Last month, Michał Wręga aka Sepe, one of the leading proponents of the Polish scene, was in Finland invited to participate of the third edition of Upeart Festival for which he painted this amazing mural.
Titled Blessings and painted in Jyvaskyla, a city located in the western part of the Finnish Lakeland, the new mural is inspired by the idea of “vanishing” due the fact that, the wall it has been painted on, will be thorn down during the course of the next 4 years.
As explained by the artist, his way to Upeart wasn’t as easy.
Before he finally got to Finland for the festival, three of four cities rejected his participation without even seeing a single sketch.
The only city that agreed to let him paint was Jyvaskyla, giving SEPE permission to paint a building that is set to be demolished.
It was in this moment that the idea or concept of vanishing came to his mind, becoming what he came to describe as a time lapse. Why? Because in order to give shape to this otherwise abstract concept, SEPE used golden spray paint. Compared to other colours, golden spray paint fades very quickly when exposed to weather changes, which means that the mural will end fading away in around 5-6 months, revealing the matt layer below.
The idea is to give shape to a metaphor about the passing of time. Nothing is eternal and very often we cannot judge the different situations properly when they happen, because we need some distance distance to really see the whole picture.
Sepe, one of the leading proponents of the Polish scene, was in Finland invited to participate of the third edition of Upeart Festival for which he painted this amazing mural.
Titled Blessings and painted in Jyvaskyla, a city located in the western part of the Finnish Lakeland, the new mural is inspired by the idea of “vanishing” due the fact that, the wall it has been painted on, will be thorn down during the course of the next 4 years.
As explained by the artist, his way to Upeart wasn’t as easy.
Before he finally got to Finland for the festival, three of four cities rejected his participation without even seeing a single sketch.
The only city that agreed to let him paint was Jyvaskyla, giving SEPE permission to paint a building that is set to be demolished.
It was in this moment that the idea or concept of vanishing came to his mind, becoming what he came to describe as a time-lapse. Why? Because in order to give shape to this otherwise abstract concept, SEPE used golden spray paint. Compared to other colours, golden spray paint fades very quickly when exposed to weather changes, which means that the mural will end fading away in around 5-6 months, revealing the matt layer below.
The idea is to give shape to a metaphor about the passing of time. Nothing is eternal and very often we cannot judge the different situations properly when they happen, because we need some distance to really see the whole picture.
Author: Fran
Founder and editor of Urbanite. Street Art lover who after the finishing her MA thesis on the Mexican and Norwegian muralist movement in the 1920-50s, developed a fascination for street art and graffiti that eventually led to collaborations with different art blogs, including the creation of this one.
