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Hundreds of Minuscule Figures Unite in Pejac’s New ‘Welcome’ Mat Intervention in Aberdeen

The entrance to a building housing some of Aberdeen's most vulnerable residents and charity organizations is the site of the latest work by Pejac (previously). Comprised of minuscule figures congregating as a welcome mat, the streetside intervention confronts the hardships people face when relegated to society's margins. The idea is that they're "tired of being stepped over," the artist says, and that there's hope, dignity, and pride to be found when we're united. Pejac created the heartfelt piece for the 2022 Nuart Aberdeen (previously), which brought…

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The Second Annual Nuart Aberdeen Festival Activates the Scottish Town With Installations Inspired by National and Regional Themes

It was 2002 when an international group of street art and electronic music enthusiasts organized the first Nuart Festival in Norway's oil capital, Stavanger. The idea was to create a secondary event for their music program in order to introduce some of the most interesting artists of the underground street art movement. Keeping their concept simple yet original, the festival presented an annual platform for national and international artists who operated outside of the traditional art establishment, both indoors and outdoors, to stimulate conversation that would challenge the notions of what art…

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A Preview of the Second Annual Nuart Aberdeen Street Art Festival

The second annual Nuart Aberdeen kicks off next month, celebrating the work of international street artists with workshops, guided tours, and film screenings throughout the course of the four-day festival. The public art platform aims to activate its local art scene while also encouraging visiting artists to collaborate with its twin city of Stavanger, which has hosted the original Nuart Festival for the last 17 years. In 2017 the Scotland-based festival presented site-specific murals and interventions…

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Lithe Black and White Figures Jump and Climb Across Walls in Illustrative Street Art by STRØK

Norway-born, Berlin-based artist Anders Gjennestad, who works as STRØK (previously), paints monotone figures often clad in striped shirts moving gracefully across unexpected surfaces. In a piece painted in Arendal, Norway (the artist's hometown) three identical men appear to scale the wall of a generic-looking building, and in a mural in Paris leaping subjects seem to breakdance while they defy gravity. Gjennestad incorporates shadows for each figure that disrupt the viewer's perspective, leaving one to wonder if the artist's subjects are falling up or touching down. Most recently, the artist participated in Aberdeen, Scotland's international Nuart festival. In addition to his…

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