Roa
Roa, a hugely talented Belgian street artist from Ghent, is renowned for his giant black and white animal street art. Roa started off in the street art scene painting animals on abandoned buildings and warehouses in the isolated industrial areas of his hometown. Now famous for his monumental black-and-white paintings of rabbits, birds, rats, fish, and other animals The animals, often sunken, skeletal, or dead. They reflect ROA’s pessimistic view of society. Along with Banksy, Invader, and others, ROA was included in “Art in the Streets,” a groundbreaking 2011 street art exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Today, Roa’s animals may be found slumbering on the sides of semi derilict buildings and peering out from shop shutters in citiy streets all accross the world from New York to Berlin and Warsaw to Paris.
In The Artists Words…
"Graffiti is one of the most free art expressions of the world; you don't do it for money nor for an institution, it's free expression and it liberates yourself creatively from a lot of restrictions...I am obsessed by animals! For me they tell so much more about this world then any other creature...It depends on the region where I paint, I like to paint the ordinary animals from that location” - ROA
