street art vienna is a selection of pieces i ran into during my not-so-recent-anymore trip.

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on the first day, while walking down gumpendorfer strasse, i found the rabbit eye movement gallery. i found out that it belonged to nychos, the austrian street artist, and that it had been launched in december 2012.

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so it happens that i have recently read the summer 2013 issue of be street, a french urban magazine. a nychos piece was on the cover: a dissection of donald duck’s head. i read the dedicated article and i can tell you that his depiction of sectioned multi-layer images of animals comes from his childhood exposure to hunting and, well, dissection.

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the city has many varied pieces. there’s lots of stickers, few murals and many stencils.

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would you believe it? i even found a sticker with save rosia montana. a sticker for the romanian autumn protests.

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then, there were a few stickers by luft fabrik.

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i found a couple of space invaders.

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my biggest sighting came by chance. we were hanging out in bilderbox, the comics book store, and there was a guy in there who said we should go and see the roa mural. we were actually not far from the inoperable street art gallery. they had had a recent roa show.

so we went hunting for this mural. and we found it! a school behing the haus der meers donated a wall and roa painted one of his cool black and white pieces with animals in urban spaces. check it out!

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extra: during my day trip in graz, i found a few street art pieces. one of them is a stag beetle!

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i admit that my selection may not be spectacular, but i only had three days and street art was not a priority. i hope the post has documentary value at least. i personally loved seeing the big roa mural though!

photo credits: little aesthete

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