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Art in the Alps Pt 1: A Visual Guide to Grenoble’s Street Art Fest 2024

July 30, 2024 Artists

Today, we have new works from the 10th Annual Street Art Fest Grenoble, with photographs by veteran photographer Martha Cooper to show us the way. This is the first of two installments. Grenoble, surrounded by majestic mountains, once again becomes a dynamic canvas for artistic expression in a way that distinguishes this region from many others. The 2024 edition of the Street Art Fest Grenoble-Alpes celebrates its 10th anniversary with a diverse showcase.

The Spacejunk Art Center, under Jérôme Catz’s direction, organizes the festival, which features a variety of street art styles, from large-scale murals to digital installations. The robust program aims to inspire and educate through concerts, exhibitions, guided tours, and workshops. The event promotes accessibility and cultural dialogue, encouraging interaction between artists and the public. Luckily for Brooklyn Street Art readers, Ms. Cooper has an investigative mind and also treats us to fresh shots of graffiti in the open and hidden spots.

Lidia Cao. Grenoble Alpes Street Art Fest 2024. Grenoble, France. (photo © Martha Cooper)

This year’s lineup includes prominent artists such as Madame, STOM500, JACE, Fintan Magee, Innerfields, Belin, Maye, and Jimmy Dvate. They join the collection of over 400 murals already in the city, adding new layers of creativity and commentary. Although the artists do not all arrive simultaneously, the festival’s evolving schedule ensures fresh installations throughout the event.

We invite you to explore this series of photographs showcasing the latest additions to Grenoble’s artistic landscape. Stay tuned for the next installment.

SETH. Grenoble Alpes Street Art Fest 2024. Grenoble, France. (photo © Martha Cooper)

Fintan Magee. Grenoble Alpes Street Art Fest 2024. Grenoble, France. (photo © Martha Cooper)

Innerfields. Grenoble Alpes Street Art Fest 2024. Grenoble, France. (photo © Martha Cooper)

Lina Besedina. Detail. Grenoble Alpes Street Art Fest 2024. Grenoble, France. (photo © Martha Cooper)

SATR. Grenoble Alpes Street Art Fest 2024. Grenoble, France. (photo © Martha Cooper)

Jace and Stom500. Detail. Grenoble Alpes Street Art Fest 2024. Grenoble, France. (photo © Martha Cooper)

Maye. Grenoble Alpes Street Art Fest 2024. Grenoble, France. (photo © Martha Cooper)

PichiAvo. Grenoble Alpes Street Art Fest 2024. Grenoble, France. (photo © Martha Cooper)

Braga Last1. Grenoble Alpes Street Art Fest 2024. Grenoble, France. (photo © Martha Cooper)

NEAN. Grenoble Alpes Street Art Fest 2024. Grenoble, France. (photo © Martha Cooper)

MOTS. Grenoble Alpes Street Art Fest 2024. Grenoble, France. (photo © Martha Cooper)

OTIST. Grenoble Alpes Street Art Fest 2024. Grenoble, France. (photo © Martha Cooper)

Graffiti Jam. Grenoble Alpes Street Art Fest 2024. Grenoble, France. (photo © Martha Cooper)

Grenoble Alpes Street Art Fest 2024. Grenoble, France. (photo © JMartha Cooper)

“Street Art Rebellion” Joins “Extinction Rebellion” to #loveplanet

January 25, 2021 Artists

Street Art Rebellion & Extinction Rebellion have created a participative poster campaign called #loveplanet. Artworks available to everyone for FREE and for many ecological fights around the world.

Street Art Rebellion #loveplanet (photo © Eric Coquelin)

As we continue to explore the art of rebellion around the world and the artivists who are using their communal talents around the world to turn the tides of environmental disaster, we bring you the French organization called Street Art Rebellion, who along with the global environmental activists called Extinction Rebellion have conjured a participatory action for you. It is a participative poster campaign called #loveplanet and organizers say they would like to think that the action takes the form of a collective collage campaign in France and abroad.

Yseult YZ Digan. Street Art Rebellion #loveplanet (photo courtesy of Street Art Rebellion)

Like Extinction Rebellion each of these 48 artists believe that we have a moral responsibility to take personal action, whatever our personal politics about other issues are.

“Life on Earth is in crisis,” says the group on their website. “Our climate is changing faster than scientists predicted and the stakes are high. Biodiversity loss. Crop failure. Social and ecological collapse. Mass extinction. We are running out of time, and our governments have failed to act. Extinction Rebellion was formed to fix this.” The two groups say it is a participative poster campaign called #loveplanet, and artworks available to all and for all ecological fights around the world. The campaign is documented on the groups Facebook page since it began in September and they hope they will spread the news and inspire more artists to join in.

SETH. Street Art Rebellion #loveplanet (photo courtesy of Street Art Rebellion)

“We encourage society as a whole to continue and expand the movement.”

Today you can join in by downloading artworks donated by these artists as posters and put them up around your neighborhood, your area, your street.

Click here to download your poster in
English, Spanish or French

Street Art Rebellion #loveplanet (photo © Kathy Lamri)

Street Art Rebellion #loveplanet (photo © Oliver Aubry)

Post Industrial Animist. Street Art Rebellion #loveplanet (photo courtesy of Street Art Rebellion)

Skount. Street Art Rebellion #loveplanet (photo courtesy of Street Art Rebellion)

Melle Terite and Philippe Herard. Street Art Rebellion #loveplanet (photo © Kathy Lamri)

Melle Terite. Street Art Rebellion #loveplanet (photo courtesy of Street Art Rebellion)

David De La Mano. Street Art Rebellion #loveplanet (photo courtesy of Street Art Rebellion)

Jean-Michel Ouvry. Street Art Rebellion #loveplanet (photo courtesy of Street Art Rebellion)

Stormie. Street Art Rebellion #loveplanet (photo courtesy of Street Art Rebellion)

JACE. Street Art Rebellion #loveplanet (photo courtesy of Street Art Rebellion)

Jober. Street Art Rebellion #loveplanet (photo courtesy of Street Art Rebellion)

Click HERE to download your FREE poster.

JACE in Grigny, France Brings the “Gouzou”

November 6, 2019 Artists

“Gouzou” are on the loose in Grigny, thanks to their creator, French graffiti writer and muralist JACE.

JACE. Wall Street Art Festival 2019. Grigny, France. (photo © Galerie MathGoth)

A children-friendly installation in a city that needs some love, the artist who began as a graffiti writer in 1989 here brings his famous faceless characters called the “Gouzou” to pop out of the box buildings and water the flowers of growth here.

JACE says he’s been painting this character since the early 90s and they are complex, despite their appearance. “The “Gouzou” is an anthropomorphic character, cheerful and endearing but not without a touch of malice,” says his bio, “Soft and delicate, he can be just as impertinent and teasing!”

This new community mural is in a housing estate in the district called “La Grande Borne”, or perhaps, “The Great Frontier”, but over time its reputation has become somewhat tarnished due to high unemployment, lack of economic opportunity, and probably systemic racism.

The Wiki entry says “Built as a 1960s social utopia with winding coloured buildings, it was intended to become an ideal dormitory town. With 11,000 inhabitants, it has become a by-word for poverty, drug dealing, arms trafficking, youth criminality and attacks on police, as well as arson attacks on public buildings.”

In a 2015 article in Le Parisien even the Socialist MP Malek Boutih has said about La Grande Borne, “A city where officials, including elected officials, make a pact with evil, thugs, offenders, corruption.” (translated with Google)

Maybe JACE’s Gouzou will bring a positive influence on the neighborhood? At least that’s what the mural program “Wall Street Festival” has in mind.

“Bringing culture to working-class neighborhoods is like a duty for me,” says organizer and founder Gautier Jourdain. “This is where the works are most important.”

Where Graffiti Art Is The Rose of The Desert : Spraying Outside the Jardin

January 26, 2017 Artists

When you are a renowned graffiti writer living 25 minutes outside of Marrakech at an artists compound and painting in your studio to prepare for an upcoming exhibition on canvas, sometimes you still are activated by wanderlust to go out and catch a tag. Or something more elaborate.

Ceet . Tilt . Clone. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jardin Rouge has hosted some of best known American and European graffiti writers such as members of Tats Cru, Daze, Ceet, Jace and Tilt as well as Street/Mural Artists like Kashink, Mad C and Hendrick Beikirch (ECB) over the past few years, inviting them to paint and sculpt new works in roomy quiet studios and on the buildings of the property itself.

As you leave the compound and take a long walk or motorcycle ride up the lonely and narrow dusty roads and gaze through ruddy fields past lines of olive trees you’ll discover bubbled and colorful aerosol works on dilapidated structures, half walls, and cratered remnants of buildings that rise just above the rich red soil.

Ceet . Tilt. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Suddenly the visual language of the inner city overflows the margins into agrarian areas, this time by way of a fervent patronage of this painting practice as art form. The distinction happens more often these days with festivals, galleries, museums, brands, collectors, fans inviting urban artists to suburban or ex-urban oasis to create their signature work very far removed from its original context.

Until now most of the fiery debates about graffiti and Street Art moving into the mainstream have focused on whether it belongs in institutions, or needs to be studied in academia, or if it ceases to be graffiti or street art when it is made for the gallery canvas or brought into the gallery directly from the street. Here, it is going anywhere but mainstream.

Clone. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

What do we call graffiti writing or characters from one city when it is introduced to another city, as has happened for decades thanks to the nomadic nature of couch-surfing artists and the adventurous practices of the graffiti tribe. And what happens when it goes for a hike further afield?

What do you call it when artists like Yok & Sheryo are on perpetual spraycation in places like Ethiopia or Mexico or when ROA is spraying his monochromatic animals in fields of Latin America or when New York graffiti icons are providing a backdrop to livestock that are chewing their cud and flipping their tales at flies?

310. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Is the graffiti and Street Art practice intrinsically tied to location or citizenship or local identity? Is is somehow made new by its audience?

There is much concern expressed today about graffiti and Street Artists losing their “street cred” (ibility) or authenticity by painting permissioned murals in their home cities or at festivals they have been invited to.

310. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

In many countries and regions there are no norms regarding aerosol art, so none are violated when an artist decides to spray a multicolored bubble tag on an old milk house next to a collapsed dairy barn.

One wonders how to contemplate the work of artists whose culture has often been marginalized when the work itself keeps appearing in unexplored margins.

As usual, the movement of these art forms and their various practices are in flux, continuously on the morph. At the very least the new context draws the work into strong relief, allowing a new way to regard its aesthetics.

310 . Ceet . Tilt. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Reso. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Reso. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo

Reso . Goddog. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Reso. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Goddog. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ceet. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tilt . Poes. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified Artist. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ceet . Jace. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ceet . Jace . Bio Tats Crew . 123 Klan . Klor. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ceet . Bio Tats Crew . 123 Klan . Klor. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tats Crew BG183. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ceet . Bio Tats Crew. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Reso. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rezo . Rolk. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Basila . Unidentified artist. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

DE. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JACE Plays Enormous Game of Donkey Kong in Paris 13

August 6, 2015 Artists

JACE has been creating his small figure called Gouzou on walls on streets and roadsides since in 1992 and has a serious set of fans that love to see them in various situations. With the opportunity to go large in Paris he gave his cartoon-like figure a stage to run on multiple stories – one in fact modeled on the video game “Donkey Kong” with the original Mario character substituted with his Gouzou.

Full of ladders, trap holes, sacks of Euros, and a handful of serious dangers, you can see that the platform adventure is really all about getting to the hip-shaking princess. That’s another opportunity to score, as it were.

JACE with his assistant WOSE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

Another mural in Paris 13 organized by Gallerie Mathgoth, the theme was chosen after conferring with the residents of this social housing complex. Jace wants to thank his assistant Wose and we thank Mathgoth for sharing it with BSA readers.

JACE with his assistant WOSE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

JACE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

JACE with his assistant WOSE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

JACE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

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Hot Shots and Video From 1st FIAP in Holbox, Mexico

March 18, 2014 Artists

It must be sooooooooooo hard to paint a mural in paradise.

Hollbox Island is the home of the first international public art festival in Mexico and appears to be a good location to test this theory.

Canada’s Labrona was one of the first street artists to participate this February and he characterizes the experience as “the most magical location for a mural festival ever.” Hyperbole, perhaps but look at these images, many of them provided for BSA readers by painter and FIAP participant Jason Botkin, another Montreal artist and fellow EN MASSE crew member who has also made major inroads in the mural circuit.

Says Labrona, “I painted this mural on a tranquil sand street a few blocks from a beautiful beach. I made a ton of friends,” he says. Most notably he says were the two incredible Mexican artist-muralists Curiot and Lesuperdemon. Mexicans who are outrageously talented at murals? Stop!

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Click HERE to learn more about Festival Internacional de Arte Publico (FIAP) Holbox 2014

Street Art Dispatch from Bangkok, Thailand

March 18, 2013 Artists

Street Artist Blanco grabbed his camera while visiting Bangkok, Thailand this month and discovered walls full of color, character, and even some graff names he’s familiar with in New York. “Utah and Ether are all over the city, crushing it,” he remarks.

His timing for visiting the city was good too because it coincided with the BukRuk Street Art Festival that ran from February 16 through March 17 and featured 27 artists from Thailand and Europe painting murals and installations in the downtown area of Bangkok.

Thanks to Blanco for sharing with BSA readers these new shots he took of both the sanctioned murals and the unsanctioned works left behind by numerous crews on the streets of Bangkok.

Click here for further information about the BUKRUK Street Art Festival

Artists participating in BUKRUK included;

AKACORLEONE Portugal,

ALEX FACE Thailand

AMANDIN URRUTY France

BEN EINE England

BON Thailand

BONOM Belgium

DAAN BOTLEK Netherlands

DEM Italy

HARITORN AKARAPAT Thailand

HATTIE STEWART England

IBIE Spain

KOBBY Thailand

KRUELLA D’ENFER Portugal

LEE Thailand

LOW BROS Germany

MAMAFAKA Thailand

NICOLAS BARROME France

P7 Thailand

RICK HEDOF Netherlands

RUKKIT Thailand

SADDO Romania

SAN Spain

TAWAN WATTUYA Thailand

TIKA Switzerland

TRK Thailand

YUREE Thailand

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Ceet . Tilt . Clone. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ceet . Tilt. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Clone. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

310. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

310. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

310 . Ceet . Tilt. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Reso. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Reso. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Reso. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo

Reso . Goddog. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Reso. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Goddog. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Goddog. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ceet. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ceet. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ceet. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ceet. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tilt . Poes. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified Artist. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ceet . Jace. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ceet . Jace . Bio Tats Crew . 123 Klan . Klor. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ceet . Bio Tats Crew . 123 Klan . Klor. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ceet . Bio Tats Crew . 123 Klan . Klor. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tats Crew BG183. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ceet . Bio Tats Crew. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Reso. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rezo . Rolk. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Basila . Unidentified artist. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

DE. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist. Jardin Rouge, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JACE with his assistant WOSE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

JACE with his assistant WOSE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

JACE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

JACE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

JACE with his assistant WOSE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

JACE with his assistant WOSE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

JACE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

JACE. Galerie Mathgoth. July 2015. Paris. (photo © Courtesy of Galerie MathGoth)

Jason Botkin and Curiot collaboration. Detail. (photo © LunAzul Photography)

Jason Botkin and Curiot collaboration. (photo © LunAzul Photography)

Jason Botkin and Curiot collaboration. (photo © Events Playa)

Labrona (photo © Jason Botkin)

Labrona (photo © Jason Botkin)

Dherzu (photo © Jason Botkin)

Le Super Demon (photo © LunAzul Photography)

Jace (photo © Jason Botkin)

Omen (photo © Jason Botkin)

Rukkit (photo © Blanco)

Rime (photo © Blanco)

Low Bros (photo © Blanco)

Irak Crew (photo © Blanco)

Akacorleone (photo © Blanco)

UFO 907 (photo © Blanco)

Bangkok local flavor. (photo © Blanco)

Utah . Ether (photo © Blanco)

Tika (photo © Blanco)

Space Invader (photo © Blanco)

MSK (photo © Blanco)

Jace (photo © Blanco)

Jace (photo © Blanco)

Ether (photo © Blanco)

Armandine Urrity . Nicolas Barrome (photo © Blanco)

Utah, Ether, BNE, MMT (photo © Blanco)

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