Interview: Mark Gmehling
Mark Gmehling started on the graffiti scene in the late 80s. At some stage, he became tired of graffiti and started experimenting with different kinds of media and technologies to create his visual statements. The paint-brush became a spray can then a Wacom tablet. He studied art and communications design, worked in advertising and now …
Fintan Magee ‘Man Bites Dog’
Fintan Magee ‘Man Bites Dog’ Originally installed in an abandoned warehouse in Sydney’s Alexandria, Magee painted the detailed mural at the centre of the work before ceremoniously burning a life-sized wire sculpture filled with copies of The Daily Telegraph newspaper, filming the process to create a mesmeric video installation that will be exhibited as part …
Interview: Otto Schade
Otto is a Chilean-German Artist, Architect and Urban Sculptor living in Europe since 2004. He has been painting since 1996 exhibiting his work in collectives and solo exhibitions in Chile, Germany, United States, England, Japan, Netherlands, Russia and Paris. His work shows 2 different typologies of paintings. One related with the dreams, oneiric situations (surreal). The …
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 …
OUR 2014 TOP 20 PHOTOGRAPHS ON FACEBOOK.
2014 has been a year filled with big news stories on race, politics, terrorism and privacy and much more, that have set the tone for 2015. We started off the year by Colorado making history, becoming the first state in the US to allow for the sale of marijuana for recreational use. Then Obamacare’s technical glitches and consumer confusion. …
Blog: WEEDS – by Mona Caron
They may be tiny but they break through concrete. They are everywhere and yet unseen. And the more they get stepped on, the stronger they grow back. “This is a series of paintings of weeds, some of them on-site animations, created as a tribute to the resilience of all those beings who no one made …
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 …
PichiAvo – Graffiti Festival Intramurs Valencia 2014
Pichi&Avo – Graffiti Festival Intramurs Valencia 2014 PichiAvo participated in the art festival, named Intramurs, thanks to a local project that aimed to revitalize the zone of Plaza la Botja or Botja square in the spanish city of Valencia, held by Cuitat Vella Batega ( a network combined by social collectives which conducts its work …
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 …
Miami Marine Stadium
Miami Marine Stadium from Craig ONeil After the damage sustained during hurricane Andrew in 1992, subsequent inspections have left the Miami Marine Stadium condemned by the city engineers and a six-year-old restoration and preservation project has been drawing attention to the site and raising money with the hopes of funding its return. While the restoration …
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 …