Fat Heat's painting "Fair Warning" was created within the framework of a street art festival in the Czech Republic, which responds to today's zeitgeist. In addition to its enormous size, the artist wants to draw attention to an important social problem with the work: Living in the city forces us further and further away from nature!
The painting depicts a rising and a falling figure, which responds to today's zeitgeist. We started to digitize everything, we create 2.5 trillion bytes of data every day (no joke), while living in the city forces us further and further away from nature, the environment in which we were formed, and for which we are suitable.
"Although technology is important to me, I love all kinds of tools, I use them a lot, I also try to remind myself how important the relationship with nature is. I think we will shoot ourselves in the foot as humanity in no time if we do not admit that we are not omnipotent and that technology will not be the solution to everything and that perhaps we should live more consciously, slowly, and thoughtfully. Hence the rising mechanical figure on the right and the silhouette representing nature with the broken bell on its head on the left.
- says Fat Heat, who was contacted by the festival organizers on Instagram.
The Mestogalerie Street Art fesztivál an exciting concept organized 5 years ago by 2 gentlemen from Prague, often with superhuman dedication. In small Czech towns, they create exciting walls and murals while trying not to forget their graffiti roots, so it is spiced up with small and large graffiti jams and street art workshops for the general public. During the festival, which runs throughout the summer, walls were created in 5 cities this year, giving artists an opportunity. Fat Heat's work "Fair Warning" can be seen on the side of a 7-story residential building in the city of Kutná Hora.
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Fat Heat painted most of the mural with outdoor wall paint, while spraying the other part with a can. The finer details were created with Loop Colors spray paint, which is also one of the main sponsors of the festival. The huge surface often confronted the artist with the fact that there is such a surface where the smooth spray turns out to be small. He did the wall all by himself for 10-11 hours a day, so it was quite a test for him. The entire surface was reached from a 40-year-old TATRA elevator, in the company of constant diesel smoke and noise.
The beginning of the process was quite dirty and chaotic, so it was not to everyone's liking when sketching, but after it was ready, luckily only positive feedback came.
