[pada1]

Dec 11, 2013 10:12:33 GMT 1 rosh said:

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!

Same here.

I feel there is here nothing but only art.
No hype, money, but just culture, language and identity.

I am not that close to arabic culture and don't understand the writting. But curves and caligraphy is something that touch me.

[rosh]

Moreover, graffiti is legalized in Beirut

[Feral Things]

Vincent Abadie-Hafez aka Zepha has a large exhibition of his work running at the Espace Roguet in Toulouse until 14 March 2014.

[Graham H]

Feral Things .. bit of up and coming arabic on 1xrun ..


1xrun.com/runs/Mantra_Mandala_1

Not sure if Tibetan Buddhist Mandelas counts as Arabic though to be honest!

G

[Shoeless]

Wasn't able to try for the Cryptik. Anyone having second thoughts?!

[Feral Things]

Zepha's piece from the 'Street Urban Art' festival in Kesserine, Tunisia:


Yazan's sculpture from the 'Art For Peace' charity auction:

[Feral Things]

eL Seed has a book coming out in April entitled 'Lost Walls' and it documents eL Seed's road trip around his native Tunisia.  These photos are from his Facebook and Instagram and it's well worth checking them out there because they're accompanied by intereting little bits of history and stories associated with the painting of the pieces:

[ramo]

Nice and interesting thread! Thanks for sharing!

[gords]

apologies if Ayad Alkadhi has been posted before....these are pretty impressive

aalkadhi.com/content/Islam_International/

[Feral Things]

Jan 24, 2014 13:25:48 GMT 1 gords said:

apologies if Ayad Alkadhi has been posted before....these are pretty impressive

aalkadhi.com/content/Islam_International/

Thanks for sharing, I hadn't come across his work before. 

Graffiti and street art from the Arabian Peninsula...

I love Arcacia Blank's textual interventions in Dubai; simple but but very effective.  And his photography is great too:

 
Colours of Life is a loose collective of artists painting in the Yemeni city of Ta'izz:


Murad Subay is done some really interesting projects around the Yemeni capital Sana'a about poverty and 'disappeared' political prisoners.  This piece is from a project where he painted 12 pieces in 12 hours about different social problems in the country.  Yemen has the second highest rate of gun ownership in the world and I thought this piece cut straight to the chase very well:


Abdullah Mohammed Alshehri has pasted his image of Sarah Attah competing at the 2012 Olympics all over the Saudia Arabia and I seem to remember seeing one in London too.  Attah was the first Saudi women to compete in track and field:


Nana is one of a group of female street artists in the Saudi city of Jeddah:


There's a nice little blog about Kuwait's embryonic street art scene here:


If only Bernie Ecclestone had got out and about during preparations for the Bahrain Grand Prix he might not come out with such monumentally stupid comments as: "I keep asking people what human rights are. I don't know what they are. The rights are; the people that live in a country abide by the laws of the country, whatever they are.”

[rosh]

EL SEED @ Paris

[Feral Things]

Feb 2, 2014 14:21:32 GMT 1 rosh said:

EL SEED @ Paris

Thanks for sharing, rosh.  eL Seed is also in Saudi Arabia at the moment for Jeddah Art Week; here's his unfinished wall via his Instagram:

[searchandrescue]

love France and am a big fan of the French, why is it they often seem more progressive than us?  Graf on a 'ministerial' building!!!??

[rosh]

This is possible in Paris with the initiative of Itinerance Gallery in collaboration with the mayor of 13th Arrondissement They work hard to promote urban art in the city

Paris is definitely the Urban Art capital!

[Feral Things]

Just a few things...

The murals and calligraphy of Moroccan artist Khaled al Saai:






Interesting interview with eL Seed about his forthcoming book on The National:


A nice new pieces by Yazan entitled 'Salam' (Peace):

[letiss]

Great thread Feralthings. Always nice to see something a bit different.

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Bleeding brilliant stuff!.

[Feral Things]

Ripo has a solo show on at W.O.W. Gallery in Cologne running until 22 March.



“W.O.W. (What Once Was)“ presents Max Rippon’s latest works on canvas and wood. The exhibition’s title refers to the fundamental transience of modern life – the constant process of creation, destruction, and transformation in the material just as much as the immaterial. A new series of the artist’s “news headline“ canvases will be presented. Through layers of hand-painted lettering he explores the fast-paced, highly ephemeral business of the news media as well as the readers’ fragmented memory and perception of these events. Rippon’s latest sculptural and wood pieces, however, are the highlight of this exhibition. He transforms handpainted lettering into wood sculptures and wood collages on canvas through an elaborate production process including calligraphy, 3D-modeling, digital fabrication, and traditional wood finishing techniques. These highly delicate works blur the line between the perfection of digital technologies and the imperfections and organic nature of the analogue processes."

You can view the catalogue here and these photos are from Ripo and Suben's Instagrams:

  

  

[Feral Things]

I don't know if there are any Spanish forum members on here, but Zepha and Abdellatif Moustad will be painting with El Niño and Axel Void at the Arte Urbano 14 festival in Seville from 25 to 28 March:

[Feral Things]

The month long Art Dubai event kicks off this weekend and includes a group show featuring both Yazan and Dotmasters:


And eL Seed's book, which had been mentioned a couple of times on this thread and which looks bloody brilliant, will be launched next week:


On the subject of books, apparently 'Walls of Freedom' (the new book about the graffiti of the Egyptian revolution from the publishers of 'Arabic Graffiti') has been banned from being published in China. I generally take the banning of a book to be a glowing recommendation and I'm looking forward to this one being published even more as a result.

[Feral Things]

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

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:

Tragically, the body of a young man shot in Detroit last July has been identified as that of Bilal Berreni AKA Zoo Project.  Zoo Project was a brave and talented artist who was producing genuinely important work and my heart goes out to his family.  Rest in peace.

[ABC]

Feb 25, 2014 20:25:15 GMT 1 Feral Things said:

Just a few things...

The murals and calligraphy of Moroccan artist Khaled al Saai:

That is just stunning, his work is epic.

[cashewman]

Love this thread. Initially got into this world through Retna, and it's been a short calligraphic hop to Zepha, Hafez, eL Seed, etc....

There's a few pieces by Hafez in the recent A Major Minority show: www.store1amsf.com/category_s/138.htm?searching=Y&sort=2&cat=138&show=240&page=1. Still for sale.

[Feral Things]

There's a good article about Zoo Project in the Detroit Free Press here.

[Feral Things]

FrakOne

[Stoko]

Great to see this thread resurrected

[chichi carter]

Here is Vincent from Montreal's Garbage Beauty doing his thing during last year's Mural Festival.





Here is a short resume taken from the Station 16 website:

Garbage Beauty is a collective that finds beauty where there is waste.

"A love letter in Calligraphy, expressing the beauty of our waste, trash and garbage. In short, we revive a beauty in objects that have accompanied your life. Montreal is generous with its "garbage", reflecting a consumer society that is tired and gets rid unsustainingly, objects filled with life and history. Before disappearing from your sidewalks, some of them still have things to tell you."



They have some prints available right here;

www.station16shop.com/collections/vendors?q=Garbage+Beauty

And if you want to see more of what they do on the streets just google them, plenty of stuff will pop up!

[Feral Things]

l'Atlas has completed a number of works for the sixth Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial:



The admittedly fairly Parlá-esque Matox will also be showing new work as part of the biennial and a number of the new canvases can be seen here:


Also, the father of modernist Arabic calligraphy, Hassan Massoudy, has an exhibition entitled Honoress Exhibition as part of the biennial:

[Feral Things]

Two excellent books about Arabic graffiti, both of which have been mentioned previously on this thread, have recently been released.  'Lost Walls' documents eL Seed's road trip around Tunisia and it covers history, faith, culture and identity, as well as eL Seed's beautiful calligraffiti.  'Walls of Freedom' is by the same people who produced the Arabic Graffiti book and covers the first three years of the Egyptian revolution and the graffiti which accompanied and supported the revolution.  You can read the first 20 or so pages of Lost Walls here and the first 40 pages of Walls of Freedom here.

[Feral Things]

Thierry Furger