Artist: Sir. X

Endlich mal wieder ein intelligenter Theorietext zum Thema Street Art: "Aufstand der Zeichen? Zum Verhältnis von Street Art und Avantgarde." Polarisierend, streitbar, anregend: "Die historischen Avantgardebewegungen übten zuallererst Kritik an der Institution Kunst und damit an sich selbst als autonome Kunstwerke. Im Interesse einer zu verwirklichenden Kunst stellten sie ihre Funktion radikal in Frage. Die Kritik der Institution Kunst schließt notwendig eine Kritik der Gesellschaft mit ein, ohne die sie eben immanente Kritik wäre. Die Einsicht in basale gesellschaftliche Zusammenhänge und die eigene Verortung darin sind notwendiger Bestandteil eines zu bildenden Bewußtseins einer Kunst von sich selbst. Hier muß wohl, ohne die Analyse vorwegnehmen zu wollen, Street Art und ihren Akteuren komplettes Versagen attestiert werden. Was sich an Aussagen der Artists und der Werke „politisch" verorten läßt, ist im besten Fall affirmative Ahnungslosigkeit und im schlimmsten Fall Antisemitismus. Dazwischen steht mit Konsum -, Kriegs - und Polizeikritik verkürzte oder überhaupt keine Kritik des modernen warenproduzierenden Patriarchats." Via

New York City street art: Paste-ups of Senator Barack Obama as Superman. Awesome.

© Ivan Corsa Photo - Street Art Images

New York City street art: Striking downtown NYC wheatpaste-up image of legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock sporting aviator sunglasses and "Life is Beautiful" statement.

© Ivan Corsa Photo - Street Art Images

Sexy graff and stencil art spotted in May Lane, St Peters, Sydney Australia.

After French street art über-dude Space Invader already invaded Vienna with his mosaic hommage to arcade games back in 2006, it was logical to let him design a part of the MQ and give him his own exhibition in the newly launched Street Art Passage. We will see what the curator and Subotrons own Jogi Neufeld, in close cooperation with 401Rush, has planned for the next months and how a place for street art offside the street will work out.

Walled in by Arturo Martinez

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The Apocalyptic Colors exhibition shows different positions of Street Art und Graffiti, both based on activity in public space.

Young and upcoming artists like Blek le Rat, Mark Jenkins, Thomas "Keramik" Mock, R.K.D.U. Alex Ruthner, Matthias Wermke show their works for the very first time together at a gallery.

Interessantes Interview mit "Liquidated Logo"-Zevs (mehr: 1, 2) bei Ping: "Of course, there is a graffiti aesthetic to my art but I primarily play with the visual effect. I use the original colours and re-paint the logo with excess. By pouring paint over them, the logo dissolves in front of the viewer's eyes, drawing attention to, and visually disturbing the recognisable and omnipresent trademark."

Zevs Liquid Logos hatte ich schonmal im Dezember 2007. Das Pingmag hat jetzt ein Interview mit Zevs über Crime Art und Visual Kidnapping geführt.

You coined the term visual kidnapping. What does that mean?

Visual kidnapping is like entering an interactive game: If the brand on the billboard kidnaps the attention of the public with the purpose of consumer demand, I reverse the situation and I kidnap the model on the poster and I demand a ransom of 500,000€ from the brand. This sum represents the symbolic price of an advertising campaign for the brand.

There must be a story to it...

A night of the summer of 2001, during an exhibition about Hitchcock and art, I made a visual attack on the huge Hitchcock poster that was on the front of the building.

I climbed the facade from the backside and cut a little hole with my scalpel in the face of Alfred Hitchcock to make a flow of red ink. The guards surprised me and I fled at full speed by the fire escape. Fortunately, my friend the artist André was waiting below with his scooter. The Pompidou Art Centre was the only establishment to keep a "visual attack" that I had done; they kept it up for the duration of the Hitchcock exhibit.

ZEVS: Visual Kidnapping (via Killefit)

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Barack Obama wheatpaste street art on Houston Street, Manhattan, New York City.

© Ivan Corsa Photo - Street Art Images

Genau das ist Berlin: Wunderbare Momentaufnahmen der BigBadCity von Evol. Via: Just