Known for their environmentally charged murals, the Swiss duo NEVERCREW just finished working on a Series of three interconnected pieces in a historical building in downtown Phoenix (AZ), that once housed a radio station and two newsrooms, and was a filming location for the movie Psycho, by Hitchcock. This project was curated by Anne-Laure Lemaitre (FatCap).
About The Series
Entitled “El Oso Plateado And The Machine”, this body of work is about how communication becomes tangible when used to interact, connect, change, and especially understand and remember where we come from and where the future is taking us. These murals are inspired by the history of the Heard Building (on which the murals are realized), and by the Mexican Grizzly (Ursus arctos nelsoni), a bear that used to inhabit Arizona and that’s now considered extinct (due to hunting). The concept then starts from what disappeared but’s still part of our culture and knowledge.
Communication takes physical shape to be shared, made by people for people; where stories are told, lives described, feelings transmitted, mistakes deepened, conditions analyzed. Whether it’s ink, voice, music or light frequencies, it is alive in the connection, in the differences, in the emitting and the receiving, and it generates a cyclical exchange between reality and culture, a collective knowledge from which to learn and on which to build in the best way.
About The Artists
NEVERCREW is a Swiss street-artist duo, Christian Rebecchi and Pablo Togni. Since 1996 they have been creating murals, sculptures and installations. They generally show great concern for the endangered species in their works, usually painting whales or polar bears trapped/destroyed by the human attitude.
This path led NEVERCREW to develop their current approach and to create artworks in cities all over the world.
