Do you know Mizzo, a female street artist from switzerland? Now you know!

Mizzo, whose real name is Myriam Gaemperli, is a Switzerland based artist who grew up in Jonschwill, SG. After her studies in different art disciplines (art school, graphic design, for example) in Switzerland and London, she became what she always wanted to be, a skateboard artist. She’s comfortable drawing with all sorts of materials, from a pencil to a paintbrush.
She has different projects, both indoor and outdoor, such as her work with brands like Diesel, Bionyc and Doodah and her illustration of the Call-To-Action wall in Zurich.
Check her website. It provides an overview of her artwork.

Text by Yafa for the Fatcap team

Funny contextual street art

Another wall animation by blue… Crazy stuff, enjoy it!

It was done in Buenos Aires and Baden. Several months of work. Extraordinary street art production!

Mr Chat is one of these street artists that became famous thanks to one character. In this case it’s a yellow cat smiling and runing on the cities walls. This cat is world famous! It’s a star!

After having troubles with justice (there was a public display in his town against his trial) Mr Chat is now doing shows and exhibitions. The big Cat in the second picture was created in front of the Pompidou Center in Paris during his exhibition in this famous contemporary art center. Mr Chat is always doing street art all over the world.

Official Mr chat site

A French site helps you to find Mr chat’s creations

One of our favorite street artist : C215. Marvelous stencils, expressive faces… pure street artist!

Here’s a video of his artwork in London.

Here’s some stencils by Dude The Compagny. We don’t know anything about this project exept the fact that these stencils are dope!

Here’s the site of Dude the compagny

Graffiti characters for your eyes pleasure. Don’t believe the hype, that’s a true graffiti discipline. Creating graffiti characters has always been a tradition in graffiti history… Recognize that graffiti characters are so so so fresh!!

Photographer : Lois

Artist and Photographer G8

Photographer: Seetwist

Artists: Bio and Niger

Artist : Wise

Yo people, here’s an interview of an Iranian graffiti artist named A1one for the Fatcap Worlwide blog.

Graffiti from Tehran! Enjoy the talent!

Who is A1one?
I ‘m born and living in Tehran / iran / middle east. I started my work from 2003 with stencil and then painting some simple eyes around the neighbourhood just to express my self, move general public mind and fulfil my energy to do crime. When I searched in internet about wall paintings, murals, sprays, I discovered graffiti and street art. I loved the concrete energy of this culture which help me continuously to find what I am. So I dedicated my energy in art-crime. I paint outdoor about twice a week but I do indoors to practice in my studio every day. Nowadays I got to main goals: the first one is to achieve my own style in stencilling and prints, and the second is establishing Arabic letter Graffiti styling. This last one is also one of my personal honors to make many versions of general graffiti and tagging fonts for Arabic letters.

How is the graffiti scene in your country?
In Tehran Graffiti is both emerging and also not born yet. Tehran is really a big and developed town in our country but the number of writers is so low. For a city of 16 million of citizens we have about 30 writers. To be true, none of these writers are yet professional because all of them are between 16 to 22 years old and they are working their style from 3 years to 2 years ago. Most of them aren’t really doing daily or weekly art on streets. They do one work in a month or season. So we can say that graffiti is emerging in our country and particularly in Tehran. I worked from 2003 and focused on graffiti from that time and I’m glad to be respected by 90% of these mates. I meet graffiti artists in my exhibitions and we share tips and tricks. In the first years, I had some problems with 2 new comers who started to disrespect me by tagging on my works buffing it, changing my tags. But now it’s ok, they show respect.

How is the graffiti repression in Iran. Is it hard ?
No laws yet. May be dangerous if they feel this may be political. It can be so easy to say “sorry I didn’t know it was a crime !”. Of course if you want to go really big and be known by every one it can be more dangerous.

Can you explain your name?
I was alone in whole city when started, felt alone. I invited others while I was the the first: A the only 1 huh? In arabic and english language mix you can read it like : Al-one. Read it alvan : “alvan” means Colorful in arabic language.

Iranian graffiti links:

Graffiti from Iran
A1one graffiti artist
A1one personal blog

A stencil is a template used to draw or paint identical letters, symbols, shapes, or characters every time it is used. Stencil technique in visual art is also referred to as pochoir. Stencils are formed by removing sections from template material in the form of text or an image. This creates what is essentially a physical negative. Stencils have also become popular for graffiti, since stencil art using spray-paint can be produced quickly and easily.

Some famous masters of stencils : Blek le Rat, Banksy…

Photographer : FLO

Peeblitz

This is an open event in London. You’re welcome to come and put up your own piece on the wall. It’s a stencil only event…

The official site

The famous New York street art and graffiti artist Steve Powers aka Espo is in Dublin. He’s providing the town with some great street art: enjoy!

More info on Supertouch

Original street art mix! This artwork was taken in New York, East Village. Found on the Flickr of Nick Grayar

Today is a special day : The Jace Day!

Jace is a famous street artist. You can find is work all over the world. He’s the creator the Gouzou characters. For the Fatcap Graffiti Blog readers, here’s a biography of him and some pictures of his faboulous artwork.

JACE lives on Reunion Island, a small French island located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. He moved there in 1982 aged just 9 years old. Jace was initially inspired by the New York style graffiti from the Martha Cooper’s book “Subway Art”, and he began his street stuff in 1989. Developing his own style over the next few years, Jace created his famous character “Gouzou” in 1992. Although Jace continues to paint traditional murals, his real talent lies in interacting with his environment in a very humorous way using his small character. Indeed, Gouzou can be found on bill boards where Jace has taken advantage of the picture and used him to ridicule the original advert.

There are currently 4 books detailing Jace’s paintings and street installations, the first of which was printed in 1999. Since then Gouzou has become a real icon of Reunion Island where he is recognised by everyone. Jace also has hundreds of fans who often go “hunting” with their camera to catch each and every one of Jace’s practical jokes. However Jace’s talents are not limited to just Reunion Island as Gouzous can also be found in London, Rome, Prague, Paris, Le Havre (France), Mayotte Island, Bali (Indonesia), Madagascar Island, Mauritius Island, New York, Budapest, Tokyo, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Lisbon, Barcelona, Macao, and many more places.

However, Gouzou can sometimes be rather mischievous and disobedient and his father Jace needs to be very strict, and at times he will enclose Gozou in a gallery for several weeks. But Gouzou will quickly finds his way back to freedom. But perhaps the irrepressible nature of Gouzou really just symbolises Jace’s own sense of adventure; “nothing can stop me; neither the fines, nor the jail, nor the mountain or the seas, nor the future of street art when the fashion ends…” So the spirit of Gouzou lives on.

Jace Official site

Street art and graffiti by Jace

Today you’ll meet Phlegm, a graffiti and street artist from UK. He wrote a text about him for The Fatcap Blog. We discovered his artwork with one of his graffiti paint …on on a plane! Here’s Phlegm!

I’m twenty eight and I’m based in Sheffield uk. I’m primarily a cartoonist and illustrator who has an addiction to self publishing and underground art. All of my comic work is with black Indian ink and a dip pen. I only use colour when I’m screen printing or painting walls (or planes.)

I have a strange relation to graffiti, having a style that’s grown entirely from my self published comics rather than letter styles. My comic comes out every four months or so and i work endlessly on them, and have done for the past four years. I started out as a cartoonist but the graffiti side of things has really taken over the past three years. I think it’s because my style has been so effected by what i draw for the comic it’s stopped almost all outside influences. I love to get run down urban spaces and factories and play with the space. It’s such an immediate way to get your picture on the wall. A painting in the street becomes part of the cities architecture, influenced by what’s around it rather than being some awkward canvass in an art gallery.
x phlegm x

Phlegm official art site

Out of all visual beauty and vandalism rage, graffiti is a message…

Funny effect on this artwork. Thank’s to the light effect, we feel like the kid is red-handed! The guilty face!  Street art by Double-P

A Graffiti can be beautiful, but when the photography of this graffiti is also amazing… you get a double masterpiece!

I will post every week an example of this artistic mix. Here’s the first one, from the “Nograffiti” project :

Sex  in Barcelona street. From the Noro portofolio (Sex is the name of the artist )

NoGraffiti is a research and a photographic documentation project on the Street Art movement of the beginning of our century:
“The expansion in the first world of Hip-Hop graffiti or TTP graffiti (Tag, Throw-up, Graffiti Piece) in the 80’s, coincided with the “NYC street art movement” of Haring and Basquiat, and the French “figuration livre”, with street artists such as Blek or Mesnager, both of which continued various artistic manifestations with the street as a medium (D.Buren, J.Holzer, Christo, etc.). The 90’s saw the evolution of post-graffiti or street art as an enriched development of TTP that used new media (poster, stencil, sticker, brush) and was influenced by other references (subvertism, graphic design, modern art). Even though the majority of the artists came from TTP and maintained the concept of bombing, the typographic obsession gave way to iconism (where a character or object was repeated in different situations and formats), stencilism (often of a political nature) and to various forms of subvertising and sign subversion.”

More informations and pictures about the Nograffiti project : Graffiti!

A youtuber named Ryan Erickson, whose handle is AlwaysThrowROCK, has posted an interesting video of San Francisco graffiti and street art. The video is “dedicated to those who make San Francisco a city of unbridled love compassion and beauty.” A great collection assembled with passion. Enjoy.

If you want to know what is the evolution of life in the mind of a street artist click here (the picture is too big!) :The evolution of life by street art

At 1.30 mn my grand mother will prove you that street art is not only for young people…