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In the spring of 2014, boredpanda.com, a portal devoted to visual arts and design published a list of 20 global centres of urban art. Łódź ranked second, just behind New York.

The city of Łódź, which used to be the centre of the European textile industry, was captured on film by Andrzej Wajda (a Łódź National Film School alumni) in The Promised Land. Łódź can boldly claim to be one of the artistic hubs of Poland. Although no longer host to Camerimage, in the public's memory it is still a cradle for the best Polish directors and cinematographers. At the beginning of the 19th century, Łódź was one of the Europe's biggest and fastest-growing centres for the textile industry, which created a new identity for the city. It used to be called "a promised land" and "a city of many cultures" (Łódź is a host of  Dialogue of Four Coultures Festival). Today, thanks to a process of revitalization and an atmosphere conducent to creativity, Łódź has come to be a city of modern technologies, creative enterprises and grand events. The main asset of the city is its dynamic cultural development in the fields of design, fashion, film, and other audiovisual arts. Łódź's reputation stems from the many successes in the arena of international film by Polish directors and cinematographers who graduated from the most notable academy for future actors, directors, photographers, camera operators and TV staff in Poland - The Leon Schiller National Film, Television and Theatre School​in Łódź . Early students of the National Film School included the directors Andrzej MunkAndrzej WajdaKazimierz Karabasz, Roman Polanski, Janusz Morgenstern, who, at the end of the 50s, became famous as the founders of the Polish Film School.

Bigger than Banksy

The already multifaceted city of Łódź has been revealing yet another interesting feature - it has come to be the Polish capital of street art. One of the greatest contributors to the aesthetic changes of the cityscape is the Urban Forms Foundation, created in 2009 by art historian Michał Bieżyński and actress Teresa Latuszewska-Syrda. It's main project is the Urban Forms Gallery, which is a permanent street art exhibition in the public spaces of Łódź. The gallery's mission is to "saturate the cityscape with creative, multilayered and modern art that improves the current image of Łódź and gives it artistic value. The main tool to reach that aim is large format paintings done directly on the sides of buildings". 

In the future, the project is to be enriched with other pieces of urban art -  sculptures, installations, and "street jewellery". Meanwhile, the gallery's collection of murals is continuously growing. Once a year, the Urban Forms Gallery organizes a festival attracting artists from all around the world.

In 2012, the prestigious French magazine Graffiti Art included the festival among the 5 most important street-art events worldwide. At the end of 2013, CNN produced a series called On the Road: Poland. The episode devoted to murals in Łódź was strikingly titled Bigger than Banksy. Many well-known portals wrote about Urban Forms, such as graffuturism.com, streetartnews.net, unurth.com or brooklynstreetart.com, and the photos from Łódź spread to Vietnamese web portals.

In the spring of 2014, boredpanda.com, a portal devoted to visual arts and design published a list of 20 global centres of urban art. Łódź ranked second, just behind New York, beating metropolises such as London, Mexico City, Prague, Berlin, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Paris, Melbourne, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, and the Chilean Mecca of street art, Valparaiso.

The artists participating in the project are considered to be the best in the field of street art and they hail from three continents and eight countries: Poland, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Australia and Belgium. Among the most renowned are Os Gemeos, Inti, Aryz, M-City, Etam Crew, Otecki, Sepe and Chazme.


Tone y Sepe en Aalborg, Dinamarca

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Escultura de Antony Gormley

Artista: Seno

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Realismo urbano

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Kult en München, Alemania

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Mademoiselle Maurice is a French street artist whose creations are unlike anything you've ever seen.

While most artists use spray paint to bring color to the walls and sidewalks of cities, she spends days folding and assembling origami into colorful creations in urban areas.

 She learned the ancient art of paper folding in Japan and was inspired to create art by the 2011 Tokyo earthquake.

Style Wars 2 - Trailer


Se viene el próximo estreno de la secuela de Style Wars.

About Style Wars 2


Style Wars 2 is a Graffiti documentary produced by Veli and Amos, a
Swiss-Slovenian artist duo. The movie is a sequel of the cult movie
"Style Wars" from 1983 and gives an update on today's Graffiti and
Street Art scene, in a very unique and entertaining format.

30
years after the release of Style Wars, the movie that helped spread the
graffiti movement from New York around the world, Veli and Amos, the
producers and main protagonists of Style Wars 2, hit the road to
discover new graffiti styles and meet the artists behind. A wild journey
takes them from Europe to New York and the Middle East, from galleries
to war zones.

The movie is a well-quoted homage to the original
Style Wars movie and at the same time tells the personal story of Veli
and Amos. Even though the movie's main focus is on graffiti, it
approaches the topic in a much broader way, and also alludes to
politics, art and lifestyle.

Small Talk with Veli & Amos

Urban Art NOW: For those that don't know you, who are Veli & Amos, and what inspired you to do Style Wars 2?

Veli & Amos: We have been working as an artist duo since 2008. We
both studied art and we regularly present our work in galleries all over
the world as well as in public space. Style Wars 2 is our first feature
film.The only inspiration to do a project like this came, when we first
saw the Style Wars 1 film. We used the quote the movie over and
over..We started to film our friends at first and then slowly a story
developed organically..

Urban Art NOW: Can you explain the significance of the original Style Wars?
Veli & Amos: Style wars is a cult movie.Everybody who cares about graffiti has seen Style Wars or Wild Style.


Urban Art NOW: What has been the general response (then) of two guys
from Slovenia and Switzerland making a sequel to a movie that holds such
an enormous cultural relevance?
Veli & Amos: We watched Style
Wars so many times that we knew it by heart. We saw parallels and
relations between 30 years before and today..We were motivated to
capture the styles and philosophy of contemporary and old school
writers. By exploring those connections we found new stories and
positions that are not present in Style Wars.
Years ago when we
showed the first raw cut of the film to Henry Chalfant, he was sceptic
about it. But after watching it, he just fell in love with the project
and since then he is supporting us..
Our close friends thought its a joke because it took us so long time to finish it.

We could also see the public response after we published 2 trailers on
Youtube. Many people didnt't believe its happening, they thought its
impossible to make Style Wars 2. If we look 5 or 6 years back, we would
probably think the same.. But we did it!

Urban Art NOW: You guys did make sure to have all the OG's on board, when can we expect Style Wars 2 to be available worldwide?

Veli & Amos: During the past 5 years, we filmed over 100 hours of
footage, simultaneously developing the story board, with support of our
friends and editors Jan Gassmann and Adrian Aeschbacher. The movie was
realized without support of a professional production company nor a big
budget, instead we founded "No Money Production. Style Wars 2 is our
personal view on graffiti today, our aim was not to cover or make a
statement about worldwide graffiti.We are still searching for right
people who are interested to distribute the film in their own countries
or world wide.

Urban Art NOW: Last question: what is the craziest adventure you guys had while shooting the Style Wars 2 footage?

Veli & Amos: We had many adventures its hard to pick up one.
Meeting Henry Chalfant, Blade, Seen of course. Our personal travel
adventures, struggeling and sneaking through without money. But probably
our trips to Israel and Palestine were the most intense..

Interview by Alex Pope

Loomit y Morik en München, Alemania

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Insa

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