Malaysia
Art Attack Against a Hazy and Forgotten Threat
To coincide with World Environment Day, Lithuanian Artist Ernest Zacharevic reveals ‘Transboundary Haze’, a new artwork in Kuala Lumpur launching a collaboration with Greenpeace Malaysia, Splash and Burn and filmmakers Studiobirthplace. The project is the first in a series of creative intervention planned throughout the year, urging those in authority to hold polluters accountable for …
Interview: Martin Ron
For Martin Ron, Painting was a way of life, something he has been doing since he was a child with friends, at school, and in the streets. He continued with his passion for painting without even knowing that this would take him around the world, and that he would leave his art in the most important …
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: 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: Ernest Zacharevic
Ernest Zacharevic or better known as ZACHAS in the art world, is a Lithuaninan native who studied his way through life, but discovered street art and is now rather permanently based in Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia. He started out young, scribbling with crayons on his dad’s newspaper, which then transformed into art school in his hometown, …