URBAN FORMS GALLERY
24.08-30.09.2012 LODZ
On August 24, Urban Forms Foundation starts its second edition of
urban gallery project. For more than a month the most famous street
artists from all around the world will paint five large walls in Lodz.
This year the invited guests are: Brasilian duet Os Gemeos, Inti from
Chile, Aryz from Spain and two artists from Poland. The five paintings
will join the already existing 17 murals. Consequently URBAN FORMS
GALLERY will have more than 20 large format pictures painted directly
on side elevations of buildings in Lodz city centre.
On August 24, painting of the most important and possibly the most
spectacular mural on the world this year will start. The co-authors of
this mural are “godfathers” of the mainstream street art, large format
painting pillars, one of the main XXI c. artists – Brazilian brothers
OS GEMEOS. Their presence in Poland is a world-scale event that will
be recorded by the most prominent media that document and present
modern arts.
The brothers will paint the mural together with one of the most
interesting artists of a new generation – Spanish painter ARYZ who
already painted his solo work in Lodz last year. The fusion of
creativity of these three artists on the same wall will result in an
explosive mix and large format picture on a huge wall on 5 Roosevelta
St. (around 20 metres from Piotrkowska St.).
The mural will be an opening picture of this year’s edition of Urban
Forms Gallery project. It will last from 23 August till the end of
September 2012. This year there will be 5 large murals painted by
street artists from all over the world. Apart from Brazilian and
Spanish artists, a representative from Chile will come to Lodz – Inti,
painter who mainly refers to South American folklore, as well as two
representatives from Poland: OTECKI, graduate at the Eugeniusz Geppert
Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw and LUMP, graduate in Multimedia
Communication at the University of Arts in Poznan.
The five paintings will join the already existing 17 murals.
Consequently URBAN FORMS GALLERY will have more than 20 large format
pictures painted directly on side elevations of buildings in Lodz city
centre.
The fundamental idea of this project is to create a permanent
exhibition of street art in the public space in the city centre of
Lodz. The exhibition, in majority, will be composed of large format
pictures painted directly on side elevations of tenement houses in the
city centre of Lodz. They will be created by the prominent
representatives of large format painting from all around the world. In
the upcoming years the project will expand with other street art
objects like sculpture, installation, street jewellery etc. During a
couple of years there will the urban gallery created that will include
several dozen of exhibits ready to see and visit in a few hours on
foot.
More info:
www.urbanforms.org
www.galeriaurbanforms.org
www.facebook.com/urbanforms
