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    “Supernova” by Alex Senna in Mannheim, Germany

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    Created by Brazilian street artist Alex Senna, this mural is part of the @stadtwandkunst initiative, which aims to infuse urban environments with artistic expression. Senna’s signature style, characterized by bold black-and-white illustrations, speaks volumes despite the lack of color. In Supernova, the minimalist palette focuses attention on the story and emotions the art evokes, reflecting on human connections, youthful imagination, and the potential of individuals to make a significant impact.Senna’s work is renowned for its ability to narrate human experiences through simple yet profound visual language. His murals often explore themes of love, relationships, and emotional depth, using motifs drawn from childhood, such as birds, hearts, and music. This mural is no different—it combines the innocence of youth with the power of potential, creating a dynamic interaction between the art, the location, and the viewer. As students pass by this artwork every day, they are reminded that, like a supernova, they too have the ability to shine and inspire others.  More

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      “Whisper” by SATR in Mannheim, Germany

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      This June/July 2022, Chinese artist SATR have traveled all the way from her hometown of Guangzhou in China to Mannheim, Germany.  SATR worked on her latest mural “Whisper” for the Stadt.Wand.Kunst mural festival.The large apartment building facade, pre-coated in a bold clean white was to be the basis of the captivating mural. SATR, who made her entry into the street art realm in 2013, has paved her unique path through the world by merging animals, a limited but bold color palette of predominantly black, white, red, and very few other colors, and an engaging transparent style that has a ghostly smokey appeal, in a technique that is reminiscent of Chinese brush painting done in the street art way.Originating from years of experimentation with transparent colors, her approach also shows a refined knowledge of equilibrium, successfully using positive and negative space in regard to the wall space she covers and that she leaves free of paint. An ideal working process for her as she took the qualities of the Montana BLACK, Montana GOLD and particularly the Montana GOLD Transparent colors cans to their limits. Opaque and transparent carefully juxtapose with each other in all her concepts, with the main focus always being animals. Tigers, lions, eagles, and wolves, to name a few, are all animals that have strong symbolic origins that find their way into SATR artworks. For Stadt.Wand.Kunst, it was a panther and a leopard.“Whisper”, the title of SATR’s SWK mural takes the viewer in various directions. Questions are raised the longer one ponders the mural. Why is a panther whispering to a leopard? Is this a trusted relationship between the two animal breeds that we are looking at? And as the artist herself explains, “the mural shows human emotions in the animal world”. A notion that is seldom raised in artworks on the street. The local residents of the Mannheim suburb Waldhof looked on in amazement as the mural took shape. Yet another milestone for SATR and the team at SWK, taking international street art to new heights each year.Check out below for more photos of the stunning mural.Photos by Alexander Krziwanie More

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      New mural by ARYZ in Mannheim, Germany

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      “What the lion represents in my mural I will leave up to the viewer to interpret. Sometimes their interpretations are even better than mine”. A comment from the celebrated Spanish mural artist ARYZ, as he reflects on his finished mural at the end of seven days of painting at Stadt.Wand.Kunst in Mannheim Germany. The mural which is intense and engaging opened the 2022 SWK mural season and set the bar high from the beginning for those artists coming up after him.Sometimes their interpretations are even better than mineThe mural features a reclining lion in complementary colors. But not in a way that could make the artwork seem obvious or predictable. A diverse array of surface covering and mark-making ranges from color fields to hectic linework that elude to giant scribbles. Tonal variations suggest the profound skills that ARYZ cleverly mixes with graphic representations. All spread over the last three of a four-story building that seems to be protected by the regal reclining beast, with its paw securely holding a globe-like sphere in position.ARYZ himself was unaware of the significance of the lion ARYZ, who is not one to “overcook the brew” kept his idea, and the direction of the mural, fresh and unpreditable by creating the sketch for the mural a day in advance. Over one intense week, the mural came to life with just the right amount of conscious direction and plenty of accidental success. But there no accidents here as the viewer is easily convinced that every mark or color is consciously placed. With perfect weather and plenty of fascinated onlookers, ARYZ himself was unaware of the significance of the lion for both the city of Mannheim and the state of Baden-Württemberg. Featured on the coat of arms for both entities, the lion was fast at home in its new surroundings of color, visual plantlife, and artistic experimentation.This freshly completed ARYZ mural makes it appear as if the Montana Cans supported Stadt.Wand.Kunst, has hit the ground running for the 2022. And why not, the SWK team has managed to feature some of the world’s best mural artists while gathering experience, momentum, and international recognition from the international street art community over the last decade. An achievement and a playing field that is just right for an artist the caliber of ARYZ, who himself is no stranger to the main stage of the international mural making. Not to mention his achievements in the fine art space with his innovative studio and gallery works.  If you are ever in the neighborhood of Mannheim Germany, you can find the ARYZ mural at A4,1 in all its glory. Looking across its territory, making sure that everything is under control.Check out below for more photos of the mural.Credits:Text is by Rene van KanImages by Alexander Krziwanie More