Category: Art
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Faith47 New mural in Johannesburg
South African artist Faith47 is back in the streets of Johannesburg where she recently painted this beautiful piece titled ‘Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem’ a phrase from Virgil’s book 2 of ‘Aeneid’ and a latin poem written in the Augustan period: ‘the one safety for the vanquished is to abandon hope of safety surrendering to the knowledge that there…
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New mural by ETNIK in Rome
Italian artist ETNIK just finished this new and wonderful mural painted in Torpignattara neighbourhood in Rome for the Street Heart project curated by Galleria Varsi and Marta Gargiulo. Characteristic of Etnik’s work is a great sense for balance and composition making use of a kind of architectonic perspective where buildings and urban areas become disintegrated just…
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CT and 108 New murals for the Viavai Project
Invited for this year’s Viavai project Italian artists 108 and CT decided to collaborate in a series of new pieces in Catanzaro and Salento. The new murals combine CT’s simplified bold-faced kind of lettering, playing bold fonts, straight angles and bubbly curves and 108’s abstract black and gloomy shapes of contrasting colors creating in this way a beautiful and balanced composition where…
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Clemens Behr New mural in Catanzaro, Italy
Berlin-based artist Clemens Behr is now in Italy invited by the ALTrove street art festival in Catanzaro where he created this magnificent mural. The mural, a warm up for the ALTrove’s 2015 edition titled ABSTRACTISM – space>place, is a great example of Behr’s work where single architectural parts, shapes, colors and surfaces are detached and then reassembled describing the given…
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Shok1 “What Your Soul Sounds Like” New mural in London
Shok1 is back in London where he just finished this new mural on the Jealous Gallery rooftop in East London, UK. Titled “What Your Soul Sounds Like” and part of his glowing X-ray compositions, the new mural depicts a graphic equalizer sprayed in that transparent like effect that has characterized his latest pieces and painted with…
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New mural by Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada in Buenos Aires
Cuban-American Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, known for his known for his monumentally scaled portraits in public spaces, was recently in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he painted this huge mural in the San Telmo neighbourhood. Finished last week and located on the corner of Tacuari and Venezuela and organised by Res Non Verba, Rodriguez-Gerada’s mural shows the candid…
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Guido Van Helten paints stunning mural for Wall To Wall in Benalla, Australia
Guido Van Helten is currently in Australia where he recently finished this new mural portrait for the Wall to Wall festival in Benalla curated by Judy Roller. Titled‘Nostalgia I’ the wall was, according to the artist, painted using the image of a boy Ned Kelly’s nephew, standing at the Kelly homestead in Greta West, just outside of…
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Photo recap: Saddo “A Stranger in the Garden” at BC Gallery, Berlin
A couple of weeks ago opened Romanian artist, illustrator and muralist Saddo A Stranger in the Garden, his newest solo show at BC Gallery in Berlin. The exhibition, consisting a series of canvases and smaller paper works all charged by that peculiar surrealism that characterizes Saddo’s work. As mentioned earlier, A Stranger in the Garden has to do with death, one of our main concerns…
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MOMO New mural x MONS2015 in Belgium
After covering the interior walls of the iconic John Hancock building in Boston a couple of months ago, MOMO headed to Belgium where he painted this amazing mural for the MONS2015 festival in the city of Mons. Abstract, complex and often monumental, MOMO’s murals are easy to connect with. Amazingly balanced compositions characterized by bright colours and bold shapes have made…
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Augustine Kofie OFF/GRID at David Bloch Gallery, Marrakech
“OFF/GRID” is Augustine Kofie‘s latest solo exhibition at David Bloch Gallery and the product of a month-long artist residency in Marrakesh. The artist made the best of his time in the city by creating a couple of mural interventions as well as working with local craftsman on a new series of work inspired and influenced by…
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