David Choe + DVS1 at Nuart

Nuart 2011
Streetart festival
Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
1.10.-1.11.11

Give David Choe and DVS1 some spraycans, and they go crazy. Enjoy walking around in the east parts of town discovering their work. The whales are everywhere, as well as beautiful girls and horrible monsters. Prepare for a picture frenzy of what I have found so far:












a Sleipner (Odin's eight-legged horse) for Stavanger



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Dan Witz at Nuart

Nuart 2011
Streetart festival
Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
1.10.-1.11.11

The work of Dan Witz may appear where you least expect it. Look around for surprises. Here are some, I know there are more somewhere.

















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Herbert Baglione at Nuart

Nuart 2011
Streetart festival
Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
1.10.-1.11.11

Herbert Baglione creates art in many stages. On several steps during his outdoor work, the result was artwork packed with symbolism and stories. Here are the chronology of his outdoor work at Tou Scene:


Herbert started out painting faceless figures, like spirits or ghosts.




On the next step, he gave the spirits faces, making them human.




Then he erased the people. He creates, gives life, and takes lives. Instead of waiting for his work to get buffed, he buffs himself. I do not know about any other artist that buffs his own work.


This makes me angry and disappointed. Why does he destroy his own beautiful work? But at the same time the work is still there, under the paint, and I feel privileged to have seen it. Just like I feel privileged to have met people who are no longer among us.


A self portrait of the artist, holding destruction in his hands?

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Roberto at Nuart

Nuart 2011
Streetart festival
Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
1.10.-1.11.11

Roberto was the extra bonus at this year's festival. Tellas needed to bring an assistant to paint all the details of his work. He brought his friend Roberto, who is also an artist. When he chose which wall to paint he also chose his topic, a spiked bench. First afterwards it turned out that the wall was on a shop restoring old furniture. What a great combination! This is truly public art communicating with its context.



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Herakut at Nuart

Nuart 2011
Streetart festival
Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
1.10.-1.11.11

In addition to the crowd of monkeys inside the beer halls, Herakut went out to paint some public monkeys as well. At first it seemed it would be monkeys running free, but eventually they were caged. The little king envied them because they were two, so he caged them in. A beautiful addition to what has become the new hotspot of East Stavanger. Within the same block are several works by Dotmasters, two works by Dolk & Østrem, and a great wall by Roa.





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Tellas at Nuart

Nuart 2011
Streetart festival
Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
1.10.-1.11.11

Like a fresh breath of air, Tellas arrived in Stavanger to bring more nature into the eastern part of town. He usually paints nature elements, like he painted leaves and pebbles in the beer halls at Tou Scene. The green patch of grass at Nytorget is an art project from 2008. What would be better than to combine that nature-art with another art piece inspired by nature? Tellas painted what he figured was typical Stavanger: fish. Stavanger was filled with fish industries some generations ago. Now the oil industry has taken over. The same happens in Tellas' wall painting. Black oil drips from the fishes, and some fishes are totally black. Nature is fragile, almost as fragile as the paper boat he painted.





He also painted rock, floating ones, on a residential building in the western part of town.


 


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Vhils at Nuart

Nuart 2011
Streetart festival
Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
1.10.-1.11.11

Vhils seems to be in a skull mode at the moment. A skull has had different meanings through time. From the "Memento Mori" paintings filled with symbolics about the fragility of life, through times where death is a taboo topic, to the present popularisation of skulls. A skull is not that provoking anymore when you find it on fashion clothing, childrens' clothing and in commercials.

Vhils' skull work is located next to an important drive-through road in East Stavanger. This may be an interesting experiment on how provoking the skull is in the present. Earlier years promotions of underwear has been removed because it disturbed the drivers, will this artwork be ignored or provoke accidents? 

At the site was until recently an old canning factory building, once the dominating industry of Stavanger. This was demolished and replaced by a parking lot, despite a lot of protests by the inhabitants. This is one of many historical buildings that has disappeared as Stavanger grow richer and the property owners want to maximize the value. Is this a process where the flesh of Stavanger is removed, leaving only a hollow skull?


work in progress




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Lucy McLauchlan at Nuart

Nuart 2011
Streetart festival
Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
1.10.-1.11.11

Lucy McLauchlan is adding beauty and sensuality to the streets. After finishing painting Obrestad lighthouse on the coast 1 hour drive south of Stavanger, she painted this wall in Stavanger. The female forms soften the impression of the forgotten, abandoned building. 





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Phlegm at Nuart

Nuart 2011
Streetart festival
Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
1.10.-1.11.11

Phlegm left this wonderful piece on an abandoned building in Stavanger. With his work he is creating fairytales of balloon rides, exotic architecture and fantastic creations. His work has already changed my chosen path through this part of town, I now prefer this narrow street to the more convenient one.



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Hyuro at Nuart

Nuart 2011
Streetart festival
Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
1.10.-1.11.11

Hyuro just painted one wall outside during Nuart. But what a wonderful wall. Her fragile women tangled in long hair fit just perfectly among the ivy plant, framed by the old buildings at the Tou Scene complex. This will not be seen by those passing fast, you have to walk slowly along to discover this piece around the corner. You need time to feel this piece, to see that every hair of the massive hair veil is painted by hand. 


work in progress





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