![]() ![]() Since his artistic debut in 2006, he has had several solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows. Still, his expression is very much masculine, filled with in your face-statements that represents a young and vigorous group of upcoming artists. ![]() He has a cheerful, very much recognizable and almost feminine touch butterflies, doves and hearts in soft, nonetheless vibrant, colours. His stencils are a mix of urban scenes with a poetic, hippyish make peace not war-message. If you are in the neighbourhood, you’ll be able to find Less Is More on 2 Chome-24-2 Asakusa, Taito, Tokyo. If you stop by Paris, this French Flag can be seen Rue Amelot. The Norwegian painter quickly painted this piece with one of his signature stencils combined with a heavily tagged background. His artistic expression started off more political, inspired by DOLK and Banksy, but has developed into a more subtle expression. Our first post this Monday brings us the ultra popular Norwegian Street Artist Martin Whatson which is still busy in Japan where he just dropped this new stencil entitled Less Is More in Asakusa, a district of Tokyo. After a first piece on Wednesday ( covered ), Martin Whatson is keeping himself busy on the streets of Paris with this cheeky new mural. This interest for decay has helped develop his style, motives and composition and he enjoys creating either unity or conflict between materials and motives a wrinkled old lady on a shiny plate of aluminum. He looks for inspirations in city landscapes and old soon to be demolished buildings. Martin has a continuous urge to search for beauty in what is commonly dismissed as ugly, out of style or simply left behind. Pøbel, Banksy, Dotdotdot, Dolk, and Martin Whatson are just some of the talented street artists who have left their mark on Stavanger in Fjord Norway.When you walk through the city, it almost feels like theres been a colour explosion, with cutting edge street art on almost every available wall. Over the past decade, Martin has developed an unmistakable aestethic combining abstract movement with figurative stencilled compositions. In 2004 he started his own artistic production. Martin Whatson (f.1984) is a Norwegian street-artist best known for his calligraphic scribbles in grayscale voids. He had been interested in Graffiti for years, following the development within street art closely. 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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