Schlagwort: streetart

Free Repair

Roland Roos repairs broken, displaced or damaged things in public space. Each repair is intended to restore a particular detail to its pre-damaged state. Before and after the repair a photograph is taken of the unsolicited assignment. The photo taken before the repair is the only existing document of the damaged objects and thus becomes… Free Repair weiterlesen

Urban Art Goes Commercial

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFTgMWP3lJY] More and more street artists are putting their creations on T-Shirts. But not all are happy about this development. Some in the scene criticize this as a sellout of the underground culture.

Penisbrücke von VOINA

In 2010, Russia’s activist art collective Voina rose to fame when they painted a giant phallus on a drawbridge in St. Petersburg. It rose, effectively flipping off the Federal Security Service headquarters, which oppressed citizens would refer to as the modern-day KGB. Dick Captured by the FSB remained erect for hours. In 2011, after Voina members were… Penisbrücke von VOINA weiterlesen