🏆 Nomination: Best Of 2022

Slim safont

Wedo

<div><br>In the mural we can see a typical scene, a group of people sitting at the table of a tavern observe something that the viewer can not see.<br><br>Made for Futura Tudela</div>

Crew

Platon's Tavern

<div>&nbsp; 🏆&nbsp; VOTED 2022 BEST OF JUNE #1 <br><br>'The Punishment' is Slim's interpretation of the 'reconnect' theme, taking him back into time with this slight controversial work.<br>"This project uses the school punishment of our childhood "Write 100 times on the blackboard", to ironically represent, the indoctrination mechanisms we receive from young ages to keep us under control and direct our lives towards pre-established models.<br>The main objective of this punishment was to force us to remember that mistake we had made by writing 100 times that we would not repeat it again." explains the artist. <br><br>&nbsp;Read more the 2022 Nuart Aberdeen edition on Inspiring City's blog:<br><strong>https://inspiringcity.com/2022/06/15/murals-of-the-nuart-aberdeen-street-art-festival-2022/</strong>&nbsp;</div>

The Punishment

<p>Part of the Tbilisi Mural Fest</p><p>The mural represents the change of stage of a society, the transition from a darker past to a brighter future with the new generations as protagonists and taking control. Support and teamwork to reach change. Changing the bulb is a metaphor of replacing, modifying, evolving into something better and brighter.&nbsp;<br><br>Georgia is a fighting country with a past marked by many armed conflicts. Self-defense or self-protection and the hability to maintain and preserve their own identity and tradition over the years are qualities worth taking into account when understanding the history and present of this territory. We want our mural to also refer to this capacity on the part of the population, for staying afloat despite difficulties , overcoming darkness through teamwork, support and community cohesion when it comes to defending themselves and overcoming adversities.&nbsp;</p>

"Changing the light bulb"

<div>Big new mural in this social housing area by the famous Spanish artist.<br>&lt;br/&gt;<br>We quote him about his work: "This is a residential area of ​​social housing, mostly inhabited by immigrant families, people with social exclusion problems or at risk of poverty. This mural represents the time of transition for many families who come to the Nieuw Ghent district, the need to move to the neighborhood as the only alternative to their situation but at the same time, their desire and hope that they will, someday, have the opportunity to live in a better place. &lt;br/&gt;<br>While all human beings are entitled to housing, the socioeconomic reality makes this need unmet for many individuals. The construction and administration of social housing also means a correction to the poor functioning of the real estate market, which leaves many people out."<br>&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;<br>The 2 children you see, Ahmed and Aya, just live 100m from this wall. It mural is based on a picture taken during a local festival by the young local photographer Luka Van der Cruyssen.&nbsp;<br>&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;<br>A project by Wallin' vzw with support from stad Gent.</div>

Stay or Leave - Content in Nieuw Gent

<div>Cette fresque haute de 10étages parle des relations intergénérationnelles en utilisant comme modèles une mère et sa fille. La fille porte sa mère sur ses épaules, les rôles sont inversés en somme ce qui donne un sens encore plus profond aux valeurs de famille et de solidarité.<br>« L’idée est d’aborder les relations entre les différentes générations sous un autre angle » explique SlimSafont. « Si tout le monde a conscience que les parents doivent prendre soins de leurs enfants, j’ai voulu inverser cette idée et cette notion d’héritage. Avec le temps, c’est aussi aux enfants de prendre soins de leurs parents. Cette jeune fille, avec ce regard magnifique et ce visage très expressif, porte symboliquement sa mère autour de ce pied qui apparaît au premier plan. J’étais parti au départ sur l’image d’un garçon qui porte son père mais après une plus grande étude du contexte, avec l’œuvre d’ECB représentant un homme âgé en noir et blanc juste à côté, je me suis dit qu’une fille et sa mère seraient plus complémentaires et apporteraient quelque chose de plus doux dans cet ensemble de trois murs exceptionnels. »<br><br>A la recherche de modèles pour réaliser ses personnages, SlimSafont a rencontré Madame Prévot et sa fille Angèle au magasin Avant-Scène rue Victor Hugo. Le jeu du hasard et des connaissances a fonctionné à plein pour le plus grand bonheur des deux Boulonnaises. « C’est une amie qui m’a mis en relation avec les artistes » explique la commerçante. « Ils cherchaient à réaliser le portrait d’une mère et sa fille et elle a pensé à moi. Ils sont donc venus au magasin pour une séance photos improvisée. Le tout s’est passé très simplement même si j’ai dû monter sur la caisse pour donner l’impression de reposer sur les épaules de ma fille (sourire). J’adore le Street Art et participer à une œuvre comme celle-ci qui met en valeur la solidarité fille – mère était un grand plaisir. Je suis ému, honoré et ravi de les avoir aidé. »<br>_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<br>This 10-storey high fresco speaks of intergenerational relationships using a mother and her daughter as models. The daughter carries her mother on her shoulders, the roles are basically reversed, which gives an even deeper meaning to the values of family and solidarity.<br>“The idea is to approach the relations between the different generations from another angle,” explains SlimSafont. “If everyone is aware that parents must take care of their children, I wanted to reverse this idea and this notion of inheritance. Over time, it is also up to the children to take care of their parents. This young girl, with this magnificent gaze and this very expressive face, symbolically carries her mother around this foot which appears in the foreground. I had initially gone with the image of a boy carrying his father but after a greater study of the context, with the work of ECB representing an elderly man in black and white right next to it, I thought to myself that a daughter and her mother would be more complementary and would bring something softer to this set of three exceptional walls. »<br><br>Looking for models to create his characters, SlimSafont met Madame Prévot and her daughter Angèle at the Avant-Scène store on rue Victor Hugo. The game of chance and knowledge worked to the full to the delight of the two Boulonnaises. “It was a friend who put me in touch with the artists,” explains the shopkeeper. “They were looking to do a portrait of a mother and her daughter and she thought of me. So they came to the store for an impromptu photo shoot. Everything went very simply, even though I had to get on the crate to give the impression of resting on my daughter's shoulders (smile). I love Street Art and participating in a work like this that highlights daughter-mother solidarity was a great pleasure. I am moved, honored and delighted to have helped them. »</div>

"To be daughter/son"

<div>Aquest és el resultat del projecte realitzat al barri del Besòs de Barcelona.<br>Les nenes i nens representats són alumnes de diferents cultures de l'escola que hi ha just davant del mur i que vaig conèixer jugant a la plaça de davant del mural. Mentre queia l'últim raig de llum de la tarda entre els blocs del barri, s'il·luminaven els seus rostres d'una forma especial.<br><br>Aquest projecte ha sigut fruit de vàries setmanes de treball d'immersió i investigació amb la comunitat de veïns i veïns, trobades i recull de desenes de fotografies, intercanvi de punts de vista i converses.<br>L'associació de veïnes i veïns i la comunitat han lluitat, entre moltes altres lluites, per crear un mural que donés visibilitat d'algun aspecte positiu i qualitatiu del territori.<br><br>El projecte ha estat guiat per les veïnes Teresa i Asun entre altres juntament amb el comissariat i producció d'Arcadi Poch i l'equip <a href="https://www.instagram.com/binomic.cat/">@binomic.cat</a>.<br>Especial agraïment a la Tere, la Asun, la Aurora, el Casal del barri, l'Arcadi, la Mar i el Jordi de binòmic, als obrers i l'Ibra, el Wedo, la Nami, el Pablo, l'Ariel i totes les veïnes i veïns que han participat i han passat a donar el seu punt de vista durant la realització del projecte. <br>_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<br>This is the result of the project carried out in the Besòs neighborhood of Barcelona.<br>The girls and boys represented are students from different cultures at the school that is right in front of the wall and that I met playing in the square in front of the mural. As the last ray of afternoon light fell between the blocks of the neighborhood, their faces lit up in a special way.<br><br>This project has been the result of several weeks of immersion work and research with the community of neighbors, meetings and collection of dozens of photographs, exchange of points of view and conversations.<br>The neighborhood association and the community have fought, among many other struggles, to create a mural that would give visibility to some positive and qualitative aspect of the territory.<br><br>The project has been guided by the neighbors Teresa and Asun, among others, along with the curation and production of Arcadi Poch and the @binomic.cat team.<br>Special thanks to Tere, Asun, Aurora, Casal del barri, Arcadi, Mar and Jordi from binomial, to the workers and Ibra, Wedo, Nami, Pablo, Ariel and all the neighbors who have participated and given their point of view during the realization of the project.<br><br><a href="https://beteve.cat/cultura/infants-besos-illuminen-barri-mural-slim-safont/">Video interview with Slim</a></div>

"La llum del barri"

Street Musician

<div>Project:<a href="https://thecrystalship.org/nl/homepage-nederlands/"> The Crystal Ship 2023</a><br><br> Slim Safont is nog niet zo gek lang met street art bezig, maar hij maakte de afgelopen jaren een flinke opmars in Europa. Terecht, want zijn metershoge schilderijen – hij is beïnvloed door het werk van meesters als Joaquín Sorolla en Anders Zorn – zijn pareltjes. Telkens weer tekent de Spanjaard voor een soort tranche de vie die enorm hard tot de verbeelding spreekt en in dit geval ook – het werk geeft uit op een speelplaats – wil breken met de machocultuur van jongeren. Voor Slim Safont is het duidelijk: ook jongens mogen emoties tonen en troost zoeken bij elkaar.&nbsp; De muurschildering is bedoeld om de nieuwe mannelijke identiteiten weer te geven die de afgelopen jaren steeds meer zijn gegroeid, grotendeels dankzij het vermogen van de nieuwe generaties om nieuwe gedachten en identiteiten voor te stellen en te verdedigen die breken met de sterk vooraf gedefinieerde hegemonische mannelijkheid. De muurschildering toont drie jonge mannelijke adolescenten die een vriendschappelijke relatie aangaan, maar elkaar een fysiek contact van genegenheid en zorgzaamheid tonen.<br>Vriendschap tussen jongens heeft de neiging om altijd een barrière of fysieke en emotionele afstand te bewaren als het gaat om het tonen aan de ander.<br>Met de muurschildering willen we studenten een vorm van mannelijke interactie voorstellen en zichtbaar maken die breekt met het unieke idee van een sterke, dappere en stoere man die zijn gevoelens of kwetsbaarheid niet mag tonen.<br>_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<br> Slim Safont has not been doing street art for very long. Having said that, he has already been making waves in Europe. And rightly so, because his meters-high paintings – influenced by the work of masters such as Joaquín Sorolla and Anders Zorn – are gems. Time and again, the Spaniard draws a kind of tranche de vie that speaks to the imagination and, in this case, also wants to break with the macho culture among adolescents. The work overlooks a playground, and for Slim Safont, it is clear that boys are also allowed to show emotions and seek comfort from each other.&nbsp; The mural intends to represent the new masculine identities that have been increasingly growing in recent years, largely thanks to the ability of the new generations to propose and defend new thoughts and identities that break with the highly predefined hegemonic masculinity. The mural presents three young male adolescents who establish a friendly relationship but show each other a physical contact of affection and care.<br>Friendship between boys tends to always maintain a barrier or physical and emotional distance when it comes to showing it to the other.<br>With the mural, we intend to propose and make visible to students a form of masculine interaction that breaks with the unique idea of a strong, brave and tough man who should not show his feelings or vulnerability.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;</div>

New masculinities

"Pull an all-nighter"

"Blurred future"

<p>With this intervention we want to take advantage of that special location, to capture values ​​of yesteryear that we have very present today; the love for family, passion for work, respect for the land and responsibility for get a prosperous town. It will reflect a family making the daily journey towards their farmlands through a typical landscape of our town.</p>

Hunter

Camino al regadío / road to irrigation

<div>This mural represents the will of the new generations of Belarus, to propose new paths and follow different directions from those of their ancestors. His interest in evolving and proposing new ways of seeing reality, are guided and directed towards a direction imposed by the system and power. The kid painted is Lukas, member of the family that gave the artist the opportunity to live in their house during the project and where he learned more about their culture and country. <br><br>project supported by Urban Myths (<a href="https://mustact.by/">https://mustact.by/</a>)</div>

A different direction

<p>The artist Slim Safont has reflected on the situation and the relationship between cultures, thinking about the fine and fragile line that governs a healthy, fruitful, beneficial and synergistic coexistence between them or a disagreement, distance and rivalry to impose one's own and reject the foreign one.</p><p>This reflection has been the inspiration to find the image of the mural made at the 23700 Urban Art Festival. The artist tries to symbolize with an image a very open interpretation, so that it is not explicit or too direct or violent, but rather pleasant, innocent and poetic.</p><p>If we think of the image decontextualizing the idea of ​​the game of musical chairs, we observe a group of young people who all try to climb on the same chair at the same time, while they hold on to each other and support themselves with the ones next to them.</p><p>This metaphorical scene represents cultural coexistence, settlement, mutual balance. The girls and boys represent cultural diversity and the interaction in this coexistence by each of them.<br><br><br>El artista Slim Safont ha reflexionado sobre la situación y la relación entre culturas, pensando en la fina y frágil línea que rige entre una convivencia sana, fructuosa, beneficiosa y sinérgica entre ellas o una desavenencia, distancia y rivalidad por imponer la propia y rechazar la foránea.</p><p>Esta reflexión ha sido la inspiración para encontrar la imagen del mural realizado en el 23700 Festival de Arte Urbano. El artista trata de simbolizar con una imagen una interpretación muy abierta, de manera que no sea explícita ni demasiado directa o violenta, sino más bien agradable, inocente y poética.</p><p>Si pensamos la imagen descontextualizando la idea del juego de las sillas, observamos un grupo de jóvenes que tratan todos de subir a la vez encima de la misma silla, mientras se agarran las unas a las otras cogiéndose y apoyándose con las que tienen al lado.</p><p>Esta escena metafórica representa la convivencia cultural, el asentamiento, el equilibrio mutuo. Las niñas y niños representan la diversidad cultural y la interacción en esta convivencia por parte de cada una de ellas.</p>

COEXISTENCIA

"The bench"

Moderator

<div>&nbsp;For the first edition of <a href="https://en.streetart-festival-frauenfeld.ch/">Street Art Frauenfeld.</a>&nbsp;<br><br>Schwingen is a traditional Swiss wrestling, considered a national sport that becomes especially popular in the rural areas of the country. This tradition has always been associated with the adult male figure and it was not until a short time ago that women and children were able to participate in it.<br>This mural represents the evolution and transformation of the hegemonic norm that drags from ancient traditions and is accepted as natural or inevitable just because of its antiquity.<br>On the mural we see the fight between two local children, Matteo Suter and Vera Schlüchter who would win the fight.<br><br>The original photograph was taken by the great local photographer René Nussbaumer.&nbsp;</div>

The fight - Schwingen

"11:13 AM"

"Crowd"

<p>Collaboration with Manolo Mesa for @visionartfestival</p>

"Refugio"

<div>Project: Grenoble Street Art Fest 2022</div>

Toys for sale

"Heredity"

"TIED UP"

"La mari"

<div>&nbsp;This mural made in the Italo-Albanese town Santa Sofia d'Epiro represents an older man holding the old photograph of his marriage, him and his wife, dressed in traditional Arbëreshë robes.<br>The mural represents the preservation and conservation of one's own identity, tradition, culture, of a linguistic minority that struggles to survive, adapt and conserve itself.&nbsp; This mural made in the Italo-Albanese town Santa Sofia d'Epiro represents an older man holding the old photograph of his marriage, him and his wife, dressed in traditional Arbëreshë robes.<br>The mural represents the preservation and conservation of one's own identity, tradition, culture, of a linguistic minority that struggles to survive, adapt and conserve itself.&nbsp;</div>

Remember your roots

Untitled

"From stone to stone"

"Giada e il nonno Tonino"

<p>This mural represents a metaphor for how, from a young age, we learn to overcome the adversities that stand before us to keep standing. Through the innocence of a child, simply playing to jump from stone to stone and not fall into the water, the artists see in the scene a poetic reading about confronting difficulties in life.</p><p>The photograph that has been painted was taken by the artists in the south of Portugal while a child played on the beach. This is interesting because the painters wanted to relate the light in the scene to the light that might exist in the summer in the maritime area of Fuengirola, thus visually and aesthetically connecting their pictorial representation with the landscape and the southern territory.<br><br>Este mural representa una metáfora de cómo desde jóvenes aprendemos a sobrepasar las adversidades que se nos presentan delante para mantenernos en pie. A través de la inocencia de un niño, que simplemente jugaba a saltar de piedra en piedra y no caerse al agua, los artistas ven en la escena una lectura poética en torno a la idea de confrontar las dificultades en la vida.<br>La fotografía que se ha pintado fue tomada por los artistas en el sur de Portugal mientras un niño jugaba en la playa. Esto es interesante porque los pintores querían poner en relación la luz de la escena con la luz que pueda haber en verano en la zona marítima de Fuengirola y de esta manera relacionar visual y estéticamente su representación pictórica con el paisaje y el territorio sureño.</p>

De piedra en piedra

<div>This mural is made in front of the playground of this catalan town. The park, an area</div><div>where parents and children frequent their relationship, where they spend time together.</div><div>The mural aims to create dialogue between parents and children and their new forms of communication.</div>

Chat Conversations

<p>This painting is included in the schedule “Vigo ciudad de color 2024”.</p>

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Slim safont

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