Author: Fran
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Photo recap: Sara Sanz ‘Noche de brujas’ at Plasticmurs gallery
Last Saturday and on time for Halloween opened ‘Tiempo de brujas’ (Witch Time) Spanish artist Sara Sanz’ most recent exhibition at Plasticmurs gallery in Valencia, Spain. Tiempo de brujas. Although there were not costumes to see this time, the attendees were ready for a magic night in company of Sara Sanz’ allegoric and surrealist characters, here presented through…
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Preview: Carl Cashman, Liam Snootle and Parasite at Gauntlet Gallery
This Saturday Gauntlet Gallery in San Francisco will be opening two geometrically inclined exhibitions; Neo Geo a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Carl Cashman (uk) and Liam Snootle (au) and BlackThings showing the work of Polish artist Parasite, both exhibitions are guest curated by Sven Davis Neo Geo (Gallery 1) is an exploration of colour and form that express Cashman’s…
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Pastel “Pre-hispanic conquest” New mural in Playa del Carmen, México
Argentinian artist and architect Pastel is now in Mexico where he recently finished this new mural in the well-known Mexican paradise Playa del Carmen. Titled “Pre-hispanic conquest”, the new mural explores the issue of pre-Hispanic times portraying (as usual) plants native to the region using that signature colour scale that has characterised his murals during the last year,…
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Borondo ‘Fer Lenya’ x Openwalls Conference in Barcelona
Borondo was one of the artists invited to this year’s Openwalls Conference that took place last week in Barcelona. Fer Lenya, as the mural was titled, is a term used when a castell falls apart. A castell (castle in Catalan) is basically a human tower built traditionally in festivals at many locations within Catalonia. The castell is built…
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BLU on evolution. New mural in Rome
After a relatively long break due to injury, Italian street art legend BLU is back in the streets of Rome where he recently finished this six-story mural in the Casal de’ Pazzi neighbourhood. The new mural, painted with the support of the local community, no scaffolding, and just a rope and painting equipment, is a sharp comment to the evolution…
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Tellas ‘Under the city’ New mural x Cagliari 2015
After a while in Rome, Tellas is finally back in his hometown Cagliari where he recently finished this new mural for Cagliari 2015 an event that intends to celebrate the city’s status as Capital of Culture 2015. As usual, Tellas work speaks about his fascination for ethereal and untouched landscapes rendered through a delicate line-work that in this case…
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David de la Mano x Santa New street pieces in Montevideo
Here a quick update with some new collaborative street pieces by David de la Mano and illustrator Álvaro Santamaría aka Santa painted in the streets of old Montevideo. Titled ‘Deriva’ (Drifting) the new project gives shape to a series of pieces that intend to express the idea of drifting around or drifting away, through de la Mano’s dark human-like silhouetted creatures and…
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ETNIK ‘FUN da MENTAL’ at GCA Gallery in Nice, France
Italian-Swedish street artist Alessandro Battisti also known as ETNIK opened last Tuesday FUN da MENTAL a new solo show at the GCA Gallery in Nice, France Not unlike ETNIK’s “Prospective Cities” series, a project started in 2003, the new exhibition focuses on an interesting mix of floating architectonic structures, graffiti and illustration expressing this sense for balance and composition so characteristic of his…
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Pantonio x EXTRA WOOL in Covilhã, Portugal
Here a beautiful mural created by Pantonio for EXTRA WOOL in Covilhã, Portugal. Painted in the city centre and inspired by the sounds of Covilhã and Vanessa Duarte’s short film ‘Da meia noite pró dia‘ the new mural shows that delicacy characteristic of Pantonio’s soft imagery shown here as a group of birds that seem to interlace each…
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Sara Sanz ‘Tiempo de brujas’ at Plasticmurs gallery in Valencia, Spain
Spanish painter Sara Sanz will be opening “Tiempo de brujas” her newest solo show at Plasticmurs gallery in Valencia, Spain. “Tiempo de brujas” or “Witch Time” consists in a series of allegoric and surrealist portraits of women that express Sara Sanz fascination with dualities characteristic of her artistic production, between the naïve and the evil,…
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