What a year! The pandemic continued to wreak havoc on creation, disrupting the programming of festivals, the travelling schedule of urban artists, and the organisation of continually postponed solo shows… After a blank year for some, the Urban Art scene is coming back to life and regaining momentum… writhing in anticipation of its imminent freedom of movement.  
Looking to open new doors to Urban Art and quench our thirst for elsewhere, we are ever more grateful to the muralists who embellish our cities. This special GraffitiART issue highlights fifty creators from the Urban Art scene, both famous and little-known.
In the same spirit, we bring you twelve murals of the year voted by the Street Art Cities community. We also want to thank all the fans who contribute to the spirit and vitality of Urban Art. Without them, without you… our community would not be the same. 
Let’s keep building our community together, make it shine, and promote its legitimacy with public authorities, art commissioners, critics, and museum curators. Let’s fight for the recognition of Urban Art as a branch of contemporary art in its own right! Long live Urban Contemporary Art!  
We also thank all of those without whom the 2021 edition of the Urban Contemporary Art Guide would not have been possible: our supporters, the KissKissBankers, the artists, their agents and galleries, our advertisers, and the entire GraffitiART team. Our magazine and Urban Contemporary Art Guide owe their success to all of you. Thank you!

The 2020 edition of the Urban Contemporary Art Guide is certainly arriving during a strange period, a period of challenges and fear, but also one that holds beautiful promise and hope for renewal. The kickstart of festivals and monumental murals which have been put on hold for a while, new interest in artists from areas too often forgotten and the fast-paced digital transition of the sector is reviving us,
encouraging us to look to the future to horizons yet unexplored.

Like the previous ones, this 2020 edition is the fruit of research, compilation and editorial choices. We gave more room to muralists and artists with little or no visibility in galleries: some fifty talents that make up today’s urban contemporary art scene to discover or rediscover.

Putting Hopare’s Marianne on the cover might seem like a bold choice, but it just felt right. Democracy might be suffering in this gloomy time of the pandemic, but it is not silenced. The words “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity” are resounding louder than ever, although with some dissonance.

We want to thank the people without whom the 2020 edition of the Urban Contemporary Art Guide could not have seen the light: our readers, the KissKissBankers, the artists, their agents and galleries, our advertisers and the GraffitiART team who all contribute to the success of the magazine and the Urban Contemporary Art Guide.

The guide gives a true panorama of what and who matter on the International Street Art Scene in 2018. We feature 100 International artists.

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