The rising star and successor of Banky's fame on the street scene is Alexandre Farto aka Vhils. He is a Portuguese artist who creates stunning murals with unconventional methods. Imagine if Banksy scratched rather than stenciled. Vhils creates his murals by scratching away whats already on the surface of the wall, rather than adding anything to it.
Here is a portfolio of his work at http://alexandrefarto.com/
The Spanish artist SpY from Madrid transforms the everyday into something unique; with his art our perspective of our everyday surroundings are encircled, they draw attention to themselves gaining a kind of self-consciousness and forcing us to reevaluate life on these streets, all the meaning foaming up like bubbles willing to burst from its fizzy bottle of cement and plastic jungles. So take off the bottle cap and embrace this 14 meters high black silhouetted bull, the unofficial national emblem of Spain!
Art professor Javier Abarca speaks of SpY:
Around the mid-nineties SpY felt that he was outgrowing traditional graffiti as a means of expression. He soon began to play with the infinite possibilities that the surroundings offered his senses, recently freed from this narrow methodology...SpY’s pieces want to be a parenthesis in the automated inertia of the urbanite. They are pinches of intention that are hidden in a corner for those who want to let themselves be surprised. Filled with equal parts of irony and positive humor, they appear to make the passer-by smile, incite reflexion, and to favor an enlightened conscience
You can check out SpY's website at http://www.spy.org.es/
Mark Jenkins forte is in street art installations. He treats the street as a stage.
Jenkins during an interview with an art critic revealed his philosophy on street art:
There is opposition, and risk, but I think that just shows that street art is the sort of frontier where the leading edge really does have to chew through the ice. And it’s good for people to remember public space is a battleground, with the government, advertisers and artists all mixing and mashing, and even now the strange cross-pollination taking place as street artists sometimes become brands, and brands camouflaging as street art creating complex hybrids or impersonators.
You can catch more of him at his site at http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/ or you can head to http://tapesculpture.org/ for a tutorial on how to make casts of objects using packing tape.
Now we move onto a Belgian artist by the name of ROA who has a real taste for bringing the wilderness of nature into the hearts of urban areas. He connects the native fauna depending on what city he is working on and usually choses areas that are run down or derelict, he explains the appeal of such areas by saying:
It’s nice to paint in a restful and left behind place. It’s like an oasis between the civilization...These places have an unique character, the decay and the lost industrial activity (like the factories) offering lots of interesting situations.
Although ROA does not have an official website, this blog http://unurth.com/filter/ROA has a comprehensive amount of information and images of his work.
If there is one artist to define Street Art for the masses it is Bansky who is shrouded in mystery and bucket loads of money too. If there is one movie you see this decade, then let it be Banky's Exit Through The Giftshop. Trust me you will thank me after you watch it.
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