the street is our gallery

In a mix of sun, rain and cold arctic winds coming from the North Pole, INTI has managed to make an incredible new piece in the city of Aalborg, Denmark, right in the middle of the old workers neighborhood in 12 days.

The ‘Out in the Open’ mural project of KIRK Gallery has just been launched for the 11th time.

About the beautiful new mural INTI tells the following:

’TAMARUGO II’

“A native tree from the Atacama Desert / Chile and a symbol of life and resistance for the local people. For this composition I wanted to contrast the differences between the fragile beauty of the spring and the non-conventional beauty of this tree that manages to survive in one of the driest places on earth.”

About INTI

Inti Castro, born in 1982 artistically known as INTI (meaning sun in Quechua), is one of Latin America’s foremost street artists and an artistic ambassador to the world.
Coming from a family dedicated to the arts and music, he started tagging the streets of his hometown Valparaiso at the age of 13.

Working on the street gave him a freedom to explore from the earliest days of his artistic practice. Yet whilst the wall was his natural medium, he also went through formal artistic studies at the Fine Arts School of Viña del Mar. There he acquired the training of a professional painter.

Life experiences and his street practice rounded off his formation.
His colossal murals pulse with the bright colors of a Latin carnival and the mysterious energy of Ancient South American culture. However, his work still remains fine, controlled and technically dazzling.

With a warm orange glow, the murals often contain themes of life, death, ancient religion and Christianity, all drawn together with one or two strange characters. Inti’s work is mainly inspired by pre-Columbian and Andean cultures, rescuing and redefining iconography and symbols that are both ancient and contemporary.

About ‘Out in the Open’

With the project ‘Out in the Open’ KIRK Gallery has begun a long series of large-scale murals created by highly-esteemed urban artists.

Launched in 2014 the project aims to bring the art out of the gallery and into the streets, adding beautiful art to the lives of all citizens and not just to the few visiting the gallery. To get art “out in the open”, where as many as possible can get an experience of what it means to live with art on a daily basis. To break away from a museum setting and have street art of the highest caliber more accessible to the public.

With the murals the residents are encouraged to take part in the society around them from an artistic point of view. They will experience a cohesion and a unique story about people, art and culture where it is crucial for the mural painters to tell something about the area where the murals are located.

All photos taken by INTI