Gallery: Mariusz M-City Waras Brings his Iconic Wall Art to Ostrava
Polish artist Mariusz M-City Waras, known for his striking black and white cityscapes, has painted a mural on a facade in Nadrazni street, Ostrava. “We tried to feel the pulse of the city, to reveal its personal rhythm and charm,” Mariusz M-City Waras explains. “One of the fundamental tasks was to find a certain symbol, a metaphor, something understandable and close to every citizen – not to deploy a foreign thing to which no one has a relationship.” This scene of a robotic, leaping horse has revitalised a once plain, ordinary building in Ostrava. Alexandra Krolikova, an independent art curator who focuses on street art, explains that when planning the piece, herself and Mariusz were “looking for a secret sign, understandable for all the inhabitants of Ostrava, a common cultural code.” She added: “The painting will contain an allegory, metaphor and aesthetics of urbanism, focusing on the uniqueness of Ostrava and its stories.” The artist Mariusz Waras, better known as M-City, is an artist from Poland, whose large-scale stencils create imagined cityscapes inspired by impressions from his childhood. He was born in the late 1970s and grew up in Gdynia, Poland, surrounded by an industrial landscape of factories, hydroelectric plants,...
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