![]() A multimedia artist from Rome, Alice Pasquini explores the brighter side of human relationships in her street art works. Questioning the privileges regarding the construction of meaning, his work creates space for important debates about social significance. A highly versatile artist from Bergen, Nipper will be bringing his Mission Directives project to the city – a project focused on social ideals of sharing, creativity and citizen-led communication in public spaces, created in collaboration with many international artists. Filled with humor and mental games, his vector-based designs or stencil-based street art reveal an impressive complexity and a masterful attention to detail. On the other hand, the Portuguese visual artist and illustrator Add Fuel reinterprets the language of traditional tile design, in particular, the Portuguese glazed tiles. Transporting the viewer beyond mundane routines and expectations into a world of unexpected beauty and chaotic balance, his paintings highlight the extraordinary nature of our everyday existence. Isaac Cordal Fintan Magee, Add Fuel, Nipper, and Alice PasquiniĬonsidered one of the world’s leading figurative street artists, Fintan Magee creates socially and environmentally engaged works, using his own personal experiences to describe global world issues. Merging the perceptions of canonical and street art, he aims to democratize art and question the received authority of the museum. The French artist Julien de Casabianca will bring his participatory art project Outings, embellishing the streets with characters plucked from the archives of the Aberdeen Art Gallery in collaboration with children from local schools. Their creative process, which involves each artist improvising on top of the other, results in heavily stylized artworks that are both sensual and savage. “We better make sure to leave something nice on the awesome wall the Aberdeen team has found for us”, stated the duo. ![]() Merging their individual approaches influenced by graffiti and street art, the German duo Herakut will furnish an Aberdeen landmark with a large-scale mural in their inimitable style. Following a tradition of conceptual art, he uses words as a currency in his wheatpaste artworks, murals, light pieces, woodcuts, and watercolors. Often called a vandal, a street artist, a post-Situationist, and a punk artist, Robert Montgomery creates delicate visual poetry sending a powerful message to the viewers. Leading the line-up is the Scottish-born artist and Venice Biennale participant Robert Montgomery. With a theme entitled Play & The City, Nuart Aberdeen is aiming to present artists working across the spectrum of street art, rather than just being another mural festival. Julien de Casabianca Robert Montgomery, Herakut, and Julien de Casabianca Taking place during Aberdeen’s year of "History, Heritage and Archeology", Nuart Aberdeen aims to show how Street Art can create and environment for a more imaginative use of public space, something Nuart had a focus on since its inception in 2001. Developed in collaboration with Aberdeen Inspired and Aberdeen City Council, the event will provide a platform for local, national and international artists to present their work through a series of site-specific murals, installations, interventions, and temporary exhibitions. Additionally, the festival has also prepared a program of talks, presentations, film screenings, walking tours and workshops. Taking place between April 14th and April 16th, Nuart Aberdeen will bring together an impressive roster of 11 international street artists to The Granite City - Julien de Casabianca, Robert Montgomery, Herakut, Fintan Magee, Add Fuel, Nipper, M-city, Isaac Cordal, Alice Pasquini, Jaune, and Martin Whatson. In addition to his large-scale outdoor installations, Whatson applies his vibrant motifs to canvas, prints, and sculptures.One of the world’s most premier street art festivals, hosting an annual gathering of artists, academics and curators in Stavanger, Norway each September, Nuart Festival is bringing this renowned event to the city of Aberdeen in Scotland this spring. The resulting images are characterized by their multi-layered texture and liberal use of color-such as one series featuring janitor characters “sweeping” away his spray paint designs. Next, he “vandalizes” his own work by adorning the figure with an explosive collage of abstract graffiti. Whatson begins each of his works with a detailed grayscale composition-often self-portraits, dancers, animals, or iconic figures from art history. About Martin Whatson is a Norwegian street and stencil artist who got his start in Oslo’s emerging graffiti scene in the ’90s.
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