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Project M/5 Brings Ben Eine, Ben Frost, Above and Others to Berlin

Over the past several months, arts organization Urban Nation has been inviting international artists and curators to do what they will with their large, interdisciplinary Berlin venue, Project M — a building utilized as a canvas from the inside out. The project's latest incarnation, M/5, was curated by Roland Henry of the street art-focused publication VNA Magazine. While the multi-story building was covered in a new mural by Ben Eine, the surrounding area was fitted with window-installations and smaller murals by the likes of Above, Ben Frost, Klone, Yoh Nagao and many others. Take a look at some photos after the jump.

Mural by Eine on the outside of the Project M/5 building

Over the past several months, arts organization Urban Nation has been inviting international artists and curators to do what they will with their large, interdisciplinary Berlin venue, Project M — a building utilized as a canvas from the inside out. The project’s latest incarnation, M/5, was curated by Roland Henry of the street art-focused publication VNA Magazine. While the multi-story building was covered in a new mural by Ben Eine, the surrounding area was fitted with window-installations and smaller murals by the likes of Above, Ben Frost, Klone, and many others. Take a look at some photos below.

Photos courtesy of Henrik Haven.

Ben Frost

Installation view of the windows.

Outdoor pieces by Ben Eine, Nick Walker, Tank Petrol and O Two (left to right).

Above

Don John

Some of the artists working on their installations.

Sickboy’s piece before it was installed in the window.

Klone

Nick Walker’s piece before it was installed in the window.

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ben eine, Project M/5, street art, urban nation berlin

designer toys, street art, Tristan Eaton

October 29, 2015

From murals to designer toys, Tristan Eaton emerged from the streets and into well known force in the art world. We featured his TrustoCorp project in Hi-Fructose Vol. 22, but he's since put that venture aside to focus purely on his solo career. His striking, almost dream-like figurative style weaves together contrasting elements of pop, cartoons, and typography. One look at Eaton's work and you can immediately see a collage of influences, and he has always sought to represent this visual language that he loves in a single piece. Eaton really dug deep for his next solo exhibition at Subliminal Projects on his home turf of Los Angeles.

Cyrcle’s New Mural, “Collapse Part 1,” at the Moderna Museet Malmö

artscape festival, cyrcle, moderna museet malmo, mural, street art

May 20, 2014

A blend of Greco-Roman iconography and modern-day graphic design, LA-based duo Cyrcle's latest work is a prime example of the ways images get recycled, re-contextualized and repeated in contemporary culture. Like the philosopher Guy Debord famously predicted in the 1960s, our experiences are mediated through images, and almost everything in mass culture has become an image of an image of an image. Not to get too far off track, Cyrcle's new mural in Malmö, Sweden plays with this notion of pastiche.

On View: Curiot’s “Down The Rabbit Hole With Neon Lights” at FFDG and New Mural in San Francisco

Curiot, Down the Rabbit Hole With Neon Lights, FFDG, street art

March 31, 2015

Based in Mexico City, Curiot (featured in HF Vol. 29) creates phantasmagoric paintings where deity-like monsters traverse the clouds. The silhouettes of tiny people floating in their wake reveal that human beings look like mere playthings in comparison. Last weekend, Curiot debuted his latest solo show, "Down the Rabbit Hole with Neon Lights," at San Francisco's FFDG, as well as a downtown mural curated by Fifty24SF, another local gallery. According to FFDG, the new paintings in Curiot's exhibition allude to the rapid pace of technology and the consequential environmental pollution. His creatures travel through a mysterious continuum to attempt to reach the "vortex of souls," only to get sucked into the past where they must confront their previous wrongdoing.

Murals by Interesni Kazki, Alexis Diaz, Jaz and More at We AArt Festival

Henrik Haven, Interesni Kazki, mural, street art, We AArt festival

October 3, 2014

A few weeks ago, we gave readers a small taste of the many, enormous murals that went up at We AArt Festival in Aalborg, Denmark (see our coverage of Aryz, Escif and Kenor's walls here). The festival was envisioned as a way to bring more public art to the mid-sized city and featured international artists with a penchant for large-scale work that Hi-Fructose readers will recognize. Interesni Kazki, a duo from Ukraine known for their storybook-like murals, split up and tackled two separate walls. Puerto Rican artist Alexis Diaz typically draws inspiration from the natural world for his depictions of hybridized creatures. His piece for We AArt depicts a skeletal horse encased in an armor of tree branches with an ink-like technique atypical of outdoor work. Other artists included Jaz, Liqen, Don John and Fintan Magee. Check out photos of the murals below.

Project M/5 Brings Ben Eine, Ben Frost, Above and Others to Berlin

Tristan Eaton Honors His Creative Influences in “Legacy”

Cyrcle’s New Mural, “Collapse Part 1,” at the Moderna Museet Malmö

On View: Curiot’s “Down The Rabbit Hole With Neon Lights” at FFDG and New Mural in San Francisco

Murals by Interesni Kazki, Alexis Diaz, Jaz and More at We AArt Festival

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