Telmo Pieper and Miel Krutzmann aka TelmoMiel have just completed this breathtaking mural for the Artding Festival in Germany, demonstrating the evolution of their style. The mural is cleaner, crisper and richer in contrast than their past work.  The duo have intentionally simplified their style to focus on what matters most to them as artists, adding a …

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Antonio Segura Donat aka Dulk, was born in Valencia in 1983. As a child, he was inspired by illustrations of exotic animals he found in his parents’ collection of old encyclopedias, and was never without his sketchbook.  At the age of nineteen, he started working under the moniker of Dulk and went on to study illustration …

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New York born Oliver Vernon has just completed his largest mural to date, forming part of the 5th edition of Kirk Gallery’s “Out in the Open” mural project.  Although Oliver arrived in Aalborg with a huge, carefully printed out sketch: he found that translating this vision from paper onto such a sizeable wall was quite …

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France is consumed by a ferocious and sustained outpouring of social unrest. The tumultuous, intermittently violent protests of the so-called Yellow Vests Movement have shaken the country since they began in November 2018, intensifying in recent weeks.   The Yellow Vests reverberate as a primal scream from working-class France at the tax-avoiding, wealth-hogging Parisian glitterati enabled by …

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A phenomenal mural by Turin born artist VESOD has just been unveiled in the picturesque city of Padua, in the Veneto region of Northern Italy.  The city is intensely pretty, with a dense network of arcaded streets opening into large communal piazze and charming bridges crossing the Bacchiglione river, which once surrounded the ancient walls …

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The POLI Urban Colors Project at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy marks the 500th anniversary of Leonardo Da Vinci’s death. This special project features work by 2501, Luca Barcellona, Rancy and Zedz. Alongside these internationally recognized artists, 20 specially selected Politecnico students were given the opportunity to assist them, and encouraged to create either a personal or collective work. The artists have dedicated numerous …

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Supreme Dutch mural masters, Telmo Pieper and Miel Krutzmann met at the Willem de Kooning Academy in 2012, and officially partnered up as Telmo Miel in 2017.  The unstoppable pair quickly gained international acclaim, and have created murals and exhibited in galleries in Dubai, the United States, Malta, Denmark, Sicily, Holland, Portugal, Germany, Finland, Australia, …

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Aberdeen in Scotland’s North East is the country’s third largest city. Famed for its granite, the light coming off the North Sea causes the pale grey stone to sparkle in the sun. The striking architecture (some dating back to the 15th Century) and statues are majestic, and the cobbled back streets are full of authentic …

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Celebrating its 10th year, Moniker Art Fair will shortly bring a hyper-curated, five-day contemporary & urban art showcase for its second New York edition. Housed in a new location, a 15,000 square-foot space in the heart of NoHo, Moniker will feature a stellar line up of artists with 29 international exhibitors, eight solo artist presentations …

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La Mare by Mohamed L’Ghacham is the seventh (and largest) mural designed to date in the TEST series for Mostra d’Art i Creativitat in Villarreal 2019. Mohamed L’Ghacham (Tangier, 1993) descended upon Valencia last week to get to work on his 25 meter high x 12 meter wide ‘canvas’ located on a seven-story housing estate …

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Valencian duo PichiAvo spent a whole year designing the mesmerising 85-foot-tall sculpture, only to have it set alight last month at Fallas de València. Their graffitied, neoclassical sculpture was torched during the peak of the festival along with 400 others throughout the Spanish city; an exhilarating tradition to commemorate Saint Joseph and mark the start …

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Nuart are delighted to be returning this spring to Aberdeen, dubbed ‘The Granite City’ for their third festival. Following the triumph of their previous festivals both in Stavanger and Aberdeen, Nuart has assembled another strong line up of artists; a combination of global titans and ascending stars. Nuart’s mainstay Dotmasters (aka Leon Sessix) will return, …

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