
Duo Herakut
This is the fascinating street art by German duo Hera and Akut, collectively known as Herakut. Their art tells mini stories using intriguing visuals and snippets of dialogue. They seem like single panels from graphic novels; you just know there’s more to the story. Here’s how their collaboration works:
“Hera is a classically trained painter who creates gestural, emotional figures in a freestyle manner using numerous tools including spray cans, brushes, and her hands. Akut is a self-taught painter who is skilled in creating hyper-realistic images of animals and flesh using only a spray can. What initially seemed like an unlikely pairing both conceptually and technically has since become one of the foremost collaborations in urban art and an innovative presence in contemporary painting.”
–Vertical Gallery
Their work is both brutal and deeply sensitive. It’s like all their characters have had a hard life but are extraordinarily self aware. Those eyes . . . I really recommend that you click on these images and look at them in greater detail. They really are remarkable.
September 27, 2016 at 2:11 pm
What incredible street art! I love the painterly quality they have achieved, if that makes sense. They seem less boldly graphic than most street art. I really like the variety of mark making and the grungy quality to them. There is something appealing about how slightly awry the figures are, something penetrating and piercing about their gazes that is discombobulating.
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September 27, 2016 at 2:48 pm
That’s it exactly. Those eyes. I feel like they can see me.
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September 28, 2016 at 2:10 pm
Remarkable indeed. I love this work.
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October 2, 2016 at 4:25 am
This is amazing, and the last one is saved in my heart. ❤
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October 2, 2016 at 9:00 am
That’s lovely!
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