Mała 4

Praga neighborhood, Warsaw, Poland
April 2012

Project curated by Vlepvnet Foundation

During April 2012, I worked on a social project with kids from the Praga neighborhood in Warsaw. Because of their social environment and other factors, they don’t have an easy life and spend most of their time hanging out in the street. The Vlepvnet Foundation and the GPAS association organized the project, This Way to give them an opportunity to collaborate with contemporary artists and create a mural in their neighborhood. Our mural was painted on Mała street.

Using their help and input, we created an “abstract alphabet” using simple geometric shapes. Then, combining stencils, we painted the words that they chose on the wall. The first two days, we organized a workshop to define the letters of our alphabet and to cut the stencils. During the next 5 days, we completed the mural using the words and sentences that the kids chose.

For those who want to translate the mural, here is the alphabet and a Polish to English translator. (Using the virtual keyboard and pressing the “Alt+Ctrl” key you will be able to use the Polish special characters.)

Process Pictures:

Eltono Warsaw
Click on the picture to see a bigger image of the mural.

Eltono V9 Warsaw
The last day, we painted the entrance of V9, the Foundation Vlepvnet headquarter.

Thanks a lot to Vlepvnet and GPAS and in particular to Mati, Mateusz, Maciek, Gołota, Goro, Zrazik and Tomek.

“Line and Surface”

Monographic book

Published by Stickit in 2012, the book has been released in a limited edition of 1000 copies. In this small format book (22 x 15,50 cm) you will find a selection of the street works and interior experiments that I have been doing since 1999. This 96 page book features many previously unseen photographs as well as descriptive texts about my experiences working around the world. Forewords were written by Javier Abarca and Rafael Schacter and the book was designed by Jeroen van Mourik.

35 € + 10 € (shipping costs), for sale here: www.eltono.com/en/boutique/product/line-and-surface

Duotone

Oz.
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 66, Amsterdam, NL
March 24th – April 24th 2012
Curated by Stickit

Process:

Result:

Exhibition:

Duotone prints are for sale in the Boutique.

Billboard Appropriation

Utrecht, Netherlands
March 2012

Project in collaboration with Stickit

Action video:

Process pictures:

Thanks Wood, Mores, Merijn Hos, Tibor Kocsis and Stijn Jansen!