Mural Art

One of my favorite urban artists, the Bologna-based painter Blu is known for his large-scale, surreal but always meaningful pictures in the public space. With his most recent mural artwork in Madrid he becomes part of the mural art trend I identified in the last days…If you don’t know what I mean, check out the new mural artworks in Lyon, Antwerp, Lisbon and Wroclaw! His very playful and comic-style pieces often carry a political or moral statement, yet without being patronising. (about Blu) ...

Ha! Yesterday, I suspected, that “it seems to be mural art time for a lot of urban artists”, because so many beautiful and huge mural artworks spring up around the globe. Today I feel confirmed, because of that great new mural artwork, the Italian street art duo Sten & Lex recently created in Lyon, France. Sten and Lex are very popular for their more or less unique styled large-scale prints, hand-drawings and stencil artworks, they left in a huge number of cities. Recently, a few weeks ago they beautified Rome with a two mixed poster mural showing famous football player Totti and a wolf - looks impressive! ...

It seems to be mural art time for a lot of urban artists round the world. Two month ago, WK Interact created a nice mural art in New York, short time later the mural art festival “Breakin’ The Wall” started in Wroclaw, three weeks ago El Bocho painted a nice one in Berlin, recently Blu, Sam3 and Os Gêmeos painted together in Lisbon and now Steve Locatelli created another huge mural artwork in Antwerp! ...

It’s an amazing huge painting, four of my favorite mural artists recently created in Lisbon! Os Gêmeos, whose graffiti art exhibition is still running, Blu, who was lately in Wroclaw and Sam3, whose new book was published several month ago, came together to paint the facade of two abandoned old houses in Lisbon’s city. All four artists - for those of you who are new: Os Gêmeos are twins - are internationally well-known for their unique style, beautiful artworks and large-scale mural artworks. For this reason it’s just breathtaking to see them painting together. Additionally it is - like every time - incredible to see how they manage it to paint those huge artworks… ...

Hey, it’s time for some Urban Art Eye Candy! In the last days, a lot of great street art and graffiti shit happened. Whether exhibition photos, live paintings or interventions, the summer is coming, the weather is quite good and the artists are as creative as I haven’t seen in a long time. For this reason I will give you a short overview about some small but very interesting urban art actions: ...

Five month ago, I wrote an article about a beautiful video, which shows the cold snow atmosphere in Berlin. These days are over now, and the filmmakers crew started another series about abandoned places in Berlin: The first part of the series is about the famous “Eisfabrik”, an old and abandoned but great industrial building in the heart of Berlin, I visited with tape artist BUFFdiss some month ago…The second part is a beautiful documentary of the old “Bärenquell” brewery in the south-east of Berlin. ...

The Exhibition of Murals in the old city of Wroclaw is the fourth stage of the Breaking The Wall project. My first thought when I read the lineup of participating artists, including Blu, Erica Il Cane, SickBoy, Zosen, and others, was: That will be fuckin’ great!. Their murals will reflect on the identity and existence of the post-1989 generation, as well as the celebrated anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Even though there was no concrete structure to pull down in Wroclaw’s history, it is clear that there will be lots of walls to get rid of in the future. ...

Some days ago, twenty street and graffiti artists from Barcelona, including Boris Hoppek, Aryz and Ripo, painted six walls. This graffiti festival was called Art Brut and should give a tribute to the Barcelona-based graffiti scene. On March 27, 2010, twenty of Barcelona’s best street artists came together to paint six large murals to pay tribute to the quality, distinction and diversity of the Barcelona Scene. (artbrutbcn.org) Looks fantastic what they had created! Here are some impressions from their gallery: ...

Yesterday I had some time to visit the “Art Monument” (Turmkunst) tower again. There isn’t much to see yet, but Flying Förtress, who will paint the facade until April 15, has still some time to finish his work. Nevertheless I took some shots of the tower’s basket including Flying Förtress and the one new grounded tower facade. This weekend, I will go back and bring you some new impressions of the nice exhibition inside the fascinating tower and some photos of the facade updates. ...

After that great April Fools’ joke (sorry for that…), I will now show you the first impressions from the urban art event “Art Monument” (Turmkunst) in Berlin! In my opinion, the opening or better the starting shot and the first brush stroke was very successful. A lot of people joined the festivities around the about 40 meters “Bierpinsel” tower and watched the first live painting action by Flying Förtress, who will paint the facade until April 15. ...