So, sit back, enjoy, and with each passing mouse-click find out everything you need to know about one of the most exciting auctions this year… Each page allows you to easily access the profile of a respected artist (simply clicking on a name), enabling you to see their biography, other artwork and activity in the recent period. An auction which is surely going to attract the attention of art collectors and art professionals, brings together an inspiring number of art pieces and respected names of the Urban and Street Art scene – Shepard Fairey, Futura, Banksy, JoneOne, Inkie, Rero, Rammellzee, Takashi Murakami, Swoon, Os Gemeos, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and many many more… In the following pages of the article, each devoted to a single artist, you will be able to see all the information about the pieces and see a preview of all the artwork, including estimated prices and lot numbers. With these instances in mind we have prepared an extensive and detailed preview of the upcoming auction which is going to be held by Digard Auction house on December 14th 2014. This is especially true when it comes to artists and artwork which is part of the exhilarating field of urban and street art. ![]() There were some interesting shifts in the art market, many of the pieces by internationally renowned artists and new rising stars have exchanged ownership and the Widewalls team was closely watching every new development. OsloNowhere works closely with Martin and will update social media and our homepage with new works as soon as they arrive.As the end of 2014 is getting ever so closer, the art loving public can look back to months of exciting exhibitions, art fairs, special events and successful auctions. We at OsloNowhere have worked with the street-art movement and artists in this genre for a long time, and are very happy about the attention and success that artists like Martin now is experiencing. In September 2020, we had the pleasure of presenting Martins work in an exhibition in an old gas station at Frogner in Oslo. True to form, no gray space stays gray for long in Martins presence, wheter immersing entirely or embellishing a detail, the images dissapear beneath expressive, spray-painted strokes of assorted colours and textures. The ashen tones of the compositions and vacant backgrounds are reminiscent of his alternative canvases, the concrete. Almost stylised, these minimal figures are constructed of a few layers of hand-cut stencils. ![]() Delicate and organic characters feature butterflies, ballerinas and animals all rendered in empty grayscale space. With as many works on walls as on canvas and paper, the relationship between vulnerability and strenght remains constant in each work. His works can be seen to mirror the rise and fall of the streets, as he symbolically recreates the urban environment, then vandalises it to reveal his vibrant transformations. ![]() Over the past decade, Martin has developed an unmistakable aestethic combining abstract movement with figurative stencilled compositions. Martin Whatson (f.1984) is a Norwegian street-artist best known for his calligraphic scribbles in grayscale voids.
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