Berlin-based Street Artist Evol is now having his first solo gallery show in the US at New York’s Jonathan LeVine in Chelsea and it is an uncommon opportunity to see his ingenious mind up close. As many artists working on the street know, it is possible to imagine a world in the mottled scarred façade of a surface, and here Evol shows what he can do with cardboard and metal.
Evol “Repeat Offender” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A product designer by training, Evols’ detailed lines and careful attention to the finer points of the most unromantic architecture of the metropolis somehow makes you smile, even as it attests to his command of the multi-layered stencil technique. Repeat Offender miniaturizes the large-scale impersonal utilitarian repetitiveness of institutional design and brings the buildings into your careful consideration of their exterior and the possible nature of their interior. At that moment, he’s got you – having successfully transformed a surface into a world.
Evol “Repeat Offender” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Evol “Repeat Offender” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Evol “Repeat Offender” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Evol “Repeat Offender” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Evol “Repeat Offender” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Evol “Repeat Offender” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Evol “Repeat Offender” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Evol “Repeat Offender” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Evol “Repeat Offender” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Evol “Repeat Offender” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Evol “Repeat Offender” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Evol “Repeat Offender” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Evol “Repeat Offender” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Curious to know how Evol makes his stencil art? Find out the answer in the vid below from Evol:
Evol “Repeat Offender” is currently on view at the Jonathan Levine Gallery. Click here for more information regarding this show.
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