The main subjects for the murals done by Chineese born artist DALeast, are animals or fearful creatures. His paintings are done on flat surface, but look threedimentional. That's a tecnique he often uses, which makes his work easy recognizable.
In December last year I spent a short time in Malaga, Spain. I felt lucky that I accidently came across a mural painted by DALeast. I have seen some of his work in Windhoek, Namibia and in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Malaga
When I was in Malaga I was lucky to come across this mural. It was pure luck that I saw it. I was waiting for the traffic light to turn green, when I turned around and saw it. I had to return to get a closer look. The birds are magnificent!
DALeast was born in Wuhan China in 1984. He started to do street art in Beijing sometime in 2004. Since then he has become one of the big international names when it comes to street art. He is famous for his etching style technique.
Windhoek
Creatures on a factory wall in Windhoek. The walls facing the street are covered with a series of images of animals in motion or hunting. Animals in motion is often the main subject in his paintings.
Each figure is created by a plethora of little shiny, metallic looking sharp needles. They are hollow, yet threedimentional. On a distance it might look simple, but look closely and you will see it's much more complex.
Copenhagen
This is one of the most iconic murals in Copenhagen. The line on top saying «I'm gay» was added by some other person.
In 2015 Danish photographer Søren Solkær opened his Surface exhibition in Copenhagen, featuring portraits of world famous street artists. He invited 6 of them to create murals in Copenhagen leading up to this exhibiton. One of them was DAleast.
I hope to see more of his work in the future.
If you want to more about him check: www.daleast.com
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