Out of the Sth returns in 2010 – this brilliant street art festival co-curated by Sławek ZBK Czajkowski aka Zbiok is back again in Wroclaw, Poland. I wish I had been able to attend!
International painters creating murals include many artists I’ve have featured in books in the past and with whom I am also very personally fond of…
Mudwig (Bristol), Dem (Milan), Fefe Telavera (San Paulo/Madrid), Vova Vorotniov (Kiev), Escif (Valencia), Erica Il Cane (Bologna), Jiem (Lille), SickBoy (London) and Zosen (Barcelona)
Finished piece by Sickboy and Mudwig
Sickboy
Escif
Ericailcane
All images borrowed from Just Taking Pictures blog which has full coverage and hundreds of photographs and video.
BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico makes me so mad – and of course I’m not the only one raging at the recklessness of BP, by all accounts rushing into risky strategies to suck every last drop of oil from the earth at the cost of the planet. So I was at least heartened to see some artists getting things off their chests and reminding us that this disaster is getting worse and around the world conservation and ecology come a poor second to capitalism.
Greenpeace have set up a flickr site for artists to respond to the laughably “green” logo of BP.
Famously BP’s Chief Executive wanted us all to put this environmental disaster in perspective – “I would like my life back.” he said – we had somehow overlooked the important human cost of chief executives having to work a few extra hours!
The image that finally sticks in my mind is a piece painted recently by Blu with Os Gemeos in Lisbon. The painting features an oil tycoon sucking the life out of the globe – a tragic and spot-on depiction of our times.
Image taken from Unurth website.
Yesterday Blu uploaded a making of movie of this great work with the fantastic Os Gemeos…
