Win Mural Masters: A New Generation By Kiriakos Iosifidis Released As Hardcover

era's tragedy is that advertisement, consumption, and culture can coincide, " P. Kondilis

Street art and graffiti, despite their "aggressive" or "illegal" character, offer an alleviative way out of the nouveau riche lifestyle that overwhelms the artistic markets.
Not only because they utilize tremendous, unexploited surfaces of the degrading urban landscape, or

because they expand and they revolutionize the sense of public space, but also because they take the paintings from stuffy lounges and bring it to the centre of life of the contemporary cities even if it is a ghetto, reversing the sofar traditional process: it is not the audience that has to go to the art but it is the art that has to look for and find its audience.


For anyone interested in public art and public murals, support UrbanAct! This organization is to promote the art and the techniques of alternative forms of culture such as public mural art, graffiti, street art, cycling, etc.
UrbanAct aims to intervene with art in the urban landscape by creating outdoor wall paintings and organizing festivals and exhibitions, The murals embellish the urban landscape and create landmarks, illustrate the ideas and energy of artists about expressing and creating, and promote the familiarity of public spaces.
They also give a reason to push people out of their cages, get out on the streets, get together, talk, watch, and put and fantasy in their lives.


The murals of UrbanAct dramatize the neutral, calm facades of houses, the uniform passive surfaces by creating a new continuum of architecture and painting: a space into and onto a given space like a visual puzzle that activates and pleases the viewer.
The image, sometimes compromisingly and sometimes extensionally, claims its place in the preexistent urban design by staging a new work every time.
A joyous drama of forms that grow rapidly, interlink, and eject towards infinity through explosions of colours and intensities of form.
Colors of placards, envois drawing details, coexistence of representative and abstracted elements, projections of details, illusionary games, exaggerations of some patterns, repetitions of synthetic inventions, plastic solutions that adjust to a given surface, all of these converge to the achievement of a specific aim: the creation of a pictorial architectural set which will have both the signature of the artists and the consent of the residents.
Thest century has seen a sea change in perceptions of public art, No longer limited to alleys and the shadows of overpasses, a new generation is painting towering, colorful pieces in the broad light of day.
Mural Masters is a stunning showcase of work by more than ninety street painters, including legends like C, Hendrik Beikirch, Herakut, Logan Hicks, INTI, Faith XLVII, Felipe Pantone, NYCHOS and Saner, as well as a who'swho of upandcoming mural artists.


Styles range from traditional figurative work to abstract and geometric, mirroring a larger shift taking place in this corner of the art world.
A short section of collaborative murals offers a look into what happens when singular artistic minds meet, creating visuals greater than the sum of their parts.
Dynamic, international and contemporary, Mural Masters is a mustown for anyone interested in the unfolding evolution of street art.
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