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In 2008 street artists Blu and Lutz Henke painted Berlin’s most iconic giant mural in Kreuzberg which depicts a man adjusting his n direction of the artists out of sorrow and as ‘a wake-up call to the city and its dwellers, a reminder of the necessity to preserve affor
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The Cosmonaut looks over the residents of Kreuzberg. Painted in 2007 by Victor Ash, it is considered to be the largest stencil drawing in the world. Like much of Ash’s work, the Cosmonaut explores contrasts between the subject matter and the environment that it inhabits. The unexpected sight of an unmissable, massive, weightless astronaut immediately leaves a lasting impression on pedestrians, a gift to the passers by, fulfilling the artist’s ambition to contribute to the democratization of art.
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