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Bik Ismo’s Startling ‘Chrome’ Murals

Puerto Rico-born muralist Bik Ismo is known for, among other imagery, crafting chrome figures and objects on walls across the world. Playing with “reflective” surfaces and light, the artist is able to create startling illusions. This sensibility has brought the artist’s hand to recent projects in Taiwan, Belgium, New Zealand, and Dubai.

“Among his achievements are being the artist who organized the first exhibition of graffiti on canvas in Puerto Rico, entitled “Virtuosos of Aerosol (Enlaces Gallery, San Juan, PR, 2002),” a statement by Paint Israel says, “and be the first to organize an exhibition of urban art in Puerto Rico, entitled “Exhibition” (Enlaces Gallery, San Juan, PR, 2003). These exhibitions opened their doors to other urban artists so they could present their work in more formal settings.”

See more of his work below.

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Bik Ismo, mural, Public art

El Decertor, mural, street art

September 5, 2014

The gigantic murals of the Peruvian painter El Decertor run along sidewalks in Lima, on apartment buildings in Baltimore, and on streets and buildings in Venezuela, Morocco, and Mexico, just to name a few. Across each city, the work features consistent motifs of complex, colorful backgrounds made from fractured polygon patterns, with a prominent figure at the mural’s focus. These figures are mostly mystical — they are clearly human, painted with an empathetic realism, but posed with some symbolic gesture or object: metaphors for immigration, agriculture, housing, meditation, colonialism. Occasionally the murals drift into the surrealistic, framing an alternate reality for passersby throughout the city to gaze into, and perhaps recognize some of their own inside.

Q&A: Muralist Millo Talks Sense of Wonder, Process

interview, Millo, mural

July 31, 2017

Italian artist Millo creates enormous murals that often contain scenes of wonder with young subjects. (The artist was last featured on HiFructose.com here.) We recently asked the artist about his process and why he works with such large-scale canvases. Check out our Q&A below.

The Power, Movement in Case Maclaim’s Murals

Case Maclaim, mural, Spray Paint

August 30, 2017

Case Maclaim is the moniker of German artist Andres Von Chrzanowski, a muralist known as a co-founder of the Maclaim Group, a troupe known for using spray paint to combine photorealism and surrealism on public walls. In particular, the artist is known as one to “embrace the power of movement through the universality of hands.”

Dramatic Silhouettes in Murals by David de la Mano

18th Century, David de la Mano, mural, street art, urban art

October 1, 2014

When we first heard from Spanish artist David de la Mano, he was just wrapping up a mural at Djerbahood Street Art festival, one of the world's largest. Since then, he's been to Madrid, Cardiff, and Wales- home to his latest mural with Sheffield based muralist and artist Phlegm. He has also painted murals in Montevideo (Uruguay), Sadnes and Stavanger (Norway), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Lima (Peru) and Florida, just to name a few. De la Mano doesn't consider himself a "street artist"- he's first and foremost an illustrator with work in the street. In his own words, he's an "explorer of human behavior", represented in masses of people, their conflicts, and visual contradictions.

Bik Ismo’s Startling ‘Chrome’ Murals

El Decertor’s Colorful Murals Merge Surrealism and Peruvian Folk Art

Q&A: Muralist Millo Talks Sense of Wonder, Process

The Power, Movement in Case Maclaim’s Murals

Dramatic Silhouettes in Murals by David de la Mano

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