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Introduction In May 2013, a long, dull and grey wall in Copenhagen will be transformed into the longest coherent piece of street art in the world executed by a single artist. At 271 meters long, this wall is located amidst cutting edge architecture and art, and surrounded by several green spaces.

Street Art is a fleeting new art form found around city streets. Pulling away from the more traditional means of an exhibition space, it can catch us off guard with its breathtaking and mind provoking manner. It merges into the city; its walls, bricks and concrete.

“We want to send a signal, that the decoration of the urban space is highly prioritized, and that new art - and art forms - are welcome.

Also, art in public spaces – or street art – has great democratic value because it is accessible to everyone, at any time of the day.” - Pia Allerslev, the Mayor of Culture and Leisure in Copenhagen.

This catalogue covers 12 artists discovered through an international street art competition held by the creative community Artrebels in cooperation with the Municipality of Copenhagen and Flügger. 140 artists, some internationally known and others local talents, participated. Proposals from South America, the USA, Canada, Europe, Russia and Asia were submitted to the competition.

This catalogue is a collection of works showing what the wall could have been: The visions of 11 competition entrants who shared their ideas for transforming the wall into a spectacular piece of art. It also provides insight into what it will be: A sneak peek of the winning piece, which will be revealed at the end May 2013 at Ørestad Boulevard.

Animal Farm

My vision is to stencil spray 87 animal faces on the wall, one on each panel leaving the metallic appearance of the wall as a background. I often use the theme of contrast between the urban environments and nature in my work. The last years, in many of my projects, I have used the images of wild animals as a representation of nature exposed in the urban environment.

From my point of view, it is essential that nature should not be forgotten when expending urbanism.

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Victor Ash / Denmark

My goal with this art work is to make the viewer confronted, so to speak “face to face” with nature. That is why I take “face to face” textually and paint a selected 87 faces of animal close-ups.

Wall’s Trip

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Mr. R and Papa Gibs / France

We are a freshly formed collective (early 2012). 4 handed and 2 brained person considered as one artist with one vision.

Our version of the Ă˜restad wall represents a world tour in which Copenhagen and Ă˜restad are the centre. Along this travel you will meet different people as well as colourful scenes of life which symbolizes the exchange and the diversity of people around the world. You will come across different walls such as the Berlin Wall and Ă˜restad wall. You will also find GPS coordinates which provides the localization of the places where the moment captured takes place. This is the driving line of the artwork.

Double Pencil

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Nevercrew / Switzerland

“Double pencil” wants to be a vector, a container, a tool for creation and documentation. It could tell history and stories, reflect reality or propose something new, but already present in the current structure and future potential of Ørestad City. We think to exploit the existing shape of the panels, very much present from the visual and structural point of view, and deconstruct on it a series of chosen subjects, representative of Ørestad City, Copenhagen and Denmark, but also, in the widest sense: technology, nature and human being, which we think are the three main elements of the district. In fact, it is exactly in the union and in the contrast between nature and technology that we can locate the “man” in general and who, in the specific, finds an ideal symbiosis in a combination between a cutting edge architecture, modern urbanistic solutions and a rich and true natural environment.

My Deer Diary

I want to make an artwork that will inspire people and help them identify themselves with nature. This wall is not a wall. It is a photo-diary of one regular, and not by any means special, temporary resident of Ørestad. The deer is the symbol of wildlife, and in the same time his pride and selfconfident attitude should represent the attitude of the people living in Ørestad.

Additionally, his diary is relaxed and full of city gossips and stories. This wall should be the point where “city meets nature”, the place where city becomes nature and nature becomes city.

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ArteZ / Serbia

City Tale

Architecture is the art gallery of everyday life. Ørestad with it’s modern buildings and wide spaces, let’s the buildings breathe. This inspired me to make a clean drawing of the city with big and clear forms, to give a sense of a city in harmony with nature.

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Lef Kiort / Greece

As Within So Without

I have painted on walls since 1993 and I have done hundreds of walls during my artistic career. My projects aim to create a harmonic connection between the existing structures and my artwork, characterizing it with plain and elegant lines.

The continuous alternation between hi-tech astonishing buildings and green grassy spaces provided me the inspiration for the development of the background of my work. My aim is to perfectly recreate the ideology behind the urban planning of the district. What I have noticed to be recurring in Ă˜restad City and it’s architecture is the modular repetition of cubes and rectangular parallelepipeds. That is why a big portion of the wall will be painted following a texture composed by floating cubes.

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Peeta / Italy

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The proposal seeks to generate three distinct visions: macro, medium and micro. The macro vision seeks to degenerate the canvas format, and so I will be utilizing big shapes that don’t fit completely on to the wall and will leave it up to the geometric cityscape that surrounds it to complete the image.

For the medium, I thought from the perspective of a car or train passing by a mural, inviting the viewer to get closer to an abstract and chromatic image.

Once on the micro, you will enter a universe within a universe, little stories about music, nature and how the urban life can live with a dream-like sense of humor. The long format inspired me to do a large contemporary artistic journey, telling an incomplete novel about what the fishes eat and what the humans like.

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Tec / Brasil

Cielo Abierto

We are trying to describe Ă˜restad with our characteristic way of representing the environment. The wall will have different colors and a lot of graphics to start a conversation between the art and the people.

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Jade and Decertor / PerĂş

Variation 1-75

I want to create a piece for the viewer to be present of the surroundings. The viewer can enjoy the rythm of the piece, while passing by or be absorbed by it even more. Awareness is demanded by the piece, and maybe it takes a couple of visits to really discover the small displacements and the system of the piece, square by square.

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Henrik Menné / Denmark

The wall is by definition a boundary – and my diagrammatic demolition of the elements of the wall points towards an increased accesibility and courtesy – for the neighbours as well as visitors of Ørestad.

FULL SPECTRUM

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Instant Coffee Artist Collective / Canada

Instant Coffee Artist Collective would like to propose Full Spectrum, a sequin mural spanning the entire wall, using the design and colours of a full spectrum wavelength.

Full spectrum light is the electromagnetic spectrum we call “visible light”. Sunlight is described as full-spectrum light and includes the range of wavelengths necessary to sustain life on Earth: infrared, visible and ultraviolet. The word ‘Spectrum’ comes from a latin word meaning ‘image’.

It means a condition that is not limited to a specific set of values but can vary infinitely within a continuum. It depicts ideal of modern society where infinite number of activity are possible and where it provides all necessity of human habitat. It is about both nature and a man made marketing term that implies a product emulates natural light.

ØC.Mash-up

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Ramsø Ploug / Denmark

Instead of the wall in Ørestad being a anonymous passage, our vision is to inspire residents and other people passing the wall on their way to work to stop up, explore and come back to examine and discover new things in the artwork. As a contrast to the many grey and barren surfaces in this part of the city, we’ve chosen to include nature in form of wood boards in different nuances. To underline the modern neighbourhood, we’ve chosen the ‘PANG!’-colours, cyan, magenta, yellow and black. We like the idea that these colours together makes ALL colours possible = the diversity of Ørestad!

In / Between

In the battle of oppossites, nobody wins and nobody loses. It´s just a cycle, just another one. A deer runs and disappears in the trees. The forest devouring in its branches.

You can´t win the race to time. The night will come first and with it darkness, but Ørestad can sleep peacefully, the sun will rise again in the morning and the deer will continue his career. Nature takes its course.

Nature meets city meets nature, chaos meets order meets chaos; night meets day meets night.

In land, between landscape; In the way, between two points; In Ørestad, between nature.

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Hyuro / Spain

The winner The artists in this catalogue demonstrate the diversity the competition was all about.

A jury of seven, all prominent figures within art and urbanism, chose Hyuro’s work In/ Between as the best among 140 proposals from international and local artists. The Argentinean artist will now come to Denmark in May and transform the 271 metre long wall on Ørestad Boulevard with her art. Her work will be revealed to the public May 27, and will stand as a symbol of the cultural development in Ørestad for years to come.

THE JURY

The jury consisted of: • Jesper Elg, co-founder of the internationally renowned V1 Gallery and member of the Danish Arts Council of International Visual Arts • ‘Cleanz’, one of Denmark’s most versatile street artists • Lasse Korsemann Horne, editor behind the most comprehensive Danish publication on street art “Dansk Gadekunst” • Nis Rømer, member from the Danish Arts Council • Tina Saaby, Danish City Architect • Peter Larsson, CPH City and Port • Mia Ellgaard, “Homeowners Ørestad”

The jury chose Hyuro “because of her ability to create a poetic, unique and beautiful piece of art, that exploits the length of the wall creating a coherent movement. Hyuro tells a story that suits the environment in Ørestad: A deer moving from the light into the unfamiliar, contributing to a moment of wonder and meditation in the everyday lives of people passing by car, metro, or bike. We believe that this is a powerful piece of art which will add a positive energy to Ørestad.”

HYURO

”I am very honored to be chosen from so many talented artists and interesting projects. I am truly excited about this opportunity to express and share my artistic vision with people of Copenhagen.” Hyuro.

Pia Allerslev, the Mayor of Culture and Leisure in Copenhagen: “I really find that the jury has made a fantastic choice. The artwork of Hyuro is beautiful, simple and very evocative. I’m glad that we get a piece of art that describes the unique combination of nature and modern architecture found in Ørestad and perhaps it may even become some sort of a landmark of the district.”

Hyuro is an artist originally from Argentina, who now lives and works in Valencia, Spain. She began painting in the street after meeting Spanish artist Escif. Not much time has passed since then. The decision to work on the street comes from the re-discovery of this place as a space to express themselves and communicate with a wider audience.

Her works are characterized by a simple, clean and cartoonish style that somehow reminds us of Japanese manga. The preference for a monochrome colors, especially in black and white, is in perfect harmony with the somber tone of the atmosphere painted in her murals, in which illustrates the concerns and fears that any unique identity hidden in his being.

Among the many topics discussed highlights the interest in respect of human interiority, first and herself. In fact, the cornerstone issue of her works is the woman’s body, often in relation to animals and natural elements. Theirs is a subtle reflection on identity, individual and collective, and freedom that feels like the conditions of the fundamental and inalienable rights of the person.

Her penchant for drawing on paper using black pens and pencils, strictly differentiate it from other urban artists. Her murals founded in various cities in Spain, but also in other European cities such as Rome, Hanover, Prague, Zurich, Stavanger (Norway) and non-European countries, such as Mexico and Argentina.

Earlier work by Hyuro

We hope you enjoyed the exhibition and will take this catalogue home with you, or give it to somebody else along your way. Follow the development of Hyuro’s piece by visiting Ă˜restad Boulevard during the month of May, or follow the process or what else is up at artrebels.com.

This catalogue is yours, made by ArtRebels.

Victor Ash / Mr. R and Papa gibs / Nevercrew / Artez / Lef Kiort / Peeta / Tec / jade and Decertor / henrik mennÊ / instant coffee artist collective / ramsø ploug / hyuro