Artist Scratches A Building's Surface To Reveal Murals
Scratched mural on a building facade in Moscow (Alexandre Farto)
Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto, aka Vhils, sculpts architecture. Using mallets, picks, and jackhammers, Vhils chips away layers of plaster to create large murals in relief. His series of wall etchings called Scratching the Surface appears around the world from Moscow to Italy to the United States. Via Today and Tomorrow.
Salsa in the Square
Things have gotten pretty wild in Times Square, what with the permanent plazas, aquariums, and ice sculptures on the horizon—that last one is going up tonight—so what about a good old fashioned billboard? Well, not exactly old fashioned. In January, Cuban-born street artist Sofia Maldonado took up residency in Times Square’s BLANK SL8 space, where she began work on a clutch of murals that will be installed in the square come march, bringing a bit of graffiti grit back to the area. Our friends at LOOSEWORLD swung by and put together this video of Sofia at work, and there’s another on the way, so stay tuned.
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