Herakut – Mutual Appreciation
By Megan • Jan 9th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)Chris Osborn reports for Juxtapoz:
“Herakut, the girl/boy German collaborative graffiti team of Hera and Akut, is as unlikely a “crew” as ever you’re apt to meet. By the time he ewas fourteen, scruffy and self-taught Akut was already painting in the streets while graceful and tidy Hera was in the midst of her ten years of a stringent technical arts education, to which her work is more of a reaction than a reference. To watch the duo at work, as I did for four days as they prepared London’s Leonard Street Gallery for their December 14th opening, is to notice further differences. Akut’s meticulously detailed photorealistic aerosol paintings require considerable prep-time, concentration and patience, whereas Hera’s fluid broad stroke approach emphasizes the actual intuitive and spontaneous act of creating.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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