Street Art #170 El Mac & Gene Pendon, Montreal (Canada)
Huge mural in downtown Montreal for 1st anniversary of Leonard Cohen's death in 2017
I like the truck with the inscrption St Leonard...
WHERE
On rue Crescent, Montreal, Canada.
WHO
This mural is based on a photograph of Leonard Cohen taken by his daughter. It was created by El Mac and Gene Pendon with the help of MU Montreal (13 assistants... look the time lapse in the end of the post, impressive work).
El Mac
Miles MacGregor, aka El Mac is an internationally renowned street artist born in Los Angeles in 1980. He likes to paint large scale portrait repeating contour lines with a touch of Mexican culture.
More about his work (pics from his website) :
^La Abuelita/Má'sání, Los Angeles, 2015
<Enduring Spell, University of California, San Diego, 2016
Gene Pendon
Gene Pendon, also known Gene Starship, is born 1971 in Ottawa and now based on Montreal. He's one of founder of Heavyweight Production House and Heavyweight Art Installation, Heavyweight Art Installation in all the world.
Gene Pendon's work (near the Grand Bibliothèque de Montréal on Berri), 2015
WHEN
- 2017. Still Visible
Sources
El Mac
Gene Pendon Instagram
Leonard Cohen Wiki
MU Montreal
My Old Posts about Street Art
#169 SbuOne, Montreal
#168 Michael Conlin, Albany (US)
#167 Sylvie Kantorovitz, Albany (US)
#166 Nick Walter, Albany (US)
#165 Benny Wilding & Zek & Stare, Montreal
Bonus Video
Time Lapse - Tower of Songs