Siden 1999 har graffiti vært en viktig del av Roskilde Festivals kunstneriske identitet. Den gangen ble tre kunstnere invitert til å bidra. Nå bidrar over 100 internasjonale graffitiartister som skal dekorere omtrent 1,5 kilometer med gjerder og fasader.
“Graffiti Zone” har nå blitt en oase av kunst midt på festivalområdet hvor du kan hvile deg et øyeblikk og nyte den fantastiske graffiti kunsten av noen av de beste malerne i verden.
Vi har fotografert mange imponerende verk med graffiti på Roskilde Festival siden dette prosjektet startet i 1990.
Søknader om å få male graffiti på Roskilde Festival kommer inn fra hele verden, men bare noen få av disse får slippe til. Bildene er tatt av Mette Faanes og Wictor Faanes.
Her er et utvalg graffitikunst fra 2018
Bogdan Scutaru is an upcoming artist, but he has already proven that with his great talent he is a part of the elite of danish and international street artists. The young self-taught Romanian talent is based in Horsens, Denmark.
Bogdan does anything from big murals, street art and graffiti to more detailed expressions on canvas and drawings. He ranges from fantasy to realism in his works and has an almost photo realistic talent. Bogdan is known for doing extremely detailed sketches, which he scales to big artworks, done with the same acute sense for detail.
His sketches are inspired by fragments of conversations overheard throughout the city. They are a reflection of Latin American culture and featuring people with sharp, geometric outlines, often giving dark looks or wide smiles with missing teeth.
These antiheroes inhabit their own universe and break the rules of stereotypical aesthetics exemplifying the beauty found in imperfection with an intergenerational sense of humour.
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Mexico is a country with an extensively rich heritage and culture. People of this nation are very proud of their legacy and they have every right to be since their history is amongst the richest in the world. One such proud man is Farid Rueda, a Mexican street artist known for painting graffiti full of his country’s cultural references. However, the way he depicts these themes is not what you would expect – Rueda figures out new concepts of representing Mexican popular culture without turning it into a cliché. He is primarily known for his murals and other large-scale pieces, but he has been known to paint smaller works as well.
conceived in Barcelona but born in Almería. He always had a pencil in his hand but he did not realize what was he really wanted until he was studying telecommunications, surrounded by numbers and trigonometry. Malakkai met Graffiti during 2000, a fact that fueled the passion for drawing; meet new artists and travelling only fueled more that passion, from that day, he’s between walls, paper and canvases. Bic pen and desaturated ranges lover, his work has walked through numerous showrooms of Spain and nowadays you can find from lost walls in Almeria, Girona and the Canary Islands to Nuremberg, Lyon, Naples, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Mexico, Djerba …. always dominate the female figure and weird animals laced with irony and a particular sense of humor.
