Lithuanian street artist, Ernest “ZACH” Zacharevic takes his fine art skills outside to the streets, where everything is bigger, from his audience to the scale of his pieces. Not bound by a canvas or one medium, his conceptual work is a means of exploring and experimenting with the ideas that busy his mind.
Zacharevic’s portfolio is a reflection of his dexterity as an artist and includes the disciplines of oil painting, stencil and spray, installation and sculpture.
Based in Penang, Malaysia, Zacharevic has a knack for breathing life and story into urban infrastructure as his lifelike murals bring life to walls, pipes, buildings and monuments in cities across the globe.
His hallmark style integrates fictional characters into the built environment so that it appears as if they are escaping or emerging from a solid surface in some sort of interactive illusion.
Zacharevic started turning heads in 2012 with his street art series at the George Town Cultural Festival that left BBC with no other choice but to cast him as “Malaysia’s answer to Banksy.” Since then, he has gone viral with a controversial Lego piece, held many solo shows, and created some of his most iconic work.
Most recently, Zacharevic collaborated on a wall series “Replay” with legendary photojournalist Martha Cooper, who is widely recognised for her documentation of the New York graffiti scene back in the 1970s and 1980s.
You can follow Zacharevic on his Instagram account: @ernestzacharevic
