This video has some great behind the scenes interview with the artists from this year’s See No Evil event, which took place in Bristol in August. The festival featured walls by SheOne, M-City, Pixelpancho, Mark Bode, Nychos, Flying Fortress and many others.
In part 4 of my series of posts about this year’s Nuart Festival (here are parts one, two, and three), I’ve finally gotten to the murals and more traditional street work of this year’s festival. This year, Nuart is responsible for new murals in Stavanger by Niels “Shoe” Meulman, Ron English, Dolk, How&Nosm, Mobstr and Eine.
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Ripo painted this piece, Surreal But So Real, for this year’s Avant-Garde Urbano Festival in Tudela de Navarra, Spain. Besides the obvious (Steve Powers), Ripo is probably my favorite artist juggling signpainting, muralism and graffiti. I think the great thing about this wall, like many of Ripo’s walls, is that you can look at it from a variety of distances and angles and it should still be interesting. From straight on and a distance, there’s text to read or you can just look at it for its aesthetic value and ignore the text. From an angle, at least the colors brighten up an otherwise blank walls. From close up, there are details to catch.
Photos by Ripo
2501 recently installed this sculpture made of parts of dead trees at the architectural museum in Como, Italy. The piece, In cammino per trasformarsi nell’istante presente (moving to transform into the present moment), is a surprising and I think very successful departure for 2501 whose outdoor work usually looks more like this. Here are some more photos of the sculpture:
Photos courtesy of 2501
It seems that the world never slows down. I’m supposed to be on vacation and it’s been one of my busiest weeks all year, so here’s what’s been going on elsewhere across the web:
Photo by El Curiot
Gaia has recently finished two really interesting murals in Philadelphia and Baltimore.
In Philadelphia, Goldman Properties and the Mural Arts Program brought him to town to paint a portrait of Edmund Bacon, a city planner who Wikipedia tells me is considered by some to be “The Father of Modern Philadelphia.” That mural is at 13th and Sansom, right near murals by Kenny Scharf and How&Nosm.
In Baltimore, Gaia painted a wall about Baltimore’s Arabbers, which Gaia explains:
The Arabbers are a dying Baltimore tradition of horse-drawn fruit vendors that have long been a staple of this remarkable city. I was attracted to this particular stable in the Sandtown neighborhood preparing for a documentary. These men and women define hustle, trotting along both desolate and vibrant landscapes selling their goods and making ends meet. This mural depicts four generations
starting with the great grandfather Manboy in the middle and to Fruit’s son on the top right. The arabber portraits are mixed with the logos on the containers in which their produce comes: a global economy meets a fading, tough tradition.
Photos courtesy of Gaia and by M Holden Warren
TrustoCorp have a show on now at Lazarides’/The Outsiders Newcastle, UK location. Here are a few of my favorite pieces from the International Bank of TrustoCorp show, which runs through November 10th. You can see the full show on TrustoCorp’s flickr.
Photos courtesy of TrustoCorp
Mexico City’s Saner has a solo show coming up this month in LA at New Image Art Gallery. Catharsis, curated by Medvin Sobio, opens October 27th from 6-9pm. Saner is one of Mexico’s most interesting contemporary muralists, but he has also brought his work indoors in a much more creative and beautiful way than the average street artist/muralist. There will be a performance aspect to the opening, so it’s definitely one to try to check out on opening night rather than waiting until the crowds have dispersed. For some idea of why Saner’s openings are special, he had a show at Medvin’s gallery in the summer of 2011 where all the work was given away for free and Saner acted as though he was being held hostage in the gallery.
Catharsis runs through November 24th.
MEXICO CITY’S SANER – CATHARSIS – ART EXHIBIT TRAILER – OPENING SATURDAY OCTOBER 27, 2012 – NEW IMAGE ART from THE CINEMA on Vimeo.
Photo courtesy of New Image Art Gallery
Claudio Ethos sent over these pics from his recent travels around Europe. Always impressive.
Spending a few days in NYC, so this is a bit late, but here it is…
Photo by Labrona
