Hijos de « a desgana. Una esquina.
Por un lado se ve a una prostituta haciendo la calle. Por el otro se ve un carrito de bebé, un par de niños que van de la mano de alguien o un pequeño montado en un juguete. Viendo todo el conjunto se ve a una madre cuidando de sus hijos. “El 86% de las trabajadoras sexuales somos madres. Necesitamos una ley que regule nuestro trabajo.www.ammar.org.ar“ Genial campaña callejera a cargo de Ogilvy & Mather, Argentina para la asociación Ammar que me he encontrado en Osocio.
An Elephant-Octopus Mural on the Streets of London by Alexis Diaz. ROA Stacks African Animals on a Building Facade in Johannesburg. Recycled Plastic Bottles Partially Filled with Colored Water Used to Create a Parking Canopy. Street Artist ‘Megx’ Creates Giant Lego Bridge in Germany. In October of last year street artist Megx converted a bridge in Wuppertal, Germany into a giant Lego structure using colored panels that create the illusion of being the underside of Lego bricks.
The bridge itself is part of the Wuppertal Bewegung e.V., an old train line that has been converted to a pedestrian and cycle path. How great is this? There’s been no shortage of giant toys and games in the streets lately. Cedric Le Borgne: Les Voyageurs. Paris-born artist Cedric Le Borgne creates these illuminated human figures (Les Voyageurs) and deer (La Biche) using delicately sculpted chicken wire.
The figures are often installed in highly visible public places, suspended in the air in parks or in busy urban centers. Via his website: Cédric Le Borgne invites everyone to view daily life in a fresh way, to rise up, to dream. By abolishing barriers, his work of exploring spaces is sensitive, his poetry subtly interacts with each place it comments upon. Urban Origami Installations on the Streets of Hong Kong and Vietnam by Mademoiselle Maurice. This summer French paper artist Mademoiselle Maurice (previously) took her unique style of urban origami installation to the streets of Hong Kong and Vietnam where she created some of the pieces shown here.
To be clear, the hexagonal pieces above were created in Paris just prior to her trip to Asia which you can learn more about (plus see many more photos) on her website. Sugar Murals and Cake Icing Graffiti by Shelley Miller. Using materials that for centuries have been reserved as tasty decoration the finest cakes and pastries, Montreal-based artist Shelley Miller attacks brick walls and deteriorating urban surfaces with cake icing to create ornate scrolls and decorative motifs.
While the medium itself is purely culinary, her illustrations and patterns borrow heavily from calligraphy and decorative arabesque scrolls seen in ancient temples and mosques. Another added dimension is its impermanence as the works crack, drip, and melt off the wall, potentially disappearing in just a few days. Enormous Daddy Long-Legs Overtake the Seattle Center Armory. Seattle artist and science illustrator Marlin Peterson was recently commissioned by the Washington State Artist Trust to paint a mural somewhere in the city.
After searching unsuccessfully for a suitably large wall, Peterson got the idea to look for a large roof, and where would a painting on a roof be more visiable than right underneath the Seattle Space Needle. An agreement was reached with the Seattle Center Armory (formerly the Center House) and he quickly began work on two daddy long-leg spiders using a technique called trompe l’oeil that creates the illusion when seen from above that giganto arachnids are actually overtaking the building. You can see many more photos and an explanation of his process over on Peterson’s website.
A 170-Foot Trampoline Installed in a Russian Forest. As part of the 2012 Archstoyanie festival in Nikola-Lenivets, Russia (from what I can tell it’s kind of like a small version of Burning Man but… with architecture and forests) design firm Salto created this gargantuan trampoline installation called Fast Track.
Measuring nearly 170 ft. (51 meters) the bouncy road is nearly the length of a city block. According to the designers: “Fast track” is a integral part of park infrastructure, it is a road and an installation at the same time. It challenges the concept of infrastructure that only focuses on technical and functional aspects and tends to be ignorant to its surroundings. “Fast track” is an attempt to create intelligent infrastructure that is emotional and corresponds to the local context. Fifty Street Artists Descend on Condemned Parisian Nightclub ‘Les Bains’ Seth Jeanne Susplugas Philippe Baudelocque Dem189 ZeeR Thomas Canto.
A Canopy of Colorful Umbrellas Spotted in Portugal. This beautiful installation of umbrellas was recently spotted in Águeda, Portugal by photographer Patrícia Almeida.
Almost nothing is known about the artist behind the project or its significance, but it’s impossible to deny the joy caused by taking a stroll in the shadowy rainbow created by hundreds of parasols suspended over this public walkway. It reminds be of Garth Britzman’s bottle carport. (via my modern met) Paint the Rainbow: New Street Art by Seth. I love this new piece by street artist Seth, spotted today in Paris.
You may remember his work from a few weeks ago in the temporary gallery space at the shuttered Les Bains nightclub. According to StreetArtNews the piece can be found on Rue de Julienne right about here. Landscape Light Sculptures. Artist Barry Underwood photographs wonderfully mysterious light installations that he installs on-site in forests, mountainsides, or near lakes and rivers. Via his artist statement: By reading the landscape and altering the vista through lights and photographic effects, I transform everyday scenes into unique images. Light and color alter the perception of space, while defamiliarizing common objects. Space collapses, while the lights that I install appear as intrusions and interventions. This combination renders the forms in the landscape abstract. New Stencil Works by Street Artist C215.
Antonia schulz A number of jaw-dropping stencil works from the past few months by French artist Christian Guémy aka C215 seen on the streets of Barcelona and Berlin. C215 has been an active street artist for over 20 years, his first stencils going up around 2006 and according to Street Art London his daughter is now following in his footsteps making her own 2 layer stencils.
See much more on Flickr. Cedric Le Borgne: Les Voyageurs. Animae Dementia: Mystical Paper Beasts Devour Unsuspecting Street Artists. I’m loving this ongoing paste-up series by street artists Ro and l’Homme Pendu. Entitled Animae Dementia (roughly “soul madness” or “animal madness”) the project features the duo installing these giant paste-ups of crazy mythical beings who seem to turn on their unwitting creators. So far works have appeared in Berlin and near Notre Dame in Paris. I can’t wait to see what happens next. Tasso. New Umbrella Mural by Seth in Paris. Cradle by Ball-Nogues Studio. Bruce Munro’s Newest Light Installation at the Holbourne Museum. Temporary Light Etchings on the Streets of Copenhagen by Asbjørn Skou. The Classical Street Art of Borondo. Pop Bubble Wrap While you Wait for Instant Anti-Stress. It’s the universally gratifying sensation felt by every man, woman, and child who has ever torn open a package to discover an object protected with bubble wrap: the satisfying pop caused from squeezing little plastic pockets of air (and WOE to the person responsible for inventing the new sheets of bubble wrap that are actually just one contiguous pocket of air and are completely un-poppable, you made my son cry, but I digress).
The Street Art of DMS. I’m really enjoying the street art and paintings of Brazilian artist DMS (Davi De Melo Santos) whose work I find to be humorous, hopeful, and extremely inventive. Temporary Light Etchings on the Streets of Copenhagen by Asbjørn Skou. Call Parade: 100 Phone Booths Given to 100 Artists on the Streets of São Paulo. Mariane Borgomani Wally Gobetz Call Parade is an ongoing public art project in São Paulo sponsored by Brazilian telecommunications firm Vivo, that paired 100 artists with 100 street-side phone booths giving them free reign to transform the peculiar hooded fixtures into anything imaginable. The exhibition has proven to be extremely popular and Brazilian photographer Mariane Borgomani set out to capture a number of the phones, my favorite of which is the painted day/night treatment above by artist Maramgoní.
Vivo Call Parade 2012. Writing on the Water. New Murals by David de la Mano and Pablo S. Herrero on the Streets of Norway. Origami Crane Made from … 2,000,000 Origami Cranes: A Flapping Success for Japan Earthquake Relief. New Stencils by C215. The Explosively Colorful Spray Paint Portraits of David Walker. Artists Take a Ride on a 4-Story Goldfinch Painted on an Abandoned Building in Naples. Free.
Pixel Pour 2.0. Embarrassing Pothole Caricatures of Politicians Spur Action to Fix the Streets in Russia.