Archive for the ‘stencil’ Category
Street art in China seems to be everywhere nowadays, reclaiming common space from the powers that be while adding a bit of personality to the gray city grids. Street art can carry a message: one of inspiration, or resistance, or maybe nothing more than the fact that it was done just for fun.
In Beijing, street [...]
“BLINKING CITY” stencil project, in memory of disappearing old cities ///
Blinking City, by Beijing-based Italian architects Marcella Campa and Stefano Avesani, is a re-interpretation of traditional city maps where the environment is constantly changing and growing. In today’s world, a city map is usually out-of-date by the time it is published, especially in fast-growing and evolving economies such as China.
Thanks to [...]
fresh stencil work from beijing-based street artist “A NIU” ///
See below for some new stencil work from Beijing-based street artist “A Niu.” We appreciate the attitudes about forced relocation and education in China from his works.
If you spot street / urban art (graffiti, stencil, wheat-paste, etc.) anywhere in China, please share it with us at EDGE@Neocha.com. We’d like [...]
some stuff from shanghai-based street artists 2 FACE TEAM (aka: IMMAWORKS & NANXIDREAM) ///
See below for some fresh stuff from Shanghai-based street artists “2 Face Team” (aka: Immaworks and Nanxidream). Simple pieces that tell a story and make people smile.
Last month, we unknowingly posted on a couple of their earlier pieces. Fun stuff.
If you spot street / urban art (graffiti, stencil, [...]
See below for a sampling of stencil work from Beijing-based street artist “A Niu.” We love these.
If you spot street / urban art (graffiti, stencil, wheat-paste, etc.) anywhere in China, please share it with us at EDGE@Neocha.com. We’d like to document it on NeochaEDGE.
For more street / urban art in China on [...]
a look at the stencil, paste-up, & mural work of prolific taibei-based EDGE Creative Collective street artist BBROTHER (aka: 老大哥) ///
See below for a sampling of stencil, paste-up, and mural pieces from prolific Taibei-based EDGE Creative Collective street artist BBROTHER (aka: 老大哥). These pieces were done on the streets of Taibei, Taichung, Beijing, Shanghai, London, Liverpool, and Ferrol (Spain). Lovely stuff.
If you spot street / urban art (graffiti, stencil, wheat-paste, etc.) [...]
street art | lovely stencil piece spotted atop roof of sichuan conservatory of music building ///
See below for a lovely street art stencil recently spotted atop the roof of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music building (on the campaus of the Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts). This photograph was taken and submitted by NeochaEDGE reader Yan Jiang (闫江), an oil painting student at the academy.
Does anyone know who did this piece?
For more street [...]
“NEWSPAPER MAN,” a fresh stencil piece in shanghai by EDGE Creative Collective graffiti artist SAIL ///
We love street art, but it‘s rare you see good stencil work in China.
See below for a lovely piece in Shanghai from EDGE Creative Collective graffiti writer Sail. This was done a couple days ago just outside the “1984 Bookstore” entrance on Hunan Rd. Sail told us that he fought off a few local [...]
