Date: 18 – 26 March 2023
Venue: Central and Western District
Come and meet the European artists attending HKWALLS 2023 on 22 March at Soho House, 5:30pm-7:30pm
More information and free registration at this LINK
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HKWALLS 2023 street art festival returns for its 8th edition welcoming international and local artists to paint Hong Kong’s Central and Western District from 18 – 26 March. With an action-packed programme of mural painting, workshops, guided tours, artist talks and an art battle over the 9 day festival, come and join us with a chance to meet artists from Italy, France, Czech Republic, Germany, the United States and more.
“EU Street Art Meets Hong Kong” is a project jointly presented by EUNIC Cluster Hong Kong (Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Hong Kong, Goethe-Institut, Alliance Française, Italian Cultural Institute) and HKWALLS, supported by the EUNIC Cluster Fund, the EU Office to Hong Kong and Macao and EUNIC Cluster Hong Kong members.
The project is bringing four amazing artists from Czechia (Mara Cmara), Germany (Innerfields), France (Koga One) and Italy (Zed1) for HKWALLS 2023 to showcase their art and to interact both with local art community and other HKWALLS participants and local partners. Other EU member states will also highlight their street art culture during this year’s festival. The emphasis is put on the interaction with the youth. Inneficient.Cie with Kwamé Bâ & Clémentine Nirennold from France will bring a taste of EU hip-hop dance culture to the Opening of the festival.
About ZED1
Marco Burresi is an Italian street artist who is better known in art world as Zed1. Born 1977 in Florence Tuscany, ZED1 started painting walls about 20 years ago and is best known for his murals of egg headed humans and curious critters that have decked walls from Amsterdam to New York.
Versatile artist manages to pass with ease from the wall to canvas, from graphic design to that for major clothing brands. His work stands out with a unique and provocative interpretation of forms and an enchanting and sometimes melancholy color palate. With wise use of the spraying technique, given a well-founded experience, ZED1 is able to obtain harmonious shades as if they were watercolors, his technique can be sudden, splashed, unfinished, as well as precisely attentive to detail. His characters are found to have strands of hair perfectly defined and texture decorative in their clothes. Marco’s recent portfolio is populated by puppets, elves, clowns and imaginary characters that can be likened to those of a fairy tale; melancholy and reflection are the masters in the atmosphere he paints.
The artworks of Zed1 can be characterized by a good dose of humor, a very unique and personal style, his recognizable figures, use of color and his close eye for details. For his works he says they are a juice of his experiences. He also loves to challenge and he creates an interaction with his audience. Through a constant and varied development of the technique, his style evolves accordingly to his work as writer, which leads him to paint trains, walls and surfaces of all kinds. Following his predilection for imagery, he succeeds in creating a world of humanoid puppets, which, in their illusory sterility, interact with the world around them, evolving both in space and time (as in the recent “Second Skin”). Zed1 moves, through a fine dance of shapes and colors, in a post-modern surrealism that, even in its most irrational features, refers to a clear awareness, sometimes melancholy, sometimes extraordinarily ironic.
Zed1’s figures come to life because each of them have their own characterizations. These are enhanced by the sheer precision and elaborate details. His characters are human marionettes, in which you can found particulars like Bosch and Tim Burton. He doesn’t have idols, but he respects a lot of artists like Os Gemeos, Dome, Interesni Kazki and Blu.
His works decorate walls of all those places he had traveled like Italy, Belgium, Holland, Romania, Spain, UK, Norway, Brazil and more.
About EUNIC
European Union National Institutes for Culture – is Europe´s network of national cultural institutes and organizations, with 39 members from all EU Member States and Associate countries. The EUNIC Cluster Hong Kong was founded in 2018. HKWALLS is a non-profit arts organisation that aims to create opportunities for local and international artists to showcase their talent in Hong Kong through street art and street culture.
About HKWALLS
HKwalls is a non-profit arts organisation that aims to create opportunities for local and international artists to showcase their talent in Hong Kong and internationally through the mediums of street art and street culture. We celebrate creativity, originality and freedom of expression; actively work on connecting and building relationships with artists, the community and organisations worldwide through high-quality public art, while making the creative process accessible to all.
HKwalls holds an annual street art festival in Hong Kong during Hong Kong’s art month each March, as well as year round programming that focuses on artists’ career development and raising awareness through the arts.
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