It
has been quite sometime, when the graffiti, the art that started off on
the metal body of a New York train more than 30 years ago, has left
behind it's clandestine status of the street to fall into the pampering
arms of Museums and galleries. The Cartier Foundation has, through their
exhibition 'Born in the street: Graffiti', selected under different
topics the astonishing drawings, elevating the graffiti to the category
of visual art. Not just in the way as retrospective view of New York,
but with their eyes on the future and in other capitals.
For the occasion, the Foundation offers their external wall to street graffiti artists, from day to day, with their sprays of paint and helmets of music, to display their talents redecorating the wall on full view of the passersby. (The only legal walls in Paris, authorized by the Town Hall). The artists dedicated their free time, from Monday to Friday, working in the open with street audience, not behind close doors of an artist's studio. In the interior and the garden of the museum, there are also 2 walls for murals of 4x3 metres, for different artists to paint on, changing the pictures once a month.
The graffiti on the train was painted in 1973. Very nice I thought. The other picture is on a wall in Sao Paulo
Current Mood: 
Accomplished
Accomplished
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