OsloNowhere works closely with Martin and will update social media and our homepage with new works as soon as they arrive. 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. The works often focus on a singular matte subject, one that is seemingly. His works stand out from the increasingly hectic street art scene as a result of their brilliant blend of grayscale scenes with explosions of vibrantly painted graffiti. In September 2020, we had the pleasure of presenting Martins work in an exhibition in an old gas station at Frogner in Oslo. We’ve followed Norwegian artist Martin Whatson‘s for some time and it’s not hard to see why. If you stop by Paris, this French Flag can be seen Rue Amelot. The Norwegian painter quickly painted this piece with one of his signature stencils combined with a heavily tagged background. 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. After a first piece on Wednesday ( covered ), Martin Whatson is keeping himself busy on the streets of Paris with this cheeky new mural. 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. We do however encourage the artist to claim their profile and take charge of this profile like hundreds of other. ![]() It does not represent the artist in any formal way. This overview is created by the passionate work of street art hunters. Martin Whatson (f.1984) is a Norwegian street-artist best known for his calligraphic scribbles in grayscale voids. Martin Whatson is part of Street Art Cities, the biggest database of street art from all over the world.
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