His ‘code name’ could be mistaken for the name of a rifle: P183. In April 2013 the russian graffiti artist has died in the age of 29. Pavel won recognition as the creator of provocative art works scattered across Moscow. The details and conditions of the ‘Russian Banksy’s’ death will not be released, the production company Pavel worked for, said in the statement. Preliminary theories, however, rapidly spread online with people saying that the graffiti artist hanged himself. At the same time the media, referring to street art group ‘310’, said he was poisoned. Not much known about the artist who preferred not to disclose his name and signed his works like P183, besides his name – Pavel Pukhov – and age 29. P183 went international after several British, American and French dailies published photographs of his works, saying his ‘guerilla’ tactics of painting street murals were similar to those used by iconic British nonconformist Banksy. However, P183 didn’t take the comparison as a compliment, noting he had been shaping his signature style for the past 14 years. The mysterious figure, allegedly in his late 20s, preferred to cover his tracks and hide his face with a black balaclava to remain anonymous. A can of spray paint never failed him, helping the up-and-coming artist share his ideas with those who kept their eyes wide open. In february 2013 the Street Art Museum St.Petersburg offered P183 to do a small project in the Museum. March 10th 2013 the artist completed his exhibition at the Museum and went back to Moscow. The street art movement lost a true and very interesting character and will not be forgotten, Rest in Peace

Here over at Graffuturism is a great selection of new works by french artist ANTISTATIK from Strassbourg!

A new artist feedback and a few nice words about our products sent from Retrophobie (Gera/Germany) is only here

Aurélie Houot paid us a visit to film a little video featuring the artist Stephane Helbert painting a canvas work in 3 parts.

MOLOTOW™ Urban Fine-Art – Le Géant des Beaux-Arts – Stephane Helbert

Artist: Stephane Helbert
Products in use: URBAN FINE-ART™ spray can / MOLOTOW™ ONE4ALL
Location: MOLOTOW™ Headquarters Lahr / Germany
Link: lateliergeant.geant-beaux-arts.fr/?p=4814

Video: Aurélie Houot

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Check out Anthony Lister in action in this video produced by EndOfTheLine.

This year’s Dulwich Street Art Festival – Baroque The Streets with artists such as Conor Harrington, ROA, Nunca, Shok-1, Remi Rough, MadC and more includes murals based on paintings from the Dulwich Picture Gallery. So we´re sure it will be an interesting event not to miss. To find out more, check the Street Art London website here.

Volvo Art Session 2013 – the third one at Zurich main station (HB), Switzerland. The whole art event will be continuously documented at volvoartsession.com. From Thursday 6 until Sunday, 9 June 2013, Volvo Switzerland will be transforming Zurich’s main station (HB) into a real street art studio for the third time. Six outstanding artists from around the world will paint, spray and shape a Volvo XC60 over and over in a live show. The theme of this unusual series of performances is “Designed around you” — which goes hand in hand with Volvo’s slogan. The direct contact with artists, art and its creation is both an experience and an enriching activity at the same time. Well-known photographer and film-maker Francesco Carrozzini will be documenting the events at the main station and also creating portraits of the artists themselves. His images will be published in a photo book when the project has finished.

JIMMY C sent in some photos from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was invited there by the Museum of Public Art to paint portraits of people from the community. The last photo in the image gallery shows the whole wall was including a piece by graffiti artist Does from Brazil.

 

A fresh new piece by Copenhagen´s SOTEN just went in, have a look after the jump!