{"id":1022,"date":"2014-07-28T11:41:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T11:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/artist\/martin-whatson-2\/"},"modified":"2021-02-26T13:56:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T12:56:06","slug":"martin-whatson","status":"publish","type":"un-artist","link":"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/de\/artist\/martin-whatson\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Whatson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Der Stencil- und Street-Art-K\u00fcnstler Martin Whatson wurde in Norwegen geboren. Anfang der 90er-Jahre war er in der aufstrebenden Osloer Graffiti-Szene aktiv. Bekannt ist er f\u00fcr seine abstrakten und in sich widerspr\u00fcchlichen Kunstwerke. Sie zeigen Menschen und Kreaturen in Graut\u00f6nen, die teilweise mit bunten Kritzeleien aus Schriftzeichen ausgef\u00fcllt oder gar vollst\u00e4ndig von ihnen bedeckt sind. Seine erste Zusammenarbeit mit URBAN NATION war das M\/3-Projekt im Jahr 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatson sucht oft nach Orten, die gemeinhin gemieden werden oder als h\u00e4sslich gelten und l\u00e4sst sich von alten Geb\u00e4uden, Stadtlandschaften und verfallenen Mauern inspirieren. Aus diesem Interesse am Verfall hat er seinen Stil, seine Motive und seine Komposition entwickelt. Es macht ihm sichtlich Spa\u00df, zwischen Materialien, Hintergr\u00fcnden, Motiven und dem Eingreifen des Menschen entweder Harmonie oder Widerspruch zu schaffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>W\u00e4hrend seines Kunst- und Grafikdesignstudiums an der Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo entdeckte er die Schablonenkunst f\u00fcr sich und tauchte in die Urban-Art-Szene ein. 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Seine erste Zusammenarbeit mit URBAN NATION war das M\/3-Projekt im Jahr 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18846,"template":"","un-tax-style":[],"un-event-series":[212,261],"class_list":["post-1022","un-artist","type-un-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","un-event-series-project-m","un-event-series-project-m-3"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Martin Whatson &#8211; Urban Nation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/de\/artist\/martin-whatson\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Martin Whatson &#8211; Urban Nation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Der Stencil- und Street-Art-K\u00fcnstler Martin Whatson wurde in Norwegen geboren. 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