During the Katowice Street Art Festival in Poland, popular urban artist Nawer (remember his great collaboration with Graphic Surgery?) teamed up again with the motion graphic artists of Temporary Space Design and created a pretty great multimedia installation! Like other projects they did together, this installation explores space in two dimensional graphics. The attempt to breathe life into an image and bring a sense of motion and dynamic to a static form is in my opinion a really interesting approach, allowing to create impressing results as you can see in the video documenting also parts of the progress. ...

Famed Alex Diamond is well-known but still a nobody. The artist’s artworks are popular but there’s no corresponding face, neither a determined gender. Short, Alex Diamond is a ghost without identity… The Alex Diamond Mining Company was not just the name of the Alex Diamond exhibition in Hamburg back in 2011, it also is the latest chapter in the unusual story of Alex Diamond, an artistic project that has been evading the definition of a fixed personality behind the pictures since its beginnings in 2004. And it is the title of Alex Diamond’s latest book, documenting on around 90 colored, German and English labeled pages the diversity of created artworks, reaching from woodcuts and prints to installations, mixed media projects and photography! ...

Last Saturday, famed Swedish graffiti performance artist Magnus Gustafsson aka Nug opened his Human Behaviour exhibition at Skalitzers Gallery in Berlin! Showing some crazy artworks of his Fine Lines series, Nug’s was it to explore the role of tagging within contemporary art… …and again he used a slightly different way in communicating his opinion and impression: Entering the exhibition’s second show room, visitors came in touch with kind of a nice tags in a mirror installation. Presenting two spray-painted lines (one painted with a cheap, one with an expensive can), following no recognizable patterns, the mirrors invited every viewer to play around, creating different impressions by changing angles and distances and combining lines on different mirrors virtually to an entire new image. ...

Should graffiti be preserved? In the case of Blek le Rat’s Madonna masterpiece in Leipzig, the city says yes and what begun back in the early 1990s as a true love story, has now become an original precedent! Several years ago, Blek le Rat - who nowadays is regarded as a stencil art pioneer - spray-painted a Woman with Child on an apartment building in Leipzig. He dedicated the Madonna to Sybille, the woman he was in love with. Today, they are already married for 20 years and the stencil art piece is still there and it will stay there for at least the next decades! ...

Los Angeles graffiti writer Revok of The Seventh Letter is a living US-American graffiti legend. Last year, he showed his Triumph and Tragedy series at Vicious Gallery in Hamburg and now, he is back with a great collaboration between the world’s first social merchandising company The Hundreds and The Seventh Letter… Police, they don’t care about graffiti. Talking about some private details of Revok’s life, his career being a graffiti writer and his thoughts about the police, this pretty interview looks like a nice prelude for an even more extensive one coming soon. I’m looking forward to it! ...

Two of my favorite urban artists, namely Mr 2011 TED Prize winner JR and Mr next level tagging José Parla, recently teamed-up for the next part of the Wrinkles of the City Project - this time they created murals in Havana! For Wrinkles of the City, JR usually portraits elderly people, representing the memory of the city he picks for its interesting past, talks to them and pasts these portraits, printed in monumental sizes, in the very same city in various places that inspire JR and also represent the city heritage. This time, José Parla goes along with him contributing his amazing abstract typography skills. The combination of the large scale portrait photography works of JR and the stunning calligraphy art of José Parla is just beautiful and results in amazing eye-catchers with even more impact than their both works by itself does already. Take a look and share your love! ...

In my eyes, Augustine Kofie is one of the of best graffiti dudes of our time. His close-knit to graffiti writing on the one side and architectural-inspired drafting concepts attracts not just me, but many people around the - I know that. My work is me! Back in 2011, Kofie was invited to paint at the Art Basel Miami event. During his painting progress, MTN got the chance to talk with him about his influences, ideas and his work in general. Combined with some nice impressions from Kofie’s wall and progress in Miami, the is a nice, brief self-introduction of Augustine Kofie and one of the best, if not the best interview with him as graffuturism.com mentioned. Keep drafting! ...

French/German photographers duo Lucie and Simon created with Silent World a great series of deserted places in cities like Paris, New York or Beijing, well-known around the world for the incredible amount of people usually populating public spaces. It seems, the photos capture entirely deserted cities and they make us somehow understand that what makes a city a city is not just the man-made monumental buildings, but the temporary elements within… ...

Tags and throws (short for throw ups) are still the fundamental basics of graffiti writing around the world. That’s not just a sentence, that’s a fact and although there are several more or less interesting graffiti websites in the interwebs, I just stumbled upon a new, quality blog focusing just on tags and throws! Under the motto We love Bombing, the aim of tagsandthrows.com is to capture the bombing scene of the world today - one artist at a time… ...

Beautiful new wall faces by Cuban American contemporary artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada can be found in Argentina and Barhain! The artist, who is going to exhibit at the Guggenheim Bilabo next month, as was mentioned by RJ, is one of the founders of the New York Culture Jamming culture! Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada started replacing the faces of cultural icons chosen by advertisers with the faces of anonymous people in the late 90’s. The idea was to question the controls imposed on public space, the role models designated and the type of events that are guarded by the collective memory. For that reason, Jorge was mentioned in Naomi Klein’s book No Logo, focusing on branding, and often making connections with the anti-globalization movement. ...