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Splash and Burn: an art campaign taking aim at Indonesia’s palm oil industry

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From mid-May to early June 2017, the city of Satka (Russia) celebrated its first official street art festival. The project is curated by the Sobranie Fund, with support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and the Italian Institute of Culture in Moscow. The Italian artists Solo and Diamond were invited to Satka by Italian art historian …

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Valencia based artist Hyuro just finished painting a mural in Berlin (Germany) for “What in the world” Project curated by Evan Pricco of Juxtapoz Magazine for URBAN NATION. About The Mural Like many of Hyuro’s murals, the woman’s face is this mural is hidden, and the main reason is to make it easier for people to identify with the …

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The latest trip of the Dutch artistic duo TelmoMiel was in Gol (Norway) where they painted a new mural entitled “Trollstigen“. About The Mural The new mural of TelmoMiel takes inspiration from Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore. It refers to the Trolls,  who are creatures that typically have a very ugly appearance and dwell in isolated rocks, …

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It looks like the Russian Artist Rustam QBic is very busy dropping one mural after the other, and this time he just completed a mural in our nation’s capital for POW! WOW!‘s edition in Washington DC, which is led by local artist Kelly Towles, along with many great partners and volunteers. About The Mural The …

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English born, Berlin based artist David Walker completed a beautiful mural last month in Lieusaint, south of Paris. This is the first mural of an ongoing project called Wall Street Art, with Gautier Jourdain as the artistic director, who is also the artistic director of LE MUR Oberkampf and the co-founder of  Galerie Mathgoth. About the …

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The Bergen-based artist NIMI recently completed an amazing mural in Stavanger (Norway) for Nuart’s ‘Art City’ program: a new initiative outside of Nuart’s annual flagship festival. About The Mural Entitled “The Last Traveler”, the mural depicts a Nepalese Nomadic woman who has no home and no direction, with her baggage, culture and identity on her shoulder, …

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Swiss street artists Christian Rebecchi and Pablo Togni from the internationally renowned duo NEVERCREW were recently in Satka, Russia invited to be part of the Satka Street Art Festival, curated by Fund Sobranie Moscow, for which they painted two murals. About The Murals The first mural, the largest one, was realised in Satka, the administrative center of Satkinsky …

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The Ukrainian art initiative Art United Us kicks off its second year with a mural by Russian Artist Rustam QBic in Kiev, Ukraine. This is Rustam’s second mural for Art United Us. About The Mural Entitled “The Boy And The Sea” the mural depicts a boy sitting on the beach during sunset holding a brush, and beside …

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The art installation Get off, Łódź Fabryczna (Poland) that Polish Artist Piotr Janowski especially designed on the occasion of the opening of the new Train Station Łódź Fabryczna, is a reflection about the turbulent history of the city and its bright future. About The Project The impressive steam locomotive Px 48, built 1953 in Poland, is …

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Chilean painter and muralist Inti Castro better known as Inti is currently in Australia where he recently finished this new mural for the Wonderwalls festival in Port Adelaide. Titled “Our north is the south” the new mural features one of Inti’s signature characters,  the kusillo, an innocent looking figure dressed as a clown, but unlike previous works the …

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It’s not the sort of street art you’d expect to find on a swampy patch of degraded forest land on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. But the renowned Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic spent the past 2 years selecting a group of international artists to work on an artistic response to the global palm oil industry. …

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