Street Artist Cranio Returns to London for STOP WAR Exhibition

For the first time since 2022, street artist Cranio has returned to London for a new exhibition. The exhibition at BSMT Spac Gallery in Dalston is called "STOP WAR" ($TOP WAR), and it arrived at the end of August and was in place until the second weekend of September. Cranio is a popular street artist from Brazil, and the exhibition relates to capitalism wars relating to the Amazon, and he often paints with a social message of the boundaries of daily life and culture. Cranio is known for his blue tribal people, and his work has a political, social, and environmental theme.

In addition to the artwork within the gallery, the artist painted a couple of walls. One of the walls is in east London, but the piece got quickly tagged over. It was located near Pedley Street.

Cranio also painted on two walls that make up the exterior of BSMT Space Gallery. One is on the street side and features his blue tribal characters with the side door on the building being transformed into the entrance of a temple with carved figures.

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The other wall is at the back, and it features a street art collaboration between Cranio, Mighty Mo, and Mau Mau. (See this post for Mau Mau's work and this post for Mighty Mo, Mighty Monkey). Both Mau Mau and Mighty Mo have been on London's street art scene for many years.

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I also visited the BSMT Space Gallery and looked at the work. Like the exhibition that I visited here a couple of years ago, Cranio has used some of the walls of the gallery as his canvas.

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