Graffiti & Street Art Interviews: Artists Speak Out

Urban Art News | It’s Mother’s Day and I hope you already pleased your mum with a small thing! To give you some nice lecture before the sun starts to burn us again, I collected some interesting street art and graffiti news from the last week which hasn’t been mentioned here yet. Have fun exploring all the great stuff… Minimalistic Geometric Images …are the result of the logo-modifying series “You Took My Name” by Dorothy! The artist removed the companies names out of their famous logos… ...

Urban Art Mag | A couple of weeks ago, I received a small package from my friends in London, including the latest issue of the urban art magazine “Very Nearly Almost” (VNA)! It’s the 14th issue and again it includes a lot of interesting interview with a lot of interesting urban artists as well as nice photos from the streets of London and Miami. This time, the VNA team interviewed Sickboy, Pedro Matos, Doze Green, Voina, Dick Chicken, Mobstr and some others, which seems to be a nice, varied collection of more or less well-known, but very talented artist… ...

Street Art News | Because of the Fukushima and Madrid posting break, I just came up with the idea to give you a small overview about what happened in the international street art and graffiti world in the last couple of days. Therefore I collected the top urban art news I stumbled upon while zapping through my RSS feed reader. And here we go… Base23 meets Morten Andersen The two hell hounds from the north, Base23 and Morten Andersen, just opened their recent exhibition at Pretty Portal Gallery in Düsseldorf! A must to see for all who like graffiti-inspired paintings from outer space and fantastic colored characters… ...

Street Art Documentary | London’s Brick Lane is something like the epicentre for creativity and young, modern life-style in London. Especially around the old Truman Brewery with its galleries, bars and markets a lot of the otherwise shy London street art can be found. With his upcoming street art documentary “Brick Lane in Art” film-maker Shafiur Rahman wants to sketch a creative portrait of this Europe-wide well-know street and its surrounding area. Therefore he interviewed several more or less famous street artists and other protagonists in in London, Paris, Berlin and Madrid. ...

German Vagina Art | German street artist Boris Hoppek recently did a nice interview with fecalface.com, in which he for example describes how to dodge being enlisted in the German Army or why sexually charged artwork make it easier to get chosen by smart and crazy women! Boris Hoppek, who started his street art career as a graffiti artist, is now based in Barcelona and took for that reason part at the local “Art Brut” graffiti festival in 2009. Today his creative work contains painting, photography, video, sculpture and installation art… ...

Graffiti Car Advert | Oh, come on boys and girl - it’s getting boring! After Mini did their “Wash Me” cars by the help of KR, Seak One, Tika, Smash 137 and others and Mercedes Benz had Niels Shoe Meulman, who did some calligraffiti on one of their B-Class cars, now it’s Opel’s turn! The car-manufacturer charged the two graffiti legends Daim and Loomit to create some advert for the Corsa. Both spray-painted the background wall for the new Opel Corsa Campagne 2011, which is now extensively used to promote not just the car but its creative-to-be label and reputation. ...

Street Alphabet | Do you remember the photo-documentary I did of famous graffiti and street artist Ben Eine painting a wall for the Moniker Art Fair in London? While I took photos, East London based creative producer Abbie Brandon took some nice video footage and interviewed Ben. Now she finished her film about a weekend in Ben Eine’s life… The doc was filmed over a weekend (plus a Friday night before and some neatening up on the Monday). Ben was painting 2 walls - one being PRO PRO PRO on Ebor Street in East London - the other being CALCULATE on Hollywell Lane, also in East London. ...

Artist Interview | Some days ago, I stumbled upon the fantastic telephone interview with famous photographer, urban artist, political activist and the 2011 TED Prize winner JR, TED did with him in October 2010. It seems like I totally missed it back then… However, JR talks about his “28 Millimetres Project”, how it started, why he did it, what reactions he tried to cause with it and why “Women Are Heroes”… ...

Urban Art News | As you maybe noticed, I had no time to write during Christmas, but fortunately it’s over now. However, I collected the top urban art news I noticed in the last days, so I’m able to give you an detailed overview about what happened on the streets around the world while we had some more or less contemplative evenings with friends and family. And here we go… ...

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… ...