Posts

Showing posts from November, 2022

‘TetraBrick’ Series by Dados Punto Cero, 2022

Image
Spanish street artist Dados Punto Cero DA2 ‘ TetraBrick Series’  murals are creating much-needed awareness and conversation on the excessive use of landfill and waste production. The murals encourage us to recycle, reduce waste, stop one-use plastics, and motivate us to rethink packaging. The ‘ Tetra Brick Series  looks at the recycling process and how easy or difficult it is to recycle specific packaging due to its different components. Tetra Pak cartons are criticised for being more difficult to recycle than tin cans and glass bottles. The difficulty lies in that recycling Tetra packaging demands specific recycling plants that are costly and not easily accessible and that, if not recycled, can end up in landfills. Tetra Paks are 70 to 90% paperboard, which is recyclable like any other paper or card, however, cannot be included with regular paper recycling because the aluminium foil liner and polyethene cap are included with the carton. This series of murals main idea is to denoun

TBILISI Mural Art Festival, Georgia 2022

Image
TBILISI Mural Fest has just wrapped up its fourth street art festival in the beautiful capital of Georgia. The festival began in 2019 and was founded by Besik Maziashvili with the support of Tbilisi and Berlin City Halls. The Tbilisi mural festival has more than forty murals addressing social, environmental and other relevant issues, and the artists are free to decide their theme. This year’s artist line-up welcomed Fintan Magee, VESOD , Sasha Korban, David Machavariani, Luis Gomez de Teran, ARTEZ, KERA, Mohamed l’Ghacham and Tina Chertova, who painted their murals in different locations of the city. “It was impossible to ignore the topic of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, especially since the Georgian people know just how it feels to be invaded by Russia. This is why he decided to focus on Ukrainian artists and give them a chance to express their feelings through their art. The well-known Ukrainian artist, Sasha Korban, who was an honourable artist this year, painted a portrait of