It’s becoming more and more easy to get permission to do walls, and internationally the exploding amount of street art festivals has been amazing to witness. It’s amazing to see how much has changed since I first began! I mean, coming from Norway we are always a bit late to the party, so I have seen how it was like before it got embraced by the people. What is your point of view, what do you like and what would you like to change about this great “machine”? You have more than a decade of street work on your shoulders, and in these years we have witnessed the explosion of the street art movement worldwide. By painting a street piece or a mural using this as an inspiration I hope to inspire just a few people to think beyond what they can just see with their eyes, I hope they’ll be able to scratch below the surface! Well the graffiti still remains on the wall, its just laying below the white. Imagine a wall that has been painted with colorful graffiti, and then overpainted in white. Maybe get them to question what they see every day. Like I mentioned before, it has been a mission to change peoples view. What has brought into your life the artistic expression, the mural?
I think that the first message coming from your art is always an invitation to look beyond, to discover life in a different sense, to pull out the joyful aspect that resides in us. I would hate a world that is not visually challenging! In my opinion we need some contrast and change in our life to see the variables and open our minds a little more. One of my missions is to open peoples eyes to something more than just what is perceived as the norm.
#MARTIN WHATSON BEYOND THE WALL FREE#
But for me creativity helps to discover the opposite.įor sure it would be a pessimistic view of life, but do you think is honest to associate graffiti culture to something more vital, colorful, while the rest seems discolored and free from stimulus? With all the visual input you get these days it can be easy to feel like your disappearing in a jungle of noise. Well, yeah, I work a lot with the colors and contrasts, as you might see strong contrasts has been an ongoing theme in my works for a long time! I think a lot of people will discover, if they really look within themselves, that they can be a little bit grey. What if it was the opposite? What if looking within ourselves we discover only gray while we are surrounded by multicolored banners? Hey Martin, let’s start from the color, in most of your pieces the color explodes behind a gray cover, or is within us while everything else is gray like concrete. Since his artistic debut in 2004, he has had several solo shows and participated in many group exhibitions, both nationally and in international metropoles like Tokyo, Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles.
He use grey tones as a basis but add’s vibrant colours to break the monochrome concrete expression and bring a splash of life to his motives. His interest for decay has developed his style, creating either unity or conflict between materials, backgrounds, and human intervention. He looks for inspirations in people, city landscapes, old buildings, graffiti, posters and decaying walls. Since his artistic debut in 2004, he has had several solo shows and participated in many group exhibitions, both nationally and in international metropoles like Tokyo, Paris, London, New York, and Los Angeles.Norwegian Martin Whatson has a continuous urge to search for beauty in what is commonly dismissed as ugly, out of style or simply left behind. He uses grey tones as a basis but add’s vibrant colors to break the monochrome concrete expression and bring a splash of life to his motives. His abstract graffiti and stencils are a mix of urban scenes showing the development of a wall’s lifetime. Inspired by artists like Jose Parlá and Cy Twombly. His artistic expression started more political but has developed into a more subtle expression blending graffiti, stencil art, and decay together. This interest in decay has helped develop his style, motives, and composition and he enjoys creating either unity or conflict between materials, backgrounds, motives, and human intervention. He looks for inspirations in people, city landscapes, old buildings, graffiti, posters, and decaying walls.
Martin has a continuous urge to search for beauty in what is commonly dismissed as ugly, out of style, or simply left behind. After following graffiti and its development, he started his own stencil production 10 years ago in the winter of 2004. While studying Art and Graphic design at Westerdals School of Communication, Oslo, he discovered stencils and the urban art scene. 1984) is a Norwegian-born and based stencil artist.
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