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GAR GAR Festival Celebrates 8 Years in Penelles, Spain

GAR GAR Festival Celebrates 8 Years in Penelles, Spain

The Gar Gar Festival in Penelles, Spain, is in its eighth edition this year, showcasing street art, muralism, and a new fleet of artists creating pleasant and clever attractions for city walls.

“The festival hopes to generate resources that allow us to correct the effects of time and the deterioration of our streets, reinspiring hope in our neighbours,” says the website, and who can deny the regenerative effect that street art has been adding to moribund sectors of the urban environment for the last decade or two.

Gijs Vanhee. Detail. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)

Mounted in early May this year over a period of a 3 day festival, Gar Gar featured nine hundred square meters of murals and a program of art, projection mapping, music, expositions, craft beer, and food trucks, along with workshops related to other artistic disciplines. A cooperative of public and privately funded projects, Gar Gar is steered and administered with the help of the advertising and interactive design firm Binomic Cat, which also brings artists together for commercial walls on other occasions.

We’re pleased to show you some of the murals this year thanks to the talent and industry of photographer Lluis Bulbena Olivas, who shares his images here with BSA readers.

Gijs Vanhee. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena
Anna Repullo. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
Wedo Goas. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
Sucri & Furyo. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
Guillermo Font (2022). Sucri & Furyo. Miquel Wert (2021). GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
Kamma Marlo. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
Pedro Poder. Detail. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
Pedro Podre. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
Rame. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
Helene Planquelle. Detail. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
Helene Planquelle. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
Stillo Noir. Detail. GarGar Festival 2023. Penelles, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive-Bulbena)
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The Latest & Varied Paint Jam from 3 Chimeneas in Barcelona

The Latest & Varied Paint Jam from 3 Chimeneas in Barcelona

A true graffiti jam is still possible. This location in Barcelona, the Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas, is a platform for an ever-changing collection of works by new and established practitioners of graffiti, street art, and urban art. How many times have visited a local ‘Wall of Fame’ to find many of the same artists again and again, as if they are hand-picked by ‘kingmakers-queenmakers’?

R. Guixa. Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Over the last decade we have featured this unique venue many times on many different occasions, thanks to photographer and BSA collaborator Lluis Olive Bulbena.

We’re happy to discover the democratic spirit applied to admissions of artists and writers time and again; to see new and emerging styles, political screeds, memoriums, handstyles, portraits, illustrations, text treatments – the gamut of voices that are all part of the greater Barcelona scene and beyond. It is reassuring to see that a scene that can be rebellious against institutional classism and clubby corruptive influences is also not falling prey to them.

This jam was organized by the Periferia Beat Festival, Lluis tells us. “They brought together a group of about 40 artists for a day of art, painting, and sharing stories among old friends.”

Mus Al Mur. Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Anna Repullo. Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Sigrid Amores. Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Lidia M. Pakkete. Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Nirvana. Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Pablo Navas, Reos, Jim Laden. Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Alessian Art. Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
NOS3. Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Kram. Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Badi. Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Art3sano and Ruben Amoros. Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
KopisUno. Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Gargufo. Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Ekudo Works, Slomo. Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Ken Sausage. Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Majara Studio. Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Noble, Turkesa, Dante. Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Plaza de las 3 Chimeneas. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

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BSA Film Friday: 05.10.19

BSA Film Friday: 05.10.19

Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening :
1. INTI “Soleil”. Blinded by the Light.
2. Martha Cooper: Queen der Street Art
3. Elisa Capdevila x Anna Repullo. Contorno Urbano Foundation. 12+1 Project
4. Mare 139 : L’ avenir” Graffuturism. Group Exhibition.
5. FAUST: L’ avenir” Graffuturism. Group Exhibition.

BSA Special Feature: INTI “Soleil”. Blinded by the Light.

OMG WHERE does Chop ’em Down get their music from? Finally we said it out loud.

Yes, the monstrous archive of top-notch video that they are amassing of Street Artists and others creating work in the world is scintillating, the gut-punch editing is riveting, the pickings are lush. But time and again Zane nails it into next week with the music choices. Bless you brother.

INTI “Soleil”. Blinded by the Light. Video by Chop ’em Down Films for Peinture Fraiche Festival. Lyon, France.

Martha Cooper: Queen der Street Art via ZDF German TV (in German no subtitles)

Our sincere thanks to Susanne Lingemann and ZDF German TV for this great piece on Martha Cooper during the premiere of Selina Miles’ movie “Martha: A Picture Story” at Tribeca Film Festival. Next stop Sydney!

Elisa Capdevila x Anna Repullo. Contorno Urbano Foundation. 12+1 Project

Easily the winner of wackiest choice of concept and music for the year so far is this wiccan themed duo in Spain painting walls across from each other on an underpass. Something to do with sensuality and competitiveness and … witchcraft? Good painting tho.

L’avenir

L’avenir Graffuturism Group Exhibition

A special collection of works opened on April 26th under the banner “Graffuturism”, guided by its creator and advocate, the artist Poesia. The lineup includes a number of artists along the street art/graffiti /contemporary continuum such as Augustine Kofie, Tobias Kroeger, Carlos Mare, Doze Green, Jaybo Monk, Faust, Kenor, and Matt W. Moore – each with distinct graphic voices of their own. Below are a couple of brief profiles from the show follow here.

“L’ avenir” Graffuturism. Group Exhibition. Mare139.

“L’ avenir” Graffuturism. Group Exhibition. Faust.

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