Dig deep – Tymon de Laat

”Dig deep”
6 meter x 8 meter
Spray paint and latex on concrete
Trans Urban festival, Essen, Germany.
Tymon de Laat 2017

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This Bolivian Potosi miner is my addition to the Trans Urban mural project. Special thank you goes to the organization of TU, also Montana cans and Akzo Nobel for the paint.

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11 July 2017

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Germany portfolio Spray paint

De Laat started painting murals and canvases, often based on his own photographs of the people he met during his travels. He exaggerates the natural lines in their faces, and fills the spaces that appear between those swirling lines with swaths of vivid color. The linework and color palette he applies in that way, are a means of translating his memories of Latin America to visual imagery. The food, the architecture, the clothes, and particularly his respect for the culture of indigenous peoples; it’s all in there, as de Laat transitions it over to enliven drab Western concrete.

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