The polish duo Bezt and Sainer started their career as Etam Crew decorating urban landscapes mainly in Poland. With time they gradually spread their work to other eastern European countries and are lately also working in the USA.
Being part an “urban artists” group, the crew perceives the world as its canvas and turns desolated areas into modern masterpieces. Their favourite spots seem to be empty building facades, which they grace with bright, vivid colours and massive surrealistic figures. The way they use the pigments – which are either being sprayed or rolled onto the wall after a preliminary line-sketch – and the compositions they create, give the illusion of a lighter, softer and almost ethereal wall, despite its immense size.
Even though the duo uses the occasional signature motifs like the rubber duck, the little sparrow or the skull symbol, each piece is a unique story that draws its inspiration from the artist’s past or culture. Sometimes it’s about Polish children’s poems (“Madamme”), urban figures (such as in “Monkey Business” or “Jazz in Free Times”) or ironical scenes as seen in their work “Bon Apetit”.
Etam Crew’s work merges reality and imagination by combining the incredible realism of human or animal figures with colours, situations, details and compositions that are absurd and abstract and seem to emerge from a fantasy world.
Whether you are in the United States or in Europe, if you get a chance to take a look at Etam’s breath-taking art work, don’t miss it!
