Add Fuel in Gainesville, FL
Diogo Machado aka Add Fuel from Portugal was recently in the USA for the first time to paint in Gainesville. Invited by the curator of 352walls, Iryna Kanishcheva, he created his biggest series of works on electrical boxes including a mural. 10 separate interventions in total, mixing 8 different patterns that he prepared exclusively for this project. All of these …
Hyuro’s new piece in Trollhatan, Sweden.
‘Samexistens'(Coexistence) – Trollhatan, Sweden 2016. Trollhatan Street Art Festival. Curated by Ekta Ekta. “This wall is located in Trollhattan town, Southwest of Sweden. In October 2015 a 21 years old Swedish man attacked some children with a sword in a school. One student and one adult died, and one more student and adult were seriously injured, …
Blog: ArtUnitedUs kicks off their 2-year project with Rustam QBic’s Mural.
ArtUnitedUs kicks off their 2-year project with Rustam QBic‘s ‘Labyrinth’ in Kiev, Ukraine. The mural depicts a character wearing a crown shaped like a labyrinth over his head who, guided by scarab beetle compass, tries to find a way out of a massive maze of life challenges. The mural reflects on the meaning of this journey, a journey we …
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 …
‘Perception’ is eL Seed’s latest offering covering 50 buildings in Cairo.
Manshiyat Naser is a home to 262,050 people. It borders Nasr City to the east, central Cairo districts to the west, and Khalifa ward to the south. It is famous for the Garbage City quarter which is a slum settlement at the base of Mokattam hills on the outskirts of Cairo. Its economy revolves around the collection and recycling of the city’s garbage. …
Blog: Rachel Sommer at 352walls
Rachel Sommer was born and raised in Gainesville, Florida. She got into street art after taking a gap year right after high school to travel around Australia. It was in Melbourne, Australia, where she started practicing in some of the lane-ways there and happened to stumble upon a Street Art Festival one day where she met a …
Interview: Hajo Müller
Born in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1965, Hajo Müller started drawing as a little kid … but unlike most kids, Hajo never stopped drawing yet. He studied Graphic Design and Illustration in Trier, Germany from 1987 to 1993. He graduated in book design and illustration. Hajo had several jobs as a cartoonist, political caricaturist, book illustrator/ …
Interview: Pixelpancho
Pixelpancho was born in 1984 in Turin, where his grandfather, an amateur painter, introduced him to colour and form. Pixelpancho’s passion for art and design led him to enrol in the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, and then in the Academy of Fine Arts in Valencia, Spain, where he majored. During this period …
Skiers Turn Boston Streets Into Playground
Skiers Turn Boston Streets Into Playground While most Massachusetts residents were digging out from the 68” of snow that fell in February of 2015, TGR Athletes and film crews where turning Boston into an urban terrain park.
Interesni Kazki in Gainesville, Florida
INTERESNI KAZKI IN GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA Interesni Kazki, the talented duo from Kiev, Ukraine were in Gainsville, Florida last month to participate in the second phase of the 352walls urban art project that began in October of last year. The 352walls which is founded and curated by Iryna Kanishcheva, is a visionary multi-site project aiming to transform several existing …
“Devenir Animal” by Said Dokins & MonkeyBird
‘Devenir animal’ is a collaboration between Said Dokins & MonkeyBird in San Miguel de Allende. “The idea of this collaboration came up from my interpretation of Monkey Bird’s work. It’s about animals in modern architecture contexts that’s why I thought of Deleuze concept of “Becoming animal”. The sentence featuring on the wall says: Man becomes …
Interview: Ella & Pitr
Ella & Pitr met on an Autumn night in 2007, in a random street, as each of them was pasting posters on the walls. That same year, they united their talents and formed “Les Papiers Peintres”. Over time, they have made a great number of works in France (mainly in St Etienne), Chile, Portugal, Canada; …