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| Tellas and Moneyless |
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| Olek |
Nuart's GT and Kristel are in Poland at the moment participating in the Katowice Street Art Festival panels as well as hosting a screening of Nuart's documentary Eloquent Vandals.
Here's the first of several reports from the frontline.
In the center of Katowice, at what is called The Eye of the City, is a pink toy excavator. Approaching it I realize it is an excavator of regular size, but it is dwarfed by the large plaza and the giant stadium disc it is placed nearby. And it is cozyfied by its croched cover of colourful yarn made by artist Olek. The machine that is so present in rapidly changing and constantly rebuilding Katowice is turned into a plaything that locals even hang out on.
Katowice Street Art Festival seems to be a well organized festival with exhibitions, concerts and academical happenings in addition to the murals. This day there was a debate where Ixi Color of Warsaw, Urban Forms of Lodz, Fame of Grottaglie and Nuart of Stavanger was represented. The debate concentrated on questions like: Who are a street art festival for? Why do you organize a street art festival? What happens with the art when there are so many festivals?
At the same time an impressive amount of artist are working on their murals. Some have finished already, some are yet to come. Tellas and Moneyless have almost finished. And the risk of their work being buffed during the night is zero, as there is a guy sitting in a car making sure that nobody steals the lift. Everything seems to be taken care of here.
GT
Photos by Kristel Talv and kalevkevad
