The eye, Esk Reyn's biomechanical eye — artwork #11553 by Esk Reyn · Köln, Germany
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Esk Reyn is a multidisciplinary artist born in Istanbul in 1987, where he still lives and works. He started painting graffiti in 2000, enrolled at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2006 and joined its sculpture department in 2008. His visual language starts from the mechanical and architectural forms of the city, abstracted into contrasting volumes that owe as much to 1990s 3D graffiti as to sci…
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Added 05/08/2026
Painted in September 2013 for the CityLeaks festival, this Esk Reyn mural covers the gable of a building on Stammstraße, in Ehrenfeld. The Istanbul artist stacks three states of matter: a mass of fleshy blood-red lobes at the top, a single, highly realistic eye in the middle, and below it a turquoise tangle of pipes, pistons and circuitry that dissolves into drips. The design originally stood out against a large black capsule shape, now weathered to grey, and the foot of the wall has been taken over by tags. The ESK REYN signature, sprayed in the same turquoise, is still legible to the right of the mural.
The artwork The eye, Esk Reyn's biomechanical eye is of type graffiti. You can admire it in the city of Köln in Germany, more precisely here: 12 Stammstraße, Cologne.
This graffiti is also tagged as: fresque, biomecanique, mural, surreal, oeil, eye.
Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: Esk Reyn
The photo was published on 05-08-2026 by Rabot.
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