Street Art

ETAM Crew, who recently was part of the Like it. Art festival in Russia, is now in Poland! Sainer, one of the ETAM members, just painted another beauty in Lodz… Filmed by one-media.pl, this video documents the entire Sainer mural painting process what’s great to see not just for all those being not familiar with mural art, but also for ever urban art enthusiast. Again, this mural is part of the fantastic Urban Forms project with its great aspiration: ...

Eastcross Projects is going to release their street art documentary film Berlin spricht für sich selbst (Berlin speaks for itself) in near future. Originally announced for early August, the film documents various street artists like Mein lieber Prost, Think, Tona and Alias at work in Berlin. Including graffiti and tagging actions, group-pasting and sticker runs as well as run aways and police controls, the latest trailer (which is online for a few weeks now) promises deep and interesting insight into the loosely linked core group of creatives doing street art in Germany’s capital. Although I haven’t heard anything new about the film after the trailer, I’m nevertheless pretty sure there will be a release in near future - I’ll definitely keep you posted! ...

For today the proclamation of sentence for the three arrested Pussy Riot activists Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Ekaterina Samucevich is announced, for what reason there are several solidarity events taking place around the world. In Berlin, the street art collective Mentalgassi (here in Spain), recently put up one of their well-known urban faces, this time showing one of those famous Pussy Riot woolen masks… Pussy Riot is an anonymous Russian feminist performance art group formed in October 2011. Through a series of peaceful performances in highly visible places, the group has given voice to basic rights under threat in Russia today, while expressing the values and principles of gender equality, democracy and freedom of expression contained in the Russian constitution and other international instruments, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the CEDAW Convention. (about Pussy Riot) ...

For two years now, I’m following the creative development of Italian street artist and yarn-bomber Moneyless and I have to say, I really love to the the progress his artwork’s evolution. Whereas the first artworks where simple plain geometrically yarn-patterns on walls, his latest works include more complex, three-dimensional rope structures wafting in the air as well as pretty nice geometrically murals and prints… For Fame Festival 2012, he recently brought together samples of all his skills. Documented by some videographers, Moneyless scratched, screen-printed, painted and stretched ropes in the small Italian city of Grottaglie! ...

After hitting California, China and Lisbon, destruction muralist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils (here our interview with him), just popped up on the Archipelago of the Azores for the currently running Walk & Talk festival… Recently, he and his team finished up a pretty impressing decayed church mural! This new piece entitled Abraço to ruin (Embrace the ruin) depicts a women retaining the ruin’s walls as if protecting a child. Looks just amazing to me - especially the view over the trees (see above) is killing it. Here are some more impressions, via Vhils’ Facebook: ...

After that pretty nice stencil art village near London’s Smithfield Market, Evol just created some new pieces in Warsaw! As collaboration with Monstfur, the new stencil art village is extended by an entire butterfly swarm, adding some life to the usually very material houses by Evol… Those of you who want to know, how these fabulous street artworks are created should watch this short making-of video, documenting Evol at work. All the others should go and give some love to Evol’s stuff on Flickr! ...

Italian mural artist Pixel Pancho just came up with an fantastic Soviet-style piece in Kazan, Russia! This huge new mural is part of the Like It. Art festival in the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan. Announced as Europe’s largest street art and graffiti festival, Like It. Art took place between 17 to 22 July and was officially supported by the Mayor’s Office of Kazan. But although the line-up includes pretty big names like Etam Cru from Poland, Kislow from the Ukraine, Belin from Spain, Nychos from Austria, and of course Pixelpancho, I unfortunately haven’t heard much about this urban art festival before… ...

What happens when a city declares war on graffiti? That’s one of the questions, the documentary Between the Lines, a film about a group of Toronto street artists who find new meaning in their work as they defend it against Mayor Rob Ford’s War on Graffiti, is going to answer! As mentioned by thegridto.com, Toronto’s Mayor Ford is making sure that everyone knows that he hates graffiti and street art since he took office in late 2010: He’s since gone so far as to slap on the coveralls himself to power-blast it from the walls of the city and herald a new mobile app that lets Torontonians report what they deem to be unsightly scribbles and murals themselves. ...

What does the Higgs Boson look like? That’s a question, many people around the world would like to know. Artist Josef Kristofoletti now got the great honour to paint a part of the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)! Commissioned by the ATLAS Experiment at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, Kristofoletti painted a three story tall mural on the side of the ATLAS control room directly above the detector, near the Swiss-French border outside of Geneva… ...

With large scale murals spread across Australia’s east coast, Shida is a heavyweight of the street art scene down-under. For the Polish Urban Forms Foundation, he brought one of his vibrant, energy-loaded murals to Lodz! Urban Forms fundamental mission is to saturate cityscape with creative, multilayered and modern art, that would allow to improve current image of Lodz, giving it a truly artistic and original value. The main tool to reach our aim is large format painting done directly on the side elevations of buildings, as it changes appearance of a given space permanently. (about Urban Forms) ...