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Portuguese artist Add Fuel recently spent time in Norway during the popular Nuart Festival, that invites a wave of creative talent every year to the city of Stavanger.
Add Fuel’s latest mural ‘AZ RSML: DISRUPTION 04’ can be found in Norway’s second oldest airport, Stavanger Airport, in Sola, a municipality in Rogaland county.
Add Fuel, Street Art Mural, Stavanger Airport, Nuart 2017. Photo Credit Ines Vilardouro.
Add Fuel’s art offers a fresh urban twist to traditional patterns.
Add Fuel, Street Art Mural, Stavanger Airport, Nuart 2017. Photo Credit Diogo Machado.
When Add Fuel paints away he researches the local culture and adapts this into his mural designs.
Add Fuel, Street Art Mural, Stavanger Airport, Nuart 2017. Photo Credit Ines Vilardouro.
Add Fuel designed his mural around the traditional Norwegian Rogaland Rosemaling (Rose painting), a traditional style of art from Norway which evolved from the Renaissance religious paintings.
Add Fuel, Street Art Mural, Stavanger Airport, Nuart 2017. Photo Credit Ian Cox
Styles of Rosemaling can vary greatly according to the corresponding geographical area because of the relative isolation of the valley communities in rural Norway.
Add Fuel, Street Art Mural, Stavanger Airport, Nuart 2017. Photo Credit Ian Cox
The Rogaland Rosemaling style is characterised by symmetrical design, opaque colour on dark backgrounds, flowers and the use of cross-hatching, dots and teardrops. Add Fuel played with the style introducing his own urban graffiti twist.
Add Fuel, Street Art Mural, Stavanger Airport, Nuart 2017. Photo Credit Diogo Machado.
The design is part of his “Disruption” series, consisting of a dimensional and formal exploration of overlapped patterned repetition in a non linear surface, where two apparently familiar elements coexist in the same space.
Add Fuel, Street Art Mural, Stavanger Airport, Nuart 2017. Photo Credit Diogo Machado.
Add Fuel once again does not disappoint and reworks the Rogaland Rosemaling beautifully.
