Mars sprays on the beauty
BORDEAUX – Graffiti artist, Mars, creates a beautiful mural on a lack-lustre wall.
A blank wall in the Standard Bank Business Incubator in Rosebank has been transformed into a graffiti art installation by Mars, a celebrated Johannesburg-born graffiti artist.
With students from the Design School Southern Africa(DSSA) as assistant, the graffiti installation visually represents the creativity and innovation that Standard Bank’s business incubator concept stands for.
This is in line with a growing trend to explore graffiti as a contemporary art form and to incorporate this in corporate interior designs.
Mars’street and canvas art has garnered him the respect and admiration of the art world.
He was introduced to the medium in 2004, and has built his work from street art to fine art.
Mars is one of the four artists making up the celebrated Johannesburg-based Demolition Crew Graffiti Squad.
During his recent workshop at the Standard Bank Incubator, the DSSA Bordeaux campus students were given a real feel for the processes behind the history and production of graffiti art and to explore innovative concepts and entrepreneurship. They also learned about the technical and theoretical aspects of graffiti art, which should add a new dimension to their own work as budding designers and artists.
The Graffiti Wall Workshop fits the DSSA’s ethos of balancing its students’ natural creative potential with industry preparedness through academic excellence and industry experience.
Details: PrWorx info@prworx.co.za or 0 11 896 1818 ; Design School, bordeaux@designschoolsa.co.za or 011 326 3830.
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