Broken Fingaz

It's been sometime since we caught up with the Israeli collective Broken Fingaz Crew, from what we have been seeing on the streets in and around Hackney Wick, crew member Unga appears to have passed through the Wick recently adding some smaller street pieces to area. Hailing from Haifa in Northern Israel, the collective was formed in 2001.

Unga and fellow crew member Deso have been in the UK the last few days working on a large commission piece in Manchester. With some time in London before they fly back to Israel the two artists took a stroll around Shoreditch yesterday afternoon looking for a spot to paint. Locating a spot on Red Church Street in East London the two artists set about creating a new mural that featured some of the Broken Fingaz crews signature styles, a combination of letters/ symbols, characters, and pattern work all brought together to give the finished mural an almost vintage sign look, like those often found in junk shops.

Their lastest creation is a little more family friendly, a PG rating if you will unlike some of there previous X-Rated Super Sex London murals. The first of the two included a naked woman with a panda which raised some eyebrows among the local residents and another featured some acrobatic motorbike skeleton sex with another naked lady.  Working late into the evening the duo managed to finish the mural last night, impressive considering the time scale they had and unlike the previous two murals mentioned which were both black and white pieces this one is  a full colour mural. As to what the text reads we have no idea, perhaps one of our readers can help with that!

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<div>Broken Fingaz with their 'On To The Wrong Path'</div>

On To the Wrong Path 

MEXER

KJ263

"Düsseldorf/Haifa"

Hooked Blog recently spotted Tant and Unga of the Broken Fingaz crew, painting this “SuperSex” mural in London. The two were briefly in London en route back to Tel Aviv after painting a large mural in Germany and a commissioned piece in London, and decided to reclaim these wooden gates in East London which they had painted previously.

SuperSex

<div>Broken Fingaz is a three-man crew from Haifa, Israel. Their site-specific work views culture and humanity with a wide lens, offering tongue-in-cheek reflections that balance insightful critique with a hint of nihilistic apathy.<br><br>In <em>Fingaz Magic Ink</em>, they address the internal conflict of creating art in a consumer-driven world. Leveraging graphic design and branding modalities, the crew offers a fictitious product, playing on the idea of selling snake oil. The work is split into five frames that, when viewed in motion, create a spinning and sparkling animation—like a flipbook for transit riders.<br><br></div>

Fingaz Magic Ink

@brokenfingaz

<div>Created by the Crew Broken Fingaz for Life is Beautiful Festival 2018. Curated by Just Kids.&nbsp;<br><br>Founded along the Haifa shores around 2001, the wandering Street Art Crew, the Broken Fingaz Crew has adorned many murals in numerous cities worldwide in the past decade.<br><br></div><div>The crew is made of 4 artists (Deso, Kip, Tant and Unga) who collectively define the imagery of the Broken Fingaz, which includes numerous references to the American pulp &amp; Marvel comics, B-movies of the 70’s and 80’s, psychedelic &amp; pop art, collage &amp; poster works, Szenenbildner, Italian giallo genre that composes an original &amp; visually striking iconography. Street artists at the core, they’ve&nbsp; been called the Israeli representatives of graffiti. But the title, they say, isn’t accurate.<br><br></div><div>Their signature art, they’ve said in the past, draws ideas from American comic-book covers, old-school skateboard graphics and tattoos, and is meshed with local smarts.This multi-disciplinary crew dabbles in illustration, graphic design, murals, fashion design, elaborate posters and flyers for nightclub parties, album covers, silkscreen printing and animation, as well as music videos and fine art.<br><br></div><div>In one of their interviews they talked about how they started with what they doing in past ten years: “We worked a lot outside, but at first it was only people from our city who saw our stuff… about seven years ago we started doing posters for events in Tel Aviv, and slowly started to reach out to bigger circles. Making posters is a really good way to put your shit out.. of course the Internet changed everything now, but it’s still cooler to see someone’s works in real life.” -quoted <a href="https://www.widewalls.ch/artist/broken-fingaz/">https://www.widewalls.ch/artist/broken-fingaz/</a><br><br></div>

"Lost Souls"

Aresd

LIZ ART BLN ARTIST

Stek

Späm

Liebsein (GER)

<div>Abandoned since a few years and left to rot with an uncertain future, this building hosts a nice changing collection of illegal streetart.</div>

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