KIRK Gallery’s 9th edition of the ‘Out in the Open’ mural project in Aalborg, Denmark

Case Maclaim has just completed a mural titled ‘Heart Is Aching’ for the 9th edition of KIRK Gallery’s ‘Out in the Open’ series. This is his second mural in Aalborg following ‘Carnival is Cancelled’ which he created back in 2020. And as an extraordinary feat, Case Maclaim managed to paint this latest mural whilst simultaneously finalizing preparations for his first solo show in five years, ‘Be A Mensch’.

“The similarities in both my indoor and outdoor works is that I wish to create not only a canvas or a mural, but a chance for the viewer to tell their very own story, with my paintings as a source of inspiration. The topic I chose for my current canvases is Being A Mensch. A Mensch, is someone with a noble character, a person of dignity and a sense of responsibility. A Mensch is someone I desire to be. A Mensch is what I want all my canvases to represent.
I painted all eleven canvases with the intent to show what being a Mensch means to me.” – Case Maclaim

Known worldwide for his hyper-realistic artwork, Australian born Smug has just finished another large scale work in Aalborg using only spray paint. His mural features fellow Glasgow based artist Bobby Rogueone.

Smug
Curtis Hylton
Bosoletti

British artist Curtis Hylton, has also completed a mural for ‘Out in the Open’. Last autumn, the artist was invited to the little town of Kongerlev situated just outside Aalborg. KIRK Gallery was specifically looking for an artist specialising with flora and fauna in their imagery for this particular mural, due to Kongerlev’s close proximity to ‘Lille Vildmose’ nature reserve.
Curtis was keen to see a moose during his initial visit to Kongerlev and this became a decisive motive in his ’Moose and a Goose’ mural.

Argentinian artist Bosoletti had also just finished his piece for this impressive series. Bosoletti is known for his poetic murals where he captures human elements and parts of nature in pixelated imagery as if it was negatives from old film. The piece, titled ‘Allegory of Peace’ depicts a giant angel with a snake at its feet.
Working on a brick wall always presents a challenge, but in this case the raw wall was the perfect background for the monochrome art.

Helen Bur

As the 5th mural of this year’s edition of ‘Out in the Open’, Helen Bur also added a mural to the project in the spring.
Her piece was created on P. Jørgensens Maskinfabrik in Aalborg, an old machines factory that first opened in 1918. This piece is a homage to the women whose contributions to engineering maybe have been restricted, unwritten or erased due to systematic barriers and obstacles of prejudice during the First World War.

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