#Martin whatson update
OsloNowhere works closely with Martin and will update social media and our homepage with new works as soon as they arrive. Urban artist Martin Watson creates street art all over the world, but for a period of eight months, he has travelled his home region and created art works. Your guide to experiencing the festival of lights, music, food and ideas. Your guide to experiencing the festival of lights, music, food and ideas. While studying Art and Graphic design at Westerdals School of Communication, Oslo. We at OsloNowhere have worked with the street-art movement and artists in this genre for a long time, and are very happy about the attention and success that artists like Martin now is experiencing. Martin Whatson, born 1984, is a Norwegian born and based stencil artist. In September 2020, we had the pleasure of presenting Martins work in an exhibition in an old gas station at Frogner in Oslo. True to form, no gray space stays gray for long in Martins presence, wheter immersing entirely or embellishing a detail, the images dissapear beneath expressive, spray-painted strokes of assorted colours and textures. The ashen tones of the compositions and vacant backgrounds are reminiscent of his alternative canvases, the concrete. Almost stylised, these minimal figures are constructed of a few layers of hand-cut stencils. Delicate and organic characters feature butterflies, ballerinas and animals all rendered in empty grayscale space. With as many works on walls as on canvas and paper, the relationship between vulnerability and strenght remains constant in each work. His works can be seen to mirror the rise and fall of the streets, as he symbolically recreates the urban environment, then vandalises it to reveal his vibrant transformations. Over the past decade, Martin has developed an unmistakable aestethic combining abstract movement with figurative stencilled compositions. Martin Whatson (f.1984) is a Norwegian street-artist best known for his calligraphic scribbles in grayscale voids.
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