Os Gemeos Paints 6 Industrial Silos with "Giants" for the Vancouver Biennale 2014

Artists Os Gemeos take their talents to Canada, where they are painting a 23,500-square-foot mural for the Vancouver Biennale.

Image via Street Art News

The Vancouver Biennale began its "two-year celebration of great contemporary art" back in spring with the theme "Open Borders / Crossroads Vancouver." As a part of the exhibition, street art twins Os Gemeos continued their ongoing Giants series by painting six cement silos on Granville Island with massive 360-degree murals.

Each of the silos is 75 feet tall, with a combined area of 23,500 square feet, according to the Vancouver Biennale page. The $126,250 CAD project was funded in part by crowd-sourcing, with the IndieGoGo page raking in $28,999 CAD (so far) of its $20,000 CAD goal.

The mural is still currently in-progress, but you can get a sense of what the finished product will be from the photos above. Each character (or giant) in the mural is unique and the group's orientations alternate from silo to silo. In an artist statement, Os Gemeos wrote that the "aim of this project is to bring new characters to Vancouver while sharing perspectives and cultures and establishing a relationship between the people who frequent this site and integrate this work into the city scenery."

They added, "The connection between water and land on Granville Island, on the False Creek margins, also had a lot to do with the choice of location—for us, the water acts as a vein, symbolizing life, and it is very present in our work." 

[via Street Art News]

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