This year, the Live Street Art Érd festival was held for the 4th time, where the public was entertained with concerts, various workshops, extreme sports demonstrations and live painting.
Builder & Author
Csabi Gyuris
I believe that the collective spirit of our community, which has power and voice, should be presented to the general public in a dignified manner.
From the Author
Interview with graffiti artist Bronk
The street and its culture were present quite early in the life of graffiti artist Bronk, which gave him a lot of inspiration. His style was greatly influenced by the hip-hop album covers of the late 80s and early 90s. During his several years abroad, he met a lot of like-minded people who inspired and shaped his art.
Traditional, yet modern Hungarian patterns were placed on the wall of a restaurant
What happens when traditional Hungarian patterns are reimagined by a street artist? The end result is a stunning photorealistic painting that even has the rooster crowing.
"The connection with nature is important" / Fat Heat - Fair Warning
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!
Converse City Forests: The country's first breathing mural in Budapest
Local artists draw attention to important issues around the world by painting fire walls with Converse's City Forests campaign, launched last year. The special feature of the completed paintings is the lime-based paint used during painting, which absorbs carbon dioxide during the drying process, thus acting similarly to a tree.
Time graffiti művész: „Felülmúlni önmagad”
Time graffiti artist's motivation is to surpass himself with every next step. He actively uses the old school style, which he mixes with newer solutions.
Westprememural project
The city of Veszprém was also affected by the new wave of street art, fire wall painting, which took place in the concrete jungle of Haszkóvó in the city's largest housing estate. Gergely Ozsváth, a.k.a. Mentha, a musician from the band Hősök, participating in the painting, tells us about the implementation of the project and its background.
Szeged's first firewall painting
Szeged's first fire wall painting commemorates glass painter Manó Róth and the creator of the glass windows of the Szeged synagogue in Hajnóczy Street as part of a European Union project. The huge mural was created by two well-known painters from Szeged, Ákos Marton and Leó Vinkó, mural painters from Muralpaint.hu.
Fat Heat - Gratitude of Solitude exhibition opening / Unmute Gallery
The year 2020 was special for everyone. For Fat Heat, it was because the missed trips gave him the opportunity to create images in a studio setting. This type of methodology confronted him with completely different challenges than the firewall-painted roads. It gave him a chance to escape and served as therapy in the monotony. Some of his paintings respond to the pandemic loneliness experienced in big cities and the virtual crowd of social media.