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 …
David Ogilvy Mural by Sonny.
David Ogilvy Mural In 2015, Ogilvy & Mather South Africa will celebrate the 30th anniversary since it merged with Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide in 1985. To commemorate this milestone, we, together with street artist Sonny, created a 400sqm mural on the Johannesburg campus. It pays homage to our founder David Ogilvy and to the people …
David Walker in Nancy, France
David WALKER in Nancy (France) from Galerie MATHGOTH. The Berlin-Based David Walker was in France earlier this month to paint the first ever legal mural in Nancy. After long negotiations with the mayor, Mathgoth gallery was able to bring David to paint his biggest mural to date with his signature technique using only spay paint without any brushes or stencils.
Personne by AXEL VOID.
This piece is part of the “Mediocre” series. It’s painted on Chamberclerc, a social housing residence located in the center of Montreal, Canada. Chamberclerc provides housing to people with mental illnesses that have a history with homelessness and drug abuse. The image represented is a portrait of Adrian, one of the tenants who was living …
Polish invasion in Providence!
Last week, Providence underwent huge transformation due to the invasion of the Internationally noted Polish street artists Bezt of Etam Cru and Natalia Rak, as they both graced the city with large-scale colorful murals exhibiting their unique and flamboyant styles, all that in preparations for the Providence International Arts Festival that happened June 11-14 on the …
Interview: Waone of Interesni Kazki
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 …
Interview: Bri, founder of The Spring Projects
After a successful career in the banking industry, Bri Patty, a Dutch-Moluccian woman living in Italy, decided to jump ship and follow her dream in fashion. At 32, Stapling shoe boxes wasn’t the most glamorous start of a fashion career, but she worked her way up the ladder and was globally managing the shoe collections …
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 …