Vhils is involved in NuArt 10, one of the greatest street art festivals to happen this year, with artists like Dolk, JR, M-City, EVOL, ROA, Blu & Ericailcaine and many more. Check his latest works inside, and the NuArt page for more amazing pieces by all the other artists.
UPDATE: NuArt posted some more info on this piece.
NuArt 2010
NuArt just left this on their blog which adds the background story:
Great close up of the Vhils piece. The portrait is a very well known image of a Norwegian fisherman from the turn of the century, turned out that the wall we were working on used to be a factory for packing sardines, Stavanger’s prime industry at the time.
The owner of the wall was shocked to find we had two Portuguese artists painting a Norwegian fisherman and proceeded to produce an old label from a Sardine can written in Portuguese. Apparently it used to be the factories main export country.
A happy coincidence or a very clever curatorial decision, we’ll let you decide.
All photos by John Rodger and more on his Flickr page.
