{"author":"Jan Brennenstuhl","categories":["Street Art"],"cover":{"alt":"Stencil Street Art: Sten \u0026 Lex in Rome","height":720,"src":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/stencil-street-art-sten-lex-rome/sten-lex-rome1.jpg","width":1200},"credit":"","date":"2012-01-04T18:59:36Z","description":"Well-known Italian street art duo Sten and Lex just created a new, phenomenal stencil artwork in the streets of Rome, transporting an old paste-up to a new location...","html":"\u003cp\u003eThe last post I wrote about famous Italian stencil street art duo \u003cstrong\u003eSten and Lex\u003c/strong\u003e was about the \u003ca href=\"/mural-art-sten-lex/\"\u003egreat mural artwork\u003c/a\u003e they created in Lyon, France back in 2010 - Now it’s time again!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSten and Lex who are well known for their fantastic and often huge street art stencil works recently created a new mural in Rome! Based on a former wall portrait sketch, the duo created a stencil again and ported the image to the streets of Rome - more precisely on the door of a former porn cinema. Nice idea and successful realization!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe did a scetch of a portrait with a pen, we pasted up a poster, we cut the image on paper, we paint on the stencil, we destroy the stencil matrix, the painted image come out. (Sten \u0026amp; Lex)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more info, visit \u003ca href=\"http://stenlex.net/\"\u003estenlex.net\u003c/a\u003e!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"archive-figure historical-figure\"\u003e\u003cpicture style=\"--image-width: 1840px; --image-ratio: 1840 / 2464\" data-source-width=\"1840\" data-source-height=\"2464\" data-width-cap=\"1440\" data-height-cap=\"2464\"\u003e\n  \u003csource type=\"image/avif\" srcset=\"/stencil-street-art-sten-lex-rome/sten-lex-rome_hu_a20caadeace8f112.avif 480w, /stencil-street-art-sten-lex-rome/sten-lex-rome_hu_8d3c1e5f038c8ee5.avif 960w, /stencil-street-art-sten-lex-rome/sten-lex-rome_hu_f825ab84633d455e.avif 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n  \u003csource type=\"image/webp\" srcset=\"/stencil-street-art-sten-lex-rome/sten-lex-rome_hu_a387b6c2d39a44aa.webp 480w, /stencil-street-art-sten-lex-rome/sten-lex-rome_hu_1a5bb3ead2aa6e2d.webp 960w, /stencil-street-art-sten-lex-rome/sten-lex-rome_hu_6a8e45855ccdf338.webp 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg src=\"/stencil-street-art-sten-lex-rome/sten-lex-rome_hu_9a9e3483a57ccecc.jpg\" srcset=\"/stencil-street-art-sten-lex-rome/sten-lex-rome_hu_98c7f5236800871e.jpg 480w, /stencil-street-art-sten-lex-rome/sten-lex-rome_hu_65f03d5e3ed6d496.jpg 960w, /stencil-street-art-sten-lex-rome/sten-lex-rome_hu_9a9e3483a57ccecc.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1928\" alt=\"sten and lex in rome\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\n\u003c/picture\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003esten and lex in rome\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\nVia \u003ca href=\"http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/12/20838/\"\u003evandalog.com\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","markdown":"\n\n\n\nThe last post I wrote about famous Italian stencil street art duo **Sten and Lex** was about the [great mural artwork](/mural-art-sten-lex/) they created in Lyon, France back in 2010 - Now it’s time again!\n\nSten and Lex who are well known for their fantastic and often huge street art stencil works recently created a new mural in Rome! Based on a former wall portrait sketch, the duo created a stencil again and ported the image to the streets of Rome - more precisely on the door of a former porn cinema. Nice idea and successful realization!\n\n\u003e We did a scetch of a portrait with a pen, we pasted up a poster, we cut the image on paper, we paint on the stencil, we destroy the stencil matrix, the painted image come out. (Sten \u0026 Lex)\n\nFor more info, visit [stenlex.net](http://stenlex.net/)!\n\n![sten and lex in rome](\u003chttps://www.urbanartcore.com/stencil-street-art-sten-lex-rome/sten-lex-rome.jpg\u003e)\n\nsten and lex in rome \nVia [vandalog.com](http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/12/20838/).\n","tags":["1010","Paper Art","Sten \u0026 Lex","Stencil Art"],"title":"Stencil Street Art: Sten \u0026 Lex in Rome","url":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/stencil-street-art-sten-lex-rome/"}