Author: Fran
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POLINIZA DOS: Open call to all artists
ARTIST ALERT! Poliniza Dos announced about a week ago the launch of a new Call for entries for POLINIZA DOS 2017 (Urban Art Festival) offering seven rewards of € 600 to every mural completed with a maximum of 7 individual or collective pieces. In addition to this, the organisation will cover travel, board and lodging expenses of…
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Tomasz Gornicki “On the edge of shadow”
Remember that amazing collaboration with Chazme a year ago or “Blinkofaneye”, a pretty fascinating piece created last September? Well, Polish sculptor Tomasz Gornicki is back with yet another brilliant and haunting urban installation. Titled “On the edge of shadow”, the new piece irradiate a deep feeling of melancholia and loneliness. According to Gornicki, shadows serve both as a…
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Harry Gelb ‘Ghost of ourselves’
I recently had the opportunity to get in touch with the guys from Harry Gelb, a duo that has been creating haunting urban art installations around the globe part of their ongoing project ‘Ghosts of ourselves’. Like many German readers will notice, the name Harry Gelb refers to the main character in Jörg Fauser’s books; a wild open-minded figure,…
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BOA MISTURA Poetry and Magic in São Paulo, Brasil
This month the street art collective Boamistura returned to the Favela of Vila Brasilandia, located in the northern outskirts of São Paulo, in order to continue their project Luz Nas Vielas. The project started in January 2012 when they painted a series of words strategically scattered in different alleys in the favela, known as “vielas”. In that…
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Ruben Ubiera x Grove Street Neighbourhood and Sea Walls (FL)
Initially just one mural project, the Grove Street Neighbourhood event quickly gained the support of neighbourhood and developed into a full scale community project with the unveiling of ten murals in total, being Miami-based artist Ruben Ubeira is one of them. The opportunity to have Ruben as part of the team became a reality when curator Iryna…
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Gaia: Poetics and virtual reality in Gainesville, Florida
Last time I published something by Gaia was a pretty amazing mural in Monno, Italy that portrayed the issue of immigration (here). Now back in USA, he was recently invited by Iryna Kanishcheva and Daniel Pimentel to paint in virtual reality for Changeville: Gainesville’s Social Change Festival where he also was offered the opportunity to create another wall for…
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VESOD New mural in Rotterdam x Sober Walls 2017
As mentioned before Vesod is currently in the Netherlands where he recently finished this beautiful mural for Sober Walls in Rotterdam. Curated by Sober Collective and titled ‘An instant before’ this new mural by Vesod, and like the rest of his work, reflects his artistic research and evolution, exploring the dimensionality of the canvas through geometric…
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Borondo, Canemorto, Run, Servadio-COLERA Group Show at Galleria Varsi
This Saturday Galleria Varsi will be presenting “Colera”, an exhibition of monotypes created by Borondo, Run, Servadio and the Canemorto trio. “Colera” is the product of a spontaneous project started in 2015 when the six artists accidentally met in London and started getting together in Servadio’s workshop. What united them in the Hackney Wick spaces were artistic…
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Elian “Esto no es un make-up” for TRAMA festival in Argentina
Last time I heard from Argentinian artist Elian Chali aka Elian was back in February when he painted the entire facade of Ciudad Cultural KONEX in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Now he is back with “This is not make-up” painted for FESTIVAL TRAMA, an event curated by Martin Ron and Liliana Piñeiro. The new mural was created next…
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Sebas Velasco and TelmoMiel for Sober Walls 2017
Last Friday was the opening of the ‘Sober Street Art Exhibition’, a group show organized by the Rotterdam-based Sober Collective, showing mural and gallery works by Sebas Velasco, Vesod, Bier&Brood and Kaili Smith. In addition to the exhibition, the collective launched last week the first edition of Sober Walls, an event that counts with the participation of local…
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