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

STREET ART By BUSTART

It would be of no surprise if the name Bustart (Swiss born street artist in 1983) rings a bell. This versatile street artist from Basel (Switzerland) has been dominating the streets of Amsterdam for quite some time now! You can’t walk the streets without seeing his stickers, stencil art, paste-ups or pieces. His street art is not limited to any medium and he always comes up with someting surprising.

There is no technique Bust doesn't use in his pictures. Freehand with paint-brushes, markers and cans or stencils up to 8 layers. For him, there's no limit!

His favourite tools are markers and spraycans and as background definitely concrete walls. Because it has its own structure and it's naturally grey begs for a new coating!

Bustart works, loves and lives with Zaira and this for more than 7 years. They both enjoy travelling, but not for the good weather, the sunshine or the beach! Instead, they are always looking out for good spots to paint and express themselves.
Amsterdam has always been a magnet for the two artists; the whole flair of the city is unique. So, after traveling to Amsterdam every year, both decided to move to their favorite town in the beginning of 2011. Right now Zaira & Bustart are the key artists giving the streets of Amsterdam an artistic look.

CZARNOBYL: Stencil Art

 

Born 1974 in Poland, he lives and works in Berlin since 1993. 

Already in 1990 he began to take an interest in to cutting stencils to express his feelings and ideas. It seems like Czarnobyl’s works want to remind us of the technological progress and its’ unfulfilled promise of a better future. His creatures are completely torn, lonesome but oppressive as well as nostalgic and not yet in a common sense beautiful.

Czarnobyl’s protagonists appear much more as mutated outsiders of an evil and unequal game like the mutants of the Megapolis.