Belgian artist ROA painted black-and-white weasels in the Bałuty district, in the monochrome animal-portrait style he is known for worldwide.
A mural on the tenement house at Nowomiejska 5 in Bałuty was painted in September 2013 by Belgian street artist ROA as part of the third edition of the Urban Forms Gallery Festival. The work in black and white depicts three stoats.
ROA is the pseudonym of a Belgian street artist born around 1976 in Ghent. He remains anonymous – he does not reveal his identity despite international recognition. He has painted over a thousand murals on the streets of cities in Europe, the United States, Australia, Asia, New Zealand and Africa, each time adapting the animal motif to the local fauna of the place.
ROA's speciality is painting animals – rats, birds, rabbits, fish and stoats – often in states of decay. This way of depicting is meant to prompt the viewer to reflect on nature conservation and the boundary between life and death. The Łódź mural with three stoats fits into this same, globally recognisable style of monochromatic, black and white compositions.
The mural was created as part of the third edition of the Urban Forms Gallery Festival in 2013, with work on it taking place in September of that year. The gallery of murals in Łódź was developing year on year, and works by successive artists appeared in various parts of the city, including in Bałuty, where three years later a mural by Israeli artist Untay was also created.
The mural is located on the wall of a tenement house at Nowomiejska 5, in the Bałuty district, near Piotrkowska Street. This is part of the old city centre buildings where gable walls have for years been transformed into surfaces for festival murals.
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