Calligraphy Calligraffiti Art

[Feral Things]

Egyptian Street Art

Ganzeer
Ganzeer was perhaps the most prominent of a whole wave of political street artists who emerged during the revolution:


A memorial to Tarek Abdelatif Mohamed Al-Aktash who was just an ordinary family man who, like many others, was killed by the security forces in Tahrir Square:


Part of Ganzeer's Vitrine Project about state surveillance: 


Ammar Abo Bakr
This piece depicts the everyday people who lost their eyes in clashes with the security services prior to the 2011 parliamentary elections:


"A painting of the late Major General Mohamed Batran, head of prison investigations, who was killed by police officers on January 28, 2011 for refusing orders to release prisoners to terrorize demonstrators."  I don't know anything about el-Batran beyond this incident but it's worth noting that Egypt's prison system wasn't exactly a beacon of human rights before or after the revolution:


Protestors and tear gas in Tahrir Square:


Omar 'Picasso' Fahry
This piece, featuring Mohamed Morsia, Field Marshal Tantawi and Hosni Mubarak, suggested that the military would seize power again and it turned out to be depressingly prophetic:


Some graffiti themes are universal:

[Feral Things]

A few more pieces from Egypt, the first one's by Zelt:

[Pipes]

As part of the calligraffiti show, Pink pair are El Seed

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Non-arabic street art in arabic countries:

C215 in Morocco: more from Essaouira, Fez, Marrakech, Mirleft and Casablanca, 


JR in Tunisia; nice video here.


Mesa in Algeria


Stik in Jordan; part of a British Council project 


Inti in Lebanon; painted as part of the White Walls festival


Blu in Palestine; painted on the Separation Wall along with pieces by Banksy, Ericailcane, Faile, Swoon et al.


Case in Egypt; a tribute to Mina Daniel

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I like all of those esp the JR, my pick is the INTI though, its tremendous!.

[Feral Things]

Icy and Sot from Iran 

[Feral Things]

A few things...

L'Atlas has a show entitled 'Extractions' at Magda Danysz Gallery in Paris opening this weekend.  The artists statement which is posted on the gallery's website might provide an interesting insight for those not familiar with his work; it's available here.


L'Atlas also has a joint exhibition with Méta Parole which is about to come to and end.   It's at TAG City in Brussels and Parole will also be part of a group show at White and Art Gallery in Brussels called Expo BE.GRAFFITI opening on 26 October.  And here's a recent piece painted with Belgium writer Eyes-B:


This is Aya Tarek's work in progress at the City Leaks festival in Cologne.


And there's an interesting interview with her as part of the 'Words of Women from the Egyptian Revolution' series; click on captions for subtitles: 

[Damien]

Oct 10, 2013 20:52:00 GMT 1 Feral Things said:

A few things...

L'Atlas has a show entitled 'Extractions' at Magda Danysz Gallery in Paris opening this weekend.  The artists statement which is posted on the gallery's website might provide an interesting insight for those not familiar with his work; it's available here.


L'Atlas also has a joint exhibition with Méta Parole which is about to come to and end.   It's at TAG City in Brussels and Parole will also be part of a group show at White and Art Gallery in Brussels called Expo BE.GRAFFITI opening on 26 October.  And here's a recent piece painted with Belgium writer Eyes-B:


This is Aya Tarek's work in progress at the City Leaks festival in Cologne.


And there's an interesting interview with her as part of the 'Words of Women from the Egyptian Revolution' series; click on captions for subtitles: 

very nice work there(hasn't the man in the 2nd photo just been outed as being banksy )

[johnnyh]

Really love the calligraphy work some absolutely stunning pieces many thanks to all those who posted pics and Feral for getting this thread together

[Someones Brain]

Feral Things: Thanks for posting about the Atlas Paris show. Not far away from the hotel we booked for our visit at the end of october ...

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Tunisian graffiti and art...

The Zoo Project which tries to reinserting people killed during the Jasmine Revolution back into the public consciousness so that they're not forgotten.  The figure on the right is Mohamed Bouazizi, whose act of self-immolation in protest at the authority's confiscation of his goods was the catalyst for the Arab Spring:


DaBro's portrait of assassinated trade unionist Farhat Hached


Shoof's wall as part of La Tour Paris 13 earlier this month


94 Crew


Héla Ammar who, amongst other things, worked with JR on the Inside Out project when he was in Tunisia


SK-One

[johnnyh]

Lovin this thread Feral superb great stuff

Johnny

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Oct 22, 2013 18:29:35 GMT 1 Feral Things said:

Tunisian graffiti and art...

Like this one a lot.
Cheers for great pics.

[Feral Things]

Cheers, johnnyh and @wizbong; glad you're enjoying!

Tunisian artist eL Seed is mentioned several times previously in this thread but I think it's worth posting up this piece which was painted by eL Seed and the community based Al Khaldounia organisation in Tunis one year after the fall of the Ben Ali regime as a message of hope:

[Gard]

Finally I had the balls to get myself a Zepha piece

[Someones Brain]

Oct 23, 2013 16:08:23 GMT 1 Gard said:

Finally I had the balls to get myself a Zepha piece

Congrats gard! Now show us a pic!

[Gard]

Will show you a picture when it's on the wall. Need to be shipped from Moroco first.

[johnnyh]

Wow congrats Gard sounds great

[Feral Things]

A few things...

The 'Graff'me Lebanon' painting festival in Beirut runs from 11th to 15th November featuring, amongst others, Reso and Katre from France.


Also painting at Graff'me Lebanon will be local duo Ashekman, who incidentally are doing a talk at the American Univerisity of Dubai tonight, and Yazan, who recently completed this mural:

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Sean Landers


Cy Twombley

[RYCA]

Few examples on my other site:

Www.ryancallanan.com

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Moroccan street art...

Morran ben Lahcen - I love the variety of Morran's work and his trademark paintings made up of +'s are well worth checking out - Facebook - Flickr - Twitter






Mohamed Boustane - Boustane is represented by David Bloch Gallery who have a fantastic roster of artists and have put on some great looking shows: 


Ceet - made his name as a writer in China but he's of Moroccan origin and returned to Morocco this year to paint with the legendary Tats Crew as part of the Remp’Arts Festival in Azzemour:


Yann Chatelin AKA Poze - incorporates traditional arabic calligraphy into modern portraiture: 


Senzo

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Simon Silaidis

[politrix]

Stickers I got from a graffiti writer from NYC that fit in this topic.



Maybe it's not the higher-end art like the other stuff in this topic, sorry for that. For those who do like it and have Instagram his instagram account is @spreadart

[Feral Things]

A few things which caught my eye...

From eL Seed's travels around Tunisia via his Instagram:


The art of Karim Jabbari:


There's a good little article about Malina Suliman, who's a contemporary and street artist in Kabul, on the Green Prophet blog here:


Here's some photos of some of the French artists who were painting at the Graff Me Lebanon street art festival which was running over the last couple of weeks:

Tilt:


Katre:


Zepha:


Reso:


Demon:


Tilt:

[kbfrombk]

quite excellent. the language lends itself so beautifully to street art.  so wispy and flowy.

thanks for sharing

[Gard]

That eL Seed piece is fantastic!

[Feral Things]

Really good video of Beirut and the Graff Me exhibition:

[rosh]

Love this Thread, all the pieces are impressive..

The Graff Me project in Beirut is a cultural change between Europe & Liban supported by European union. Good job Lebanon!