Post by feralthings on May 4, 2015 9:59:21 GMT
German-duo, Moses and Taps (AKA Top Sprayers™) have their first exhibition is Paris opening at the end of the month entitled '§plash - The Rules of Vandalism'. The exhibition opens on 30 May at Controversy Paris and it will be curated by Good Guy Boris from The Grifters. The blurb reads:
"At first, when graffiti was new and independent, the people who started it were creative. Not bound by rules or codes, they where fascinated and free to create. The freedom of expression that the pioneers of the artistic movement had, lasted as long as more people joined the movement. Like in any other cultural movements, created by a man, rules started to appear, graffiti stopped to develop and creativity started to decrease.
Only several artists understood that this “unwritten laws of vandalism” are blocking their development. They dared to take the risk, to disobey this rules, created in something that was about freedom at first place, in order to continue to evolve. Wherever they went back and forth experimenting - two things remained constant in its ordinary practice - the spray can as a tool and the urban space as a medium - the Alpha and the Omega."
I normally wait until a couple of weeks before an exhibition to post about it but I thought it was worth mentioning now because in the run up to the exhibition The Grifters are running a Q&A on 'The Rules of Vandalism' on their Facebook and Instagram pages. The first question is, what is the definition of vandalism?
"At first, when graffiti was new and independent, the people who started it were creative. Not bound by rules or codes, they where fascinated and free to create. The freedom of expression that the pioneers of the artistic movement had, lasted as long as more people joined the movement. Like in any other cultural movements, created by a man, rules started to appear, graffiti stopped to develop and creativity started to decrease.
Only several artists understood that this “unwritten laws of vandalism” are blocking their development. They dared to take the risk, to disobey this rules, created in something that was about freedom at first place, in order to continue to evolve. Wherever they went back and forth experimenting - two things remained constant in its ordinary practice - the spray can as a tool and the urban space as a medium - the Alpha and the Omega."
I normally wait until a couple of weeks before an exhibition to post about it but I thought it was worth mentioning now because in the run up to the exhibition The Grifters are running a Q&A on 'The Rules of Vandalism' on their Facebook and Instagram pages. The first question is, what is the definition of vandalism?
