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Marek Szymanski and dalEAST : 14 From 2014

Marek Szymanski and dalEAST : 14 From 2014

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Happy Holidays to all of you charming and sparkling BSA readers!
It’s been a raucous sleigh ride with you and we thank everyone most sincerely for your support and participation this year. A sort of tradition for us at the end of this December we are marking the year with “14 from 2014”. We asked photographers and curators from various perspectives of street culture to share a gem with all of us that means something to them. Join us as we collectively say goodbye and thank you to ’14.
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Łódź, Poland has metamorphosed in the last couple of years to become a destination for large scale murals of high quality by some of the best names on (what has become) an international circuit of Street Art festivals. Today we ask a talented photographer from Łódź, Marek Szymanski, to share his favorite image from the many he shot this year at Urban Forms. Marek chose this piece by DALeast (born in China, lives in Capetown) to share with BSA readers, and gives an idea of what he was thinking when framing the shot.

“A deer in the city, on the empty, concrete wall, it seems to miss it’s natural surrounding, in which it at its best. That’s why I chose to hide the deer in the branches, which give the impression of the forest, creating a place where the animal can hide and feel safety in a more natural environment”.

” Jeleniowi w mieście, na pustej betonowej, surowej ścianie, wydaje się brakować jego naturalnego środowiska, w którym prezentuje się najlepiej. Stąd próba schowania go w gałęziach drzewa, które dają poczucie lasu, które tworzą miejsce w którym zwierze może się schować, w którym czuje się bezpiecznie, tworząc atmosferę naturalności”

~ Marek Szymanski

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daL East. Lodz, Poland. (photo © Marek Szymanski)

 

See more images of this installation from our posting in October: Flora Turns to Fauna as dalEAST is in Łódź, Poland

 

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VHILS in Łódź Reveals Ghostly Profile Using Signature Destruction

VHILS in Łódź Reveals Ghostly Profile Using Signature Destruction

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It isn’t often that Street Artist Vhils aka Alexandre Farto does a profile view and this one gives you the feeling that she is ignoring you, or otherwise engaged. Perhaps the newest wall at Urban Forms in Łódź, Poland is his take on the feeling one gets when his girlfriend is always looking at a screen while he talks to her, meriting only a portion of her full attention.

Marking the end of his three month “Dissection” show at EDP Foundation in his native Portugal, Vhils landed in Poland to create their 34th mural in the series and created this wistful portrait emerging from a distressed wall.  Using his signature reductive, destructive method, he reveals something you may not realize was waiting to surface, a ghostly visage which even now is beguiling as you gaze upon it. Perhaps she is remembering something, or calculating, or staring off into nothingness.

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VHILS at work on his mural for Urban Forms 2014. c (photo © Urban Forms/Marek Szymanski)

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VHILS at work on his mural for Urban Forms 2014. Lodz, Poland. (photo © Urban Forms/Marek Szymanski)

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VHILS at work on his mural for Urban Forms 2014. Lodz, Poland. (photo © Urban Forms/Marek Szymanski)

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VHILS. Urban Forms 2014. Lodz, Poland. (photo © Urban Forms/Marek Szymanski)

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VHILS. Urban Forms 2014. Lodz, Poland. (photo © Urban Forms/Marek Szymanski)

 

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