BSA Film Friday: 03.04.16

BSA Film Friday: 03.04.16

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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening :

1. Wall Writers: Graffiti in its Innocence
2. Pixel Pancho: “Teseo e il Minotauro” in Rome
3. Read The Label: Blood, Sweat and Years.

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BSA Special Feature: Wall Writers: Graffiti in its Innocence

The depth of scholarship and research that Roger Gastman puts into graffiti history is only exceeded by his passion for the people and the culture that coalesced in the neighborhoods and streets of Philadelphia and New York in the genesis story of Wall Writers: Graffiti in its Innocence. He opens the doors to people who until now have been hidden and difficult to reach, and gives them an opportunity to tell the story of their lives then and how crucial the graffiti scene was to their experience of the city. He also examines the impact their work had on spurring the first of various art-in-the-streets scenes that evolved afterword.

Currently on tour for the 350 page tome and the documentary film, Gastman is bringing some of these original writers to cities to meet you, and possibly you may see the film’s narrator, Mr. John Waters.

For information regarding screenings click HERE

 

Pixel Pancho: “Teseo e il Minotauro” in Rome

In a city steeped in art history where every camera shot looks like a classic movie scene you have to be cognizant of the critical analysis that will be directed at your new mural from every Giovanni, Adriana, and Luca who are walking by or hanging out of the window. These are the countrymen and women of Pixelpancho so he takes it all into consideration and presents a classic of his own, merged with a steam-punked futurism of robots who are rather romantic in their own way.

Pixel Pancho: “Teseo e il Minotauro” in Rome

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Read The Label: Blood, Sweat and Years.

A full length film about graffiti and skateboarding from this moment – a collection of skate, graff, rap, beatz, cops, vandalism, illegal mark-making, and legal murals that tells a story as seen by people who do it. How much is documentary and how much is fiction? Well, there probably wasn’t a soundtrack like this accompanying all of the original scenes, that’s for sure.

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Pixel Pancho: “Teseo e il Minotauro” in Rome

Pixel Pancho: “Teseo e il Minotauro” in Rome

Today we have new images of Italian painter/sculptor/installation artist Pixel Pancho doing a mural in the Primavelle district in Rome just after his new solo show at Varsi Gallery. Reimagining the mythological as robotic, his violent struggles are at once crushing and sensual, brutally lyrical, animatronically efficient.

Just enough gauzy romance remains in the details for neighbors in this famously popular suburb to appreciate the modern take on a classical story, and Pixel Pancho continues his passionate onward march across walls of cities around the world.

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Pixel Pancho. Galleria Varsi. Rome, February 2016. (photo © @theblindeyefactory)

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Pixel Pancho. Galleria Varsi. Rome, February 2016. (photo © @theblindeyefactory)

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Pixel Pancho. Galleria Varsi. Rome, February 2016. (photo © @theblindeyefactory)

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Pixel Pancho“Androidèi“. Galleria Varsi. Rome, February 2016. (photo © @theblindeyefactory)

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Pixel Pancho. Galleria Varsi. Rome, February 2016. (photo © @theblindeyefactory)

Check out Pixel Pancho’s new video for this piece tomorrow on BSA Film Friday.

Pixel Pancho’s solo exhibition “Androidèi” is currently on view at Galleria Varsi in Rome. Click HERE for more information.

Our most sincere thanks to BSA Contributors Lorenzo and Giorgio at BlindEyeFactory.com for sharing their photos with BSA readers.

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Full House Tonight! DAZE and SWOON with BSA in NYC at City’s Museum

Full House Tonight! DAZE and SWOON with BSA in NYC at City’s Museum

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Every ticket sold tonight for “Street Art Stories” goes directly to benefit the Museum of the City of New York and you bought them all!

We have to be two of the luckiest people in this graffiti/street art/urban art scene when we get to hang out with you and artists and talk about New York and how it continues to inspire those who live here and those who arrive year after year.

The New York that inspired hometown train writer and teenager Chris “DAZE” Ellis in 1970s and 80s is the same one that inspired art school student and Street Artist Swoon in the 1990s and 00s. The five boroughs continue to be in a state of movement and flux but the artists on the streets have their fingers on the pulse of that change, adding their own stories and using their work to reflect the city back to itself.

Each pioneers in their own right, DAZE and Swoon have established voices that speak of the aesthetics and the anthropological, sociological, and psychological aspects of life in the city, each using it as a muse to better understand the inner workings and complex nature of urban life. Tonight as we celebrate this unique form of storytelling with these artists you are invited to see Chris’ current exhibition Chris “DAZE” Ellis: The City is My Muse.

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Top image in New York Times piece is Chris Stain and Billy Mode. Second image is Swoon. Both images in Brooklyn and shot by Jaime Rojo.

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Tilt Smashes With Multi-Hued Tags: “Magic & Destroy”

Tilt Smashes With Multi-Hued Tags: “Magic & Destroy”

“When does an ultra-tagged trash can, which some consider simply vandalized, assume the status of a work of art?” asks Stephanie Pioda, the art historian and journalist in the introduction of this 3 year old collection of TILT, “Magic and Destroy”.

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Tilt Magic & Destroy Wallworks. Paris 2013

Indeed the artists posed a variant of the same question last week when we met him at Jardin Rouge in Marrakech, and it bears consideration. Absent the act of vandalism, the bashing of an object with layers of tags is simply an art technique; albeit one loaded with the implications of a street act that violates the established codes of accepted behavior in public space and infringes on property rights.  It is an examination of context, as with all discussions about what graffiti or street art becomes once it enters a gallery or a home.

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Tilt Magic & Destroy Wallworks. Paris 2013

Originally created to accompany his solo show with Paris based Wall Works gallery, the soft-cover catalogue with images by photographer Benjamin Roudet gives a satisfying overview of the diversification in technique and experimentation that has brought this Toulouse native far since first writing his bubble-based tags on the streets in the late 1980s.

From the carved “New York” apple core sculpture to the soft-porn love-interest photo spreads, to the endearing and incomplete blackbook doodling, the Brooklyn whole-roof silver co-tagging with Mist, and the aerosol slaughter of a car sliced in half, TILT continues to explore where his passion for expression can take him.

Based on the new migration themed work we’ve just seen that he is preparing for dual shows in Morroco and France, the ultra-tagged work of TILT is expanding his contemplative examinations beyond the charged duality of vandalism and art.

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Tilt Magic & Destroy Wallworks. Paris 2013

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Tilt Magic & Destroy Wallworks. Paris 2013

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Tilt Magic & Destroy Wallworks. Paris 2013

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Tilt Magic & Destroy Wallworks. Paris 2013

 

Tilt Magic & Destroy was published by Wallworks on the ocassion of Tilt’s exhibition Magic & Destroy at Galerie Wallworks. Paris 2013 with images by photographer Benjamin Roudet.

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MB6 Street Art Update II : Dotmasters, Giacomo Buffarini (RUN), SickBoy

MB6 Street Art Update II : Dotmasters, Giacomo Buffarini (RUN), SickBoy

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The 6th Marrakech Biennale brings a number of parallel projects into the Medina this year, including performances and public education programs. MB6 Street Art brings the art to the streets for both serious art fans and everyday members of the public who can appreciate it entirely free.

Over the week in Marrakech we found that the people didn’t necessarily know about the large international art show happening in the historical heritage sites around them, but they certainly had impressions and opinions of these murals being put up by international (and one local) Street Artists.

As an update to the progress of the new murals going up under the direction of the MB6 team, here are some shots on the street with Dotmasters, Giacomo Buffarini (RUN), and SickBoy.

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Giacomo Buffarini aka RUN had a number of questions from school kids about his work in progress. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Giacomo Buffarini looking through his sketch book to show some original inspirations for his walls here and in Essaouira. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Giacomo Buffarini work in progress. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Dotmasters departs from his typical work to honor the Marrakech symbol of a rose. In a rare spate of rain the artist and our team went inside for tea but this person braved it with a walking stick. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Dotmasters work in progress. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Sickboy at work – initially the cigarette vendor next to him was not so interested, but eventually Sickboy gave his business a fresh coat of paint as well. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Hassan, a great guy who assisted Sickboy and Alexey Luka at work – and us with ladders and sneaky rooftops.  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Sickboy work in progress. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

Coverage of MB6 Street Art at the Marrakech Biennale is BSA in Partnership with Urban Nation (UN).

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BSA Images Of The Week: 02.28.16

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.28.16

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This simple lollipop paste-up reminds us this week that it may appear to be sweet, but sometimes it is poison. Guess that truism should be obvious to you kids, but it doesn’t hurt to remind each other.

Here’s our our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring ECB, Escif, JPS, Kai, London Kaye, Lunge Box, Mogul, Nick Walker, Omen, Tref.no, The J0n, and Shai Dahan.

Our top image: A questionable lollipop on the street. Lunge Box. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Lunge Box. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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TREF in Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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The J0n in Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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JPS in Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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The J0n in Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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ECB in Borås, Sweden for No Limit Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Omen in Rochester, NY for Wall Therapy Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Kai (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Shai Dahan in Borås, Sweden for No Limit Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Nick Walker in Stavanger, Norway for Nuart Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Escif in Stavanger, Norway for Nuart Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Mogul in Borås, Sweden for No Limit Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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A belatedly found piece by Londo Kaye. There’s is never too late for love though… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

 

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BSA in NYTimes : DAZE + Swoon LIVE with Us Next Week at MCNY

BSA in NYTimes : DAZE + Swoon LIVE with Us Next Week at MCNY

We’re happy today to see BSA photographer Jaime Rojo in The New York Times with two great shots to highlight our Swoon and DAZE event next week at the Museum of the City of New York.

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Taking our theme from DAZE’s current exhibition there called “The City is My Muse” we will highlight a number of artists in the streets who have found that New York is an important inspiration in their story telling.

A life-long New Yorker, DAZE will talk to us on stage about his process and practice of integrating personal and city imagery into a psycho-social painted collage style that he has developed since first writing on MTA trains in the 1970s and 80s. Street Artist Swoon will share her interaction with the streets of New York during the 1990s and 2000s and her highly individualized tracing of the lives of everyday people initially in paper cuts, later in linotype prints wheat pasted on city walls.

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One important correction to the New York Times caption for the top image – the artists are Chris Stain and Billy Mode on the rooftop shot. It was a mural we organized with them on the occasion of Martha Cooper’s birthday 5 years ago. The image of the child is from a photograph by Martha Cooper. (she loved it!)

 

For more on the March 2 presentation “Street Art Stories” with DAZE, Swoon, Steven P. Harrington, Jaime Rojo, and you – please CLICK HERE.

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BSA Film Friday: 02.26.16

BSA Film Friday: 02.26.16

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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening :

1. Pejac: Heavy Sea
2. Giulio Vesprini: Promise
3. Rime at the Coliseum

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BSA Special Feature: Pejac: Heavy Sea

Heavy indeed. Street Artist Pejac does the simplest of installations to highlight the sea of refuse we are creating. There isn’t much to say except this tired scene is repeated throughout the “developed” world, including floating in our actual seas.

 

Giulio Vesprini: Promise

PROMISE, a street art intervention by artist Giulio Vesprini. The work has been created between the 5th and the 7th of February in “Piazza della Pace”, a multicultural working-class neighborhood in Terni, Umbria.

 

Rime at the Coliseum

Currently having a show at Jonathan Levine in Manhattan, this is RIME aka Jersey Joe paying tribute to his friend NACE (NACEO) as a memorial to a graffiti innovator of the 1990s. “I felt like this would be a fitting tribute, many years after his passing,” RIME says.

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MB6 Street Art Update I – Marrakech Biennale

MB6 Street Art Update I – Marrakech Biennale

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The 6th Marrakech Biennale has begun and the parallel project MB6 Street Art is in full effect as well – with an international collection of 10 artists painting murals at street level and on roofs inside the “Red City” or Medina of Marrakech.

One of the core principals of the biennale is to be sensitive to the local context, and organizers for MB6 have taken that guidance to heart in these old and often conservative neighborhoods by curating artists whose work in abstract, geometric, and decorative forms can endure a while under the intense sun. Particular sensitivity has been taken into consideration in this sort of magical fortified city where time seems to have slowed or even stopped in many ways. The approach is appropriate for the theme of this years biennale “Not New Now”.

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Lucy Mclauchlan at work on her wall in The Medina. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Many inquisitive passersby in this bustling, chaotic/serene street scene will stand by and observe for long periods of time to discuss the evolving artworks and question others about the significance of a particular feature. Whether you speak Arabic, French, or Tamazight these new murals are providing a lot to talk about and many appear to relish the discussion.

We’ll be bringing you more details later but thought you’d like a few images of walls in progress, today with Birmingham’s Lucy McLauchlan, Moscow’s Alexey Luka, and Marrkesh’s own Kalamour.

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Alexey Luka at work on his wall in The Medina. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Additionally we are pleased to announce our new partnership with Urban Nation (UN) in Berlin to discover and bring new Street/Urban Art from around the world to you.

Of course our very first collaboration with UN was the successful and enriching cultural exchange between Brooklyn and Berlin last year for for Project M/7 when we curated a show with 12 Street Artists in Berlin entitle “Persons of Interest”.

The nascent museum is emerging before our eyes with ever deeper ties to the global/local urban art communities and artists.  We’ll be making more announcements regarding our collaborations in the near future.

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Kalamour at work on his wall in The Medina. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

MB6 Street Art at the Marrakech Biennale is BSA in Partnership with Urban Nation (UN)

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A special shout out to photographer Ian Cox for showing us how to get around the market and the souks on our first day!  We’d still be stuck in there right now without his help. Follow him @wallkandy on Instagram

 

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Johannes Mundinger “Below The Fog” in Berlin

Johannes Mundinger “Below The Fog” in Berlin

Indoor and outdoor merge in shifting slabs of memory that slip and stick in this new Berlin wall by Johannes Mundinger.

In work that similarly slides from representative and abstract, the work of the Offenburg born painter benefits from a sense of place and this new wall is especially good in these pictures when shot through by diagonal snow.

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Johannes Mundinger for Urban Spree. Berlin. February 2016. (photo © Lucky Cat)

Currently a resident artist at Urban Spree since 2012, Mundinger is preparing for his show opening next week at the galerie entitled ‘Unterm Nebel’. He tells us that it is an examination of memories first imprinted during childhood, somehow breaking and shifting during time, even crumbling and sinking deep into the subconscious.

Says Penny Rafferty in her description of ‘Unterm Nebel’ (Under the Fog), “The impressions we have aren´t reliable, it was a lifetime ago and now we have vague feelings of atmospheres, colours and smells; everything else remains inside a dense fog that psychiatry calls the consciousness.”

The exhibition will present a new series of large paintings, including a 8.5 meter canvas that he is painting in the gallery in the days leading up to the opening. Stop by if you remember.

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Johannes Mundinger for Urban Spree. Berlin. February 2016. (photo © Johannes Mundinger)

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Johannes Mundinger for Urban Spree. Berlin. February 2016. (photo © Johannes Mundinger)

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Johannes Mundinger for Urban Spree. Berlin. February 2016. (photo © Johannes Mundinger)

 

Johannes Mundiger’s solo exhibition “Below The Fog” opens on March 4th at Urban Spree. Click HERE for more details.

Unterm Nebel

Opening: 4. March from 7pm

Introduction: Lars Hering
Finissage: 20. March from 6pm with a concert by Ori

Exhibition: 5.  – 20. March 2015
Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 7pm

Urban Spree Galerie
Revaler Str. 99, Berlin
www.urbanspree.com

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Donald Trump “Loser” by Artist Vicki Da Silva in Front of His Building

Donald Trump “Loser” by Artist Vicki Da Silva in Front of His Building

The unreality TV version of the US political race is simplifying and degrading the discussions that candidates are having during this election cycle. If you ask the Republican frontrunner what the race is about he’ll reduce it down to a contest of winners and losers.

Artist Vicki da Silva would agree.

The artist did her own ode to The Donald in front of his 40 Wall Street building in New York to illustrate her sentiment.

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“Since Trump has a nasty habit of calling people losers, it was my way of putting it back on him using his name and logo,” she says. With the new piece she reminds us of the corrosive court jester’s daily attacks on any person or class of persons who do not agree with him on any number of issues.

DaSilva points to comments made a few weeks ago in the run-up to the primaries in his state by former New Hampshire Republican governor John Sununu that call into question the myriad Trump stump speeches crowing about the real estate mogul’s head-spinning winning.

I pointed out that he’s been a loser all his life. He’s had four big bankruptcies. Trump Airlines went bankrupt, Trump Magazines shut down, Trump Steaks went out of business, and when he was the owner of New Jersey Generals, they also went out business. This guy has a history of failure and losing. He’s a perpetual loser,” say Sununu in an ABC.com article.

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Says DaSilva “The entire Republican Party is a loser party, now more than ever, in my opinion.”

To get the shot the artist is photographer, set director, and performer. DaSilva positions a still camera on a tripod to record the movement of the lamp as she writes the text during a single-frame time exposure photograph. Important to the process is that she uses no post editing or digital alteration of the still photograph. She refers to the work as “light graffiti” and she makes prints of it to exhibit and sell.

Truthfully, she says she’d love to wheat-paste a huge version of this one on a wall somewhere. Any takers?

 

Light graffiti photograph made at 40 Wall Street, NYC by Vicki DaSilva. Video documentation by Owen Crowley.

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Fintan Magee, Puerto Rico, and Rising Sea Levels

Fintan Magee, Puerto Rico, and Rising Sea Levels

Fintan Magee chose this water tower shape to feature a local San Juan boy carrying an iceberg – while the water levels rise and flood his world. Perhaps he is remarking on the fact that we are burdening the next generation of people with a host of ecological disasters to carry on their backs.

The Australian artist has been merging his graffiti practice and studio practice on the streets in large murals in recent years and often he uses the opportunity to speak to social and environmental ills, many on a global scale.

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Fintan Magee for Santurce Is Ley 6. Puerto Rico February 2016. (photo © TotsFilms)

For the 6th edition of the Santurce es Ley Festival, Magee addresses rising sea levels due to climate change and asks passersby to envision the coasts of world being re-defined and imagine the hardship it may incur. “Despite the low C02 emissions of small island states in the Caribbean,” he explains on his Facebook page, “rising sea levels, increasing natural disasters and other affects of climate change are a huge threat to the small nations who’s economies are dependant on fishing, tourism and agriculture.”

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Fintan Magee for Santurce Is Ley 6. Puerto Rico February 2016. (photo © TotsFilms)

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Fintan Magee for Santurce Is Ley 6. Puerto Rico February 2016. (photo © TotsFilms)

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Fintan Magee for Santurce Is Ley 6. Puerto Rico February 2016. (photo © TotsFilms)

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Fintan Magee for Santurce Is Ley 6. Puerto Rico February 2016. (photo © TotsFilms)

 

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