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2016: STREET ART, AN INSPIRED ART ? AN ASPIRED ART? Sept. 13, 2018

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    • What was Street Art 20 years ago ??

    A STOLEN ART… 

    On a stolen wall, to the great despair of the official owners of those walls… A fugace expression, a writing on the sly , the proof of a rebellion, of a more or less anonymous  statement , and the corresponding media : the thick and nervous drawing, thrown on the wall like a sketch , the express colour bombing , the no-signing or the botched  signature and then, the runnaway if the fellow watcher had not been careful enough to detect the bothering passer-by…

    … All this guided the choice of walls, as difficult to reach as possible, like highway bridges to make sure the message would be read and remain for long, the abandoned fabrics, for the size of their walls and the secret location, the walls of the cities already but in the so-called « alternative districts »… whoever said « tag » thought of deserted places, places of all dangers, a night owl practice…

     

    AN ACCEPTED ART…

    The new generation could manage to be accepted, sometimes adopted and even desired… Society looks at them with a different eye.

    The wild tag, once shocking has become Street art, a model of a freer expression.

    The tagger now signs and is no longer doomed to run away…. He shows his work in the city to whoever wants to discover it….

    And since he no longer needs to fly away, his work is changing, the mere graffitti becomes a sophisticated painting the beautiful expression of a drawing technic or of a perfectly mastered painting. The tagger often has a fine sensibility, he no longer is a muddle-headed tagger but a genuine painter, often trained in the Arts Schools. Tag is no longer an interjection but a carefully composed prose. 

    That’s how we find in Toronto some paintings like the beautiful Gioconda’s embezzlement, remarkably drawn, competing with the far more provocative  embezzlements of  the Velazquez Meninas (1656)  by Pablo Picasso and his compatriot Dali in 1957 and 1960..

    That’s how our graphers, not only taggers anymore, take their time to display on our walls their gigantic accumulutions in the manner of the calligraphic oils on canvas of a Simon Hantaï.

    That’s how they enrich their palette with colour games very much in the style of the Delaunays…

    That’s how, out of a paroxystic hyper-activity, they do envelope complete buildings with their poetry.

     

     

    A NEW ESTABLISHMENT ?

    If the Mayor of New-York is still fighting, Parisian social housing operators  have recognized them and offer space to give a soul to some of their buildings. The downtown shop-owners of Europe now order custom-decorated rolling shields.  Today, the expression is so sophisticated that even the Majors follow the trend.

    That’s how, Cyril Phan, allias Kongo, became famous by participating into the « open sky » exhibition for the Bagnolet Social Housing board in 2000, but in 1993 he was already working for Paco Rabanne and later  Lacoste, Renault Sport, Nissan, Airbus and even Hermès, with his living performances during special events but also by designing  its famous silk scarf. Street-art for street-wear,  you can still find on the web the limited edition of his genuine Artee-shirts.

    That’s how the new Art dealers  all want them, maybe not the usual and traditional way but still money minded. Once an outside art, « Street-art on canvas »  is now ordered to decorate the inside … Relayed by art dealers, street art has formed the collector’s eye. ..

    Will graphers enter the system ?... Yes, to the great pleasure of some of them…  No, a hearty no for others like Banski, the man with the hood, who decided to sell his paintings himself, for 60 dollars each on the New-York pavement, to denounce the speculative abuses on his work…

    -MH-

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