The French graffiti crew Da Mental Vaporz painted this massive mural for the Galore Festival in Copenhagen. Featuring Bom.k, Blo, Brusk, Dran, Gris, Jaw, Kan and Sowat.
The mural is a satyrical reference to unscrupulous people who are willing to deface street art walls for profit. The DMV also incorporated a tribute to Kase 2 (RIP), as well as Copenhagen landmarks, including the infamous Christiania market, where you can find anything.
Some action shots below. Click on an image to enlarge
Situated around the cultural area of Valby in Copenhagen, aka Toftegårds Plads and their surrounding culture houses KraftWerket and Valby Culture Centre, the Galore Festival is an uncensored, raw and wild exhibition celebrating several forms of art, from classic art, performance, live painting to sound installations and street art.
Local graffiti artists and performance artists
Roa (Belgium)
Part of the festival saw a 100 meters wall battle between international graffiti artists, which will be up for four months, featuring Da Mental Vaporz (FR), Dreyk The Pirate (GR), Erosie (NL), Graphic Surgery (NL), Grito (ES), Lints (DK), Ripo (US), Scie (IR).
Da Mental Vaporz (France) – Blo, Bom.k, Brusk, Dran, Gris, Jaw, Kan, Sowat
Dreyk The Pirate (Greece)
Erosie / Graphic Surgery (Netherlands)
Grito (Spain)
Lints (Denmark)
Ripo (USA)
Scie (Ireland)
More pics HERE
or info at Galore Festival
The UK Broadcast Channel 4 has partnered with many streets artists including Banksy for a Street Summer galore.
This week-end featured the world premiere of the Oscar nominated movie Exit Through the Gift Shop, as well as a serie of documentaries.
One not to miss, Graffiti Wars examines the creative tensions and conflicts within street art and graffiti. It’s the story of the ongoing Banksy vs. Robbo battle that started out in Camden Regent Canal.
If you are based in the UK, you can watch the replay HERE.
See my coverage on Juxtapoz
Last October, Berlin based artist Boxi painted a large wall in London with his hyperrealistic style combining multi-layered stencils.
The Lazarides Rathbone Gallery is currently featuring some of his paintings for a solo exhibition titled Time of the Signs.
See all the pics from the opening HERE.
Boxi
Time of the Signs
Lazarides Rathbone
29th July – 1st September 2011
More pics HERE
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