In parallel with my participation in the Wooster Collective 10th Anniversary Show at the Jonathan Levine Gallery, I was invited to paint a huge mural on one of the side walls of the BQE in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
Panoramic animation (pass your mouse over the image to move it).
Process pictures:
(Click on the picture to enlarge)
Thanks a lot for the great help from: Mike “Little Kang”, Hope, Matt, Sierra, Mariana, Leila & Brian, Laine, Corina, Russell, Joel & Brad, Theresa, Tara, Mary Kate & Fede, Kym, Kathryn Yerg, and the photographer Daniel Greenfeld.
Doppelgaenger Gallery
Via Verrone 8, Bari, Italy
June 25th – September 15th 2013
8 Linee attraverso 4 Punti – Randomly generated mural painting – Mural executed for the Fresh Flâneurs show in Doppelgaenger Gallery.
“8 lines made of 4 points” – Following a very simple set of predetermined rules, I painted eight lines; each one of them was made of four points randomly positioned on a defined plane.
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:
Creation of the alphabet
First trial writing using our new alphabet
Cutting stencils
On the way to Mala street
The wall on Mala street, number 4
And we started painting...
Done! 31 words over 8 lines
Mati, Mateusz and Maciek
Click on the picture to see a bigger image of the mural.
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.