A few weeks ago, we dropped in on Alex Pardee and his team as they were painting the offices of Urban Air in SOMA/San Francisco. We snapped a few photos, caught up with the man, and tried not to get black paint on our shoes. Thank you to Urban Air for letting us sit on their couch and vent. —Raymond Brown/The Citrus Report
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We went and hung out with Alex Pardee this past week as he was painting a new mural at Urban Air in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. We made him wear a horse mask, which made painting a lot easier.
Also, if you get time, Pardee has a show at the Zerofriends store in Oakland with photographer Chloe Rice that you should definitely go and check out. Here is a full list of images from that opening.
You cannot contain nor stop the capitalistic flood… such is the language of Italian artist Blu for his fourth mural in Buenos Aires, Argentina over the past few months. As BA Street Art describes it, the mural “features a river of money flowing through an enormous city of office blocks and high-rise buildings before engulfing the countryside and tiny houses below.” (Via BA Street Art)
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Brazilian artist Emol continues a nice series of murals with this new piece for the Wall 191. As always with Emol… bright, colorful on an otherwise dark, grey surrounding.
Images by Amanda Lopes
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Italian muralist, and probably the most influential political cartoonist in the art world, Blu just destroyed the planet in a huge explosion in Buenos Aires. It just so happens that we are just living on a jigsaw puzzle, and we are going to float into the universe, and nobody is going to remember that the Earth was there.
All images via BA Street Art, a great blog run by good people.
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An artist you should 100% get to know now: Spanish street and fine artist, Liqen. This is the mural he completed for the Wynwood Arts Project in Miami for Art Basel. As you can see, it is really good.
We aren’t going to hide it. Blu is one of our all-time favorites, and if he did a hip-hop album, we would buy it. The Italian artist just completed a new mural in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with hundreds of characters adorned with the Argentine flag over their eyes.
Herbert Baglione has gone from Oaxaca and painting with Dr. Lakra to painting in Mexico City with the help of our Upper Playground Mexico City team. Herbert has been painting numerous murals around the city, and these are some of the newest images we have received.
Herbert told us that this mural is his interpretation of his experience in Mexico, and that’s why he painted a character with cactus shaped intestines. He says he found a strong relation between his work and Mexico, even stronger than Brazil. He feels truly identified with the Mexican vision of Death, just like another stage of existence, a cycle.
Here are some of the final images from the Dr. Lakra and Herbert Baglione mural collaboration done during the Day of the Dead festivities in Oaxaca, Mexico last week. They made a good pairing. We want to thank everyone at Upper Playground Mexico City and FIFTY24MX Gallery for making this happen, and of course, thank you to Dr. Lakra and Herbert Baglione for getting together.
