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The three members of the French Da Mental Vaporz (DMV) graffiti crew Dran, Bom-K, and Sowat, who spray-painted that amazing wall at Meeting of Styles 2010 a few weeks ago, recently visited Barcelona to paint some more concrete and to spread their fantastic styles all over Europe… Immediately after opening their recent show at Ras Gallery with Suben, Dran, Bom-K and Sowat got to work on a massive wall on the outside of one of the new Montana Colors factory buildings outside of Barcelona. (modart) ...

Jazz w wolnych chwilach, which means something like Jazz in Free-time and is an album title of one of the finest polish rappers OSTR (thanks to AirborneMark), is maybe the greatest mural artwork I’ve seen in the last months and I still can’t stop looking at it…Done by Chazme, Lump, Sainer and Sepe in Szczecin, Poland, the huge wall-painting shows four amazing characters playing - how else could it be - jazz. ...

Big is better is beautiful seems to be the motto of this year’s Nuart urban art festival in Norway, which gave the city of Stavanger its new huge mural artworks - some call them artistic landmarks - by Roa, Blu & Ericailcane, Alex­an­d­ros Vas­mou­lakis, Vhils, Dot­mas­ters, Sten & Lex and other urban artists… Three days ago, the town’s people turned out in force on Sunday for the first of Nuart’s landmark street art tours (via Nuart), showing the town’s new landmarks and providing background-info about the artworks and the artist. ...

You know, I have a weakness for tape art and although it seems to be something like a part of a new ad-campaign (unfortunately I’m not able to understand Slovenian…), it’s rather interesting to see what these Slovenian artists, including Kitsch Nitsch, Fejzo, Jurij Lozič, Tilen Sepič and others did with some shopping carts full of tape… …most interesting about the videos is, that they show the flexible possibilities of tape as a tool for artists. It allows to more or less easily create simple as well as quite complex abstract patterns, installations, reduced respectively simplified images and so forth… ...

It’s not the first technical evolution in urban environment and it’s not the first artistically protest against observations of public space, but the brilliant CCTV birds and the corresponding “panoptICONS” project by Thomas voor ‘t Hekke and Bas van Oerle are somehow special. Maybe it’s because of the strong politically, anti-control background, the great artistic implementation or the fantastic idea of cyborg-animals in a city…these urban installations are fuckin’ great, the public feedback confirms it! ...

Today I received a nice e-mail by Spanish street artist Rallito X, who asked me for publishing his latest street painting artworks on Urban Artcore. Before I will do that I will introduce you to Rallitox and especially his crazy urban monster art by quoting Andrea García Santana, who wrote… These characters are a reflection of what has been the theme of this artist’s work throughout his career: media manipulation, the attitude of an alienated society. ...

This October will be hot, at least in Vienna. There will in fact meet some of the big names of the international urban-inspired art scene…Anton Unai, Faith47, Jaybo aka Monk, Marco Pho Grassi, Nomad, Stefan Strumbel, Xoooox and others will exhibit together at the Kunsthalle Wien Vordere Zollamtsstrasse 3 in Vienna. The whole thing will happen under the striking title “Escape the Golden Cage” and combines space and city, comic and pop as well as street art and graffiti to one big show. ...

Some month ago I already wrote about about the Spanish street art crew La Pluma Eléctri*k - Back then, they created a lot of interesting QR code paste-ups! Today they sent me new info about and some photos of their latest urban art project, which is called “Spider Tags”… “Spider Tags” are woollen artworks, often made of some nails and just a cotton thread, which makes it possible to create strict line and in that way complex geometrically shapes. ...

Wow, what a day…Today the next Urban Artcore milestone begun: Three month in London! And I already have good news for all the urban art enthusiasts who are also currently in London: Zosen, a well-known street artist from Barcelona, who visited Berlin in 2009, brings not anarchy but “System Collapse” (his premier UK solo show) to the StolenSpace Gallery! System Collapse is a colourful vision of the world around us and an incisive commentary on the current state of the world’s economy. The distinctive lettering styles, loosely influenced by the artwork of the punk and the do-it-yourself movements of the 70’s - 80’s, the illusory characters and bright, pure colours reflect a hopeful optimism while the meanings of the words, real and conceived, provide a complex context for a creative discharge of conscience. (StolenSpace Gallery) ...

One week ago, my friend the Portuguese street art blogger Target wrote an interesting article about an at that time upcoming street art installation by the famous urban art collective Faile. One whole week, the Faile-team and their helpers worked hard on their massive, big and unique installation and what came of it is a fantastic temple in the city of Lisbon, which is part of the art festival “PortugalArte10”! Today, Target uploaded impressing shots of the creation process… ...