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WALLCOME Urban Art Festival Schmalkalden
In September 2014 the Thuringian small town of Schmalkalden was ruled by urban art and graffiti. During its main event week, the urban art festival WALLCOME offered films, presentations, exhibitions and live-painting, introducing the many facets of graffiti and urban art. Now, only a year later, WALLCOME’s operators and organisers, including well-known urban artists like AKUT and CASE, look back on their work. A documentary film captures all of the murals that the involved artists created for the festival.
Everything You Need To Know About Graffiti
Nowhere Land by ZALEZ
Cyrcle Collective
L.A. based art collective CYRCLE. blur the lines of the contemporary art world through street campaigns, design, fine art, murals, and collaborations. In their second solo show “Organized Chaos!” the artists created interactive puzzles and artworks that play on the metaphor between bees and flowers to “illuminate the symbiosis between art and society.
The Wall by ZALEZ
ZALEZ is a young artist that works and lives in Toulouse, France.
He concentred his work around the identity of the woman and develops using of various mediums such as the photography, the drawing and of course the stencil which is the principal medium.
You can check more from ZALEZ on his Website, Facebook, Vimeo and Instagram.
World’s Longest Graffiti Scroll
In November 2014, as the people of the United Arab Emirates were gearing up to celebrate their 43rd year as a country, the Ironlak Family set off towards the Middle East from their respective corners of the globe. In Dubai the Lak Fam joined over 100 artists from around the world in an ambitious attempt to set a new world record for the “World’s Longest Graffiti Scroll”.
On the final day, an official judge from Guinness World Records measured out the scroll at 2245.4 metres and declared the new world record set.
Ironlak Family roll call: LINZ, REALS, SIRUM, SOFLES, TUES, ENUE, EWOK, KEMS, BATES, DOES, STORM, WANY, ASKEW, BERST, PHATONE, VANS the OMEGA, GARY, TREAS & JURNE.
INDECLINE : Largest Illegal Graffiti Piece In the World
“INDECLINE describe themselves as an “underground movement” of “activists, musicians, graffiti writers, [and] photographers,” but you probably remember them either as the creators of the Bumfights videos, or as the guys who got arrested for allegedly stealing body parts from a hospital in Thailand.
The piece of graffiti, which reads “THIS LAND WAS OUR LAND”, was made on a disused landing strip in California’s Mojave Desert. It took six days of work, contains over 250 gallons of paint, and is over half a mile wide. This makes it about twice as wide as MTA’s piece on the LA River bed, which, before it was removed, was generally considered to be the world’s largest piece of illegal graffiti.”
Read the rest of the article + intreview on VICE. Click HERE.
- via The Orion
