Artwork created for Wallz Pilsen Street Art Festival 2024.
Partner of this project: TARTU 2024

Wallz Pilsen Street Art Festival: "GUTFACE is an Estonian independent artist and illustrator, living and working in the city of Tartu. His work is deeply rooted in the vibrant street culture and community ethos of the city. In his work, he combines the fantastic with the mundane, inviting viewers to reflect on the sources of the magic that beats in the concrete heart of the city.
Against the backdrop of a symbiosis between nature and urbanity, he often works with the lives of mythical creatures, transformed for the urban jungle. He transfers these mythical guardians from their idyllic garden environments to the concrete city, where they embody the spirit and hard work of the invisible city managers: road workers, electricians, plumbers, garbage collectors or gardeners who keep our cities running smoothly and functionally. In addition to paintings in public space, the artist experiments with various media from ceramic to digital media, video, music or graphic design.

Pilsen attracted the Estonian artist not only with its old architecture but he was also surprised by many aspects related to his native country, which is also a post-Soviet state. The surroundings of the place where he created his painting on two sides of a tall building of a former transformer station strongly reminded him of the environmen where his grandmother lives. Although the artist often thinks through his subjects in more complex ways, here the idea arose spontaneous while sketching. The inversely conceived black and yellow painting was subsequently created entirely with rollers of various sizes. The brilliant work with this tool is then reflected in the final shading of the entire scene. On the one hand, the mythical gardener, a faceless man whose absence is further emphasized by his huge work boots, on the other hand, the results of his work, healthy plants watched over by the smiling sun. The gardener, the city watchman, who the local housing estate has been missing until now.