Interviews
Interview: Youssef Nassar
Youssef Nassar is a critically acclaimed Lebanese born Canadian artist who is known for his unconventional work in photography and film making. Raised in a family that encouraged his interest in the art of film, Youssef entered the field of Radio/TV studies at Notre Dame University, where his passion for photography and film making blossomed. …
Interview: IVES.ONE
IVES is an Amsterdam based street artist, who started in 1996 with Graffiti. Since 2005 he is known for his combination of freehand and stencil technique. You can see his work on the streets of several cities around the Globe like Amsterdam, Basel, Bruxelles, London, Berlin and Miami. IVES is working together with the GO …
Interview: Telmo & Miel
Working together seamlessly, Telmo and Miel both enjoy working in realistic styles. With loads of contrast in subjects. Technique and style have a high priority in the pieces of Telmo & Miel, true craftsmanship is what they want to produce. They work separately on ideas for murals and come together with the sketches to see if …
Interview: Oakoak
Saint-Étienne sensation OakOak’s hilarious, imaginative, irreverent and sometimes a little macabre street work has filled column inches from BBC Brazil to Beijing’s biggest daily newspaper… Daubing simple graffiti and paintings on urban features – often the broken ones – OakOak does what street art does best, amuse and inspire people of all ages and demographics …
Interview: EpS
EpS, who is also an avid surfer and skydiver, was born in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. He started drawing at a very young age. Using only pen, paper and markers, he began drawing sketches and gradually building up and mastering the outpouring of talent he now has today. After moving to Lebanon and studying science at …
Interview: Steve Locatelli
Steve Locatelli is a Belgian artist born in Brussels. He started on the graffiti scene in the early 90s in the Brussels metro. Steve’s passion for Graffiti drove him to conquer forbidden boundaries and his works were often visible in unmarked territories. In 1998 the city walls have become exclusive places to let young people …
Interview: Gomez
Gomez was born in Caracas, Venezuela but grew up in Rome, Italy. He began at an early age dabbling in street art, with the first tags in the suburbs of the Italian capital. After experimenting with oil on canvas, Gomez went back to walls, with huge murals whose themes predominantly stemed from classic mythology and …
Interview: Nychos
Nychos is undoubtedly one of the most prolific artists in the street art world. He started out on the graffiti scene at 17, painting in his home city of Vienna (Austria). Growing up in a family of hunters, Nychos developed an interest in the anatomy and skeletal of animals and slowly merging his interest with his passion to paint …
Interview: Waone of Interesni Kazki
Interesni Kazki (IK) is Aleksei Bordusov and Vladimir Manzhos, a duo from the Ukraine who also go by their respective aliases AEC and WAONE. They began working together in 1999. They were the precursors of the graffiti movement in the East European countries and since then, these guys have created many murals in the Ukraine …
Interview: Bri, founder of The Spring Projects
After a successful career in the banking industry, Bri Patty, a Dutch-Moluccian woman living in Italy, decided to jump ship and follow her dream in fashion. At 32, Stapling shoe boxes wasn’t the most glamorous start of a fashion career, but she worked her way up the ladder and was globally managing the shoe collections …
Interview: Mark Gmehling
Mark Gmehling started on the graffiti scene in the late 80s. At some stage, he became tired of graffiti and started experimenting with different kinds of media and technologies to create his visual statements. The paint-brush became a spray can then a Wacom tablet. He studied art and communications design, worked in advertising and now …
Interview: Otto Schade
Otto is a Chilean-German Artist, Architect and Urban Sculptor living in Europe since 2004. He has been painting since 1996 exhibiting his work in collectives and solo exhibitions in Chile, Germany, United States, England, Japan, Netherlands, Russia and Paris. His work shows 2 different typologies of paintings. One related with the dreams, oneiric situations (surreal). The …