the new Art of making Murals!
an international artist-run collective
based on respect, passion & know-how
N4MM
About
The new art of making Murals collective
We offer big format murals based on local stories and structural elements of the architecture. We bring respect to the street and offer artistic quality through passion, poetical art and real local participation.
Be part of the movement and book us! Together we can create better murals and make love rule.
Intvis does not paint in the street. He loves the street. A mural can be an accidental combination of a wall and an image irrelevant
to the wall or the street in front. This we call street art.
A mural can also be an autonomous work of art that taps into the uniqueness of the wall and its broader social environment and then enters into dialogue with it. This is where you find Intvis.
Eloise paints in the public space motivated by the direct connection between the artwork and communities. Capturing subtle gestures in body language and movement, she invites the viewer to reach into a deeper undercurrent of connection to each other and the natural world, a process that is often blocked by our fast-paced lifestyles and restrictive political and economic systems.
Copenhagen Brussels Barcelona
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Welinoo Intvis Eloise Gillow
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We are an artist-run collective to make respect for artists and protection of their rights a reality. We are all renewed and engaged artists. Experts in our field, we combine artist skills and technical knowledge.
Welinoo paints intuitive and poetical portraits that by their motionless attitude draw your attention to the emotions. The colours and shapes he uses, blend into the environment.
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Respect for artists
fair pay - transparant décisions - respect for artists rights
Respect for art
art is not a copy - art is not a commercial - art is magic
Respect for the public
accessible art - high standards of quality - communication
Respect for the neighborhood
consultation - participation - inclusion
Respect for the architecture
architectural elements are ingredients of the art concept
Respect for the environment
ecological paint - reduced garbage
Respect for muralism
feedback - cooperation - denounce abuse - reallocation of budgets
The new art of making murals
A mural is in essence a site-specific image just like a road-side viewpoint or a crushed pigeon.
The viewpoint was made by road workers, the pigeon was killed by a truck or car driver.
But a mural is not made by a muralist.
The muralist creates only the painting (or steals and copies an image).T
he wall was created by an architect and a mason at an earlier time.
The wall may have been tagged by locals.
The wall has its own history in the neighborhood,
its own meaning.
It has a shape, a structure, color and orientation. It may also have windows, gates, gutters, climbing plants and cracks, water damage and lichens.The wall might even have a soul.
Murals get tagged by locals, sometimes with the message ‘hands off our walls’.
Clearly, the blank canvas the muralist has left in his studio does not exist in the street.
A mural can be an accidental combination of a wall and an image irrelevant to the wall or the street in front.This we tend to call street art: an image that contrasts with the dull wall only because of its boldness and therefore it is considered art. This kind of muralism - just like any other colonization event - sees a wall as a non-used space that can be taken without asking the opinion of its users.
A mural can also be an autonomous work of art that taps into the uniqueness of the wall and its broader social environment and then enters into dialogue with it.
This is where the new art of making murals rises before our eyes as a tremendous field of possibilities and creativity in a comparable way love can sometimes take over our lives and give us wings and glimmer and stuff.
The old muralist does not feel responsible for choosing the wall or preparing the surface for painting.
He is a painter.
She is a painter.
The artist who masters the new art of making murals eagerly takes responsibility for the whole process.
He is a caregiver.
She is a caregiver.
He looks for a wall with character, she looks for a wall willing to tell a story, a wall with appeal. They listen to the wall.
They touch the wall.
The artists who master the new art of making murals FALL IN LOVE with the wall.
The new muralist will cautiously observe irregularities in the wall.
He listens to the users of the space.
She listens to the users of the space where the wall is located with the same dedication as an ornithologist will sit for hours listening to the songs of the birds on the branches of local entanglement.
The muralist will then see the artwork appear on the wall.
The new art of making murals helps the passersby to see what is already there. It is all about extended caregiving.This is the magic where art becomes tangible, because it is made of small and unnoticed but real things. Little things everybody unconsciously already knew before the artist arrived.In the old muralism, the artist paints a painting, temporarily attached to a wall.In the new muralism, the poor artist - crushed by love - carefully creates a contextual work of art, firmly attached to the living and kicking Street.
(based on “THE NEW ART OF MAKING BOOKS”, Ulises Carrión)