Tag: Axel Void
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B-Murals Presents TÀPIA by AXEL VOID
Last evening was the opening of TÀPIA, a collective exhibition organised by the Barcelona-based project B-Murals and curated by Axel Void at Nau Bostik. Titled “Tàpia”, the Catalan word for a wall that gets filled with random elements to divide rooms in often derelict spaces, either provisionally or permanently, underlines the playful artistic interaction that often occurs…
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Axel Void pays tribute to Peterloo
Alejandro Hugo Dorda Mevs, better known as Axel Void, was in Manchester a few weeks ago where he painted this wonderful tribute to the Peterloo Massacre occurred at St Peter’s Field, Manchester, England, on 16 August 1819. According to the artist, the mural is a tribute to the sacrifices of ordinary people, a tribute to those with…
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Splash and Burn: an art campaign aiming at the palm oil industry in Indonesia
It’s not the sort of street art you’d expect to find on a swampy patch of degraded forest land on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. But the renowned Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic spent the past 2 years selecting a group of international artists to work on an artistic response to the global palm oil industry….
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Axel Void “Leven” for The Crystal Ship 2017
Do you have an artist whose work you never get tired of? I do, and his name is Alejandro Hugo Dorda Mevs aka Axel Void. This time in Ostend, Belgium for the second edition of the always amazing The Crystal Ship street art festival, Axel Void created “Leven” (Life), a haunting mural featuring the image of to…
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Axel Void paints his second mural in London
After a beautiful first wall in London last week (here), Axel Void is back in the streets with this new mural based on a quote from one of my favourite books from when I was a teenager; Hermann Hesse’s ‘Steppenwolf’. The text reads as follows: “ For what I always hated and detested and cursed above…
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Axel Void ‘LIFE’ New mural in London, UK
After an excellent participation at this year’s Nuart Festival, Miami-based artist Alejandro Dordas aka Axel Void headed to London where he after just a few days quickly painted this beautiful mural based on a photo he took in a slum known as G.S. Nagar in Chennai, India. Titled ‘LIFE’ and curated by Unit 5 Gallery London with…
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Coming soon: NUART FESTIVAL 2016
The highly anticipated and one of the best Street Art festivals in the world today, NUART FESTIVAL 2016 is about to start in just a few weeks from now. The idea behind this year’s festival revolves around the concept of Utopia, introduced by Thomas More 500 years ago in 1516 as well as the DADA movement born at the Cabaret Voltaire…
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URBAN NATION BERLIN PRESENTS PROJECT M/10
Tomorrow is the opening of URBAN NATION‘s 10th anniversary exhibition of their Project M/ series, which this time has been curated by Marina Bortoluzzi and Marcelo Pimentel from the popular website Instagrafite invited by Yasha Young, director of the soon to open URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART(2017). As noted by the organizers, URBAN NATION is…
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Axel Void ‘Sisyphus’ x Cities of Hope in Manchester, England
Axel Void is another renowned artist currently participating of the Cities of Hope project in Manchester, England for which he painted this amazing mural titled ‘Sisyphus’. The new piece is according to the artist part of his “Gray” series and based on the legend of Sisyphus, a king part of the Greek mythology. Axel void…
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Axel Void ‘NOBODY’ at Athen B. Gallery in Oakland, CA
Today opens NOBODY, Axel Void’s new solo exhibition at Athen B. Gallery in Oakland, California, USA. Nobody is a show based on the life of Alvie Morris who contacted Axel Void after he painted a mural in Atlanta a couple of years ago using a random portrait image he had found on the internet as reference. He claimed he…
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