Julien Seth is a public art documentarian for French television. The job’s required traveling has given Seth some interesting opportunities. Plenty of street artists these days travel and put work up around the globe, but instead of sticking to some blandly universal subject matter, Seth’s murals are inspired by the countries they’re painted in.
Here are a few examples of Julien Seth’s work. For more, check out his Facebook or his Flickr.
2Mest. Photo by FromAroundtheWizzle.Amuse in Sydney. Photo by Baddogwhiskas.Days in Sydney. Photo by Baddogwhiskas.Musty by TheSaltrDen, Peko, Next and Nick Alive in Sao Paulo. Photo by ‘N’.Myt. Photo by Startape Photographe.Teaz in Sydney. Photo by Baddogwhiskas.Erber in Paris. Photo by VitoStreet.
LNY recently painted this mural in at 1st Street & Coles Street in Jersey City, New Jersey. I wish LNY would do more murals, as the few that he has painted have been real winners. A bit of background about this one: One of the men depicted is Ever.
If you’re a Broken Fingaz fan in Vienna, you’re in luck. If you’re not a Broken Fingaz fan but you are in Vienna, you’re still in luck because you’re about to become a fan. If you’re a Broken Fingaz fan and are not in Vienna (like me) but can afford to travel there (not like me), call work and tell them you’re sick because this Thursday, June 28th they have yet another solo show (because let’s be honest, who’s going to put work next to BF’s?) opening at Inoperable Gallery. For this show, they’ll be exhibiting some new works alongside pieces from their recent show in London and will hang through the month of the July. The piece above, done recently on the side of the gallery, is entitled “Chase the Devil” which is a play on the long history of Devil mythology in Vienna.
It seems that Unga will not be apart of this show, but he’s been busy; Unga and Insa have been blowing up the ‘Reblog’ button with this dope mural GIF. He also put up work with Lush in London and in Paris with Seth, Dem189 and Babs which was probably around the time of the group show in Paris, for which Broken Fingaz showed alongside Pure Evil and Pascal Le Gras.
There are few sites as alluring to artists – or at least to the artists I tend to meet – as abandoned spaces. A few like the Underbelly Project and Mausolee, last summer’s takeover of an abandoned supermarket in Paris, have attracted considerable media attention. But many others — both sanctioned and unsanctioned — take place regularly on a smaller scale. Earlier this month, a soon-to-be-demolished warehouse in Washington DC’s U Street Corridor became the canvas to over 60 artists. Presented by AIGA DC and Albus Cavus, the space opened to the public for six hours on Friday, June 8th. Blended – as the event was called – successfully fused the worlds of graffiti, street art, graphic design and more as it raised money to support the implementation of public art projects. I was impressed by the range of sensibilities, backgrounds and ages of those who filled the space to capacity. Here are some more images that made their way onto the walls:
AstrotwitchPorei will not
Earlier this spring in Jerusalem, a diverse group of artists covertly refashioned an abandoned home in West Jerusalem’s upscale Emek Refaim neighborhood. Meydad Eliyahu, a Jerusalem-based artist (whom I met years ago when his stencils surfaced regularly on his city’s public spaces) shared the following images with me:
After the home was refashioned — with library and all — it was opened to the public for a few days. The Empty House is once again empty, but its brief existence has helped revive Jerusalem’s underground art scene.
“Blended” photos by Lois Stavsky & i will not; photos from “The Empty House” by Meydad Eliyahu
I’ve been seeing a lot of work around Philadelphia by Bad Dog recently, so I thought that this might be a good time to point out some of his new and old work to a wider audience than Philadelphia’s somewhat insular sticker community. While Bad Dog’s older work has been a staple in Philadelphia for years, it’s his new stickers with brief slogans on them that are particularly attention-grabbing.
Nick Alive appears to be fairly skilled with a can. Nick Alive appears to be fairly skilled at making friends; friends with strikingartisticability. The result of all this is a mad display of the talent in São Paulo, Brazil. Fortunately for me, the documentation of Nick’s numerous collaborative pieces have networked much of this skilled community.
Nick Alive and Shock
Nick Alive and GraphisNick Alive and PekoNick Alive, Shock Maravilha, and Nem in Sao Paulo
I’m really liking this series, The Insider, that DEIH has been painting in Valencia, Spain. Looks a bit like something torn from the pages of a modern graphic novel, but hey, early graffiti had characters taken directly from comic strips, so why not?
Here’s something a little bit different from your average mural. Andreco and Erica il Cane collaborated together on this wall in the Saraha Desert of Morocco.
