Planet Streetpainting’s 3D LEGO Army @ Sarasota Chalk Festival

Drawing to a close yesterday, the world famous Sarasota Chalk Festival featured over 250 artists across seven days, all proudly working in the versatile yet evanescent medium of chalk.

Entering in the festival’s newly formed ‘3D Pavement Art’ segment, Dutch collective ‘Planet Streetpainting’ stole the show with their witty piece, the ‘3D Lego Army’. Inspired by China’s Terracotta Army, the team replaced the soldiers with several iconic Lego designs, working their trademark 3D magic to breathtaking effect.

Using a chalk grid (pictured) and some clever geometry, the Planet Streetpainting crew are able to create the sense of added depth and perspective on any 2D plain. A technique born from American artist Kurt Wenner’s experiments with anamorphism in the 80’s, the so-called ‘anamorphic’ style has seen a massive resurgence in recently years, largely down to groups like ‘Planet’.

(3D LEGO Army Concept, Leon Keer)

Art director, Leon Keer, has pioneered this style within the street art community, with the collective’s work featuring across the world at many different festivals and exhibitions. Here are a few of their most recent projects, with words from Keer himself…

Netherlands 3D Street Painting Event

First 3d street painting that has been made to be viewed from 3 different view points. From 3 different angles you can see a different 3d illusion within the same picture. The painting was made during the first 3d street painting event in The Netherlands. To start the new cultural season of Lelystad, a  total of 9 streetpaintings were made in and around Lelystad by several International madonnari. With Tony Cuboliquido, Melanie Stimmell Van Latum, Juandrés Vera, Gregor Wosik, Marion Ruthardt, Remko van Schaik, Ruben Poncia and Leon Keer…

Stoppelhaene Festival, Raalte

During the famous Stoppelhaene Festival in Raalte, Planet Streetpainting were invited to make 2 large 3d street paintings. Leon Keer, Peter Westerink, Ruben Poncia and Remko van Schaik made this 3d street art by painting an underground parking garage with an escalator and and a subway with station clock.

Dublin Chalk Festival

The first chalk festival in Ireland was organized by diffusion events on 20th and 21st of august 2011 in Dun Laoghaire Dublin.
 Leon Keer and Remko van Schaik were invited to make a 3d street painting. The result is a surreal landscape with some strange flying objects.

For more information on the collective’s work, check their web page here.

(photos- plantestreetpainting)