A large mural by Pixel Pancho on one side of the street and a small mural preaching kindness on the other.

Playing with a mechanical toy while sitting in the lap of a larger machine (robot?)


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her yerde everywhere
A large mural by Pixel Pancho on one side of the street and a small mural preaching kindness on the other.
Playing with a mechanical toy while sitting in the lap of a larger machine (robot?)
Back in June 2015 I spent a week in Havana. The street art that I saw there ranged from scribbles on walls to elaborate murals and pictures. The following photographs cover almost all the street art that I saw.
below: A young boy by 5 Stars
below: A variation on a slogan, “just do it”
below: yellow faces, holding up a portrait
below: Charlie Chaplin and the kid
below: A fish out of water, swimming down the street
While I was in Havana, the Duodecima Bienal de La Habana was also on and some of what I saw on the streets, including the photo below, probably belonged to that. The Bienal De La Habana is an art festival that occurs every three years (yes, three years even though bienal means every two years!). The next festival will be in November 2018.
below: The little blue signs says “Gabinete del imaginario” which translates to Cabinet of the Imaginary.
below: Oops I did it again, scribbles on the wall.
below: Black and white portraits overlooking the street
below: “…no quiero mas el queso” or, I don’t want more cheese. It is signed as Cuba Ecuador 2015 as well as Ratador. So far I haven’t been able to find any information on this artist.
below: “A las almas” To the souls, on one side of the door while a woman rides her bike on top of the world on the other side of the door.
below: An eye over number 156
below: Waves of hair, waves of water
below: Calling Seth
There are also a number of political pieces. I suspect that some state are sponsored and some are not.
below: CDR #8 refers to Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (Spanish: Comités de Defensa de la Revolución) which is a network of neighbourhood committees across Cuba. Their purpose depends on what side of the fence you are on. They promote social welfare and report on counter-revolutionary activity or they are a secret police organization. Take your pick.
below: This is the symbol of the Young Communist League in Cuba. In Spanish it’s Unión de Jóvenes Comunistas or UJC. Estudio, Trabajo, Fusil = Study, Work, Rifle. The symbol shows the faces of Julio Antonio Mella, Camilo Cienfuegos and Che Guevera. Mella was a founder of the Cuban Communist Party while Cienfuegos and Guevera were major figures in the Cuban Revolution.
below: A UJC mural, “fieles a nuestra historia ” or Faithful to our History.
below: Che Guevera on his own.
The next three pictures are of a mural on Callejon de Hamel (callejon is a lane)
below: A woman looks out the window above the mural. The words on the beige part say “Puedo esperar mas que tu, porque soy el tiempo.” This translates to, “I can wait more than you because I am time. ” On the red section the words are “Salvador 26 to 95”.
below: And last, a picture that was definitely a part of the Bienal. ‘Identidad ‘ by Julio Cesar Garcia It is part of a series of photos called Resistencia. The words that accompany it are given below along with a translation – not the best but with my beginner Spanish and the limitations of google translate, you get what you get!
Identidad da inicio a una serie titulada Resistencia. Apelando al uso del lenguaje y el concepto de arte callejero, la serie esta compuesta por retratos de gran formato ubicados, a largo plazo, en varias ciudades del pais. La intention es intervenir muros, edificos, aceras y calles de la ciudad con gigantografias concebidas en forma de mosaico sobre cartulina cromada. Las obras, en relaction directa con todo tipo de publico desede el proceso mismo de su instalacion, tendran un caracter efimero. Resistencia sera una consigna, una actitud, un modo de vida y de hacer el arte.
Identidad is the first in a series titled Resistencia. Appealing to the use of language and the concept of street art, the series is composed of large format portraits located, in the long term, in several cities of the country. The intention is to intervene on walls, buildings, sidewalks and streets of the city with large photos made in the form of mosaics on chrome paperboard. The works [In direct relation with all types of public from the process itself of its installation] will have an ephemeral character. Resistance will be a slogan, an attitude, a way of life and making art.
Paste-ups seen on Artist Lane, Windsor (Melbourne) this past weekend.
Artist Lane runs parallel to Chapel St. between Green and Union streets, just north of Windsor station. It has the highest concentration of good street art that I have seen yet in Melbourne. I have too many pictures for one blog post. As a result, have divided it up into sections, paste-ups (paper), stencils, and paintings. Here are the paste-ups.
below: It’s twenty seconds into 11:50 somewhere in the world.
I wonder what time the alarm is set for?
below: A perfect afternoon to sit and watch the world go by.
below: Cans inside of cans inside of cans. Tin Babushka dolls.
below: Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing
below: Spraying on a happy face.
below: Flying away. Spraying only where eagles dare.
below: In case of emergency, smile. Put on a happy face.
below: Many words. Many bent and leaning columns at the tipping point.
below: Hammer and sickly cover the globe.
below: This one is signed, by barek
below: Every T-shirt tells a story, of sailing ships and volcanoes about to blow.
below: Watching paint dry, or maybe just thinking about it.
below: The snail is printed on scrap paper? or is there significance to the fact that the original purpose of the paper was information about Julius Baer, a Swiss private financial company, and EMA Partners, a company that matches executives with international companies, also based in Switzerland.
below: with a sigh and a shrug.
below: Stop on red signal. If you look closely, you’ll see that there is more to it than that.
A lot of the above art was done by Phoenix, a Melbourne street artist.
More information about him can be found on his website