The death of basketball legend Kobe Bryant shocked sports fans the world over. Many artists have depicted him in murals in public spaces.
Street artists from Dund Gol Basketball Club have painted murals of Kobe Bryant in a city street in Ulaanbaatar. This mural, appeared on a wall behind the 19th apartment complex in the part of UB known as 120 Myangat.
There has been a small graffiti scene in Ulaanbaatar since late 1990s. It came with the US hip-hop and gangster rap culture, when kids started forming their own rap groups. Locals paint mostly American and European style graf pieces, and only recently there been some work that has some definitive Mongolian styling and letters. Street art is in its early days in Mоngolia. Thanks to the internet the kids nowadays know all about the international street art scene and use techniques such as using stencils.
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