AURA & Oldhaus at UPAINT Monaco 2022

AURA was born in 1997 and lives near Düsseldorf, Germany. In addition to her retail design studies, which she is completing at the university of applied sciences in Düsseldorf (HSD), she began painting commissions, giving workshops for children and young people, and taking part in exhibitions at an early age. Inspired by scene greats like DARE, MadC and the LoveLetters crew, AURA loves dynamic, swinging letters and elaborate concepts with characters, background and style. There are no limits to creativity, that's what she loves about graffiti, that the creative freedom is limitless and you can always evolve and discover new techniques. Her motif worlds are often inspired by nature and preferably show animals. In contrast, however, she also likes to depict the concrete wasteland of the city and the eternally identical forms of the architecture there. Since 2019, AURA has already participated in various exhibitions and graffiti festivals in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and France. Especially her participation in the UNFRAMED expo and jam 2021 in Heerlen, the Netherlands, was a special honor for her. There she painted and exhibited alongside graffiti greats like TKID, SKEME, BATES, Henry Chalfant, Martha Cooper and many more. Alessandro Althaus, better known in the art scene under his pseudonym OLDHAUS, was born in Düsseldorf and grew up in Neuss. He studied communication design with a focus on illustration at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf from 2008-2014. To his expressive figures came in the course of time the "Buddeldosen". Painted spray cans that have a transparent body in which the artist depicts various scenarios, mostly floating in liquids. Inspired by the play of light and shadow of the Renaissance artists, his art also drifts again and again into the gloomy, twilight and is paired with colorful light elements His art spread throughout Europe in numerous countries (Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, England, Austria, Netherlands, Poland). In London, Oldhaus is currently part of the "sentiment collective" and is represented there by the Bickerton Graze Gallery. https://www.upaint.art/upaint2022 Video by ‪@davidandres-filmmaker‬