In Wuper|By Ljiljana Radošević|3 Minutes

Since he introduced new artistic segment in his career in 2016, Wuper is as dedicated to new muralism as he is to graffiti. Portraits are topic that occupied a lot of his attention in 2019.

At the beginning of the year Wuper had his third exhibition and the topic was The Crafts. There he painted the portraits of the different craftsman doing their job. Several years earlier he started adding portraits to his graffiti pieces but with this exhibition they became a dominant motive. Even though he tries to keep his fine art and graffiti art works separate they do influence each other. He has been active on the streets for more than a decade and his sense of space and the large formats could not have been learned at the art studies, they are very uniquely attributed to those that learn their trait by working on the streets. Therefore he was able to finish this mural in less than a day and he was working on it alone, without assistant. The street artists that inspired him are Arys and Sebas Velasco, both of which have a very specific painting techniques and are capable of doing realistic representations of the subjects without getting into the trap of extreme precision and details. So he used the knowledge gained from his personal experience, from the art studies and from the experience of his colleagues and came up with the mix that has a unique signature.

Even in such large pieces some sort of intimacy is quite obvious in his artworks. He paints the girl he knows in an everyday situation, eating a watermelon, who is dressed very casually while adding the motives of the traditional rugs called ćilim in the background. Once upon a time they used to be part of most households and were made by the lady of the house or a grandmother, but now they represent part of the heritage and are extremely valuable because of their endurance. There is a saying that one can use Pirot ćilim for 200 years, first 100 when using one side and when you flip them you ca use them for another 100.

Ana with Watermelon


TitleAna with Watermellon ArtistWuperYear2019EventFestival RekonstrukcijaLocationBelgradeCategoryNew MuralismTechniqueAcrylic paintLegal statusWith permissionPhoto byAleksandar Đorđević


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