Labrona’s roots: Trains, back alleys, and friends

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Labrona and Mathieu Connery.

It’s hard to not come back to Labrona‘s art. Not only because he is one of my favorite street artists ever, but also because he is one of those who continues to create the same way he has created since the beginning, year after year, for him, on the streets, on trains, with his friends. He continues to work and keeps up his generosity, without paying mind to changes that have disrupted the street art movement lately. For this, he should have the respect of all. Most importantly, he cherishes time spent creating with friends, because to create in the streets is also for him a real opportunity to share a good time with good friends. All the following pieces were done during last summer and fall, in Montreal and Toronto by Labrona with Troy Lovegates, Gawd, Monosourcil, Kim, Kat, Produkt and Mathieu Connery.

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Mathieu Connery’s sidewalks for MURAL festival 2014

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“Mikado nest”. photo by Mathieu Connery

From May to mid-July, Mathieu Connery aka 500M painted several murals on sidewalks for the second MURAL festival edition. To the frequency of 1 per week, he did 10 abstract murals on the Main, the Saint-Laurent Boulevard, official location of the festival. Guess the organizers really liked the 3 sidewalks murals he painted last year for the first edition of MURAL, as they asked him to enlarge his project this year.  The Montreal based artist is well known in the city for his minimalist abstract pieces, “I try to make most of my interventions interact in different ways with the environment, to inspire appropriation of the public space in any other way. It also applies in the streets with concrete, tags that were there before,etc…” I just hope that one day he will get a real wall rather than always sidewalks in Montreal!

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3rd. photo by Mathieu Connery
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6th. Photo by Mathieu Connery
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“Is rasberry rock”. Photo by Mathieu Connery
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8th. Photo by Mathieu Connery
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“Faceblob”. Photo by Mathieu Connery
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7th. Photo by Aline Mairet
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5th. Photo by Aline Mairet

And for my own pleasure, a street art piece found this summer, and then a tag of Gawd Mathieu Connery appropriated. Thanks Mister 500M !

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500M. photo by Aline Mairet
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Gawd- Mathieu Connery. Photo by Connery

Photos by Mathieu Connery and Aline Mairet

Street Art in Montréal, Canada, Fall

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Labrona. Photo by Labrona.

It’s already fall! Time is running out and artists too… The weather was sweet and warm at the beginning of the season, enough to have a comfortable atmosphere conducive to creation. A real indian summer that brought some good stuff in the streets. With the collaboration of my partner in crime, Space27, my eyes in Mtl when I’m far away, and with the support of some beautiful artists, the girls of Off-Murales, Labrona, Banksy…….. oh… WAIT ! WAIT ! Banksy was in town ??? No way ! No…no… it is BadVilx!!! phew… I can show you some street art works by Labrona, Vilx, Open Mind, The chief, Oh well!, MissMe, Qbnyc, Zola, Harpy, Lilyluciole, Scaner, Stikki Peaches, Mathieu Connery.

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BadVilx. Photo by Vilx.

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Street Art in Montréal, Canada, Summer

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Garbage Beauty

Here we are, in the middle of an hot, sweat and incredible summer in Montreal. The perfect place to walk in the back alleys and abandoned areas, looking for fresh air and street art. “The perfect day to be outside” for a street art photographer ! Street art works by Garbage Beauty, Chris Dyer, QBNYC, Produkt, Waxhead, Cryote, GawdLabrona, Troy lovegates aka Other, Mathieu Connery aka 500M, Lilyluciole, Mathieu Bories, WIA.

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Chris Dyer and QBNYC
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Produkt
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Cryote and Waxhead

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Street Art in Montréal, Canada, Spring

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Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Aline Mairet, a street art blogger and photographer based on in Montréal. Check out her blog here.

Here’s an idea of what you could found when you walk on the streets and alleyways of Montréal. When street art wakes up after a long, cold, snowy winter, the artists bring colour and beauty to the streets. Here is the work of Anser, Labrona, Gawd, Produkt, Chris Dyer, Qbnyc, 500MWaxhead, Omen, 52Hz, Stikki Peaches, Listen, Wzrds gang and Stela. 

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Anser
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Labrona and Gawd
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Produkt
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Mathieu Connery aka 500M
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Waxhead
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Omen
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52Hz, Stikki Peaches and Listen
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Stikki Peaches
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Gawd
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Wzrds gang and Stela
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And this last piece, a splendid door by Labrona. A commission for En Masse.

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Labrona

Photos by Aline Mairet