Exhibition: Rich Simmons JUST BE YOU TIFUL @ Imitate Modern (London)

 

Just Be You Tiful’ is an exploration of beauty through being yourself. Beauty through glamour, beauty through fetish, beauty in tattoos and above all, honesty. Simmons uses his graffiti background and style to interpret this honestly and to study how others perceive beauty in response. From 11Oct 2012 to 3 Nov 2012

STINKFISH in Europe

Stinkfish is a street artist from Bogotá, Colombia who is best known for creating massive, psychedelic murals based on his snapshots of local people he encounters. He converts those portraits into stencils that become the center of his wall pieces.

You will find below selecting murals by the artist during his stay in Europe between Amsterdam, Berlin, London and Bristol.

BELGIAN GHOST TOWN Becomes Street Artist’s Playground

The 700 year old Belgian town of Doel has become a ghost town. Other than some squatters and a handful of diehard citizens, the town is uninhabited and will be demolished. Doel didn’t become this way because of any typical reasons like lack of employment, rather the government has ordered the citizens to vacate their beloved town in order to make room for the expansion of nearby Antwerp harbor.

Since the forced departing of its residents the town has become something special – a blank canvas to street artists from across Europe, who have left their beautiful creations on the bricks and rubble of its abandoned buildings.