Graffiti Europe: Best Street Art & Urban Walls

Do you remember what happens, when Polish graffiti artist Nawer teams up with others to create some collaboration pieces? If not you should definitely check out the great abstract stuff he did together with Graphic Surgery in Krakow earlier this year… Today I stumbled upon another great Nawer-collab! Back in Summer Nawer caught up with Chazme718, Sepe and Roem in Warsaw. Bringing together their finest qualities, the four well-known artists painted a mind-blowing mural in the Polish capital, which only now came to be known!! ...

Supported by Obey, Russian graffiti crew CHO is going to publish their first film! Entitle Комендантский Час (what simply means curfew), the video report includes great bombing, painting, pasting and running action mainly filmed during their trips to and in Spain, France and Russia… Watching the trailer with its nice footage whetted my appetite, for what reason I’m waiting eagerly for the release on December 1st. I’m pretty sure it’s getting huge, but as long as you’re waiting together with me, you should probably check out some other great graffiti action videos, like the 1UP subway graffiti action or the Copenhagen Trains documentary. ...

Copenhagen Trains: Vandal Tactics is a brand-new and interesting documentary about danish graffiti in general and the local train writing scene specifically. By presenting nice underground impressions, this 55 minutes short-movie mainly features train graffiti actions which took place between 1997 and 2007 in the Danish capital… Live actions, heavy bombing, mind blowing color productions, top to bottom throw ups, all on those infamous red steel trains that was an object of desire for generations of writers worldwide. ...

One of the most interesting think about spray-paint is my eyes that it allows you to customize almost everything, for example your car, trains, concrete, trousers, caps, and even umbrellas! Dutch graffiti artists Sons and Romeo just showed how it’s done and who knows, now as the weather is getting wetter and wetter, probably I will try spray-painting my umbrella myself… We had some fun customizing our own graffiti umbrella. Romeo came up with the idea of painting an umbrella in graffiti style a while ago. Since it was raining we couldn’t paint outside, so we decided it was about time to pimp the umbrella’s. (Sons) ...

Last Ride is the name of an interesting installation-painting by Portuguese urban artist Mr. Dheo, addressing car crashes with lethal consequences. Documented in an disturbing video Dheo explains the intention which brought him to paint this piece on a scrap yard… As an autodidact, Dheo’s first contact with graffiti appeared in the age of fifteen and soon his drawings turned into countless letter studies. Months later he did his first street painting and started to meet other artists to whom he related and that motivated him to carry on. ...

As I already mentioned, famous French graffiti crew Da Mental Vaporz (DMV) has been busy in the last days painting a new huge wall in the beautiful city of Brest where the urban art festival Crimes of Minds is running since March! Recently Blo, Sowat, Dran, Bom.k and the rest of DMV finished spray-painting their new mural and because French photographer Awouell was around, I’m able to present you some first photos of the final piece. ...

da mental vaporz mural After my friend Blo created this great new mural in Berlin, he directly went to Brest to catch up with Sowat, Dran, Bom.k and the rest of Da Mental Vaporz (DMV) crew! Together they recently started to paint this massive collaboration mural as a part of the French urban art event Crimes of Minds, which is already running for nearly half a year and brought together urban artists from all over Europe such as Morten Andersen</strong, FinDAC and Sly2, Best Ever and Ben Slow, and many more! ...

Graffiti Fine Art | I have to say that I somehow like these new artworks by graffiti legend Sozyone, he presents at Alice BXL Gallery in Brussels since yesterday. After his participation at the “Turmkunst” event in Berlin in 2010, I heard nothing new of him…until now! Three years have passed since Sozyone’s last exhibition at the gallery. Today, he lives in Spain and travels around Europe with a rhythm of 2 solo shows per year and as many group shows. “VOYOV” proclaims the return of the prodigal son in his home town, bringing a new series of works on canvas and paper. (mtn-world.com) ...

Mode2 is well-known around the world not just for that fantastic nude artworks, but for his amazing character styles he spread throughout Europe as one of the most central figures of European graffiti. In the last months I had the chance to see his latest works twice, first when he visited Berlin and second when painted under the Westway in London… Today I found that nice interview Kay One did with Mode2 in the great depth of my RSS feed reader and I highly recommend to read it, if you like to know more about the history of Mode2 and how graffiti connections were established 25 years ago… ...

Graffiti Paper | The master thesis by Dutch student Silvia Pietrosanti includes about 90 pages, but that’s not really unusual. It’s the content which makes this dissertation rare. The European Communication student wrote “A journey with the graffiti writers of European walls” and that’s quite interesting! The question of graffiti crossed my mind again last year, during a class named ‘Subcultures and Lifestyles’ when I had to pick one subculture to discuss in a final paper. I chose the graffiti subculture so that I could finally explore what was going on in the minds of the people standing behind those tags. ...