Interviews
Interview: RONE
Famous for his sumptuous paintings of glamorous women, in particular an often recurring image of his so-called Jane Doe, Rone’s work attempts to locate the friction point between beauty and decay, the lavish and despoiled, creating an iconic form of urban art with a strongly emotional bent. Producing many of his early works either through …
Interview: Interesni Kazki (AEC)
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: Obie Platon
Obie, who is from Bucharest (Romania), began his artistic path in 2000. He studied Architecture, is the founder of URBANART ROMANIA Association supporting contemporary artists and urban art initiatives, and also of the contemporary art and culture magazine FORMAJE Artfiles. He is known for the five different styles and characters that he developed since he …
Interview: NEVERCREW
Pablo Togni was born on 29th september 1979 in Bellinzona, Switzerland. Christian Rebecchi was born on 20th december 1980 in Lugano, Switzerland. Both attended the Art School in Lugano (Liceo Artistico C.S.I.A.) and afterwards the Painting course of Professor Nicola Salvatore at the Brera’s Art Academy in Milan (Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera), graduating …
Interview: Mariana De Marchi
Mariana De Marchi is an artist and a sculptor from Argentina. She graduated in 2002 from the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón as a National Professor of Drawing. In 2003, she earned the National Professor of Sculpture. Mariana also studied her post graduate work in seminaries of the Superior School of Fine Arts …
Interview: Mason Storm
Mason was born in London and have been a native for 40 years. He never attended a ‘normal’ art college, his artistic education began when he was about 12 or 13. One night while attending his local youth center, his Judo class was cancelled and so he wandered into the art class where his friend …
Interview: Chemis
Chemis is a street artist from Kazakhstan, living in the Czech Republic. He started painting at the age of 16. His works are known around the world. Always on the move, discovering new territories, experimenting with his spray can, making friends. He cooperated with organizations to promote human rights, as it was an important part …
Interview: Nils Westergard
Nils Westergard is a 22 y.o Belgian-American street artist and film maker from Richmond, VA. His stencils and murals can be found on walls and in galleries across the US, Europe, and Australia. He has produced music videos and animations which have played in film festivals around the world, most notably his street-animation “Wallflower.” Nils …
Interview: Louis Masai Michel
“I grew up living above my parents restaurant, which meant that I didn’t get a lot of time to hang out with my dad but when he finished service I would join him in the studio to do my art homework. When he wasn’t being a chef, his other passion for painting took over, I …
Interview: Dale Grimshaw
Dale Grimshaw was born in Lancashire, in the North of England. During a difficult childhood, his drawing and painting became extremely important to him. As a teenager he was able to develop these skills while completing an Art Foundation course at Blackburn College. Later on he was able to study fine art to degree level …
Interview: Julia Volchkova
Born in Nizhnevartovsk, Siberia (Russia) in 1987, Volchkova Yulia Anatolievna (Julia) studied drawing from an early age. In 2004, Julia won in the competition of the faculty of art and design. In 2010, she graduated from the Institute and went to Saint Petersburg and she began drawing graffiti and street art. Soon after that Julia …
Interview: Pichi&Avo
It all began in 2007, bringing a spectacularly lucid splash of Mediterranean colors to the streets of Valencia and the rest of Spain, Pichi and Avo have infused a stunning level of figurative detail into their work. Hints of surrealism leap out and slap the viewer about while drawing you into a radiant explosion of …