Author: Fran
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Corey Helford Gallery presents Troy Brooks “The B-Girls”
Next week, on December 17th Corey Helford Gallery will be hosting a new solo exhibition featuring works by Toronto-based artist, Troy Brooks. Titled “The B-Girls“, the new body of work consists of a unique series of oil paintings; surrealist portraits of delicate and elongated women, often observed in allegorical settings. His work seems to be influenced by a mixture of…
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‘Willow Waltz’ A solo exhibition by Pablo Benzo at BC Gallery
Last week opened Willow Waltz, a solo exhibition by Chilean artist Pablo Benzo at BC Gallery in Berlin. The exhibition comprises a series of paintings and sculptures that certainly reflect Benzo’s unique style. Something in between abstraction and naive figuration. His organic figures, that could remind us of plants and stylised flowers appear as static, but in…
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Corn79 New mural in Rozzano, Italy
After his last project in Turin (featured) and a great collaboration with Etnik and RAM in Lisbon (featured), Riccardo Lanfranco aka Corn79 is back with this new mural painted in Rozzano, Milan in Italy for the PAINT project organised by Poste Italiane. The new mural has no title and no story and makes only reference to itself…
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Gaia “The Modern Condition” in Monno, Italy
Gaia was recently in Italy invited to paint a mural for Comune di Monno curated by ozmone and produced by toapasserby for Wall In Art at the behest of the Valle Camonica. Titled “The Modern Condition”, the new mural portrays the image of two Italian immigrants shot by US sociologist and photographer Lewis Hine. Next to them we find the…
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Photo recap: TELLAS “Clima Estremo” at Wunderkammern gallery
I might be a bit late posting this one, but sometimes late is better than never. It’s not a secret that Tellas has been one of my favourite artists within the contemporary urban art scene. His illustrations and often huge murals are without exception mesmerizing, inviting you to an intimate conversation with his work. Clima estremo, Tellas newest…
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In conversation with Apolo Torres
Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, Apolo Torres is a contemporary artist, whose work ranges from painting and murals to posters and magazine illustrations. A graduate in Industrial Design from Mackenzie University in São Paulo, he also studied painting at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Since he was just a little child, he always felt a strong…
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Hyuro “Abandonment” New mural in Corato, Italy
Argentinian street artist and illustrator Hyuro was recently in Italy where she painted this thought-provoking mural for Verso Sud, a festival organised by the Italian association Lavorare Stanca in Corato, a town located in the Bari province of the Apulian region, in southeastern Italy. Following the identity of this year’s festival focused on the concept of “Abandonment”, Hyuro decided…
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Francisco Bosoletti x DesOrdes Creativas 2016
Argentinian artist Francisco Bosoletti was last September in Spain invited to take part of this year’s DesOrdes Creativas festival in the city of Ordes, Spain. Titled ‘Memoria’ (Memory) the mural is part of a series of works inspired by the concept of “Oblivion” in an attempt to give new life to spaces that today are believed to be…
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BORONDO “Show” x Art(Re)Public 2016
“All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.” Guy Debord, The society of the spectacle (1973) Spanish artist Gonzalo Borondo, better known as juyst Borondo, was recently in the US invited to take part of the Art(Re)Public mural project organised in Jacksonville, Florida. Titled “Show” and based on the French philosopher Guy Debord’s…
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Phlegm x Art(Re)Public in Jacksonville, Florida
Sheffield-based artist Phlegm is now in the US where he recently finished this new mural for the Art(Re)Public event in Jacksonville, Florida. Playful, whimsical and remarkably detailed, Phlegm’s black-and-white murals are built up through a sequence of entangled narratives which, depending on the viewer’s location in relation to the wall, reveals new details and stories found…
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