FIVE
MURALS
Right on time for Euro24, five giant murals were finished in Düsseldorf city centre. They all deal with values that are connected with football: togetherness, dynamism, elegance, individuality, strength, overcoming limitations, unity etc. All the paintings will remain in Düsseldorf after the end of the European Championships.
Klaus Allofs Mural (Damian/Düsseldorf)
The jubilant pose with his eyes closed captures a moment in which the player is hit by a frenzy of feelings, while, at the same time, millions of people experience this together with him.
The people on the grandstand provide a wonderful background, giving the picture the right frame but without deflecting from the player and the moment described above.
The colour gradient gives the painting its freshness and modernity and takes it out of the time.
For anyone who knows Klaus Allofs, it is a wonderful homage to the Düsseldorf soccer player and a great moment of German football history.
But also everyone who does not know him can feel the joy, the special moment and the emotions connected with it that emanate from football.


Mural Alexis "Bust" Stephens (France)
Alexis "Bust" Stephens was born in 1983 in Paris as the son of a French mother and a Jamaican father. At an early stage he discovered his talent for dancing and painting and began his artistic journey into urban culture.
His artistic idea involves his love of physical expression, movement and gestures. He likes to imagine the body as the result of organised waves. "We do not consist of much and yet everything in us is beating," he said. Inspired by abstract expressionism and graffiti, he transcends in his artistic work the movement and energy he feels. Alexis lives and breathes the ideas of "le grande geste" and abstract expressionism. In his artistic process, he combines painting technique and instinct.
His lively lines reflect the waves and frequencies with which he produces a cycle of rhythm and colour. His brush-strokes resulting from gestures and expression appear when they are created initially as abstract and almost chaotic, but then form his protagonists the more his works develop and complete the whole picture.


Mural .EPOD (United Kingdom)
EPOD's work is heavily influenced by graffiti, concept art and fine art, and a melting together of all three elements, which makes his work immediately recognisable and extremely unique. In his works, .EPDO combines our idea of future with vintage, fashion with technology, reality with alienation.


Mural SAM3 (Spain)
The Spanish artist SAM3 is known for his large-format silhouette-like murals that are frequently reduced to black and white. They are sometimes as high as a house and frequently make a reference to their direct urban environment. His pictures are ironic, poetic but above all provocative. They deal with classic philosophical topics, they question habits and they make reference to current social discussions. His pictures have an unusual presence through the reduction to just a few colours and the partly graphic style. Despite or precisely because of their plainness, they invite the observer to confront them and gradually reveal their message. His works are dominated by figurative elements, which are in metamorphoses with their environment.
Born in Spain, the urban artist currently lives in Athens, but paints all over the world, not only pictures but often also entire stories. He shows this in his experimental stop motion movies.


Mural JANA & JS (Austria/France)
The artist couple Jana&JS lives in Austria.
Inspired by city life and its architecture over the course of time and by the residents and observers, they paint urban landscapes, details of architecture and portraits with an interplay of reflections and transparency.
In their paintings, they deal with the situation of people in a town and city habitat. They reflect on the development of our urban environment, social structures, living together and emotions such as connectedness.


