Crack For Your Eyes | Street art & Graffiti

Ella and Pitr – The paper painters

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Ella and Pitr - Paper Painters

French street artists Ella & Pitr have the most romantic story! She used to be a comedian, he a graffiti writer. They met each other in the streets of St. Etienne (France) while doing paste-ups. Now isn’t that just lovely coincidence? Their street art works consistst out of paste-ups that are subtile, yet hold a whole lot of emotion and humanity.

With Indian ink, paper, glue and a ladder Ella and Pitr create their own contemporary vision of humanity. In their work you can discover…Read More »

CodeFC – Letters from Eelam (Sri Lanka), U.N.approved

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UNapproved - Stencil art by CodeFC in Eelam, Sri-Lanka
Our friend CodeFC is a frequent visitor of South-East Asia. We’ve seen some nice works Code made in that area, but none as striking as his most recent series in Sri Lanka. I think most of you know that there has been a civil war waging in Sri Lanka between the government and the Tamil Tigers since the early 80’s. In 2009, the Tigers were defeated by the military and ever since we haven’t heard…Read More »

James Kalinda

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The Rat - Street art by James Kalinda
Exceptional work from Italian street artist James Kalinda! You can find his art on the walls of abandoned buildings, sometimes together with Centina, an artist we recently featured. His paintings are quite dark, something that extends in James’ sculptures which contain animal skeletons. But painting or sculpture, all of his works seem to lure at you directly. Besides being a (street) artist, James Kalinda is also an exceptional tattoo artist. “James Kalinda signs his work with an…Read More »

Rezine

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installation REZINE 2010.005_1
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 »

Isaac Cordal – Galicia

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Mutant - Street art sculpture by Isaac Cordal
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 »

Evan Roth – Graffiti Taxonomy

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Graffiti Taxonomy by Evan Roth - S
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 »

Master – Graffiti from Serbia

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Graffiti of defending soldier, Serbia
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 »

Centina

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Graffiti / Street art portrait by Centina, Italy
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 »

Remi Rough

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Graffiti Mural by Kofie & Remi Rough in London, 2011
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 »

DEBE – Graffiti from Taiwan

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Graffiti piece in Taiwan by Debe
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 »