EVOL's Stencil Art Buildings. EVOL is an artist who takes his love of stencil art to the streets of Germany and creates the illusion of buildings on electricity boxes and concrete structures dotted around local cities. He has since taken it abroad. The stencilwork is quite something. Have a look at some of his “Buildings” series after the jump. He receives a visitor whilst painting a corridor in the Flamingo Beach Hotel in Neukölln. Done on a trip to Washington DC. EVOL creates this “city” in a 10m by 8m hole in an abandoned slaughterhouse area in Dresden. This is stencilled onto card. An earlier piece, done in Nuremberg in 2005. Another early piece done in 2006 in Cologne. See more images in EVOL’s Flickr set and some of the older work at EVOLTASTE. [via The Awesomer] Share this post: Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington: Springtime in Paris : Une Petite Revue of New Street Art. Cities in all the hemispheres take turns being the pre-eminent location for street art and street culture as the influences that lead to a lively scene cropping up in a city and becoming popular are in continual flux.
Whether its economics, demographics, politics, or the various timelines of cultural evolution intersecting, the conditions must be just right for a street art scene to blossom and endure in all it's idiosyncratic splendor. At the moment it is springtime in Paris and photographer Sandra Hoj says during her visit to the city, "I was overwhelmed by the amount of street art.
It was not just limited to a single area, but all over the place, in every crack and corner. " Speedy Graphito (photo © Sandra Hoj) Jef Aerosol (photo © Sandra Hoj) Fred le Chevalier (photo © Sandra Hoj) Nick Walker (photo © Sandra Hoj) FKDL (photo © Sandra Hoj) Dast (photo © Sandra Hoj) David Shillinglaw and Ben Slow (photo © Sandra Hoj) Pole Ka (photo © Sandra Hoj) Pole Ka (photo © Sandra Hoj)
News|2010 Stencil Art Prize winner|Visual. Media release AUSTRALIAN STENCIL ART PRIZE: Canberra artist, E.L.K has won the 2010 Australian Stencil Art Prize for his stencil artwork titled 'Saul Williams', taking home a $2000 cash prize. MEDIA RELEASE COURTESY AUSTRALIAN STENCIL ART PRIZE E.L.K.'s photo realist stencil of American poet, writer, actor and musician Saul Williams impressed judges with its technical brilliance.
E.L.K's winning artwork will be exhibited alongside 19 other finalists at Oh Really Gallery in Newtown Sydney from the 11 - 21 November. The Beauty of Stencil Art. A millenarian art that started being used as a graffiti art type on the early 80's, when Blek le Rat aka Blek created his first piece in Paris, France. His main motivation being social consciousness and the desire to bring the art to the people. Nowadays Blek is considered the godfather of stencil art and big influence for the other artists such as banksy one of the greatest stencil artists of all times. Using his pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics on the streets of England, once said "every time I think I’ve painted something slightly original, I find out that Blek Le Rat has done it as well, only twenty years earlier" today his art is well known all around the globe.
And stencil graffiti just continues to grow every year and it's still being used to approach topics such as politics to bring a laugh to the streets of the world. Blek - France Blek le Rat is considered the godfather of stencil art. He studied painting and architecture. Banksy - England s0t - Iran. Blek le Rat. Artist Bio A pioneer of graffiti writers in Europe, Blek le Rat was one of the first people to use stencils to make public art on the street using icons instead of writing his name. He was first exposed to graffiti in 1971 in New York, but didn’t start making his own until ten years later in Paris. Inspired by a stenciled portrait he saw of Mussolini amongst some WWII ruins during a trip to Italy, he created a stencil of a life size silhouette of a rat running along the streets.
He stenciled the rat for two years and quickly became recognized around Paris. This change marked a monumental break from the dominance of New York’s graffiti style. His work has since evolved beyond the rat icon and taken on a more serious context. Blek le Rat’s Website Blek le Rat at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery. Westend stencil graffiti mural.