San
21 November 2014 | Tagi: 2013, Monumental Art, SpainBajana 7a 2013 Monumental Art 2013 This work is a discussion on the process of globalisation and the tourist industry. The figures in the mural come from earlier photographs taken by San in popular tourist destinations – the Great Wall, the Grand Canyon, Uluru in Australia, and also in Spain in the artist’s home town. […]
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Opiemme
| Tagi: Italia, Monumental ArtThe colours falling in a cascade from the top of the building are a symbol of the revitalisation that street art brings to public space. Opiemme, himself a poet, dedicated his mural to Wisława Szymborska. The colours in the upper part of the mural are designed to draw the observer towards the wall, where they are confronted by a fragment of Szymborska’s poetry, a line from the poem “Under One Small Star” – “Truth, please don’t pay me much attention./ Dignity, please be magnanimous.”
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Maciej Salamon
| Tagi: Monumental Art, PolandThe mural depicts a construction with which we could go on a journey beyond daily life. Forget about the destination and concentrate on the fact that the road itself might be more interesting that what awaits us at its end. In the artist’s eyes, the road is more significant than the destination to which it leads.
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Key Detail
| Tagi: 2013, Bielarus, Monumental ArtThe theme of the fourth Monumental Art festival was taken from the title of a painting by Paul Gaugin. Key Detail directly harks back to the work of the French painter by bringing one of his Polynesian beauties straight into the 21st century and with the aesthetics associated with Japanese Manga. The mural shows a woman as a witch using her charm to gain hypnotic control over man.
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Jan Kaláb
| Tagi: 2013, Czech Republic, Monumental ArtJan Kalab, or Cakes at the time, was one of the pioneers of the Czech graffiti scene. Like many of his peers, he went down the long path from tagging and the illegal painting of trains to exhibitions in galleries. Particularly in the Czech’s gallery work, the motif is often the one seen in Zaspa – interlocking spheres and an attempt to capture the phenomenon of infinity.
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Gualicho
| Tagi: Argentina, Monumental Art“Eternia” shows a world within a world, a micro and a macrocosm, the eternal cycle of day and night, birth and death, rise and fall. The breath which brings life also brings death. Happiness is the road to attaining your own internal state of mind, in which we see things as they are, without any extras.
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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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Ryszard Inwazja Niedzielski
20 November 2014 | Tagi: 2010, Monumental Art, Poland, Ryszard NiedzielskiDywizjonu 303 9a 2010 Monumental Art 2010 Ryszard Niedzielski is the name behind one of the most recognisable long-term graffiti projects. An alien invasion successfully conquered hundreds of walls, fences, chimneys and alleyways in the Tri-City during the 1990s. This mural, created as part of the Monumental Art event, is a collection of portraits of […]
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Run
| Tagi: 2011, Italia, Monumental Art, RunThe characteristic profile, the particular rendering of the hands and a figure painted in a different colour to what was intended. Run had only to see the scale of the wall with his own eyes to understand that the original plan for black as the dominant colour was not the best idea for his work on Pilotów 8a. Despite the scale of Run’s mural, the figure blending in with the sky does not dominate the neighbouring space.
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PGR ART
| Tagi: 2009, Maciej Jurkowski, Monumental Art, PGR ART, Poland, Sylwester GałuszkaMural przedstawia zakodowany binarnie cytat z twórczości Witkacego. „Sztuka jest odrębnym światem, jest ostatecznym odbiciem jedności bytu” pochodzi z powieści „622 Upadki Bunga czyli Demoniczna Kobieta” i został wybrany spośród zgłoszeń wysłanych do PGR Art w ramach projektu „ALFABET/Odsłona pierwsza: Witkacy”.
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