ART WITHIN SURFACES
Graco’s Winning Team to Celebrate the Best Cyclists in the World Wim Belmans from Graco actively collaborated with street artist Thomas Daem, employing two Cordless 390 Classic units, to paint the portraits of famous cyclists along the road of the 2021 UCI Road World Championships.
W
im Belmans, District Manager CED of Graco, has cooperated
collective Puncheur searched for better equipment and finally chose
with the art collective Puncheur for a special street art
Graco airless machine to lift his art to a higher level. Belmans became
project on the famous Flander’s cycling roads. Aiming to
immediately fascinated with the projects, and after some initial tests
honour the greatest cyclists in history, they employed two Cordless
they both discovered that Graco cordless 390 classic units made their
390 Classic units to paint the faces of the athletes along the trail of the
work faster and easier.
2021 UCI Road World Championships, which took place in Belgium
In total, the team painted 16 portraits of 3.75 m x 2.55 m in just three
from 18th to 26th September 2021.
days, working tirelessly from 09:20 am until past midnight.
The original idea came to the Belgian graphic designer Thomas Daem
“Graco as a partner is very proud to cooperate in this very unique
for Tom Boonen’s last year as a professional cyclist in 2017. The artist
sports event and is even more proud that the lightweight and compact
and his dad created some basic stencils with spare cardboard from the
design of the new battery-powered sprayer, which was on top of that
grocery store and painted the face of Boonen on the road. Since then,
highly portable, turned out to be the ideal help for this paint jobs,”
Daem made several other portraits, such as the ones of Peter Sagan,
commented Belmans.
Frank Vandenbroucke, Johan Museeuw, Bradley Wiggins and Wout van Aert, becoming very renowned in the world of cycling and street art. For the 2021 UCI Road World Championships, he and the street-art
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