--- author: Jan Brennenstuhl categories: - Guerrilla Art cover: alt: Brad Downey & Akay Paint Bombs height: 1228 src: https://www.urbanartcore.com/brad-downey-akay-paint-bombs/brad-downey-akay-bomb.jpg width: 1840 credit: '' date: '2012-07-05T09:29:23Z' description: 'Exploding Paint: For Fame Festival 2012 in Grottaglie, Brad Downey and Akay (Brakay) built paint bombs to beautify an abandoned building! ' tags: - Brad Downey - Explosion Art - European Urban Art title: Brad Downey & Akay Paint Bombs url: https://www.urbanartcore.com/brad-downey-akay-paint-bombs/ --- # Brad Downey & Akay Paint Bombs [Spontaneous sculpture](/brad-downey-spontaneous-sculptures/) artist **Brad Downey** and **Akay** (tenderly named Brakay) [again](http://www.hookedblog.co.uk/2011/09/brad-downey-akay-fame-festival.html) visited the lovely Italian city of Grottaglie! For *Fame Festival 2012*, both artists created an explosive paint installation consisting of several paint bombs, colorizing an abandoned house... Not sure how they initialized the detonations, but it looks like they did not use electricity to do that. Maybe it’s some kind of yeast or something like that. If anyone has a clue, please write a comment - I’d love to have some details! For more info about Brad Downey, check out [our archive](/brad-downey/) or [his Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Downey) page! ![Paint Bomb by Brad Downey and Akay]() Paint Bomb by Brad Downey and Akay Via [ilovegraffiti.de](http://ilovegraffiti.de/blog/2012/07/05/grottaglie-brad-downey-akay-fame-festival-2012/) and [famefestival.it](http://www.famefestival.it/?p=2458).