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Avant can refer to:




People


Avant, part of music production team Bloodshy & Avant
Avant (singer), Myron Avant, an American singer
Clarence Avant, a music executive
Jason Avant, is a US American football player




Places


Avant, Oklahoma, United States
The Avant, a high-rise in Buffalo, New York, United States




Technology






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Avant Window Navigator, computer software
Avanti Corporation, whose name is often written “Avant!”




= Transport

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Avant (airline), a former airline that operated flights within Chile in the late 1990s
Avant (train), a high speed rail service in Spain
Audi Avant, a station wagon
Audi RS2 Avant, a high performance estate car
Citroën Traction Avant, a 1930s saloon car




Music


Avant-pop
Avant-punk
Avant-prog
Avant-rock
Avant Hard, an album by Add N to (X)
Avant Records, a former Japanese record label founded by John Zorn




Other


Avant (company), an online personal loan lender located in downtown Chicago
Avant (journal), an academic interdisciplinary studies and philosophy of science journal
AVANT, an American art collective




See also


Avant-garde (disambiguation)
Avante (disambiguation)
• Source: AVANT

AVANT, also known as AVANT street art guerrilla collective, was the artist group active in New York City from 1980 to 1984. By 1984 AVANT had produced thousands of acrylic on paper paintings and plastered them on walls, doors, bus-stops and galleries citywide. Principal artists were Christopher Hart Chambers, David Fried, and Marc Thorne.




History and street presence


AVANT was a group of five young New York artists working collectively who wheat pasted handmade original poster sized works of non-calligraphic art in the streets of NYC. While the members of Avant assert that they began in the winter of 1980, the earliest available press documentation of their street art or art exhibitions is found in the New York Native from June 1982, wherein a later article published in the Villager places their origins at January 1981. By 1984 avant had produced thousands of acrylic on paper paintings and plastered them on walls, doors, bus-stops, galleries and museums citywide, concentrated mostly in lower Manhattan. As a group, they were capable of producing hundreds of individual paintings per week, and deployed them in the streets on a regular basis. They also mounted three-dimensional artworks to street sign poles and commandeered bus stop advertising light boxes, replacing the contents with their own original works of art, then relocking the cabinets.




Exhibitions


Over 40 exhibitions of AVANT's work were held in New York galleries and nightclubs between 1981 and 1984. Over a typical artist-gallery financial dispute, they actually managed to commandeer a gallery in Soho to open the 1982 September season with a self curated exhibition. Another fresh concept was to start an exhibition in the street that would continue into a gallery. They called this the “Drive-In Show,” which started with a dozen numbered oversized paintings pasted high up on a parking lot wall in Soho, and continued up the block in Gabrielle Bryers Gallery starting with painting number 13.




References






External links


AVANT historical archive Large collection of images, press, essays.

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