Introducing  HYURO BORONDO  PØBEL

Featuring graffiti writer PK interview Streetfiles.org is offline and why should it matter

As the street art or post-graffiti movement is becoming more and more vivid a lot of new “tags” are emerging shaking the dull, cracked , canvas walls of our cities, vandalizing to our utmost delight. Banksy, Blu, Blek le Rat certainly are a tough act to follow, but some new masters of the spray turned out to be up to the task, creating murals all over the world with very distinctive and certainly  attention grabbing voices.

HYURO “I love the idea of being ephemeral . It couldn’t be any other way on the streets”.

photo www.graffart.eu

HYURO is an artist from Spain, she describes her style as having  “the sound of an Air song” translated in black and white image. She often depicts women in a moment of struggle or in a moment of communion with an animal-often a wolf or a tiger; next to birds, or in bird cages,  or fusing with nature.

photo www.unurth.com

photo www.unurth.com

photo www.unurth.com

She attracted attention and even raised a few eyebrows with her mural for the Living Walls project, in Atlanta, where she drew a sort of frame-by-frame animation of a naked woman that grows fur, sheds it, then the fur turns into a wolf .  Even though done with permission, the mural was considered to be too pornographic and insulting to the church and mosque nearby and the locals had it covered.

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Hyuro’s progressive mural

Here you can see what the images add up to, as an animation.

Covering of the mural

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Hyuro continues to experiment with her style, starting to do more watercolors, and participated in the “Memorie Urbane Festival” in Italy with a mural entitled “Cycles”, a strong depiction of  the cycle of life trough 10 images.

For more images of Hyuro’s works visit

http://www.unurth.com/index/filter/Hyuro

BORONDO is a 23-year old artist from Madrid.

photo www.streetartutopia.com

His characters are mostly ghost-like, shadowy, they seem to be imprisoned in the ruined walls, trying to cry out something. His appearance on the street art scene is really a welcomed peculiarity.

He uses a lot of times a new technique called “glass-scratching”, which contributes to the gruesome fantasy layer that his characters have. Like a lot of his peers, he is a master of concealing his identity and not so many things are known about him, so we can freely judge on our own his intent behind every mural.

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photo borondo.blogspot.ro

photo fracturedpixels.net

You can check out more of this promising young artist’s works  http://borondo.blogspot.ro/search/label/murales

The “hooligan” , PØBEL   is a Norwegian street artist. He opened himself up more to larger audiences by working with another artist, DOLK on a project called Ghetto Spedalsk , trying to raise awareness about the decay and crumbling of some regions of Norway. The project resulted in a series of large-scale murals on abandoned houses, barns, bridges , having a strong political and social message.

photo www.123inspiration.com

The journey was filmed and transformed in a short documentary called “Living decay” narrated by John Fekner, one of the most important figures in street art movement:

Pobel is most known for his drawings of decrepit superheroes, Superman, Batman, Spiderman.

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photo urbanart-iceland.com

For more images visit

http://www.pobel.no/

Streetfiles.org is  offline and why should that matter. PK interview

Streetfiles.org is, or better say, was a street art and graffiti community, where the faceless and wanting could exchange ideas and techniques and even partner up with other guys and go on a drawing spree. You could make a profile with your street name and post photos of your work, that way    facilitating any sort of collaboration.

PK is a graffiti writer, former member of Streetfiles.

Q: Tell us a little bit about your beginnings in graffiti drawing.

A: Well, I’ve been writing since 2007, mainly bombing, the rawest and most adrenaline charged part of the game, or “vandalizing” as the general public sees it. Like all graffiti writers, I started out as a toy(a graffiti noob), hanging out with friends, drinking and painting stuff around town at night. Most of my graffiti “culture”, so to speak, came from looking at my friends sketches and from of seeing other writers work all around town.

Q: What did being a member of Streetfiles do for you?

A:   Viewing so many photos from writers all across the world, knowing stuff like the city where it had been painted, the year it was done in, being able to message each other, while keeping our identity hidden at the same time,  I managed to filter out what I thought was good and what was bad, I learned new painting techniques and, by seeing other people developing new effects in their own pieces, I learned stuff that otherwise I may have never discovered on my own.

Q: Did you ever meet and go on a drawing spree with someone trough this site?

A: Of course,  having a site where graffiti writers can interact with one another based on the appreciation of their work lead me to meet new people from different places to go and paint with, travel to their hometowns, showing me the best painting spots in their town and I even managed to make a few new friends.

Q: How big of a need do you think there is for a site like this?

A: In my opinion, you can’t say that Streetfiles or any site of the sort is  a must. I mean, back in the ’70′s, when it started they still managed to connect with one another, they still took pictures of their work though, to preserve it, but sharing it with others was on a much more smaller scale as you can imagine and maybe in the end it was better because now anybody with access to the internet and  from a desire to be “cool” starts “doing graffiti” and shares their crap painting done in their grandmother’s backyard. It’s a much more complex thing seeing a painting on the street, realizing the obstacles that the author had to overcome to paint that exact spot, seeing how public that spot is, as opposed to just seeing a picture of  the painting itself.

by Andra Gheorghiu

Andra Gheorghiu is a prolific scriptwriter… nah just kidding! Just a scriptwriter…kidding again! She’s just studying the thing…or is she?