CELLOGRAFF CREW by ASTRO and KANOS - Street Art from France

They use Cellophane to make partitions and short-lived volumes which are of use to them as support for their plastic interventions without damages. The wills and the possibilities are Multiple.

CelloGraff emphasizes the possibility of acting in the city, while respecting its codes and its smooth running and to bring in particular the graffiti there where it has no reason for being. The problem of the support is for a long time in the heart of the graffiti, the walls of expression miss cruelly in the youth and the graffiti vandal do not stop deforming our streets.

CelloGraff is a consensual approach which allows his authors to express itself semi-legally in the urban, in agreement with institutions. This principle realizes a space for To create new volumes in the urban, he gives a big plastic freedom without damages and Convey then a positive image of the graffiti, too often soiled.

DALATA - Abstract Street Art from Brazil

Brazilian artist Andre Muniz Gonzaga aka Dalata has taken street art to another level. His artwork revolves around the idea of broken and forgotten pieces of nature, but puts a positive spin on it by creating abstract art.

He breathes a new life into these broken and forgotten pieces by using their brokenness to show their fragile yet strong potential for beauty.

For Dalata, street art is not just drawing on the walls of buildings or on concrete. Street art is more than that. It gives him a chance to showcase the idea that art can be found anywhere -even in the worst and most broken conditions. With his art work, Dalata has certainly given a new meaning to “a whole new world”.

La MOUCHE - Organic Street Art from France

 

After six months of training in decoration painting, our ‘bug’ was then able to work some of these techniques: relief, trompe-l’œil and to create effects of carried shadows and light. He also learned techniques about perspective, false wood, stucco or even the panoramic technique… But the virus about sprays was really transmitted from his two mates Gnome and Twine from, ‘the HVA crew’. 

La Mouche – ‘The Fly’ in French – likes sketching, but he often gets his work done and inspiration from his own intuition and ‘brain pulse’ : this is how most of his colourful bugs and masterpieces came to life… still with some inspiration from the artist Korail.

In order to get inspiration, this ‘bug / street artist’ doesn’t hesitate to fly around the world – England and presently South America – with his friend Mozart.

BINHO - Pioneer of Brazilian Graffiti

Fabio Ribeiro, better known as Binho, is one of the pioneers of graffiti in Brazil and South America.

When he started painting in 1984 he was a b-boy (breakdancer) and skater; it was natural for him to express himself through graffiti. He learned drawing and painting techniques and in school when he was 12 and he started seeing classic graffiti.

The artist conquest respect wherever he goes: San Thiago, Buenos Aires, Nagoya, Tokyo, Osaka, Los Angeles, and almost all Brazilian states have been the scene of his talent. He develops a singular appeal of expression, giving life to all elements of its creation. No wonder that his bold style illustrated Nescau packaging, advertising campaigns from Ford, Brazil Telecom, Motorola, Red Bull, Nestle, Nike, Skol, Ecko, Guarana Antarctica, Sony, Colorgin, Bob Burniquist, among other Spoleto.

ROID - (MSK) Street Art of innovation: high technical skills required!

ROID, a graffiti and street-art artist from Bristol (GB), was born in 1982.

After a decade-long campaign of street and subway wall adorning graffiti that has garnered recognition from his homeland in the UK to collaborative art exhibits in California, ROID has finally begun a push for the demanding world of fine art. At the ripe young age of 29, the emerging street artist cultivated a reputation for his own distinct style surrounding boundary-pushing innovations and uber-technical murals. Having spent much of the last decade gaining the attention of graffiti lovers and of course the transit police, ROID joined the ranks of American street art crew MSK in 2008, the same year he graduated from London’s Camberwell College of Art. Since then, the contemporary illustrator made his art world debut alongside Revok and Rime at the Known Gallery in 2011, earning himself a nod from Forbes magazine in an article on “The 30 Most Important Artists and Designers under 30.”

DJALOUZ - A French 'Street Arter' in 3D

This French artist developed his style with the intention of departing from the (usual) scope. He's inspired by Arabic and Asian calligraphy. He composes with harmony between forms and places; the wall, the floor, corners and cracks. He likes to break the lines and goes beyond the simple mural, playing with the environment that surrounds his graffiti. Material waste, damaged; he will adapt differently each time according to the inspiration he have at the moment. He have a very photographic vision before he starts painting. He tries to use colours that go with the environment and he wants to put in volume what he chalks as a sculpture so that his forms take up space in places where they pose. He loves the letters but he doesn't quite master them so he prefers the abstract forms that are inspired by these places. This is why he always improvises. He never sketched in advanced!

When he started out the shape of his work was very round and organic. After a while he tried putting more volume to the forms to give the impression that his graffiti was really popping out of the wall. He has been working his graffiti around walls and on the ground since 2007.

MAU MAU - A UK Street Artist without border

An established artist on the street art scene and a homegrown southwest talent, Mau Mau has been putting his artwork on canvas and bombing public spaces for over a decade.

As well as his exploits in the art world, he has worked on video animations for Dizzee Rascal and The Herbaliser and created album covers and logos for Skitz (including the new release Sticks Man) Rodney P, Roots Manuva and Estelle.

He is currently producing thought provoking street-smart designs for THTC’s eco trendy clothing. Not by any means a stranger to the fashion industry, back in the 90’s Mau Mau worked on his own clothing label – Sewerside - producing iconic designs that gained a cult following.

Mau Mau has quite literally tagged the world - painting pieces all over the UK, America, Jamaica, Thailand, and Australia. His distinctive style often comes with a message – ideas prompted by political and environmental topics and served with a typically ironic British twist.

CHOR BOOGIE - Street Art & Color Therapy

Chor Boogie, born Jason Hailey in 1979, was raised in Oceanside California a small city by the sea with in San Diego county. He's an artist, a conceptual genius, a street romantic, a master of illusion and technique, Chor Boogie is an original. His works can be described as having healing effects by his unique and unmatched use of color, which brings greater meaning and understanding to his works. Every vibrant piece has a story attached to it. Chor Boogie’s colorful paintings are attracting A-list celebrities, art galleries and museums. Originally from San Diego, the artist known as Chor Boogie currently resides in San Francisco but is an internationally known artist and has traveled extensively to exhibit his work around the world.

The intentions behind his art work are to create timeless dynamic moments of imagination, creativity, originality, meaning, style, self expression, audience, taste, and the visual elements of line, light, composition, form, space, and color. It is derived from the colors of his soul. It is a therapeutic flow of colors, shapes, and movements combined in to one. A movement of images that has adapted to space giving it the significance of belonging to its surface, coming together as one and forming images of creation. Expressing realms of colors that give a healing sense and encourages you to wake up.

HIGHRAFF - A Street Artist with a Psychedelic Style

The mix of graffiti, illustration, comic language, psychedelic art and strong color combinations of organic and geometric forms with vectorial patterns is typical for Highraff (1977). This artist, born and raised in São Paulo, takes his inspiration from natural forms like the sun and the moon, stars, plants, animals, cells, atoms and planets, as well as from the spirit world, represented by natural elements like earth, wind, water and fire and sacred ancient art.

For Highraff graffiti is transient, a visual shout in the city; art made to be seen immediately. Painting in public space is a way to bring happiness and reflection to an unknown audience that passes in the streets and unconsciously observes while following its daily routine. His art is as a conversation between visual pollution such as publicity, abandoned or neglected areas and architecture. The absence of nature in big cities such as São Paulo is a sad fact that makes Highraff feel the urge to remind people with his art about the importance of nature in our life.

Highgraff exhibited in several renowned galleries and museums around the world of which in São Paulo, New York and Denver (USA), Milano (Italy) and Austria.

TITI FREAK - A Street Art Style combining Brazilian & Japanese culture

Hamilton Yokota aka Titi Freak was born in 1974. He's a São Paulo native with Japanese ancestry, resulting in a mixture of personal qualities that stem from his combined cultural backgrounds. 

The artist has created illustration work for International ad agencies and several brands including Adidas, Ecko and Nike. He has painted in the streets of cities around the world, and his fine art has been exhibited in galleries throughout Asia, South America and Europe. 

Titi Freak first began writing graffiti in 1995 on the streets of São Paulo, Brazil. His style fuses Eastern and Western cultures, with fashion, pop imagery, illustration, graffiti and comic influences.

CRIN - Graphical & Abstract Street Art

Some astonishing artwork by Crin (born in Italy - 1979), a graffiti & graphic artist  based in Berlin. A infinite weaving of colours which documents the harmony and artistic expression of this very talented street artist. Brilliant colours aggressively applied on walls. 

A spontaneous blend of design, computer graphics and streetart, a perfect mixture of contemporary applied arts in representing the maximum self expression of art.

FAILE - Pioneer in Contemporary Street Art

Faile, the Street Art duo comprised of Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller (American, b.1975; b.1976) formed their Brooklyn-based multimedia collaborative in 1999. They have conjured a wide array of works over the years, using original iconography and appropriating images from mass media. Faile began covering building exteriors with pioneering techniques in wheatpasting and stenciling, before expanding their repertoire to paintings, collage, prints, and sculpture.

Their works draw inspiration from comic books, pulp fiction novels and even Yellow Pages adverts. There are however a number of concepts which underlie Faile’s gritty pop culture graphics, most notably of these is dualism. “There has always been an attempt to embrace the idea of duality in our work. Love/Hate, Peace/War, Violence/Beauty. This has a distinct place in the world we live and can always be felt as a constant push and pull”. - Miller

DAL EAST - Street Artist from China

Born in China in 1984, DAL East is becoming a prominent figure among the new wave of graffiti art. He studied sculpture at the Institute of Fine Arts and began doing street art in 2004. In 2011 he relocated to Cape Town, marrying South Africa’s first lady of graffiti, Faith 47. We have been following his work since and are blown away by his unique style and the fine detail in his artworks.

Commonly depicting animals in a wire-like style, DAL’s work is complex but simple, beautiful and always intriguing. Using different mediums and spaces to create his works, he is inspired by the material world around him, life’s emotions that are part of it, as well as the spiritual world and infinite space that surrounds us.

CEPT - Street Artist with a Pop-Art Style

The work of UK street-artist Cept always brings a smile to the face. Often appropriating familiar images of superheros and adopting a pop-art style. Some of his painting techniques: spray, paint, collage, sculpture. The majority of his work is inspired more by music than other art.

ZLY - Street Art is a mere Physical Representation

Diego ZELAYA aka ZLY was born in Mexico City in 1990. Moved to Britain to study Fine Art – 2007. Studied at UWIC – 2012.

His Art  practice functions as a personal journey to try to explore and understand the human being. Trying to get rid of signs that give away time and culture, trying to strip bare a human and understand what we are under such social imprints is crucial for him. Art is a mere physical representation of what he is trying to find in humans. All artwork is freehand, no stencils were used in the making.