“My whole graffiti career started with me tagging with my friends, and I wanted to pay tribute to that beginning, so I had the canvas tagged up with some friends. We were working on the canvas in my yard where my gardener was working. He asked what it was, and when I said it was my art piece, he replied with vigor “THIS, THIS IS NOT ART!” He was rather adamant about it, and so in an alley off Hastings, me and 2 others put the art lettering over the tags in white. This is speaking about the white institutionalized gallery walls, in stark comparison to the completely covered walls we paint in the streets”.

Street art, graffiti, Pac-man and the fundamentals of Bauhaus design create a graphic cornucopia in the bathrooms of Bauhaus Restaurant.

Fazakas Gallery’s Olliemoonsta – the Spanish artist duo of Naza del Rosal and Juan Rico – were excited by the challenge to create a graffiti-based work in Bauhaus Restaurant. Working together with gallery owner LaTiesha Fazakas and Natalie Boll from Bauhaus, they came up with an outstanding commission the likes of which Vancouver has never seen before.

“I knew the restaurant wanted to capture the feeling of Urban Berlin in Vancouver in a way that reflected back to the roots of Bauhaus, German design, so the artists and I did a lot of research and put a lot of thought into the intention behind the work to be done. Then the artists let their creativity fly!” said gallery owner, LaTiesha Fazakas.

Both the creativity and paint flew, and the result is an experience no one who enters these bathrooms will forget. Street-art, Pac-man and the fundamental Bauhaus circle, square and triangle meet to create a graphic cornucopia with such an unadulterated contrast to high-end dining experience that one cannot help being intrigued.