Józef Czerniawski
21 November 2014 | Tagi: 1997, Jozef Czerniawski, PolandMural by Józef Czerniawski painted for Monumental Art Festival in 1997. Historical photograph. The mural had to be taken down due to the need of the wall restoration.
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Tomasz Bielak
| Tagi: 1997, 2010, Monumental Art, PolandSkarżyńskiego 12a 2010 Monumental Art 2010 One example of Tomasz Bielak’s ‘bomb art’ transferred to the wall of a block of flats in Skarżyńskiego Street. The characteristic pictograms, also known as “ArtSquares”, are a hallmark of this Lublin artist. This is not, however, the first mural by Tomasz Bielak on a wall in Zaspa. On […]
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Tim Portlock
20 November 2014 | Tagi: 1997, Gdansk Millennium Mural, Tim Portlock, USAThe American from Chicago decided to recall the context of the festival, i.e the millennium of Gdańsk, in an unambiguous way. The mural is a city landscape from a bird’s-eye view. After the scaffolding had come down, it became obvious that the artist had left out a key element in identifying the Bay of Gdańsk. Hel Peninsula was added from a scissor-lift.
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Rafał Ewertowski
| Tagi: 1997, Gdansk Millennium Mural, Poland, Rafał EwertowskiRafał Ewertowski, alongside Rafał Roskowiński, is one of the pioneers of Polish muralism. Together they set up the ‘Murales Workshop’, the first Polish group to use the mural as a means of artistic expression. The work is ahead of its time. Spray paint was used in many areas and it looks like an isolated frame from an unpublished comic.
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Piotr Bondarczyk
| Tagi: 1997, Gdansk Millennium Mural, Piotr Bondarczyk, PolandPiotr Bondarczyk, a film-maker working in California, created this mural as a direct link to his profession. The work is the famous kiss scene from Gone with the Wind, enlarged to the proportions of a wall. Clark Gable’s pixelated face might suggest a different interpretation, however, with locals speaking of a kiss between Lech and Danuta Wałęsa.
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Paweł Karczewski
| Tagi: 1997, Gdansk Millennium Mural, Paweł Karczewski, PolandNagórskiego 7d 1997 Festiwal 1997 The experiment to bring a dash of antiquity to the modernist space of a flat complex proved very convincing. What’s more, the fading of colours so unavoidable in mural painting only adds charm to the romantic mural on Nagórskiego street. The work is also an interesting example of the definition […]
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Alejandro Sanchez Vigil
| Tagi: 1997, Alejandro Sanchez Vigil, Gdansk Millennium Mural, MaxicoMexico is the cradle of muralism. The trend came about at the beginning of the 20th century on the wave of the Mexican revolution, as an attempt to discover an identity in art. One link with the roots of muralism is the work of the Mexican artist Alejandro Sanchez Vigil, who portrays dreamscapes of reconciliation between Aztecs and conquistadors. In the nineties, the word ‘mural’ was just taking its place in the Polish language and in everyday use you would often hear the word ‘murales’, taken directly from Spanish.
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Jonas Zagorskas
| Tagi: 1997, Gdansk Millennium Mural, Jonas Zagorskas, LithuaniaA futuristic work by the then young Lithuanian which shows industrial structures scattered randomly against the dunes of one Gdańsk beach. Jonas Zagorskas gave up murals in his later career to concentrate on performance and video art.
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Donatas Pirstelis
19 November 2014 | Tagi: 1997, Donatas Pirstelis, Gdansk Millennium Mural, LithuaniaBefore the budget for Zaspa stretched to a football pitch or athletic track, two Lithuanian murals were separated by hectares of wasteland, affectionately known as the ‘Sahara’ to the locals. The dense symbolism of Pirstelis’s mural harks back to the history of Gdańsk. Apart from the lion and the shipyard workers on their way to work, the expert eye can pick out unsettling symbols hidden in the antique ornaments.
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