Kitchener, Boombox.net, Carhartt & CUE present: URBANSKILLZ
Source: www.urbanfields.net
Topic: Graffiti
Sort Desciption: Graffiti art quite obviously is no longer “simply” a youth-. culture phenomenon. As part of the four elements of hiphop culture – dj, mc, break-dance and ...
Content Inside: Kitchener, Boombox.net, Carhartt & CUE present: URBANSKILLZ Walls sprayed with graffiti, is something you cannot think away from today’s cities. It is interminably linked with urban life. Influenced by their surroundings, images appear, which, in turn put distinctive marks on their environment. If you travel the same journey on bus or train every day, you begin to notice, how many such sprayed pieces there are and how they change surprisingly frequent in some places. In the last 10 years a lot has changed visually; there’s a lot more styles of graffiti for one. There are artists that create a style so distinctive; it is immediately recognisable. At the same time, we witness an increased merging of graffiti and graphic design. Graffiti does no longer just appear on city walls; but also on flyers, magazine covers and illustrations, -commercial and non-commercial. It is an art form, gaining increasing recognition. Naturally, the use of computers again spawns new styles. Publications like Blower, Scrawl, Souvenirs de Paris, Futura, etc. are good documentations of such developments. Artists like Futura2000 have proven with their work; that Graffiti is an art form that stands on firm ground also within the contemporary art context. This year, Hamburg has been host to the “Urban Discipline” exhibition for the third time. Urban Discipline is one example of exhibitions worldwide that shows new works by a selection of international artists. Graffiti art quite obviously is no longer “simply” a youth- culture phenomenon. As part of the four elements of hiphop culture – dj, mc, break-dance and graffiti – graffiti artists have been working closely with musicians from the start: at first limited to a hiphop context, later expanding to other musical styles. The most prominent example for the collaboration between music and graffiti is again Futura’s work for MoWax and DJ Krush. The influence of this so-called “street culture” increasin ...
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