Seeing an artist’s work for the first time is such a thrill for me. Especially if I like what they make. Il Baro paints his (often massive) murals in northern Italy and he’s the latest artist that I’ve enjoyed stumbling upon.
Photos by Il Baro
The Krah & Milo Tchais Hit London
Here’s a look at the latest street art collaboration from London’s own The Krah and Brazilian artist Milo Tchais.
The Krah first started painting the streets and the subway trains of Athens in 1997, but his graffiti and street-art can also be seen in the streets all over Europe and places such as Tokyo and Bangkok. Since then The Krah has also exhibited in galleries both in London and internationally, as well as holding many group shows alongside artists such as Os Gêmeos, D-face, Sickboy and Swoon, which may explain a thing or two about his latest collaboration.
The piece which can be seen sprawled across the front of London’s Red Gallery (same building as the iconic Foundry) also shares it home with a number of other prolific street art masterpieces. Artists such as Part2ism (seen below) and Roa are all known to have left their marks there.
Photos courtesy of Unusualimage and The Krah
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Best Ever at VSP
Last week, Aaron posted about VSP, a street art festival in Portugal. After seeing all the work that Best Ever did there, I just had to give it another mention. These might be some of the best pieces that this duo have painted so far. I remember when I first heard about Best Ever and thought, “Okay, that’s cool, but they’re going to need to do something so that they don’t seem like they’re playing 2nd fiddle to Herakut.” Now I’m more than convinced that they have differentiated themselves and are doing something completely their own. And they’re doing it damn well.
Photos by Best Ever
The colorful world of Maria Imaginário
Pedro Matos recently introduced me to the artwork of Maria Imaginário. Maria mostly paints in Lisbon, and she does those wonderful sort of paintings that make the everyday person smile. While David Choe’s early mindless vandalism is all good and well, it’s nice to have some street art that anybody can enjoy. The colors remind me of the kind of street art I would expect to see in Brazil, and that’s fantastic too. What do you think?
Photos by Maria Imaginário
Elfo’s performance art
At at recent group show in Italy, street artist Elfo decided to try something a bit different. Plenty of artists (particularly anonymous street artists) avoid their own gallery openings. And the ones who don’t will probably tell you that the openings aren’t that fun. They are stressful and tiring. All that talking to everybody who thinks about buying a painting, chatting with people you met once 3 years ago and can’t remember anything about, making sure all your friends get in and get free beer… It’s a lot of work. Well Elfo showed up to this opening, but he didn’t have to worry about any of those things. Here’s what he did:
Seems to me he stayed that way for most of the evening. And yes, that’s really Elfo. What do you think? Certainly it’s something different for a street artist. Here’s a video of the whole piece in action:
Packed Food for Vulture$ from francesco carlo on Vimeo.
Photo courtesy of Elfo streetart
One more Escif teaser
I know I’ve been posting a lot about Escif this week, but I could not be more curious about his solo show at Pictures on Walls. It opens tonight, so expect pictures posted over the weekend. This a wall that Escif painted on Fashion Street in London, a nice spot that I think has been massively neglected for a while.
Photo courtesy of Pictures on Walls
New Work on Howard Street
BLAM! with Nanook and Sappho on Howard St in Downtown Baltimore. I would now like to take the time to introduce some photos of Nanook’s recent street work. Its been a pleasure getting up with the wonderful person in New York and Baltimore as of late and I thought that it was about time to showcase some recent street works. You can see more on his flickr
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Slow: street art from Hungary
It’s not often that I get to blog about street art from Hungary. As usual, I’ve discovered a talented new street artist via Unurth. Slow paints simple and beautiful birds around Budapest. And it doesn’t hurt that he seems to pick the best spots to paint and takes stunning photographs. You can find more from Slow on Unurth or on Slow’s website.
Photo by Slow
New wall from Veng
Roa atop The Foundry
Roa painted these pieces on Tuesday atop The Foundry in London. The building is about to be knocked down, so go check these out while they’re still around. I should have a video of Roa painting this spot coming soon.
There are a number of artworks being painted on The Foundry right now as part of a pop up art exhibition by Our Cultural History that opens April 15th and runs through the 25th.
All photos by Unusualimage