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This June 9th through 12th, Nuart Aberdeen is back to paint the infamously gray Granite City in Scotland with full force once more, after last year’s abbreviated edition featuring a series of staggered artist residencies and Nuart’s inventive ‘Stuck Up’ program, where artists from around the world sent paper artworks for the festival team to …

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If ever there were an artist capable of switching seamlessly between indoor and outdoor practice, Pejac would instantly spring to mind. Following his much-acclaimed fourth solo show in Berlin at the end of 2021, he kicked off 2022 working on the streets of Madrid. When working in the urban space, one of the elements that …

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A great non-linear mind is about to make an indelible impression in Berlin. The city will soon be seeing the opening of Pejac’s newest solo show and anyone lucky enough to have visited one of the Spanish artist’s previous exhibitions knows this is something to impatiently look forward to. For the past two and a …

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The first steps to spring cleaning require a mess—drawers must be emptied and cobwebbed closets gutted to make space for reorganization. Clutter must be uprooted, scattered across dusty floors, and assessed. Like James Baldwin said, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Without the initial …

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Marking the historic moment in global history, a pandemic that strongly affected his homeland taking over 50,000 lives so far, Pejac recently created 3 interventions at University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla in his hometown Santander. Entitled after the quality of being strong, much needed in the world we live today, and especially within the walls …

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The spectacular Spanish artist PEJAC occupies a special class of public artists who pushes their medium to new levels. He has painted Spain’s oldest prison with a project that declared the existence of common, uniting humanity. He has installed climate change awareness in the middle of the sea. The artist’s own biography states his commitment …

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Street art takes its creators to unpredictable places: skyscrapers’ facades, abandoned power plants, foreign nations, or any combination of the aforementioned. It can even take one to jail if they paint without permission. In his quest “to continue the conveying of his extraordinary views and art in the most peculiar places” Barcelona-based street artist PEJAC …

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Almost one year to date since the unprecedented “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice,” a letter issued and signed by 15,000 scientists from around the world in November 2017, Spanish artist Pejac has decided to present his latest  intervention Land Adrift. Once again reaching towards the list of his recurring motifs and imagery, this …

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Spanish artist Pejac recently visited NYC for the first time with a goal to spread his concerns about  through two new public interventions in Bushwick and Chinatown. Due to city’s size, density, public transportation infrastructure, and location, The Big Apple has been battling major environmental issues over the years, mirroring the problems of modern civilization worldwide. With …

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Spanish artist PEJAC just released the “Redemption” series using pressed wood as a pseudo-canvas. About The “Redemption” Series With only pencil and ink, PEJAC managed to hide some of the existing elements as well as elevate others, creating an effective illusion of perspective within which he placed unexpected imagery, while also addressing environmental issues as a constant …

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Barcelona-based fine artist, Pejac, will be hosting his first ever major exhibition at the Londonewcastle Project Space, London from 22nd to 31st July 2016. This will be the first time that the world-renowned artist has hosted a major global exhibition. Pejac is known for his socially and environmentally-charged work, such as his recent series in …

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Spanish street artist Pejac just finished a series of works in Al-Hussein, a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman Jordan. The works aim to bring attention to what this camp represents in terms of the loss of both home and means of livelihood by Palestinians. Al-Hussein refugee camp was originally established in 1948 as a result of …

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