A new Banksy piece has appeared on the side of Poundland, Whymark Avenue, London. The stencil depicts a child hard at work sewing some Union Jack bunting, of course another statement on child labour.
- via High Snobiety
Should graffiti be preserved? In the case of Blek le Rat’s Madonna masterpiece in Leipzig, the city says yes and what begun back in the early 1990s as a true love story, has now become an original precedent!
Several years ago, Blek le Rat – who nowadays is regarded as a stencil art pioneer – spray-painted a Woman with Child on an apartment building in Leipzig. He dedicated the Madonna to Sybille, the woman he was in love with. Today, they are already married for 20 years and the stencil art piece is still there and it will stay there for at least the next decades!
The reason for that development is that the piece is now on Saxony’s state list of historical monuments! It’s a German precedent – whereas Great Britain (with Banksy) and Switzerland (with Harald Naegeli) already started preserving street art, in Germany nobody would have ever thought to classify certain street artworks as culturally valuable…
Typically, only bygone eras are represented on such lists, and it can take a long time for a monument to be chosen. But Le Rat’s Madonna was granted protected status in just three months. It’s not enough for a work to be recognized as high-quality art, it also should be representative of the time period it comes from. (dw.de)
In my eyes, this is a great story and although preserving street art works against the temporary character of street art, this Leipzig precedent could open more possibilities for artists to become more accepted in common opinion. It’s a perfect chance – we just need to use it!
- via Urban Art Core
“Reverse graffitti cu curator.ro prin oras. Nu am folosit spray-uri sau vopsele, ci am curatat de mizerie asfaltul cu jet de apa. Am profitat de stratul de mizerie din Bucuresti, pentru a arata pe strada, simbolic, ce inseamna curatoriatul.”
Nu este deloc graffiti (in reverse graffiti), dar este un mod mai destept so curat de a face reclama fata de restul.
Living in a world of “breaking” news, in a world that information serves the weaken purposes of a few, in a world that the disastrous end seems to be near by our refuge is our memories, our childhood, our lost innocence, the truly free moments we have lived.
When our eyes close and rest, the kid we have purposely neglected and trapped deep inside in our subconscious, awakens and asks a bit of the stolen happiness the few and the powerful stole from us, claims the right to live unconcerned and free despite the grey reality we have to indulge and endure. The child in us sees through the blackness and fire of the modern metropolitan cities, the flower that blossoms.
The child in us sees through the lies and the fall of man, the hope that arises. The child in us, our inner vision is the personal treasure each one of us keeps in the inside, it is the miracle each one of us needs to awaken from the lethargy and overthrow it’s oppressors.
Spreading the inspiration and the expression through art. DESIGNWARS.
artist: iNO – representing DesignWars Team.
Short bio: iNO was born and raised in Athens. He studied at Athens School of Fine Arts. He is involved with painting walls since 2000. He participates graffiti – street art exhibitions since 2003. One of his famous works is “The History of Gas” on Piraeus avenue on Technopolis. His mission is to give walls another dimension.
A temporary installation, not degrading, by french artist Mademoiselle Maurice. Some poetic Street art performed with hundreds of colorful origami glued on the walls of Paris.
Intr-un univers paralel toti graferii practica parkour, arata super bine si se imbraca cu haine de firma urbane.
Glumesc, este doar un spot publicitar strain pentru Coca-Cola Zero.
“AITCH x KITRA x SADDO” video pe Vimeo sau YouTube.
Scriam acum cateva saptamani de o mica iesire pe strazile Bucurestiului cu artistii Aitch, Kitra si Saddo la o lipeala de paste up-uri.
A fost foarte chill iesirea si am urcat si un scurt clip cu actiunea lor.
Piesele finale le gasiti pe linkurile lor. Vizionare placuta!
