We’re pleased to continue positively into the new year by sharing a heartwarming journey into the world of family made street art, where personal ties and creativity intertwine beautifully. Contrary to the often-perceived image of the solitary graffiti writer or street artist, the French Tuco Wallach is a shining example of a family man whose art blossoms from his close-knit relationships.
In this new video and photos, you get an inside look at Tuco’s Christmas project, a venture that truly was a family collaboration- resonating with the spirit of the holidays. Each work is a nostalgic mix of memories and joy, featuring enchanting kitsune masks, intricate origami, bold stencils, and sparkling beads. Tuco Wallach merges the personal with the public in his work on the street, creating pieces that are not just visually captivating but also personal.
3. Project MUM Upcycles Ocean Plastics Into Fishing Gear
BSA Special Feature: Thomas Medicus / Human Animal Binary
Part Damian Hirst, Jerry Andrus, and Bordallo II, this public work by Thomas Medicus takes different forms according to your position. Clearly, it’s a wild world.
It looks like Easter came early this year in Nendaz, Switzerland. Street artist Tuco Wallach appears to be having fun with this new bunny, stickers, origami, and skiing. For Tuco, the street art practice is often a family affair, and you can guess what the next generation is beginning to do. It starts with a series of lapinou (rabbits). With this kind of role model, you shouldn’t be surprised.
Lapinou Project, by Cartie, Pouah & Tuco.
Project MUM Upcycles Ocean Plastics Into Fishing Gear
Industrial waste is poisoning our air, water, food supply; in a capitalists mind its the transaction that is primary in the mind, not the repercussions on the natural world or their human counterparts. But to elevate the conversation, it is always good to find people using their ingenuity to reuse, upcycle, and give back to us all, rather than detract.
For French street artist Tuco Wallace, making and placing street art is a familial-friendly dialogue, unlike the traditional stereotype of the rebel graffiti writer or a street artist whose driving force is anti-social in nature. With his newest installation, he asked his closest relations to add their voice to the piece, which he calls Dream, Always Dream.
Tuco tells us that the themes touched upon relate to “dreams, astronauts’ helmets, pajamas, dreams, wooden boxes, lights, and clouds.”
Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.
Now screening: 1. Humask & Shadow _ Light off/Light on. Tuco Wallach Pacifico 2. Bastardilla: La lingue dei carciofi 3. Saber: Escaping Los Angeles. From Chop ’em Down Films
BSA Special Feature: Humask and Shadow
For artist Tuco Wallach the street art story has nearly always been a family affair that mixes easily with his Humask campaign. His psychological treatise on man’s relationship with himself and society and masks may be internal, but the actual street practice is often externalized to include friends and family to create, place, document the new works that go into the public places. Here, as a chill holiday recording of a moment, we see the intimate and precise care that goes into his process – a process that is open and welcoming, and participatory. He says the video is about wood cabins, family, shadows, lights, friends, and Humask.
Humask & Shadow _ Light off/Light on. Tuco Wallach Pacifico
Bastardilla: La lingue dei carciofi
In the depths of New York winter, we like to escape to that sticky and warm time in summer when the air and the bees buzzed in unison, the thick richness of the days and nights, lingering in reverie. At the time we called it Bastardilla in Love With Bees and the Taste of Summer in Stornara, Italy. We dare you not to fall in love or at least be enchanted.
Saber: Escaping Los Angeles. From Chop ’em Down Films
“You can tell a lot about a city just by reading its walls.” Okay, Saber, you have our attention. And it’s shot by Chop ’em Down films? We’re there. Here the graffiti writer and fine artists narrate the police state of the LA during one of its more dismal periods caught on camera – and the record of a constant state of uprising.
Now a grand don of graffiti looking back, he sees the fall of LA hasn’t halted, only intensified, but his heart is still in it. He has become performative, crystalizing the movements of his work and his history into a gestural full-body modern performance; rebellious and distraught and yet full of passion – his own evolution from the street to the studio to the street again.
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