Ubiación: several (Tlalpan, beam, shaft 3).
Authors: several
Photographed, reviewer: Brainwashed Poet.
Asking "what is art?" Is not only snob but is also silly and anachronistic. Since the late nineteenth century the traditional concept of art (if you think about it did not last So understood, the idea of \u200b\u200bart as understood until the nineteenth century actually lasted a few centuries) began to change due the challenges were imposed by the vanguard. Now that almost anything (or nothing) can be art, wonder what is art and what not, and does not help, worth more, as claimed by some contemporary philosophers ask: when is art ?, or, better yet, what is art?, or even better (here comes my malice sociological) who decides what is art and what is not? And what is your opinion as valid for me, Ecuadorian immigrants in Spain for my craft Zapotec, for my graffiti Scotland, to my South African sculptor?
Something that is clear is that contemporary art is open, confusing, dark, cheerful, frivolous, spiritual, all at once: we value Daiman Hirst, but also to Toledo, the painting is accepted detailed, cast aside or industrial waste in a gallery, anything goes and everything is fleeting, in this sense the contemporary art is closer to the fashion and advertising to high culture, art is cool , and its consumers are nice (and use words like cool and nice ) are prepared to be challenged within the sterile and ateamente sacred white cube gallery.
And what does all this verbal garbage? Well beside the point as an introduction to speak of street art, half a century some artists have chosen not to limit his work to galleries, either for political or (anti) aesthetic-taking to the streets for use of canvas for their works and happenings arise street, urban interventions, art posters, etc. is wide and varied the amount of current artists that have chosen the street as not attempt to list them and I will focus on that interests me: graffiti, and the stencil. As is known from the late sixties began to see the first graffiti on the streets, graffiti that began being distorted sentences became in letters, nicknames, and drawings. Soon the graffiti from Brooklyn and the Bronx would be of interest for art, while some graffiti artists were interested in contemporary art at that time was as a guru to Warhol. A rate of Punk Rock and Rap Graff was going to galleries. writers as Crash, Daze Zephyr or rapid recognition had still enduring Daze graffiti today can be worth 60, 000 pesos ( http://www.webgallerynyc.com/daze.html ). So soon emerged ambitious artists such as the collective Colab, or Basquiat (SAMO) or Keith Haring ( http://www.haring.com/ ) who took the graffiti to other latiudes.
Graffiti parallel with the rise of the ghetto, there was also the stencil with spray used for artistic purposes, in Mexico, such as arts groups or Marco Sum hows dissidents were using this medium in the seventies. Since the beginning of the XXI century has been a revival of stencil worldwide usually associated with political issues (consider the example of the stencils in Oaxaca between 2006-07), undoubtedly the most famous stencil artist is Banksy, who has also entered the world of art galleries, while still painting in the streets (Web Banksy; http://www.banksy.co.uk/ ). There is a huge amount of artists who have even managed to give new meaning to urban space, making your work is not only the stencil itself but the context in which it stands, the space as part of the work, as in this disturbing work made in the Bronx, prepared in view of Reagan's visit to that neighborhood Puerto Ricans and blacks:
In Mexico there are also interesting proposals, such as this "work" I found myself
"anything interesting?, Closer:
far from there I found another piece near the graffiti (although the technique used is mixed, stencil, spray and brush-brush ) by Smith Sener around the perimeter of what appears to be a factory or a printing press (on Calle Jose A. Torres).
A few there I found the Flying Circus (distribution center of art and culture ) and walls I found this picture made, apparently, strokes and brush strokes.
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