This 3D installation recently completed takes a serious turn to show 3D street art's ability to bring a message to its viewers.
Art for After Hours 3D street artist Anthony Cappetto with Wendy Stum created the art at the Sarasota Chalk Festival in Venice, Florida this year as we have been regular participants since 2011 with many 3D exhibition works. This one was more important to us in its message and delivery.
This is a video clip we did during the event in which Cappetto is blowing bubbles in solidarity with our refugee girl whom an aid worker had given a bottle of soap bubbles to entertain her for a few moments, taking her away from her stark conditions around her.
‘Refugee’: Here, but Not Here… Anthony Cappetto with Wendy Stum
In the spirit of the Sarasota Chalk Festival’s 2017 theme of Evanescence, we present the story of a refugee child. Amidst the rubble and desolation of a stop on her journey, she blows bubbles representing some of the nations with the most dramatic refugee crises. We selected South Sudan, Syria, and Myanmar (Burma). As a child, enjoying for the briefest of moments - a chance to be a child while sharing a message with the viewers. We hear and read about refugees’ plights, but our thoughts move past them as we put down the information and move on with our lives.
They are ‘here, but not here’.
Anthony Cappetto is an internationally recognized 3D street artist working in chalk, paints to create thoughtful, conceptual works across the world. Founder of Art for After Hours in 2001, the first professional company designing and creating 3D street painting and mural art for corporate, festival, tradeshows, and exhibitions. Cappetto has brought his work to projects in the United Kingdom, Europe, UAE, India, Japan, Uruguay, Mexico, and across the USA. Cappetto is also an Early Adopter of Immersive and Emerging Technologies such as Augmented and Virtual Reality (4D) as part of his 3D street art installations in the USA and India.
Wendy Stum is Marketing Director for Art for After Hours, an avid member of the street painting art industry, and assists with projects such as these.
We've had a summer (and early Fall), series of 3D street art that has taken us back and forth from UK and Europe, to express a timely statement, and finally to bring 3D chalk art as local entertainment in our home base here in New York City.
This is the story-
Battery Park in New York City...
'Betta Fish Kite' in Crewe, England, U.K.
Sketch for 'Betta Fish Kite'
Wendy putting finishing touches on 'Freedom'...
'Freedom' - a statement on current socio-political climate done in Baltimore, MD
Sketch for 'Freedom' by Anthony Cappetto (with Wendy Stum)
'A Puzzling Reality...' - At 'Part of Antwerp' Art Festival in Antwerp, Belgium
Onsite in Antwerp...
Fall themed project for the Queens Beer Festival at LIC Flea in Long Island City, NY... Pumpkins, Pretzel, and a Big Beer!
A Reverse angle of the 3D art...
Sketch for Queens Beer Festival by Anthony Cappetto
Detail of chalk work on rougher surfaces...
Completed 3D chalk art piece...
Late Sunday afternoon in Long Island City with the Manhattan skyline in the distance. It was great to be able to do these 3D street art pieces in different places with fun, interesting people, creative artists from different parts of the world. Most exciting projects await!
Anthony Cappetto is an internationally recognized street artist working in chalk and paint creating 3D and 4D (augmented and virtual reality) mural installations and projects. Founder of Art for After Hours, the first 3D 4D street painting art company in 2001. Cappetto has designed and led projects in 3D and 4D with corporate, festival, exhibition, institutional, not for profit, government, and non government organizations in United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, UAE, India, Japan,Uruguay, Mexico, and across the USA.
What a fun weekend for 3D chalk art - especially when you are doing a piece for the hometown crowd!
Did a 3D piece for the Queens Beer Festival at the LIC Flea & Food space in Long Island City, NY for a family based crowd over a two day period.
Let's see how the 3D came together!
With the backdrop of Manhattan as seen from Long Island City, we were set up and ready to start on a beautiful Fall day...
A 3D chalk art project from Anthony Cappetto and Art for After Hours starts with a concept sketch. We create our own designs working with our clients to meet their needs and goals for events and projects.
Starting the chalk layout on the pavement-
From sketching to rendering in chalk- Detail at Pumpkins...
Working on the pretzel-
Just as we completed on Sunday Afternoon-
3D chalk artist Anthony Cappetto posing atop the mason jar full of beer, with pumpkins,pretzels on a board. Notice the board seen through the mason jar filled with the beer of your choice...
A reverse view of the anamorphic illusion showing the way how the art is to be drawn to see the 3D illusion properly through your camera, tablet, or lens.
At the end of the festival, we got one last picture in of the completed 3D chalk art piece. It was a great weekend with families, food, and fun... Imagine your next 3D chalk art in food, drink, and entertainment. Discuss your project with Anthony Cappetto at Art for After Hours.
Anthony Cappetto is an internationally recognized artist known for his 3D illusionary works in chalk and paint. Founder of Art for After Hours, the first 3D street painting art company in 2001 bringing 3D projects in chalk, murals, and 4D installations using augmented and virtual reality to clients in corporate, festivals, exhibitions, tradeshow, conventions, government, and non government organizations worldwide. Cappetto has completed 3D and 4D chalk/street/mural art projects in England, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Dubai, India, Japan, Uruguay, Mexico, and across the USA.
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I had the pleasure this month to be invited to participate in 'Part of Antwerp', an international art festival as one of a group of top street artists creating 3D street painting at indoor and outdoor locations along the Port of Antwerp. I was the sole American artist participating at the Festival. This is my 3D street art piece - 'A Puzzling Reality...'.
This piece in its concept uses a motif of fading imagery and approach starting with the puzzle itself. Viewers noticed a puzzle piece that had fallen out of the vertical panel which is actually the 'real' of the group of sunflowers in a field with dragon flies under a blue sky with clouds.
The puzzle piece at left falls onto the puzzle on the ground area in front of the vertical while I pick up another piece to put into place.
The puzzle itself fades away into reality in a similar way to different drawn aspects of the art themselves fading from completion such as the sunflowers, leaves in higher detail radiating from the seed centers to the grass at the bottom front of the 3D illusion. The dragon flies, drawn from the standpoint of a graphic complete the connection of the art as a cohesive 3D anamorphic illusion by Cappetto.
Anthony Cappetto (pictured) with his 3D Street Art piece - "A Puzzling Reality..."
Along with many of the top 3D street artists in Europe, I had the privilege of doing my 3D street art piece. Pictured with his 3D installation is renowned street artist Gregor Wosik. I am interviewed about my work at the beginning and end of this video showing the works of many of the fine artists participating in the festival.
Here I am working on my piece, making sure that the last puzzle pieces are in place... :D
Thank you to my hosts, Part of Antwerp, the Add More Colors Agency, Nele, and the full team who made our artist experience exciting, fun, and fulfilling!
Anthony Cappetto is an internationally recognized street artist known for 3D street painting and 4D installations using emerging technologies such as augmented and virtual reality with his pavement art and murals. Founder of Art for After Hours, the first street painting art company in 2001, Cappetto has created projects for corporate, festival, exhibition, tradeshow, not for profit, government, and non government organization clients in Europe, Middle East, Asia, North and South America - and across the USA.
International Street Art Installations, Festivals, and Events.
This year when we participated in the Little Italy Madonnari Street painting festival in Baltimore, Maryland we came to the event with a sense of purpose differing from previous years and in our street painting art in general.
With the election of 2016 decided and the new leader of the United States and administration underway we like many have seen noticeable, in our opinion, unpalatable changes in the political and social fabric of our Nation. We sincerely hope that this is short term in nature.
As the theme of the Festival this year was 'Freedom', we made our design decisions and developed the following statement on the events and climate.
'Freedom'
In the spirit of moral statements buried in the guise of still life’s in Europe in the 17th-18th centuries, we have designed this piece to make a statement on our current administration.
From a base drawn in the interior samples from Trump Tower NYC Lobby, that is tacky brass, black marble, a bust of what I call the thoughtful (moral) person hovers. The bust is wrapped in 18 karat gold barbed wire, the left side of the bust has red, white, blue streams following the edge symbolizing America.
The Freedom is expressed with bright butterflies escaping the barbed wire – free expression, the strength of the Constitution and American Principles victorious: free. Breaking free of oppressive thought and behavior this current administration is trying to impose upon the American People.
Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum
'Freedom': 8 feet wide by 16 feet deep. Chalk on pavement at the Little Italy Madonnari Festival in Baltimore, Maryland. Artists: Anthony Cappetto (lead) with Wendy Stum.
Wendy Stum (pictured) refining anamorphically drawn barbed wire as part of 'Freedom'...
The weather was pleasant, allowing us to bring our statement to life... Below are details from the piece...
There is the rough beauty in the art which expresses our message...
All designs done by us begin with a simple yet approved to proceed sketch. This sketch is the one for 'Freedom'.
Completed 3D Street Art Piece 'Freedom'.
We felt that in this current social/political climate in America that a statement needed to be made in favor of the true strength of the American People against oppression, many different 'isms', and a recollection of our Nation's true ideals of Optimism and the highest ethical, moral aspects of our People.
Anthony Cappetto is an internationally recognized street artist and Founder of Art for After Hours, the first street painting art company in 2001. Cappetto designs and creates thoughtful, conceptual 3D street art for corporate, festival, exhibition, government, and non government organizations in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, United Arab Emirates, India, Japan, Mexico, Uruguay, and across the USA.
Wendy Stum is Marketing Director for Art for After Hours, a knowledge source in the street painting art industry, and time to time assistant in our exhibition projects.
Taking a minute to share a fun and rewarding experience Wendy and I had bringing street art to our community recently in Battery Park in New York City's Lower Manhattan area.
We were invited to bring street painting to the Battery Park Community for their first annual Community Field Day in a twofold fashion; the first, a conceptual street art design on the concrete wall in a handball court while the second component was a large, winding, snake for the children in attendance to jump in to color to their heart's content.
Our street art piece 'Dragon Flies and Sunflowers' for the adults...
And our giant snake moving through the pavement sea of children's chalking for a complete connection and artistic experience.
Wendy from our team adding base color to our giant snake prior to childrens' arrival...
Working on the vertical street art...
Detail of a Sunflower, tall grass on the concrete wall...
Dragon fly...
Blue Dragon Fly...
All in all, a fun day sharing our street painting with the community in Battery Park City and look forward to working on more street art in New York City and wherever our work takes us.
An internationally recognized street artist working in dry chalk and paint, creating conceptual, interactive 3D art works in the USA, Europe, United Arab Emirates, India, Japan, Mexico, and Uruguay for many corporate, not for profit, exhibition, tradeshow, festival, government, and NGO clients.
A pioneer and early adopter of the use of 4D Emerging Technologies such as Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Virtual Spaces and Environments since the mid 2000s with his 3D murals across the USA and India in corporate, festival, exhibition, and academic settings.
Cappetto's interests include conceptuality in architectural and scientific themes as well as playful interpretations of the world around him. Working in the corporate interiors and space planning industry in New York prior to founding Art for After Hours in 2001 allows Cappetto the ability to work with architects, designers, and corporate space planners to realize the art in new and truly innovative projects.
Taking a moment to share not only the pictures, but pictures to show the drama and intensity of the street painting art experience with our fans, our clients, and the people who are thinking about how to specifically make their street art event experience stand out - engaging their attendees...
Some imagery to see...
Contact Art for After Hours for your upcoming events, product launches, initiatives calling for our conceptual and thoughtful uses of the medium, ideas different from those around us and how we can make your events interactive, immersive, and truly memorable.
Our designs can go from the pavement to the interiors with 3D conceptual murals as one cohesive concept for restaurants, entertainment, hospitality, lobbies and more. Discuss your thooughts and vision with Anthony Cappetto of Art for After Hours.
You may even wish to consider 4D concepts mingling with our 3D murals that will turn your interior spaces into immersive, virtual experiences... Talk to us about that too.
Anthony Cappetto is an internationally recognized 3D street painting artist working in chalk and paint and a pioneer in 4D Emerging Technologies such as augmented,virtual reality, virtual spaces, haptics, as cohesive, fully interactive immersive installations of traditional chalk art and emerging technology. Founder and lead artist of Art for After Hours 3D/4D, the first professional street painting company in 2001. Cappetto has displayed and delivered conceptual and thoughtful street paint art installations in 3D and 4D for corporate, exhibition, tradeshow, featured artist at festivals, non profit, government, and ngo clientele in the US, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and the Americas North and South.
Visit artforafterhours.com to learn more about us. For your next event, exhibition: #4disthenew3d
Just got back from an exciting project in Garden Grove, CA where Art for After Hours created a 4D project using animated augmented reality with traditional, hand drawn and designed 3D chalk art for the Open Streets Event April 1st. No jokes here! :D
Here is our video highlighting the art and the tech... Watch for Anthony interacting with the animated robot in AR live (at the time), jumping briefly on the bike, then choosing to run, jump and exit the 'Collapsing Ramp' ...
Note: For information purposes -
Top: Finished 3D art
Bottom: 4D animated augmented reality added to art (robots and flags) live onsite. Photo seen through large monitor screen so there was a difference in colors.
Now some bright, active street painting pictures!
The importance of the 3D chalk work, traditionally hand drawn in our opinion brings the art and the technology together as past, present, and future as one cohesive whole.
Yes, a screen grab but the concept is clear - traditional 3D anamorphically drawn street painting can and does mingle well with animated AR for an experience in public engagement unlike any other in street art. Art for After Hours Founder and Artist Anthony Cappetto has been a Pioneer and an Early Adopter with virtual spaces, reality, and augmented reality demos and launches in the US and India since the mid 2000s with only more detailed, conceptual, and forward thinking engagements to come.
Anthony Cappetto is an internationally recognized artist known for his works in 3D anamorphic art in chalk and paint using 4D animated augmented reality, virtual reality, and virtual spaces as well as Founder of Art for After Hours, the first professional street painting art company in 2001. Cappetto has brought 4D and 3D street art installations to corporate, tradeshow, exhibition, festival, NGO, and government clients in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, United Kingdom, UAE, Pakistan, India, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, Uruguay, and throughout the USA.
Photography by Art for After Hours Marketing Director Wendy Stum.
Just as the post says - we are very excited about the developments in 4D street art and how we at Art for After Hours have been able to share this nascent application of the emerging technologies into our project demos in this last year.
We have been testing ways to bring the 4D aspects that is animated augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and newer applications underway for our 2017 initiatives in the US and internationally on greater and brighter scales.
Here we will take a look into some of our developments for 2016 and a window into our next steps already in motion for 2017...
Hangin' On: (2016) Venice, FL
4D: Augmented Reality (AR) with reverse 3D anamorphic effect mural install.
A fun experience and an great opportunity to show the excitement of 4D using augmented reality (AR) live onsite for over 2,000 participants over three days in Venice, FL. Our demo videos show the stream of interaction with people, the painted reverse 3D illusionary art allowing us to 'hang on' the side of a hi-rise in a clearly playful way, and the 'live' giant butterflies in AR all together as one immersive experience.
A public demo for displaying the possibilities of augmented and virtual reality with a live chalk event with a stream of excited, interested viewers looking to see the excitement. We showed how Chinese styled bowls, modeled in AR, shown live to the public as demo, virtual reality (VR) demo of a 'walkthrough' of the art seen through our phones with a dedicated app.
Using an oversized, playful interpretation of Chinese and Japanese cuisine, Art for After Hours took the chalk art, AR, and VR into a combined immersive experience live for many people who had never seen 4D emerging technology in a hands on way.
Field demo of how AR is viewed to the public using markers via dedicated app toggling between AR/VR.
A visitor to our 4D install viewing our VR walkthrough of 'Asian Fusion'. Check out the deconstruction on the Chinese Bowl as motif.
Rutgers University Mark Conference: (2016) New Brunswick, NJ
Our presentation at the Mark Conference comprised of shooting stars in AR, a VR island, as demo within a 3D vertical horizontal combined anamorphic mural design.
From my breakout session, staff having a good time in the art, test viewing the tech through our app...
Bringing the 4D tech from concept through demos this year was exciting to do, but even more so is the capacities of emerging technologies such as augmented, virtual realities, mixed reality, haptics, large scale projections and more in full scale corporate, branding, and international deployments with nothing limiting the application of conceptuality and imagination.
We are big fans of the conceptual and a few examples are in order...
'The Movement of Change...' (2016) Baltimore, MD
3D live installation in chalk for public event in Baltimore. MD. We walked across a bridge symbolizing change, evolution of concept, and applications of modernist architectural themes.
Despite a substantial amount of rain, we stayed the course and brought this exciting install to attendees with lots of pictures.
'Tesla Coil' :Dedication to Nikola Tesla: (2016) Rahway, NJ
A festival honoring Nikola Tesla's numerous contributions to science and technology- and an opportunity to bring his coil into interaction with a Tesla vehicle (supplied locally) for a crowd pleaser to the event.
And a nod to our first 4D installation which brought us into the world of 4D... The first use of augmented reality as part of our large scale 3D chalk art measuring thirty feet wide by forty feet deep.
'Visions of Cambodia' (2011) Sarasota, FL
2016 has been a breakout year for Art for After Hours bringing 4D demos of augmented and virtual reality in projects large and small, conceptually and immersively for many people excited about and interested in where technology is going in their lives and in their entertainment.
And other interesting ideas...
Figurative animation added onto a 3D chalk art project previously done in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Ambitious, forward 4D immersive street art installs can be done, indoors, outdoors, multi-city, tradeshows, branding, launches, and more by Anthony Cappetto and Art for After Hours. We call it the Art for After Hours 4D Experience. Talk to us and let's discuss how we can make your next event, initiative a conceptual, immersive one with our art, creativity, and imagination.
Anthony Cappetto is an internationally recognized artist known for 3D anamorphic art created in chalk and painted murals as well as a pioneer/early adopter of 4D Emerging Technologies such as augmented, virtual, and mixed reality immersive experiences. Founder of Art for After Hours, the first 3D street painting art company in 2001.
Cappetto's designs in 3D have been used by corporate, festival, entertainment, government, ngo, clients from advertising, public relations, marketing, and branding clientele in the US, North and South America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia. #4DisTheNew3D
Last weekend, Art for After Hours deployed a full 4D Immersive Street Art Installation at the Chalk Festival in Venice, Florida using Augmented Reality with a reverse anamorphic illusion making for a dramatic, highly interactive, and blend of traditional art and emerging technology.
Our attendees saw this:
and this...
and this too...
and so much more with 4D immersive street art installations constantly evolving for corporate, exhibition, branding, and yes, so much more.
This is a first of a series including the new demos for 2017...
'Hangin On!!' Designing Artist Anthony Cappetto and assisted by Wendy Stum from Art for After Hours...
Designing artist Anthony Cappetto tapping in details for the AR component of the 4D street art...
Over 2,000 people of all demographics streamed through the Art for After Hours 4D street art installation.
View our Demo -
Look forward to hearing from you soon with your events, tradeshows, exhibitions, and more...
Anthony Cappetto is an internationally recognized artist working with specialized anamorphic illusions and emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, and virtual spaces. Founder of Art for After Hours, the first professional street art company in 2001 working with corporate, branding, tradeshow, exhibition, international festival, government, ngo clients in Europe, Middle East, South and East Asia, North and South America.
Wendy Stum (hanging on too...) is Marketing Director of Art for After Hours, involved in street painting industry, and a co founder (2007) with Anthony Cappetto of Innovative Street Painting Group, bringing 4D to specialized projects involving media, festival promotion and development.
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