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®edicions new titles soon!

The new batch of ROJO® monographic books in almost ready. Four titles, printed in a very limited edition, created by Meomi, Heiko Muller, Marcel.lí Antunez (preview not available) and MWM. An overwhelming display of talent times four in a superb handy format. Pre-order now and get the four new titles for the price of three!

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Jurate Gacionyte

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Estelle Hanania

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Fabio Birita

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Eboy Los Angeles

09.05.2008 - 30.06.2008
Eboy is Steffen Sauerteig, Svend Smital and Kai Vermehr. From their Berlin studio they create re-usable pixel objects and take them to build complex and extensible artwork. Entire cityscapes, rich in detail have been created for London, New York, Berlin, Tokyo and others. This exhibition sees the latest city to get the Eboy treatment: Los Angeles. There will also be a chance to see the development of the Peecols – Eboy’s series of toys, which have become highly collectable, with a rare chance to see the ‘Blockbob’ prototypes and special limited editions of the figures. Exclusive Eboy prints, T-shirts and products will be available at the exhibition.

®artspace London
Concrete Hermit. 5a Club Row, E1 6JX London. UK.
talk: +44 (0) 207 729 2646 online: www.concretehermit.com

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Jaime Hayon

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Aya Kato

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Lucy and Bart

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Kevin Brand Set the World on Fire

07.05.2008 - 31.05.2008
Brand's new Bell-Roberts exhibition consists of unique wall-pieces that explore the boundary between low-relief and painting. Working in such media as painted wood, Perspex, and pressed aluminium, Kevin Brand takes his inspiration from simple every day objects and reinterprets them. In his hand, egg-cartons, cardboard boxes, and lego-like churches, sky-scrapers and factories are re-invented into formal compositions.

®artspace Cape Town
Bell-Roberts. 89 Bree Street. Cape Town 8001. South Africa
talk: +27 21 422 1100 online: www.bell-roberts.com

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Cristiano Trindade

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Aya Kakeda

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Silje Heggren Because the night belongs to lovers

07.05.2008 - 28.05.2008
Silje Heggren is a Norwegian artist, living and working in Bergen. Her main media is painting. Siljes works is often about young, social people and their relations. In these paintings the subject is brought to life from photos taken in bars and clubs. They show people dancing, drinking and partying. The images are instantly recognizable, but they also invite to further reflection.Who are these hedonistic people,what are their relationship to each other, and are they really as carefree as they seem?

®artspace Helsinki
Myymälä2. Uudenmaankatu 23. 00120 Helsinki. Finland
talk: +358 41 7832327 online: www.myymala2.com

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Uri Martinez

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Michael Dweck

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Cody Hoyt

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