Rezine is a ‘graffiti’ artist from Lyon, France. I say ‘graffiti’ because Rezine does a lot more than just Graffiti. You could describe his work as post-graffiti, or work that has derived from the French graffiti movement in the 90′s. Rezine isn’t afraid for any kind of medium; wall, paper, canvas, recycling art, volume, installations light painting photography or a combination of multiple techniques. In 2007 Rezine realised the book ‘lightgraff (edition Graff-it productions). Right now Rezine’s working on a brand new book which…Read More »
Crack For Your Eyes | Street art & Graffiti
Street art sculptor Isaac Cordal continues to impress us with his Cement Eclipse series! The little cement sculptures he places in cities around the world always convey the right emotion. The latest cement eclipses update comes from the home of Isaac Cordal: the Galicia area in the North-West of Spain. In Pontevedra, Galicia there’s a big pulp mill which has been polluting the area and transforming the landscape into something hideous since 1957. Isaac’s cement eclipses don’t seem to be…Read More »
Tags are important for graffiti. Ask a graffiti artist what the first thing he put up was, and it most likely be a tag with a shit Edison marker somewhere. Tags are a form of typography and the artists are highly specialised in the specific letters of their name. For most it takes years to create interesting hand styles. Yet tags are mostly just seen as acts of vandalism, even by the most open-minded art lovers.
So how do you show the beauty of tags?…Read More »
Graffiti artist Master is from a part of the world where the talents are still quite undiscovered in this modern day and age: Belgrade, Serbia. But as we see and hear from Master, we ought to have a look into the graffiti and street art scene of Serbia soon. Master himself has been doing graffiti from ’97, and now creates posters, stencils and murals. I’m especially impressed by the murals which are always site-specific work, reacting on how the history of an environment has…Read More »
Browsing through Flickr on a rainy day, I was instantly awed by the beautiful work of street / graffiti artist Centina. Hailing from Parma in Italy, Centina is a carpenter, a regular street art misfit and a self-proclaimed ‘bite-proof animal’ (don’t ask). Anyway, there’s definitely a lot of love for painting shining through in his works that varies from amazingly shaded portraits in abandoned factories to fire-extinguisher demolition next to the highway. Instead of spray-cans, Centina prefers brushes and water colours to make his…Read More »
With over 25 years of painting experience there is no doubt about the legendary status of street / graffiti artist Remi Rough. With a progressive style and a positive spirit the outspoken artist from London has been on top for all these years. And we have no doubt he will continue to do so for many more! In the past years we’ve seen amazing stuff from Remi like impressive solo walls, great collaborations and of course awesome projects with the talented Agents of Change…Read More »
Our Asian graffiti connections have been limited so far! But we will bring a change in that, starting with Taiwanese graffiti artist DEBE. In fact we already featured DEBE together with his partner Kenny from the Two Much Crew in Crack-Mag #002. In search of portraits for the MJ tribute section we came across a great Michael Jackson dedicated mural by the two Taiwanese graffiti artists. We have kept an eye on one…Read More »
Somehow Brazil never fails to give us positive vibes! This time, they come from São Paulo based graffiti artist Nick Alive. Nick refuses to be defined by such a name or style though and rather breaks free of artistic settings, rules and traditions. Breaking free to stay free, so to say. Nick leaves it up to the viewers of his artwork to let the profile and definition of it come alive.
Nick Alive first encountered the spray-can in…Read More »
There is nothing like the amazing cuts of stencil art ninja’s Orticanoodles! The Italian duo consisting out of Wally and Alita are definitely amongst the top stencil artists in the world. With their original style and continues re-inventing of themselves and the stencil art technique, I have been amazed by them for quite a while. Actually, since I first laid eyes on their work during the Paint & Beer festival in 2008.
The latest series of Orticanoodles…Read More »
Photographing graffiti is not an easy task. That a picture contains amazing artworks is not enough to make it a great photo as well, which is proven by many artists who take shit photos of their great pieces on a daily basis (with an exception here or there). Luckily Leo, better known as Startape on Flickr, is someone who knows how it is done. His graffiti photography ranges from the cleanest, sharpest pictures to a more artistic take with selected colors and HDR techniques.
The…Read More »