Some more images of the street art project in Dugave, Zagreb. Mural by UK street artist Phlegm. Another mural by Phlegm, beside work by Croatian artist Sretan Bor. Croatian street artist Miron Milic in front of a mural by Puma 34. Mural by the duo Janaundjs. The Dugave murals (2011) were the second project undertaken …
A few shots from earlier today, spent looking at street art in Zagreb’s Dugave neighbourhood and talking to street artists Miron Milic (aka Bezum), Mario Kolaric (aka Sretan Bor) and Emilija Radojicic (aka EmaEmaEma), as part of an article for hidden europe. Large carpet by Bosnian artist Esh. One of several paintings at Dugave by …
Lauba, Zagreb’s newest and unquestionably coolest art gallery, is housed in the former riding arena of the Austro-Hungarian cavalry barracks, built just over 100 years ago. Later the building was used as a textile factory, until transformed into the light-flooded, brick-clad art space you see today (it’s a listed building, so the original windows and …
A few shots from lovely Charente, from a recent assignment on BD (bande dessinee, or ‘comic strip’) artists in and around Angouleme. Francis Groux, founder of the Angouleme International Comic Strip Festival / Festival Internationale de la Bande Dessinee (left), and Gerard Balinziala, the director of the festival (right), at the Abbaye de Saint Amant …
The great contemporary Chinese artist Ai Weiwei – whose mindboggling ‘Sunflower Seeds’ (several million of them, all hand crafted and hand painted ceramics) was on display at London’s Tate Modern as part of the Unilever Series until today (and who was artistic consultant on the ‘bird’s nest’ stadium at the Beijing Olympics) – has been …