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Shadows

A painted portrait of a woman in a pale headscarf, her face and hand covered in lace-like patterns of light and shadow, on an apartment-block wall in Košice; spray cans stand in a row along the base.
Artwork FileKošice, Slovakia

Shadows

SeenAug 2019

Jozef Ripko (Grint) · 2019 · Košice, Slovakia

Photo: as published on Street Art Utopia (2 October 2021).

A woman’s face and hand are covered in painted lace shadows. Jozef Ripko, known as Grint, painted this portrait in August 2019 on the gable wall of the Košice apartment block where he lives, as one part of a legal wall with a black cat and his 3D GRINT lettering. Source Source Source Checked

Seen Aug 2019 — the newest dated photos we found were published by TV Košice on 20 August 2019 and by Dnes24 on 29 August 2019. No later dated source we found records its condition. Source Source Checked

💡 5 things to know

  1. He painted his own blockGrint told Dnes24 that he lives in the block and the wall, visible from the road, kept being tagged; after a storm tore off the façade in 2017 and it was rebuilt, the residents’ association asked him to paint it. Source Source Checked
  2. Women and catsGrint: “Na stene je vyobrazená čierna mačka a žena, a to z dôvodu, že ženy sú niekedy ako mačky.” (The wall shows a black cat and a woman, because women are sometimes like cats.) The cat belongs to his neighbour. Source Checked
  3. Based on a photographGrint told Dnes24 the woman comes from a photo by a professional photographer from Canada, and that they agreed he could paint it. Source Reported
  4. The artist’s titleGrint’s portfolio calls the painting Shadows: “Exterior painting on my flat. Size 2,5x 3 m . (2 days )”. Source Reported
  5. Legal graffitiTV Košice reported the new legal graffiti on part of the wall on Buzulucká Street, done at the end of the previous week, with finishing work still to come. Source Checked

📍 Where it is

On the gable wall of an apartment block on Buzulucká Street in the Furča housing estate, Košice, Slovakia. The house number has not been published, so the button opens a map of the street. Source Source Checked

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🗓️ Sightings

  1. 201920 Aug

    Photos · TV Košice

  2. 201929 Aug

    Interview and photos · Dnes24

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🗞️ In the sources

TV Košice20 August 2019

“Stojí za ním známy umelec Jozef Ripko, ktorého poznáme pod umeleckým menom „Dodi Grint“.”

Translated: Behind it is the well-known artist Jozef Ripko, whom we know by the artist name “Dodi Grint”.

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Dnes24 Košice29 August 2019, by Adam Stečák

“Na stene je vyobrazená čierna mačka a žena, a to z dôvodu, že ženy sú niekedy ako mačky.”

Translated: The wall shows a black cat and a woman, because women are sometimes like cats. (Grint)

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✅ The facts

Artist
Jozef Ripko, known as Grint or Dodi Grint Source Source Source Checked
Title
Shadows (the artist’s portfolio title) Source Reported
Year
2019 (August) Source Source Checked
Place
Buzulucká Street, Furča, Košice, Slovakia Source Source Checked
Form
Legal graffiti mural on an apartment-block wall: a woman, a black cat and 3D GRINT lettering Source Source Checked
Size
Portrait 2.5 × 3 m, painted in two days, per the artist Source Reported
Image source
A photo by a professional photographer from Canada, per the artist Source Reported

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