Go see that! Award-winning art is on display at Centaurusweg 39 in Tilburg, free for everyone to see. Not in a posh gallery, but just against the facade of the company CVB Recycling. The mural is by Studio Giftig from Veldhoven, which consists of the artist duo Niels van Swaemen and Kaspar van Leek. The work entitled ‘Trashure’ has been chosen by an international public as the most beautiful street art of 2022.
Trashure shows the image of a jumping woman in a dress made of plastic waste. The framing by a recycling company that processes plastic, textiles and paper for reuse makes it a direct hit.
That judgment fields visitors to the website Street Art Cities. On the platform you can see murals from more than a thousand cities on earth. In November, Trashure was voted the most beautiful ‘mural’ of November.
“We have received so much appreciation but also sweet messages.”
The two opened the champagne on Tuesday afternoon after hearing that they had won the competition. The past few days have been completely dominated by the competition, says Kaspar van Leek in the Omroep Brabant radio program Afslag Zuid.
“We have really been constantly thinking about that competition. We have received so much appreciation, but also sweet messages from people who went to look at our artwork especially as a result of the competition.”
“We have been told that more is happening internationally next year.”
For the title of most beautiful mural of the year, Studio Giftig had to compete against nine other murals from Spain, Argentina and France, among others. The public gave the artwork in Tilburg the most votes. In addition to eternal fame, the duo wins a nice prize. “We can go to Belfast to make a mural there. We have been told that more is happening internationally next year.”
At the time, Studio Toxic was literally given all the space it needed by property owner CVB to make something of it. The artist duo, who have been working together since 2007, chose to use waste materials from the recycling company. The huge mural was applied to the facade from a cherry picker. “We want to show with this artwork that waste does not exist, every piece of waste can be given a second life,” says Van Leek.
Studio Toxicig takes its name from the warehouse where the duo started. The work area contained a storage area for toxic substances and chemicals. Swaemen and Van Leek also kept their paint and spray cans there and that is how the name Studio Toxic came to the fore.
The gigantic works of the Brabant people can hardly be avoided and, partly because of this, they are known to a wide audience. For example, high-profile murals have been installed at the PSV stadium and the railway line in Deurne.
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