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The Best Public Art and Murals of Norway’s Nuart Festival 2015

For fifteen years, the first week of September in Norway has been reserved for Nuart festival. This year's opened on September 3rd with a large group show titled "OutsidersIN". The show features works by past, present and future Nuart artists, which includes leading names in the urban art movement. Built around the idea of 'situationism', DIY-culture and play, Nuart hosted debates, seminars, lectures, movie projections and on-site creation of artwork. Representing different techniques and subjects, this year's lineup works with both traditional and unconventional mediums like trash, cement, and posters.

Bordalo II

For fifteen years, the first week of September in Norway has been reserved for Nuart festival. This year’s opened on September 3rd with a large group show titled “OutsidersIN”. The show features works by past, present and future Nuart artists, which includes leading names in the urban art movement. Built around the idea of ‘situationism’, DIY-culture and play, Nuart hosted debates, seminars, lectures, movie projections and on-site creation of artwork. Representing different techniques and subjects, this year’s lineup works with both traditional and unconventional mediums like trash, cement, and posters.

Ella & Pitr

Some of the first finished public pieces are Ella & Pitr’s record breaking mural (recently covered here) on top of a Block Berge Bygg’s facility in Klepp. After finishing their gigantic rooftop piece, the duo completed two more pieces in town, as well as some secret projects left for people to discover. Spanish street artist Pejac painted a clever tribute to Norwegian painter Edvard Munch sing toy car wheels as a brush. Portuguese artist Bordalo II spent few days creating a new piece from his “Big Trash Animals” series in which he creates portraits of animals using materials responsible for the destruction of their habitat. Spanish artist Isaac Cordal spent his days in Stavanger, installing over fifty sculptures of small, sad, miserable business people, looking at the world beneath them. Lithuanian Ernest Zacharevic, a returning artist, used his time to create two distinctive pieces – a cross stitched image of a traditional Norwegian wooden house on fire, and an emotional vision of local landmark statue of children’s book characters, Johanna and Broremann. Along with these works, the town hosted the inauguration of Sandra Chevrier‘s first mural for the Aftenblad Wall project. Take a look at more photos from the first part of this massive event below.

All photos by Sasha Bogojev.

The Outings Project

Sandra Chevrier

Pejac

Martin Whatson

Icy Sot

Ernest Zacharevic

Ella & Pitr

Topics

Bordallo II, Ella & Pitr, Nuart Festival, street art, urban art

cyrcle, Glow in the dark, Solipsism, Station16 Gallery, urban art

June 30, 2015

Faith, God, Science, Belief, Doubt... LA artist duo Cyrcle tests these every day philosophies in their glow-in-the-dark exhibition, "NOTHING EXISTS!". The title points to their theme, Solipsism, a theory that asserts that nothing exists but an individual’s consciousness. It's a grand concept tackled by concise forms, shapes and a largely monochromatic color palette. With hints of glowing green, their acrylic paintings on wood and relief sculptures feature deceivingly simplistic, spacey imagery. We recently got a behind the scenes look as they prepared for the exhibit, now on view at Station16 Gallery in Montreal.

Katharina Grosse Builds Otherworldly Places with Color

Abstract, Katharina Grosse, Public art, surrealism, urban art

June 10, 2014

German urban artist Katharina Grosse doesn’t limit her vibrant artworks to a wall- she colors the world around her. Color is absolutely essential to her graffiti that covers buildings, mounds of dirt, and installations that evoke natural wonders like the Northern Lights. Her strokes don’t follow the contours of the chosen environment. They follow that of her own hand as she moves through the space, telling an abstract, emotional narrative. If it looks as though she hovered over the Earth with a spray gun, you would be right. Grosse’s process often involves dangerously leaning over scaffolding or being suspended from a crane. Throughout her career, her materials have varied from the conventional to unconventional; acrylic on canvas paintings and gallery walls to plastic and styrofoam alien-like formations. See more of her work after the jump.

Preview: Above’s “Remix” at Inner State Gallery

Above, Inner State Gallery, Remix, street art

November 18, 2014

London-based, internationally recognized street artist Above will debut his latest body work, “Remix,” at Inner State Gallery in Detroit for his first US solo show in five years this Friday, November 21. Known for his signature upward-pointing arrow, which Above has propagated in more than 100 cities since 2001, the anonymous artist is taking a new approach to his famous image for “Remix.”

Reka Paints a New Cubist-Inspired Mural in San Francisco

mural, REKA, street art

December 22, 2014

Berlin-based artist Reka recently visited San Francisco to paint a colorful, Cubist-inspired mural in a quiet part of the SOMA district. With his work from the past year, Reka has increasingly moved away from figuration. Though his new mural has two female characters at its center, he fractured his subject matter into geometric shapes that evolve into design elements. The clean lines and rounded forms evoke an Art Deco aesthetic, which Reka underscores with his retro-inspired color palette.

The Best Public Art and Murals of Norway’s Nuart Festival 2015

Cyrcle Questions Reality in Glow-in-the-Dark Exhibit “NOTHING EXISTS!”

Katharina Grosse Builds Otherworldly Places with Color

Preview: Above’s “Remix” at Inner State Gallery

Reka Paints a New Cubist-Inspired Mural in San Francisco

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