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Know Hope: Meet Israel's answer to Banksy

The artist creates cardboard cut-out figures and painted scenes on street corners, lampposts and pavements of Tel Aviv.

November 12, 2009 16:18
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ByJessica Elgot, Jessica Elgot

2 min read

You’re known for being one of Tel Aviv’s most prominent and productive street artists. How did you start out putting your art on the streets?

I’ve been making art my whole life, but I only started on the street four or five years ago. It makes me so much more productive.

The work on the street is so fleeting, it has such a temporary nature that I have to produce a lot more. It has a shelf life, unlike in a gallery. And I also think that affects how people see it, they know it hasn’t been very long since it was created. Although in the past couple of years I have done exhibitions and been able to produce more permanent things.

What kind of subject does your work centre around and does the environment of the art inspire the different pieces that you create?