Interview: Oakoak
Saint-Étienne sensation OakOak’s hilarious, imaginative, irreverent and sometimes a little macabre street work has filled column inches from BBC Brazil to Beijing’s biggest daily newspaper… Daubing simple graffiti and paintings on urban features – often the broken ones – OakOak does what street art does best, amuse and inspire people of all ages and demographics …
#NotACrime: a campaign to raise awareness of human rights abuses in Iran
#NOTACRIME UNVEILS STREET ART CAMPAIGN TO EXPOSE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN IRAN DURING UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Murals Created by Recognized Street Artists on High Visibility NYC Area Walls are Part of Most Ambitious Street Art Project Ever Brought to NYC. New York, NY (September 22, 2015) – #NotACrime, a campaign to raise awareness of …
Interview: EpS
EpS, who is also an avid surfer and skydiver, was born in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. He started drawing at a very young age. Using only pen, paper and markers, he began drawing sketches and gradually building up and mastering the outpouring of talent he now has today. After moving to Lebanon and studying science at …
FINDING PLACE
FINDING PLACE from Nina Constable Gaza has been occupied or under restrictions since 1948. Syria continues to be destroyed by brutal armed conflict. Palestinians and Syrians have become the two largest refugee populations on the planet. After escaping death and oppression in their homeland, children are no longer in a hiding place. They embark upon …
Interview: Steve Locatelli
Steve Locatelli is a Belgian artist born in Brussels. He started on the graffiti scene in the early 90s in the Brussels metro. Steve’s passion for Graffiti drove him to conquer forbidden boundaries and his works were often visible in unmarked territories. In 1998 the city walls have become exclusive places to let young people …
The Beirut Wall Of Shame Turned Into A Piece Of Art In Less Than An Hour
Lebanon’s mounting garbage problem sparks violent protests in Beirut. The rotting garbage has been piling up on the streets of Lebanon’s capital city, Beirut, for one month and people are at their breaking point. Beirut’s main landfill was closed more than a month ago, and authorities have yet to come to an agreement on how …
ADOR and SEMOR in the USA
ADOR and SEMOR are French-based artists, who like telling stories with a vocabulary of their own making. Taken directly from their expanding context, extracts are oriented and their selection is precise. Whether one uses one’s own language or attempts to make elementary communication, their weekly meetings are the occasion to link and compare elements: indeed …
Cranio in Évry, France
CRANIO / BIG WALL / EVRY – FRANCE from 2 IRMÃOS Filmes PLUS edited by: André Peirão / 2 IRMÃOS Filmes Produced by: Pixo e Bea Pereira instagram: @2irmaos, @andrepeirao, @rpm79 SITE: 2irmaos.com | zupi.tv | cranioartes.com FB page: facebook.com/2irmaosfilmes
Interview: Gomez
Gomez was born in Caracas, Venezuela but grew up in Rome, Italy. He began at an early age dabbling in street art, with the first tags in the suburbs of the Italian capital. After experimenting with oil on canvas, Gomez went back to walls, with huge murals whose themes predominantly stemed from classic mythology and …
Pejac’s Hong Kong, Seoul, and Tokyo interventions
After last year’s pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong that drew thousands of mostly young residents of this former British colony into the streets in a massive but peaceful movement of civil resistance to show dissatisfaction Beijing’s plans to screen candidates for the post of the city’s leader, the Spanish Street and Fine artist Pejac, decided to …
Interview: Nychos
Nychos is undoubtedly one of the most prolific artists in the street art world. He started out on the graffiti scene at 17, painting in his home city of Vienna (Austria). Growing up in a family of hunters, Nychos developed an interest in the anatomy and skeletal of animals and slowly merging his interest with his passion to paint …