Murals and street art

City Walls 2: MOMO for York Street

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Installed from 5 February 2016 to 21 April 2016
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Person standing on a colourful, geometric street mural in the city.

A city centre underpass becomes a technicolour dream.

Artist: Momo
Curator: Elliott Routledge
This artwork was temporary and is no longer at this location.

Artwork description

For the second artwork in the City Walls project, one of the world’s most renowned mural artists transformed a pocket of the dreary Kent Street underpass into a vibrant canvas.

Using his trademark primary colours and love of practical geometry, MOMO revitalised this pedestrian thoroughfare in downtown Sydney and created a technicolour dream.

City Walls is a series of surprise street art projects brought to you by Art & About Sydney and Elliott Routledge of Funstudio. 

Artist

Known for being the pioneer of the abstract movements within large scale public art walls, MOMO is an artist working in public spaces with homemade tools. His interests lie with an evolving range of adapted masonry techniques to draft, design and organise wall murals.

Born in San Francisco, MOMO has travelled most of his life, lived in New York for 6 years and keeps a studio in New Orleans. He previously created a double-façade 5 story printed vinyl mural in Manhattan, a 73m tall mural in downtown Philadelphia and a 61m long mural between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges in Brooklyn. This is his first painting in Australia.

Performers suspended on ropes execute acrobatic moves on the side of a tall glass building against a clear sky.

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