Batumi streets painted in Grafikart mural festival
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Dozens of fresh murals have appeared on walls and buildings in Georgia's Black Sea coast city Batumi after local and foreign street artists flocked to this year's Batumi Grafikart Festival last week.
The concrete wall around the Batumi Sea Port complex, surfaces in the public Park of Wonders and a building on Mazniashvili Street are some of the spots painted by creators invited to make the city more colourful.
See Georgian street artist WISE create his work for the Batumi Grafikart Festival below:
Nearly 30 artists from Georgia, France and Iran worked on murals for this year's event, including Jerome Mesnager, Lambs, Artiste-Ouvrier and WISE.
French urban artist Artiste-Ouvrier photographed with his work on the 12th century poem 'The Knight in the Panther's Skin' by Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli. Photo: Ani Tenieshvili.
Themes of their work included fictional sea scenes, the Georgian alphabet and even the country's 12th century poet Shota Rustaveli and his epic The Knight in the Panther's Skin.
Artists working on murals in rain during the Batumi Grafikart Festival. Photo: Ani Tenieshvili.
The annual festival aims to feature a different group of foreign artists working alongside their Georgian counterparts every year to decorate the seaside city with murals.
Locations for the artwork included the concrete wall of the Batumi Sea Port complex. Photo: Ani Tenieshvili.
Street artists involved in the event over the years have included 18 French and six Georgian creators of the Paris-based L’attrape Reve gallery in 2014. The event has also involved recognised local artists of the mural scene, including Dr. Love and Lambs.
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