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.

ZUMI - STREET ART FROM BUENOS AIRES

Zumi studied fashion design and began painting in the streets of Buenos Aires in 2006 after being introduced to urban artists that inspired her. She is one of the few female artists to take her work into the streets of the city.

Taking inspiration from nature and from her day to day life, Zumi combines idealized versions of flowers, trees and birds in her own unique natural landscapes. Filled with beautiful pastel colors, her graceful murals create oases of beauty amidst the crowded and noisy city streets. Stumbling on one of her pieces delicately draped across a concrete wall brings to mind ideas of peace, purity, and joy.

Zumi’s art is a beautiful example of the power of street art to positively affect urban environments and our interactions with them. She has recently moved to Sao Paolo, where she continues to paint both independent and collaborative works on the streets and in gallery settings.

SWEET TOOF - Street Art from London

Sweet Toof’s work starts with and evolves out of his street art, whether as a solo graffiti artist or in collaboration with others. Like the streets of 1980s New York, Britain’s streets today are being reclaimed by an ever-increasing army of street artists of which Sweet Toof is one of the most prolific and artful.  Typical tags, throw-ups, and more elaborate street pieces become a whole language that informs his studio works.

Equally disciplined in traditional painting and printmaking techniques, Sweet Toof masterfully blends urban detritus with bygone decadence. Fusing ancient methods with modern materials, Sweet Toof’s imagery combines layers of historical and current cultural references to create unconventional, iconoclastic art that is at once both traditional and contemporary.

URBAN STREET ART - INKFETISH

Some cool street murals from London-based artist Tom Blackford, aka Inkfetish. “Getting into street art was a natural process,” he says. “I started out playing around with graffiti in my teens, then in my early 20’s, I met people that really inspired me to start realizing my illustrations on a bigger scale.”

Inspired by Japanese comics, he has a dark sense of humour that permeates many of his characters.

Tom’s distinct colour palette, often twisted subject matter, technique and bold themes continue to resonate with a growing audience.

CUELLIMANGUI's street art influenced by Japansese prints

Cuellimangui is a street artist, from a small city in South East Spain, Orihuela.
He always had a passion for painting, but in 2004 he started doing it more seriously, between Altea and Orihuela, and later Valencia with old friends.

His subtle patchworks of organic shapes bring life to inanimate objects and the abstract forms he paints. According to him, he uses the walls, to create a dialogue between the viewer and his work and in this way he offers a new kind of communication. His work, he says, is influenced by surrealism, eighteenth-century Japanese prints, tattoo culture and urban aesthetics.

DALE GRIMSHAW – The lowest of the low

Regarded by his graffiti and street art peers as the lowest of the low – an art school boy with no place on ‘The Street’ – Dale Grimshaw is anything but, as he disproves his naysayers and negative commentators by producing some of the most unique and inspired urban decorations since Banksy first appeared on the art world’s radar.

Originating from the infamous East London scene, Grimshaw’s impressive woodcut prints and paste-ups have gained the attention of graffiti and art commentators worldwide. Formally trained as a fine art painter, Grimshaw was heavily influenced during his tuition by the New York art scene, and as a result developed his now signature graphic style.

His unique technique perfectly transitioned from canvasses to woodcut printed paste-ups, which saw him evolve in reverse to most street artists: from private galleries to public walls. Often focussing on personal or social commentary, each piece has its own clear energy and intent, distributed by his aggressive approach and fractured style that imbues each painting with its own sense of emotion and feeling.

ORTICANOODLES: God Bless Stencil

Orticanoodles is the pseudonym for two Italian artists, a very active and tight-knit duo, composed of Wally and Alita.

Wally was born in Carrara, where he attended Art School and in 1996 he moved to Milan to attend the course in Advertising Art Direction at IED (European Institute of Design). Here in Milan, he met Alita.  Both in love of the stencil technique, they began to create drawings and handmade posters, quickly making themselves known in the street-art world.

In 2004, they start their first illegal actions in the street, stickering and pasting up posters. In their laboratory, situated in the Ortica district in Milan, Orticanoodles logos took shape. With the subversive power of Zibe, Orticanoodles started a blazing activity in the streets, soon evolving into a real urban guerrilla campaign.

L7M – Generating chaos.

L7m, was born in the countryside of São Paulo, in 1988, and since very early he started his relationship with art. In his childhood, he had participated of many contests and had also won many cultural awards. When 13 years old he had his first contact with the spray, which opened his eyes for new tecniques and consequently new experiences and mixtures with china ink, latex, pastel and acrylic.
Everything generates the chaos, since the mixture of outlooks and feelings to the materials and medias utilized. The revolt by the human sorrow, the beauty of life, the city’s disarray, the neglect and the surroundings, all this things transposed and influencing the works of this artist, who evolved with all his feelings focused in the street art. L7M, how he’s known, is identified by the simplicity of colors and free geometry relacionated to several issues, causing contradictories and unconfortable feelings in the observers. This is his purpose: bother and inquire by traces and colors reverted in imagistic feelings. Surely his purpose.
Actually, L7M is dedicated to independent work in advertising agencies, exhibitions and workshops at enterprises, cultural centers and schools, conciliating with the urban art freely practiced.

INSTALLATIONS ATTACK PEOPLE by Filthy Luker

Filthy Luker is a painter who is really attacking his audience. Who could think that a green octopus suddenly starts to creep out from the windows, a huge banana rind lounges just in the center of a road and the trees starts to see! 

The painter transform the urban environment making the tortured inhabitants stiffen with astonishment in front of a merrily winking water pipe, a sad TV which was thrown out by its owner or a large-toothed rubbish bin. 

This art is sparkling with humor, recklessness, it shocks you and force to look at the world in a new way.

STREET CALLIGRAPHY - Typography

playing with letters

ANAMORPHIC Street Art

German street art duo Zebrating is known for their incredible anamorphic murals painted on outdoor railings. The term “zebrating” loosely translates to “making the zebra” and is meant to describe their artistic style. Their mural work is split into stripes and when viewed from just the right angle the stripes merge together to form the whole picture. And you thought painting on a flat surface was difficult?

You can see Zebrating’s art on the streets of  Berlin, Stuttgart, and Mannheim, Germany (where they are from).

UMBRELLA INSTALLATION in Águeda, Portugal

Photographer Patrícia Almeida recently shot these great photos of a wonderfully whimsical umbrella art installation in Portugal. In July, some streets in Águeda are decorated with colorful umbrellas. The umbrellas look almost like they’re magically floating in mid-air. The installation is an initiative by the council in Agueda, Portugal and is a part of an art festival called Agitagueda.

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.

MENTALGASSI a collective of street artists.

Mentalgassi is a German street art collective that covers urban objects with photographic wheatpastes. They are well-known for their oversized paste-ups, showing expressive, crazy faces of their friends.