Mathieu Connery’s sidewalks for MURAL festival 2014

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“Mikado nest”. photo by Mathieu Connery

From May to mid-July, Mathieu Connery aka 500M painted several murals on sidewalks for the second MURAL festival edition. To the frequency of 1 per week, he did 10 abstract murals on the Main, the Saint-Laurent Boulevard, official location of the festival. Guess the organizers really liked the 3 sidewalks murals he painted last year for the first edition of MURAL, as they asked him to enlarge his project this year.  The Montreal based artist is well known in the city for his minimalist abstract pieces, “I try to make most of my interventions interact in different ways with the environment, to inspire appropriation of the public space in any other way. It also applies in the streets with concrete, tags that were there before,etc…” I just hope that one day he will get a real wall rather than always sidewalks in Montreal!

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3rd. photo by Mathieu Connery
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6th. Photo by Mathieu Connery
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“Is rasberry rock”. Photo by Mathieu Connery
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8th. Photo by Mathieu Connery
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“Faceblob”. Photo by Mathieu Connery
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7th. Photo by Aline Mairet
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5th. Photo by Aline Mairet

And for my own pleasure, a street art piece found this summer, and then a tag of Gawd Mathieu Connery appropriated. Thanks Mister 500M !

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500M. photo by Aline Mairet
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Gawd- Mathieu Connery. Photo by Connery

Photos by Mathieu Connery and Aline Mairet