Icone streetart festival

Icone streetart festival
Modena, Italy
2013 and earlier
streetart

The city Modena in Emilia-Romagna, Italy is the spot for the Icone Graffiti festival. The mastermind of the festival, Pietro Rivasi, has several times managed to gather an impressive range of both Italian and international graffiti/streetart artists to beautify the walls in the city. Sooner or later the city administration must understand and appreciate the effort of this, but in the meantime it is for us and the inhabitants to enjoy. 

The 2013 festival followed a year of devastating earthquakes in the Modena province. Several villages in the countryside were seriously wounded by several quakes. The Icone festival decided to appreciate these villages by offering them a gift in form of wonderful murals.

Here are some murals from Modena. More can be found on the festival webpage www.iconemodena.org, now also with a map of the murals at http://goo.gl/maps/d3Nh8

Under the bridge:


Bastardilla & Erica il Cane


Etnik



Francesco Barbieri



At the sport palace:


Bastardilla & Erica il Cane


Escif


Escif


Escif


James Kalinda


Nunca & Blu


Blu & Erica il Cane

Elsewhere in town:


Erica il Cane


Herbert Baglione




Ozmo


Old mural by Erica il Cane


Old mural by Blu




CT


108




Mosone


Zamoc


Requia

M-city in Gdansk

Two impressive murals by m-city in Gdansk:

In a school yard, partly painted by school children:


In a back yard, collaboration with Ozmo:





Detail

Monumental art in Gdansk

Monumental art
Gdansk 2016 European Culture Capital candidate
Suburb murals

As part of the program of promoting Gdansk as a candidate for European Culture Capital 2016, massive walls in the suburbs have been painted with impressive murals. This festival took place in 2009 and 2010 and before. Many of the artists are locals.


Krzysztof Wróblewski - Westerplatte
Westerplatte is the spot where the first shots were fired from the German fleet, thus starting WWII


The Pope and Lech Walesa
The most famous Polish people


Lech Walesa
Another portrait of the former Solidarity leader and Polish president


Justyna Dziechciarska - Dywizjon 303
A memorial mural to the 303 division of WWII, situated in 303 division street


Jacek Wilebski


Ozmo
More about the context and background of the mural on Ozmo's flickrpage:

photo by Ozmo



Jacopo Ceccarelli - 2501


Ryszard Niedzielski


M-City
The highlight of the murals, this massive piece by M-City


Detail by M-City


- and just for the curiosity of it, this is the 9th longest building in Europe. "The wavy building" was built in the 60-70s, being 850m long and 11 stories high, home for about 6000 inhabitants.

More about Monumental Art here