![]() Primarily New York based, BSA interviewed, shot, and displayed images from Street Artists from more than 100 cities over the last year, making the site a truly global resource for artists, fans, collectors, gallerists, museums, curators, academics, and others in the creative ecosystem. We also see hope and determination.Įvery Sunday on, we present “Images Of The Week”, our weekly interview with the street. As you look at the faces and expressions it is significant to see a sense of unrest, anger, fear. From aerosol to brush to wheat-paste to sculpture and installations, the individual acts of art on the street can be uniquely powerful – even if you don’t personally know where or who it is coming from. Of the thousands of images he took this year in places like New York, Berlin, Scotland, Hong Kong, Sweden, French Polynesia, Barcelona, and Mexico City, photographer Jaime Rojo found that Street Art and graffiti are more alive than every before. Here in Esplugues de Llobregat the multi-story mural graces a student residence designed by the Portuguese architect José Quintela da Fonseca. The Great Mother Goddess of wisdom, useful arts, and prudent warfare here emerges from a layered cloud of tags drawn from the artists’ friends and peers, local tributes, and a wide range of styles from modern graffiti practice. Freshly finished this week across 125 square meters, the mural depicts a particular version of the Pallas Athena’s sculpture in the Austrian Parliament that is in Vienna. (photo © Fer Alcala)īringing their unique blend of old-world European white classical sculpture and the bright side of modern urban vandalism to Barcelona, the artistic duo PichiAvo paints the Greek goddess Athena engulfed in bubble tags. Our special thanks to talented photographer Fer Alcala today who shares his unique view and optical talents today with BSA Readers. The Spanish painters’ deconstruction of classical iconography is becoming the stuff of legends, and here they present their tableaus in sectional designs that poke inside and out- elaborate expressions of gauzy and marbled high and low imagery blended in a complimentary way. This time their signature style is employed for a real estate developer client and the results are tight as ever. Here we see graffiti/Street Art/muralist duo PichiAvo is prevailing as well in Barcelona during recent commissions in July and September. ![]() You can read HERE about their Athena intervention back in July. Poseidon and the sea are both visible from here, so is Athena, another powerful Greek god. The year 2018 was a turning point for the duo, as they rose to be considered as two of the most influential street artists of our time.PichiAvo finishes Artistic intervention in the Livensa Living Diagonal Alto student residence. In solely ten years, PichiAvo has gained international recognition, and are now sought after by street art festivals, galleries, and other various prestigious institutions. The result is a paradoxical tension that stands incomparable in the field of urban art. ![]() They recreate iconic figures in a hyper-realistic way through the application of advanced technical skill and reinterpret them through the lens of contemporary street art. Classical culture is alluded to through various representations of Greek and Roman mythology. They initiated a novel process of working with four hands instead of two-a defining trait for their signature style.Ī shared appreciation for classical arts led them to create an immaculate fusion of fine art and street art. They met in Valencia and decided to work together in 2007 under the pseudonym “PichiAvo”. Antonio Sánchez Santos (Pichi) and Álvaro Hernández Santaeulalia (Avo) are two artists from Valencia, Spain.
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