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      “Nûdem Durak” by Mahn Kloix in Marseille, France

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      French painter Mahn Kloix just finished a new fresco in the streets of Marseille. The fresco was made as tribute to Nûdem Durak, a Kurdish woman imprisoned for singing in Turkey. The artist shared this artwork together with a quote from Pınar Selek, a Turkish sociologist exiled in France during an interview by les Inrockuptibles:

      “They wanted to make an example with Nûdem, because music is very important in the resistance in Turkey: when the police arrive, the demonstrators sing and dance. They chose her because she sang in protests and became very famous – and she is a free woman, who speaks”.

      Mahn Kloix originally began painting in urban spaces in New York City. Heavily influenced by the street art scene, Kloix’s contemporary fluid and free figuration is also expressed on canvas and paper. He pays tribute to young protesters in Istanbul, Tunisia, and Athens by conveying their similarities in his works. Their portraits are a leitmotif to highlight human and environmental struggles.
      Take a look below to see more photos of the fresco.

      Images taken by @fabio_calmettes

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      “A Pale Blue Dot” by INTI in Grenoble, France

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      Visual artist INTI is back with a new mural entitled “A Pale Blue Dot” in Grenoble, France. It features a woman embodying the universe with a small dot in her hands that represents the Earth. This mural was made as part of the Grenoble Street Art Fest. Together with the artwork, INTI left us with a quote from Carl Sagan. “Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves”
      Born in Valparaíso, Chile, INTI creates artworks surly carries out not more than the meaning, he also transmits the warm colours of it. Painting on canvasses, creating sculptures or large murals, his artwork addresses birthplace of the Latin American culture, multiplying it on a global level.
      He uses few characters in his murals and often talks of themes of life, death, ancient religion and Christianity. INTI takes his name from the Incan sun god and the Quechua word for ‘the Sun’ as homage to his Chilean roots. He always add a special orange/sun glow in his works, which has become his Moniker of sorts, INTI’s style is not only unique and outstanding but thoughtful and calm.
      Scroll down below to see more of INTI’s mural.

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      “Balance” by Millo in Sardinia, Italy

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      Italian artist Millo have recently collaborated with Non Solo Murales di San Gavino Monreale for another mural. Entitled “Balance”, the murals features Millo’s signature child-like creatures balancing different found objects over a cityscape. This mural is located in San Gavino Monreale, Sardinia, Italy.

      “The last months’ events forced and are still forcing all of us to find an inner balance. We suddenly found ourselves in a dystopic reality and we had to struggle to find the strength to go on and out. This wall is about this. How to use what we have and how to find an equilibrium in ourselves.” Millo said.

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      “CALDENSE” by Add Fuel in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

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      Add Fuel just recently finished his addition to FALU Urban Art Festival in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. The mural entitled CALDENSE was inspired by the enormous Bordallo Pinheiro, the richness of natural elements represented in his collections and the genius shapes of his objects, Add Fuel’s intention was to reinterpret the legacy of traditional Caldas ceramics and offer the inhabitants of the city this tribute.

      “From the blue of secular tiles to the green of Bordallo cabbages, from the shape of artichokes to the one of decorative pots, from the master’s realistic fauna and flora to my own imaginary creatures, this wall that is now part of the city wants to be as Caldense as each one of its inhabitants.” the artist mentioned.

      Portuguese visual artist Diogo Machado alias Add Fuel has always been fascinated with the aesthetic possibilities of symmetrical patterning and tessellations. His focus towards working with and reinterpreting the language of traditional tile design, and that of the Portuguese tin-glazed ceramic azulejo in particular. Effortlessly blending these two seemingly-irreconcilable visual idioms, his current practice seeks to combine traditional decorative elements with contemporary visual referents into new forms that reveal an impressive complexity and a masterful attention to detail.
      Take a look below to see more of Add Fuel’s masterpiece.

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      Nomad Carpet by Guerrilla Spam in Milan, Italy

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      One of the most active and committed artistic projects in Italy is certainly the one best known as Guerrilla Spam. It was born in 2010 in Florence (Tuscany), in the form of spontaneous poster art in urban spaces where artworks were not often signed. Within a few years, the artistic collective gained visibility and attracted the attention of archaeological and contemporary art museums all over the country.
      The project today alternates the practice of poster art, paste up to public muralism interventions in Italy and abroad, by creating artistic and educational projects focused on the importance of the theme of migration . We enter in Guerrilla Spam imaginary by discovering the beauty of different cultures living in the same geographical territory

      Their latest work, Nomad Carpet, was designed site specific for the project Imagine Piazza Tirana curated by BASE Milano and Bepart with the contribution of the Municipality of Milan.
      Piazza Tirana and its basketball court have become a sort of Monument of the imagination, coloring itself with digital figures and animations with the aim of transforming the visual narrative of Giambellino, an emblematic neighborhood on the southwestern outskirts of Milan. Thanks to the support of the guys living in the neighborhood, the basketball court has maintained its sporting function alongside the decorative one.

      The concept of the work is told to us by one of the protagonists of the collective:

      ” The carpet is an object that has always performed two parallel functions: a practical and an ornamental one. It was born and developed among the nomadic populations, who change settlements frequently and who, with the carpet, move the soil of their home. It is a daily object that must be used: it is the space on which we meet to talk, eat, where weddings and holidays are celebrated, where we sleep and pray.
      But the carpet is also an artistic object that decorates and beautifies the space, which identifies a certain family, village or culture of origin based on colors and symbols.
      The metaphor of the carpet is used here to redefine a space, in particular a basketball court, transforming it into a new place for the community, a new meeting place. Just like on a carpet you can meet in this new ideal square to be together “.

      Enjoy the aerial photos with drone taken by Ilaria Tullio and the shots of the making of by Davide Chiesa and stay with us to stay up to date on the latest news on the Italian street art scene.

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