Since 2009, German street artist 1010 has been creating these
mysterious, portal-like street art illusions on walls around the world.
While at first glance it looks like he's layering colored paper, upon
closer inspection you realize that you're actually looking at paint on a
wall. It's a different type of street art than we're used to. Recently,
for the urban and contemporary art festival in Hamburg called
Knotempunkt, 1010 created a huge mural that was layered in colors; blue,
purple, red, and black. (See above.) The paper-like layers descend into
darker colors until it feels like you're looking into a dark abyss.
You can watch a video to see this mural take shape, here.
Affenfaust Galerie states about 1010: "His art deals with language,
symbols and signs, with automatism of perception and the structures of
society. In his paperworks he purposely uses a beautiful aesthetic to
bring critical topics to the viewers attention. He lures the eye
skilfully along well-balanced color shades deep down in an illusory
black chasm. In his monochrome acrylic paintings of birdworms, he
creates a rather dark atmosphere with these dark convolving creatures.
1010 i a conceptualist. His art doesn't explain itself. An elaborate
system underlies it, which evolved over the last years."
Credits: 1010 website
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