All posts tagged: France

Bien Urbain 2017: Ericailcane and His New Barbed-Wire Story

May 29, 2017 Artists

Just in time for his exhibition opening at musée du temps de Besançon, Italian Street Artist Ericailcane has just finished his latest wall with the Bien Urbane festival and the story it tells is troubling.

Ericailcane. Detail. Bien Urbain Festival 2017. Besançon, France. May 2017. (photo © Elisa Murcia Artengo)

The Bologna native whose animal world personifies the behavioral traits of humans – sometimes with alarming accuracy – brings this cuddly pairing to a large wall at 8 rue des Chaprais in Northeastern French town.

But are they so cuddly? Standing on either side of a fenceline and with armaments all around on the ground by one of the sheep, his neighbor is capable of freeing the him from his barbed wire conundrum, but the tool of liberty remains secreted behind his back.

The indoor museum exhibition explores the ages of life, the perception of the world as children and adults. As it turns out, so does the outdoor exhibition.

Ericailcane. Bien Urbain Festival 2017. Besançon, France. May 2017. (photo © Elisa Murcia Artengo)

Liliwenn Paints “Liberty Asleep” in Vannes, France

May 11, 2017 Artists

“Liberty Asleep” is the name of this image by French artist Liliwen who paints it at a time when liberty needs to be awake.

Liliwenn. “Liberté endormie”. Vannes, France. May 2017. (photo © Liliwenn)

A painter of paradoxes, usually on wood or canvas, Liliwen has painted on walls in Los Angeles, London, Paris, Berlin and Buenos Aires, among others. She has taken three years off of wall painting since having a child, she tells us, and this is her first since then. As part of an event called “Vannes et sa street” in a walled town city of about 50,000 in the Brittany region of northwest France.

The mural of the nude woman is meant to speak to the fragility of humans as well as purity. She places the skull of a dove on the figure’s head and an olive branch in the hand. “It’s a poetic artwork and political at the same time, as everyday we lose a little bit more of our fragile liberty,” she says. “Some are waiting for an awakening of consciousness.”

Liliwenn. “Liberté endormie”. Vannes, France. May 2017. (photo © Liliwenn)

Liliwenn at work on “Liberté endormie” (photo © “Vannes et sa street“)

Karl Addison “Carina” at Le M.U.R. in Paris

November 24, 2016 Artists

Across the US today families are joining together/avoiding each other for Thanksgiving in a spirit of gratitude. For those who are afraid to have potentially firey political conversations at the dinner table or for those who are living too far away from home to afford to travel, Thanksgiving often becomes “Friendsgiving” – just gathering friends and like-minded neighbors together to eat, drink, tell stories, be grateful for the blessings of life that we recount to one another.

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Karl Addison Carina Le M.U.R, Paris, November 2016. (photo © Karl Addison)

American contemporary/street artist Karl Addison lives in Berlin right now but still created this tribute to a dear friend on a Parisian wall last week for the Le M.U.R. Project. Over 200 artists have created installations on this wall at 107 Rue Obrkampf and Karl’s is #221. He says he was inpired by the palette of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere this time of year, specifically the trees and leaves in Paris, when he created this portrait.

A tribute to a friend is a noble endeavor. As we reach across the table and the difficult cultural divide, may we all make just one more friend this week in the spirit of Thanksgiving.

Karl Addison Carina Le M.U.R, Paris, November 2016. (photo © Karl Addison)

With special thanks to Elisabetta.

“Title: Carina

Medium: Mural – Acrylic and Spraypaint

Size: 7m x 5m

Year: 2016

Location: Paris, France – Le M.U.R”

http://www.lemur.fr/.

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Herakut In Paris With A Message for the Kids About Magic

October 20, 2016 Artists

“Le duo allemand vient de signer sa première fresque à Paris,” says Galerie Mathgoth as they present Herakut and their new mural on rue Goscinny in #Paris13.

Herakut. Paris. (photo © courtesy of Galerie Mathgoth)

A fascinating intermingling of realism, fantasy, and poetry, the composition features a helmeted youth sees a winged horse in the sublime otherworld that children so easily inhabit. Part of the 100 Walls for Youth program just begun with Street Artist C215, this wall also neatly aligns with the upcoming exhibition of the artists at the gallery November 25th

Gautier Jourdain, co-owner of Mathgoth, tells us that Jasmin (Hera) and Falk (Akut) looked no further than the streets of Paris for inspiration. “They asked a student who passed by in the street if she would like to be a model for their painting. She said yes and they took pictures and used them for direct reference.”

Herakut. Paris. (photo © courtesy of Galerie Mathgoth)

Hera composed a poem and painted it after Akut placed the figure- a total of three days from start to finish. The text is a gentle reassurance to the young who may be confused or frightened by events that take place in this adult-run world right now.

Translated it is:

“This message is for the kids. Even though our times make it hard to see, there is magic. (We have seen it)”

Herakut. Paris. (photo © courtesy of Galerie Mathgoth)

And speaking of Magic…

Herakut’s work can also be seen in Dresden, Germany right now for the “Magic City” exhibition, which BSA are curators of the Film Program and photographer Jaime Rojo is an artist in. See an interview with Herakut here and learn about how they used artist Ernest Zacharevic as their model for that piece.

C215: “100 Walls For Youth” Begins with 27 Children in Stencil Portrait

October 5, 2016 Artists

“France has been a crossroads and a host country forever: Greeks, Romans, Teutons, Vikings, Arabs all settled here in antiquity and then in the middle ages. The Spanish, Russian, Italian, and Polish came here more recently, not to mention the North Africans, and Africans, the Indo-Chinese, Lebanese, and Iranians who have taken refuge. Even the Chinese have recently settled here successfully. Today we have the Syrians who come to us and we must welcome them,” says Street Artist C215 of his newest mural of children’s faces.

c215. 100 Walls for Youth. Sarcelles, France. September 2016. (photo © courtesy of 100 Walls for Youth)

The inaugural mural for the project 100 WALLS FOR YOUTH, C215 has made a strongly resolute defense of his views on Liberté, égalité, fraternité – the motto of the French. He also throws in one more: Laïcité – a core concept in the French constitution which formally states that France is a secular republic. This is going to be a powerful campaign, based on what we have heard from artistic director Gautier Jourdain of the LE M.U.R. association and the Gallerie Mathgoth, which he runs with his wife Mathilde in the 13^th Arrondissement of Paris.

c215. 100 Walls for Youth. Sarcelles, France. September 2016. (photo © courtesy of 100 Walls for Youth)

After sitting with and photographing 27 different school children in June, C215 created stencils of each of them to paint on the street here in Paris where they all live. This would be a remarkable project if only for the effort and the talent, but in a time of stewing anti-immigrant fervor in France and other areas of Europe that has awakened the right wing and the would-be racists among us, this wall takes on additional significance.

This wall is part of what will be a much larger effort under the patronage of Mr. Francois Hollande, the President of the French Republic, says Mr. Jourdain, of the project that will spread to school walls and walls near other schools in partner cities with the help of many other Street Artists around the world.

c215. 100 Walls for Youth. Sarcelles, France. September 2016. (photo © courtesy of 100 Walls for Youth)

As these murals and artworks provide an open gallery and an effective method for discussing these issues, organizers hope that this will be an unprecedented artistic adventure reaching many in the contemporary art world along with people on the street. Gaultier tells us the intentions and messages are those “built around altruistic values of respect, solidarity, diversity and brotherhood, citizenship and tolerance.”

BSA will be bringing you more of these walls by Street Artists as they come to neighborhoods around the city and globe. We have already heard of a number of them in the pipes! But first, here is C215 to start off the festivities.

c215. 100 Walls for Youth. Sarcelles, France. September 2016. (photo © courtesy of 100 Walls for Youth)

“For the first of these frescoes, we wanted an iconic artist who is able to send a strong message,” says Gautier. “C215 seemed like the guy who could deliver this.”

On his Facebook page, C215 met with much praise for the project, and a fair number of intolerant, xenophobic, and racist ones. There were even some insisting that the country is being flooded deliberately as part of a neoliberal “One World Order” plan to dilute the culture and ruin everything. Sorry, France. If it helps at all, we’ve had the same kinds of people yelping about those new immigrant groups every twenty years or so throughout history – and the US is a nation comprised almost entirely of immigrants. Go figure.

“France has no ethnic or religious orientation,” C215 says. “France is a melting pot, a crossroads which since antiquity welcomes the peoples and the aggregates, in the mixing for a common ideal, which is today one of the republic.” Laïcité!

c215. 100 Walls for Youth. Sarcelles, France. September 2016. (photo © courtesy of 100 Walls for Youth)

c215. 100 Walls for Youth. Sarcelles, France. Septiembre 2016. (photo © courtesy of 100 Walls for Youth)

Spaik Brings Symbolic Eagle to Address Fear in Paris and Ibiza

August 10, 2016 Artists

Mexican modern folkloric muralist Spaik participated in the Bloop Festival in Ibiza during the month long proactive music festival that is now in its fifth year. With a general ethos that “Art is for Everybody”, Bloop invites a number of artists each year to create works all over this town that for two decades has gained the international reputation as a party place with superstar djs, natural beauty, and sun-soaked hedonism.

Spaik at work on “Nochixtlan” for Le Mur. Paris, France. July 2016. (photo © Pierre Lecaroz)

So it is interesting that this year’s theme is “No Fear”, and the festivals’ manifesto points to cross-cultural scourges of relentless cell phone addiction, job insecurity, and unrealistic body types portrayed in fashion advertising . Looks like the honeymoon for pleasure-seekers is over.

Spaik “Nochixtlan” for Le Mur. Paris, France. July 2016. (photo © Pierre Lecaroz)

Spaik interpreted the “No Fear” theme with the same symbol of a massive colorful eagle that he used the previous month at Le Mur in Paris. Known for its association on the Mexican flag perched on a cactus with a serpent in its mouth, here in Ibiza the eagle flies freely through a tunnel in this country that Mexico declared independence from in 1821.

Interestingly, Spaik depicts a slightly more political eagle in Paris at the famously curated wall with references to the PEN party, the state of Oaxaca, and a small little rat with a Mexican sash – looking rather fearful. So we are not sure if “No Fear” can extend around the world, as hopeful as the Bloop festival manifesto may be, but Spaik definitely has created two impressive works that would please many in the Mexican mural-making tradition that addresses social and political issues.

Spaik “Nochixtlan” for Le Mur. Paris, France. July 2016. (photo © Pierre Lecaroz)

Spaik at work on“Flying Eagle” for Bloop Festival. Ibiza, Spain. July 2016. (photo © Spaik)

No fear, bro. Spaik “Flying Eagle” for Bloop Festival. Ibiza, Spain. July 2016. (photo © Spaik)

David Walker Contemplates the Role of His Mural in a French City

August 6, 2016 Artists

“I was conflicted about making the mural in France,” says Street Artist and muralist David Walker about the new sky-gazing countenance of a woman he painted there during the recent terrorist attacks. “I felt it I wasn’t commenting on the current situation there.”

It’s often a point of contention with public art and one that is discussed by city elders, academics, passersby: what role does art in the public have? Is it to advocate, reflect, comment upon, distract, reassure?

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David Walker in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France for Galerie Mathgoth. July 2016. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)

Commissioned public and private murals and illegal Street Art are all judged by many and assumptions about the artists intent or role are called into question, – even by the artist. “What’s the point of taking up more wall space?,” asks Walker. “Due to the nature of my work, I can have internal conflictions wherever I go,” he says.

Even though Boulogne-sur-Mer is three hours north of Paris, people in the town felt very affected by the attacks, and many conversations touched upon the events – which seemed to be unfolding even as he painted. “During my stay the TV looped with news of another attack in a northern city just a few hours away,” he says.

David Walker in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France for Galerie Mathgoth. July 2016. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)

It was a 7-day long installation and he says he enjoyed the conversations that he had with people on the street. Some paid him compliments and he says he even appreciated those who didn’t particularly like his work.

“A few commented that the image was not exactly to their taste, but they appreciated that I worked hard everyday and the gesture.” Not exactly work for the thin-skinned, that’s for sure.

David Walker in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France for Galerie Mathgoth. July 2016. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)

Ultimately, Walker says that he decided the new mural plays an important part in the dialogue of the city.

“After painting and seeing and hearing the buzz happening around the wall, in the newspapers and cafes and restaurants we visited, the people made me feel that actually sometimes something simple, hopeful and human can be enough – or even what’s needed from art. I was, at times, taken aback by the positivity I felt towards the work and I was relieved that somehow it did have a place there.”

David Walker in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France for Galerie Mathgoth. July 2016. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)

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Never Crew: Ordering Machine – Grenoble 2016

July 4, 2016 Artists

Two whales are suspended from a clothing hanger as if dangling inside “an infinite closet” say Christian and Pablo, the guys who comprise Nevercrew. The glorious intelligent sensitive and graceful beasts of the seas are reduced to mere commodity, just two more options for humans to buy, sell, trade, consume, destroy. Nevercrew are themselves dangling from a basket high atop a cherry picker here in Grenoble for a street art festival in the southeastern French town at the foot of the French Alps.

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Never Crew for Grenoble Festival 2016. France. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE (photo © Never Crew)

A sea life animal – a polar bear or whale, for example – is often the central character of the composition for these guys, a majestic free animal that is acted upon instead of in concert with. “This work is called ‘Ordering Machine’ and it focuses on the human attitude regarding the privatizing of natural resources,” Christian says.

“The project was developed around the position of mankind as it is related to nature, where on one side there are our needs and on the other side there are our behavior of consumption and attitude of appropriation.”

Never Crew for Grenoble Festival 2016. France. (photo © Never Crew)

In their surreal conceptualizations and development of a visual language that is understood principally to the two Swiss nationals, the viewer may benefit from suspending the purely rational and instead allowing for an alternate universe that they have been creating over 20 years of painting together.

Here animal life is majestic and awe-inspiring, perhaps representing the potential for so much more, but at the least something to be revered. Often the protagonist is anchored or overseen by a smaller complex engine or circuit board that seems to be of steam-punkian vintage, silly in its self-importance, only hoping to be useful in the shadow of a natural miracle.

Never Crew for Grenoble Festival 2016. France. (photo © Never Crew)

In “Ordering Machine” the clothes hanger and red-striped fabric is the low-tech constriction device, trapping these beasts like a couple of blocks of cheese. “The hanger is also the support of the entire composition,” according to Nevercrew, reminding us about balancing need with greed as well.

“The arrogant use of nature for economic purposes and for the claim of superiority,” says Pablo, “is a view held by those whose same hands could choose to raise a social awareness and to promote environmental good for everyone.”

Never Crew for Grenoble Festival 2016. France. (photo © Never Crew)

BSA Images Of The Week: 06.05.16

June 5, 2016 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

It’s Bushwick Collective Weekend Yo! The assembled faces and artists is local, national, international – a melange of what Brooklyn has become in recent years and the streets are alive with involved citizenry in search of entertainment, art and community. The Street Art scene is alive and well, just mutating weirdly as it always does; charges of commercialism and the whitening power of gentrification notwithstanding. A little further out in BedStuy was the #PrincePartyBK yesterday with Spike Lee celebrating the Purple One’s birthday, along with a lot of Biggie love, and Muhammad Ali love, and you, Love.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring 1Penemy, BG183, Bio, City Kitty, Coro, Crash, GIZ, JMR, KLOPS, Loco Art, Marie Roberts, Nepo, Nicer, Samantha Vernon, Sheryo, Tats Crew, The Yok, Thomas Allen, Tristan Eaton, UNO, XSM, and You Go Girl!

Our top image: Marie Roberts for Coney Art Walls 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist’s portrait of Muhammad Ali who passed away this Friday. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BG183 TATS Crew for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

CRASH TATS Crew for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nicer TATS Crew for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BIO TATS Crew for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Oh my God, I am totally getting a selfie with this. No one back in Nazareth will believe this. Suurreeusly.” KLOPS for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JMR for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NEPO . CORO for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

GIZ. Joe Ficalora The Bushwick Collective founder with his BFF Pope Francis. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Protestors at the entrance of the Brooklyn Navy Yard have been drawing attention to their opinion that the Duke Riley “Fly By Night” art project with Creative Time is cruel to the pigeons in some way and that the animals are being exploited for profit. Riley has reportedly consulted pigeon clubs, an avian veterinarian, experts from animal welfare groups and been given a good review from the Audubon society so the opinion does not seem unanimous. Regarding the charge of making a profit, we’re pretty sure all the tickets are free, right? Our favorite one is the sign that also insults the artistic quality of the project as “mediocre.” Oh, gurl, you did not manage to throw some shade while protecting those birds did you? Snap! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

City Kitty. A mash up of two giants of rock whom we lost withing months of each other this winter/spring – with that intuitive third eye. “You will be missed” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Brooklyn Navy Yard. Duke Riley’s Fly By Night performance with pigeons in collaboration with Creative Time. Brooklyn, NY. June 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Da Mental Vaporz (DMV) Exhibit at Villa Alliv, Marseille

May 17, 2016 Artists

Three members of the French graffiti crew “Da Mental Vaporz” (DMV) just launched a short exhibit at the Villa Alliv during their residency there and today we have some exclusive images of the experimental works they created for the show.

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With improvisation at its core, the graffiti practice over a decade and a half with their larger crew may have helped prepared Jaw, Kan, and Blo for this joint exhibition featuring a three dimensional sculptural abstraction that fills much of the space.

The jutting, bending planes evoke skate parks, alleys, and underground tunnels with unexpected shapes and intermittent illumination that throw shadows and rays that can be enticing and difficult to discern. Capitalizing on the chaos the trio takes turns laying patterns, gestural lines, fills and textures that chop, sharpen, and blur the dimensions as you walk through.

The temporary built and painted environment and the happenstance of late night illicit art-making moves also onto canvasses of what the artists like to refer to as 6-hand paintings. As each joins in a collaborative improvisation, the results can have a kinetic balance nonetheless.

As Blow and Jaw build using gesture and volumetric shape and Kan overlaying diagrammatic dot-and-line symmetries finished with a layered miasma netting of aerosol, the canvasses can appear as like science laboratory slides that have caught a sample of culture (or cultures) to examine.

Alternately, these works are an ode to a psychological and emotionally fluid state, a practice of discovery, abstraction and collaboration that fuses DMV’s collective memories and an attitude of shared creation.

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Strøk Strikes a New Angle on His Stencil Figures In Paris

May 12, 2016 Artists

A newly transformed wall in Rue de la Glacière in the 13th Arr. of Paris today from the Norwegian STRØK represents a genuinely new angle for the artist to approach the figure in space. Using his personal photographs taken from the midst of human activity, the stencil artist commands the open space of a wall with figures caught so realistically that you stop for a moment to register what you are seeing on this huge expanse.

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He told us in Brooklyn a few weeks ago about this new piece he was developing for Paris and how it represents a slightly new direction for him, in a matter of degrees. “It looks like the figures are falling but if you tilt your head then it looks like they standing.”

Currently in the capital to prepare for his new solo show opening June 3^rd at Galerie MathGoth, STRØK will undoubtedly be presenting new approaches to his distinct craft as his mind is alive with clever ideas constantly and he’s not afraid of taking chances. Here are some exclusive shots for BSA readers to enjoy.

See our interview with him a few weeks ago:

STRØK Stencils Ernest Zacharevic Playing in a Brooklyn Doorway

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Djalouz “Peace in the World” in Paris

April 14, 2016 Artists

Graffiti artist Djalouz’s wildstyle 3-D shards look like multi-tentacled sea monsters climbing up walls, wrapping around telephone booths, creeping down stairwells and spreading across floors. By themselves, these interlocking forms can be biomorphic and menacing. Coupled with expressive paint-splattered hands releasing a Dove of Peace the effect is quite something else entirely.

For his new wall with public art programmers Art Azoï the Parisian delves into his aspirations for peace, perhaps in reaction to the terrorism horrors that have occurred in parts of Europe over the last year. He may also have been inspired by the location here on the terrace of the Ken Saro Wiwa Center, so named for the Nigerian writer, television producer and environmental activist whom Shell Oil was found complicit in the murder of.

Curator Alex Parrish tells us that the messages of peace here are a bit buried beneath the very obvious symbolism. “Beneath the layers of paint on the hand and the dove are clever phrases (more so a play on words) that relate to its title, such as ‘j’aime pas les confli’ (I don’t like conflict) and ‘amis pas haine me’ (friends not hate),” she tells us.

Alex Parrish is part of the ArtAzoï team and a frequent BSA Contributor.

Click HERE to learn more about ArtAzoï.

Please visit Jeanne-Marie Laurent of Petites Chroniques Urbaines to learn more about her work. http://petiteschroniquesurbaines.com/

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Ericailcane. Detail. Bien Urbain Festival 2017. Besançon, France. May 2017. (photo © Elisa Murcia Artengo)

Ericailcane. Bien Urbain Festival 2017. Besançon, France. May 2017. (photo © Elisa Murcia Artengo)

Ericailcane. Bien Urbain Festival 2017. Besançon, France. May 2017. (photo © Elisa Murcia Artengo)

Ericailcane. Bien Urbain Festival 2017. Besançon, France. May 2017. (photo © Elisa Murcia Artengo)

Liliwenn. “Liberté endormie”. Vannes, France. May 2017. (photo © Liliwenn)

Liliwenn. “Liberté endormie”. Vannes, France. May 2017. (photo © Liliwenn)

Liliwenn. “Liberté endormie”. Vannes, France. May 2017. (photo © Liliwenn)

Liliwenn at work on “Liberté endormie” (photo © “Vannes et sa street“)

Karl Addison Carina Le M.U.R, Paris, November 2016. (photo © Karl Addison)

Karl Addison Carina Le M.U.R, Paris, November 2016. (photo © Karl Addison)

Karl Addison Carina Le M.U.R, Paris, November 2016. (photo © Karl Addison)

Herakut. Paris. (photo © courtesy of Galerie Mathgoth)

Herakut. Paris. (photo © courtesy of Galerie Mathgoth)

“This message is for the kids. Even though our times make it hard to see, there is magic. (We have seen it)”

Herakut. Paris. (photo © courtesy of Galerie Mathgoth)

Herakut. Paris. (photo © courtesy of Galerie Mathgoth)

Herakut. Paris. (photo © courtesy of Galerie Mathgoth)

Herakut. Paris. (photo © courtesy of Galerie Mathgoth)

Herakut. Paris. (photo © courtesy of Galerie Mathgoth)

Herakut. Paris. (photo © courtesy of Galerie Mathgoth)

Herakut. Paris. (photo © courtesy of Galerie Mathgoth)

Herakut. Paris. (photo © courtesy of Galerie Mathgoth)

Herakut. Paris. (photo © courtesy of Galerie Mathgoth)

Herakut. Paris. (photo © courtesy of Galerie Mathgoth)

Herakut. Paris. (photo © courtesy of Galerie Mathgoth)

c215. 100 Walls for Youth. Sarcelles, France. September 2016. (photo © courtesy of 100 Walls for Youth)

c215. 100 Walls for Youth. Sarcelles, France. September 2016. (photo © courtesy of 100 Walls for Youth)

c215. 100 Walls for Youth. Sarcelles, France. September 2016. (photo © courtesy of 100 Walls for Youth)

c215. 100 Walls for Youth. Sarcelles, France. September 2016. (photo © courtesy of 100 Walls for Youth)

c215. 100 Walls for Youth. Sarcelles, France. September 2016. (photo © courtesy of 100 Walls for Youth)

c215. 100 Walls for Youth. Sarcelles, France. September 2016. (photo © courtesy of 100 Walls for Youth)

c215. 100 Walls for Youth. Sarcelles, France. September 2016. (photo © courtesy of 100 Walls for Youth)

c215. 100 Walls for Youth. Sarcelles, France. September 2016. (photo © courtesy of 100 Walls for Youth)

c215. 100 Walls for Youth. Sarcelles, France. Septiembre 2016. (photo © courtesy of 100 Walls for Youth)

Spaik at work on “Nochixtlan” for Le Mur. Paris, France. July 2016. (photo © Pierre Lecaroz)

Spaik “Nochixtlan” for Le Mur. Paris, France. July 2016. (photo © Pierre Lecaroz)

Spaik “Nochixtlan” for Le Mur. Paris, France. July 2016. (photo © Pierre Lecaroz)

Spaik “Nochixtlan” for Le Mur. Paris, France. July 2016. (photo © Pierre Lecaroz)

Spaik at work on“Flying Eagle” for Bloop Festival. Ibiza, Spain. July 2016. (photo © Spaik)

No fear, bro. Spaik “Flying Eagle” for Bloop Festival. Ibiza, Spain. July 2016. (photo © Spaik)

David Walker in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France for Galerie Mathgoth. July 2016. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)

David Walker in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France for Galerie Mathgoth. July 2016. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)

David Walker in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France for Galerie Mathgoth. July 2016. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)

David Walker in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France for Galerie Mathgoth. July 2016. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)

David Walker in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France for Galerie Mathgoth. July 2016. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)

Never Crew for Grenoble Festival 2016. France. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE (photo © Never Crew)

Never Crew for Grenoble Festival 2016. France. (photo © Never Crew)

Never Crew for Grenoble Festival 2016. France. (photo © Never Crew)

Never Crew for Grenoble Festival 2016. France. (photo © Never Crew)

Never Crew for Grenoble Festival 2016. France. (photo © Never Crew)

Never Crew for Grenoble Festival 2016. France. (photo © Never Crew)

Our top image: Marie Roberts for Coney Art Walls 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist’s portrait of Muhammad Ali who passed away this Friday. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BG183 TATS Crew for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

CRASH TATS Crew for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nicer TATS Crew for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BIO TATS Crew for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Oh my God, I am totally getting a selfie with this. No one back in Nazareth will believe this. Suurreeusly.” KLOPS for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JMR for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NEPO . CORO for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

GIZ. Joe Ficalora The Bushwick Collective founder with his BFF Pope Francis. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

You Go Girl! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XSM (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pizza on the run. The Yok and Sheryo shot through the driver’s seat of a parked UPS truck. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

UNO. Marseille, France. May 2016. (photo © UNO)

Thomas Allen, partially obscured by some green buffing. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Thomas Allen (photo © Jaime Rojo)

City Kitty. A mash up of two giants of rock whom we lost withing months of each other this winter/spring – with that intuitive third eye. “You will be missed” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Prince. Is VJZ the signature of the artist who painted the portrait? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified Artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“The monster within and the fool that follows.” Heard that. Tristan Eaton for Coney Art Walls 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Samantha Vernon for Coney Art Walls 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Is there a story behind this, or simply a fantasy scenario? 1Penemy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“I hate your negative energy”. Unidentified Artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Loco Art (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Brooklyn Navy Yard. Duke Riley’s Fly By Night performance with pigeons in collaboration with Creative Time. Brooklyn, NY. June 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Da Mental Vaporz (DMV) Villa Alliv. Marseille, France. April 2016 (photo © courtesy Villa Alliv)

Da Mental Vaporz (DMV) Villa Alliv. Marseille, France. April 2016 (photo © courtesy Villa Alliv)

Da Mental Vaporz (DMV) Villa Alliv. Marseille, France. April 2016 (photo © courtesy Villa Alliv)

Da Mental Vaporz (DMV) Villa Alliv. Marseille, France. April 2016 (photo © courtesy Villa Alliv)