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      “Kit de Secours” by Leon Keer in Plougasnou, France

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      World-renowned 3D artist Leon Keer is back with another stunning anamorphic mural in Plougasnou, France. Entitled “Kit de Secours” the latest mural is located in Plougasnou, France, in a nearby beach setting. The project is a collaboration of Leon Keer with MX Arts Tour Festival.Leon Keer is one of the world’s foremost artists in 3D Street Art, the master of optical illusion. A message seems to be present in his work. Current issues are reviewed, such as environmental concerns and the livability of this world. Leon Keer is constantly aware of the playfulness and beauty versus the degradation around him, a contrast that he expresses and amplifies in his work and which he uses as a metaphor for life.His paintings reflect his thoughts, confronting the viewer with the diseased spirit of our times, visible decay counter-pointing a timeless longing for unspoiled beauty.This June, Leon Keer also opened a show in Amsterdam. Solo exhibition ‘Forced Perspective’ displays a colourful selection of the artists’ new paintings, sculptures, installations, anamorphic artworks and Augmented Reality (AR).Hit the jump for more images of  “Kit de Secours” in France. More

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      “Drop By Drop” Solo Exhibition by Javier Calleja in Athens, Greece

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      Back with Dio Horia gallery two years after his solo introduction in Greece, Javier Calleja will be presenting his Athens debut through the month of July 2021. Borrowing the title from an expression that stands for slow and steady yet unstoppable progress, Drop By Drop continues the artist’s subtle but focused and persistent development of his practice. Tirelessly moving through the art world “step by step” and consistently making connections between his humble beginnings and the recent successes Calleja’s newest presentation includes a couple of poetic bridges between the past and the present. Showing exclusively works on paper, namely 10 drawings, the exhibition once again utilizes his love for this most sincere of mediums as well as for the play with scale. By contrasting 5 small-scale drawings against 5 otherworldly, blown-up, big-scale ones, Malagan artist once again puts the viewer as the center point of the installation. Experiencing the works in a black space of the gallery, the observer becomes a steady reference point surrounded with works of shifting scales. Simultaneously, the artist reintroduces the use of typography in his work, evoking the book aesthetics and suggesting the existence of a bigger story around the individual, imaginary page. “It’s like taking a different path to arrive at the same place,” the artist explains.The reintroduction of some older concepts is accompanied by new traits of the big eyed subjects. The new haircuts, depiction of dynamic movements, or use of a  refined approach to create the volume as well as light and play effect, are all mimicking the life dynamics within his practice. “It’s like taking a different path to arrive at the same place,” the artist explains, revealing the poetry behind these appealing visuals. And such a poetic approach to referencing reality infuses the continuous development of Calleja’s universe. From iconic characters, over their natural surroundings, its fauna (also referencing the previous presentation with the gallery), all the way to the ambiance set by the textual elements in the work. Purposely bleak, tragi-comic, or even nonsensical, and in stark contrast with aforementioned invigorated visuals, these simple yet intriguing quotes are meant to spark the magic of imagination. Once again putting the viewer in a fictitious spotlight, the combination of the two elements constructs a tension that opens doors for a multitude of readings of both the individual pieces and the body of work as a whole. “Drop By Drop” will be on display for the whole month of July at Dio Horia Gallery, Athens, Greece.  More

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      “Proud Little Pyramid” by Adam Nathaniel Furman in Kings Cross, England

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      As Pride month draws to a close, King’s Cross will explode with camp, colour and creativity as British Argentine-Japanese artist and designer Adam Nathaniel Furman unveils their ‘Proud Little Pyramid’ in Granary Square. Known worldwide for their irreverent architectural creations and infectious love of colour, pattern and ornament, Furman’s ‘Proud Little Pyramid’, which will remain in place throughout the summer, is designed to monumentalise joy during Pride after such a difficult year. The 31ft pyramid, which has communal seating integrated into its base, is designed to act as a beacon in the centre of King’s Cross signposting the entrance to Coal Drops Yard, reinforcing Granary Square’s reputation as a place for people to meet and come together.During the six-month residency – their first for a destination – Furman will use King’s Cross as a creative playground, delivering multiple ‘fabulous’ artworks across the site as well as a series of pop-up retail experiences, in person and virtual events. Furman will also launch and co-judge the destination’s first annual poster competition in the run up to London Design Festival which would be open to all with a prize value of £2,500 for the winning entry.  Up to 60 posters from the competition would be showcased during the autumn in the Outside Art Project, an outdoor gallery spread across King’s Cross.King’s Cross has built a reputation as a London arts and culture destination, using its public spaces and buildings to showcase artworks from a huge variety of artists and sculptors such as Eva Rothschild and Tess Jaray, street artists such as Andy Leek and Rana Begum, and painter and curator Rashid Araeen.“King’s Cross has been the backdrop for so much of my life – I have learnt, loved and laughed here. In the 90s I was regular at iconic nightclubs The Cross & the Scala and later a student and then teacher at Central St Martins. Whilst I have taken inspiration for my residency from King’s Cross’ recent queer history from the 80s through to the early 2000s, I have also looked back to London’s Victorian heritage in which dramatic monuments of all sizes, from water fountains and public loos, to tube stations, memorials and town halls  brought accessible decorative art to  public spaces. I want to make history – and its complexity- instantly present and fun. And the opportunity to use this vast and striking space – once my playground, now my canvas – is beyond thrilling.” Furman exlplains.Anthea Harries, Head of Assets for King’s Cross, comments “We are proud to be working with Adam Nathaniel Furman as our latest Artist in Residence. At King’s Cross we are committed to delivering outstanding places, and art is a fundamental part of that. We have been working with artists to create installations at King’s Cross for 15 years now and the site is home to numerous spectacular pieces that act as orientation points for meeting friends and loved ones, as well as to interact and play with. Now more than ever we need to bring as much joy and opportunity to everyday life as possible, and King’s Cross remains the ideal backdrop for embracing these simple pleasures and looking forward to the future with optimism.”Photo credits: John Nguyen/PA Wire More

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      Erik Burke Shows Us His ‘Top 20’ in Reno, Nevada

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      Is there any better combination than art and music? Yes there is…Art, music, AND a cold adult beverage!We’re impressed with Erik Burke’s new piece which he’s been calling “Top 20” in collaboration with Reno Nevada’s Record Street Brewing Co.The idea began with Record Street Brewery‘s Jesse Corletto bringing some pre-selected albums to Reno’s own Erik Burke aka OU. From there the project came to life on a wall outside the brewery/pizza restaurant/live music venue.The painted spines are shown a little worn and tattered, as real vinyl lovers know the music is to be played and not just appreciated as decor. Some great musical choices went into this piece, with classics from so many genres honored in paint. We appreciate the nod to The Velvet Underground & Nico’s classic LP with album artwork and production by iconic Andy Warhol.Erik lives in Reno, NV and creates place-specific murals throughout the world. His latest work can be seen in Bosnia and Herzegovina, S. Korea, Italy, and closer to home in Reno. His work has been published in the book ‘Street Art; The Best Urban Art from Around the World’, ‘Outdoor Gallery’, The Huffington Post, & The NYTimes.The artist’s previous works have included making a 40 acre ground drawing in the USA, creating a body of work while bicycling from Portugal to the exhibition gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark , becoming the de facto resident Artist of Lassen County Jail while serving time for graffiti, and seeking out decommissioned spaces for wheat pastes. Throughout that time he have continually returned to the inspiration of geography and identifying a sense of place.Keep up with the talented Erik Burke via his website & InstagramWritten by @jreich More

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      “STUCK UP” by Nuart Aberdeen Summer 2021 in Aberdeen, UK

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      Nuart Aberdeen have called on the people of Aberdeen to be part of a record breaking new street art project. ‘Stuck Up’ is a worldwide collaboration which will take place in the city centre this July.Location photoNuart Aberdeen will be pasting up between July 1st and August 1st In a unique effort to put this art form firmly under the public spotlight. The project have over 1500ft of walls space so that means not only works curated by Nuart founder Martyn Reed in collaboration with fly-post legends UNCLE, a revolutionary wall of street posters by London’s Flyingleaps who are celebrating their fifth anniversary, but your art too.Submissions are now open, send it, and as long as it isn’t massively offensive.Ship your posters, poems, print outs, photos and collages to :“STUCK UP”THE ANATOMY ROOMSMARISCHAL COLLEGESHOE LANE, ABERDEENAB10 1AN, UK“As corona shut down large-scale arts venues across the globe, so festivals and large-scale mural productions met the same fate. At the same time, we witnessed a huge upsurge of creativity outside of those institutions: DJs streaming sets; opera singers delivering arias from their balconies. Within Street Art, we saw a renewed interest in smaller, more human-scale projects.In many ways, Paste-Ups and Locative Collages, disciplines that demand little more than a tabletop, scissors, magazines and /or paper, are as much related to “craft” as to the rarified world of contemporary art. But perhaps this is what the world needs right now: a less ‘stuck-up’ and judgmental look at the collective capacity of our communities to engage in shaping public space. A return to a more honest involvement in art as it’s created within cities.” Martyn Reed, Nuart Director and FounderLocation PhotoLocation PhotoA Paste-Up is simply an artwork on paper, pasted to a wall with wheat- paste, a form of self-made glue that – in America at least – became the name of the actual practice.Paste Ups are more often than not regarded as an artworks in their own right, usually created in the studio before being transplanted on the streets. The practice crosses over into notions of the more familiar fly-posting when art becomes the vessel for political sentiments and social calls to action. Locative Collages are a relatively new iteration of this idea, wherein small collages are created and then pasted, or “located”, in public spaces.Partners in this project :Aberdeen Inspired | @abdnispiredAnatomy Rooms | @anatomyroomsflyingleaps | @flyingleaps2016UNCLE | @unlcle_insta More

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      Monumental wall by MONKEYBIRD in Burgos, Spain

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      French stencil duo MONKEYBIRD recently finished a monumental wall tribute to Burgos Cathedral for its 8th centenary. The mural  is a collaboration with StARTer Proyectos Culturales for the project -Mymesis, beings and places- in the context of the VIII centenary of Burgos Cathedral. This project aims to generate a visual dialogue with the public about Heritage and contemporary culture.Burgos Cathedral is declared a World Heritage site in 1984 is the result of the work of many creators and patrons who dreamed on building a unique and sacred place. One of the most remarkable aspects of this georges place is how it reflects a rich succession of artistic styles, spanning classic Gothic to Baroque, to generate an eclectic, yet deeply harmonious, building.Nowadays in the XXI century, Burgos Cathedral keeps reinventing itself and artists keeps observing it with admiration and respect generating new projects around it.StARTer Proyectos* invited the French duo Monkey Bird to create a personal approach to its rich transferring a whole universe of symbols from the interior to the exterior. Louis Boidron and Edouard Egea met in Bordeaux in 2009. They have a long career that has led them to paint in places such as United Arab Emirates, India, Mexico, Netherlands and Ireland, among others. With their monumental aesthetics full of mythological references and classical architectures also with their singular color code they acquire an unique identity in the international Urban Art scene.Through this wall, the artists wanted to pay tribute to the communities of artisans and builders, which with their thorough and exuberant works endowed Burgos Cathedral with wealth and beauty.“Our intention was to offer an effect of complex depth and monumentalism, combining some of the most spectacular references of the temple, such as the main altarpiece, with its many details, the Golden Staircase, or the circular oculus in the center of Santa María façade.As a symbol of good luck for the community, we have represented in the center the protector of the town, Guardian Angel. This image under the guise of a gray heron is shown as a symbol of light and rebirth, flanked by two other angels whose original models they are in the upper part of the temple. This Cathedral is also unique in Spain in terms of finishes created with sculptures of angels.The small birds around the oculus represented a typology of birds call “papamoscas cerrojillo”, which usually nest in the cavities of the stone making a connection with the name of the famous automata o´clock from the XVIII century presents in the building. More

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      VukovART Street Festival in Vukovar, Croatia

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      The 5th VukovART, Street Art festival, held last 15th of May to 15th of June, brought  some of the top world’s street artists to Vukovar, including Boa Mistura from Spain, BustArt from Switzerland, Jana Brike from Latvia, Juandres Vera from Mexico, Mr Woodland from Germany, Victor Splash from Russia, Artez from Serbia, Kerim Mušanović from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Šumski from Croatia and Marion Ruthardt from Germany!Vukovar is a city in eastern Croatia. It contains Croatia’s largest river port, located at the confluence of the Vuka and the Danube. The name Vukovar means ‘town on the Vuka River‘ (Vuko from the Vuka River, and vár from the Hungarian word for ‘fortress’).“Kiss by the Danube” by BustArtTake a look below for more images from VukovART and check back with us shortly for more updates on the global street art scene.“Everything is on the surface” by Victor Splash“Inseparable” by Mr Woodland“Surprise Yourself” by Artez“Portals” by Šumski“Procession of life by a blue river” by Jana Brike“The Heart is the Commander (We, ourselves and us)” by Juandres Vera“OSTAJEMO / We Stay” by Boa Mistura“Strawberry Flavor” by Kerim Mušanović“Lipizzaner” by Marion Ruthardt More

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      “Eye Candy” by Jon Burgerman in Boston, Massachusetts

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      Praise Shadows Art Gallery will be opening the first solo exhibition in Boston by the New York-based artist Jon Burgerman this coming July 8 to August 8, 2021. Along with this, the artist will be on site creating a mural for the gallery, on which they’ll install new canvases, works on paper, and more.Eye Candy embodies the world of Burgerman’s characters through works in various media from drawing, painting, to three-dimensional collectible items and books.Burgerman’s creations manifest themselves in amusement, often an effort to make him laugh or distract his thoughts from outside pressures. This became particularly heightened during the lockdown in 2020.“Art is my route of escape, not only from the world around me but the anxieties inside of me,” says the artist. “I wanted to create a joyful, colourful space for people to visit, that shares how I managed to cope with the lockdown by focusing my attention on play and creativity. Hopefully visitors will come away with some of that energy and feel creatively inspired themselves.”Jon Burgerman (b. 1979, Birmingham UK) has been a practicing artist for over 20 years. His instantly recognisable art has been exhibited all over the world from DIY exhibition spaces to museums to even the White House. His works are held in the permanent collections of institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. More