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This website gives examples of applied art in urban public space. Public space has always been an experimental zone for the visualisation of criticism and reflection. Serials are in my opinion a door to interesting questions about intellectual or physical ownership and social order. Our world presently seems to be overwhelmed with examples of square directive communication, generally in support of unilateral purposes or their regulation. A multiude of warning signs and paragraphs are moreover created without any exit option since laws are generally created without expiration of validity. Within this exponential growth of regulation and normalisation respectively, life in our industrialised countries appears to be hooked on even more warning signs and paragraphs regulating the regulations. Sometimes this bears fruit in terms of absurd cross relationships like the blind alleyed one way street I once saw in Hamburg.
The technique is simple: The serials are realised by cutting out cardboard (like Bristol) or plastic leafs, then acting as the negative through which a colour is spray-canned up on paper or a wall. The technique seems to be one of the oldest illustration forms, the earliest examples consisting in silhouettes of hands which were found in caves and realised by blowing stone dust through those hands leaning against a wall. Considering light as a very special type of non-permanent eco spray paint, the roots of serial mural painting might as well be seen in stereotomic diaphanous architecture. The exciting artistic essence of this technique for me consists in its vividness and simplicity of making empty space tangible.
This website gives examples of applied art in urban public space. Public space has always been an experimental zone for the visualisation of criticism and reflection. Serials are in my opinion a door to interesting questions about intellectual or physical ownership and social order. Our world presently seems to be overwhelmed with examples of square directive communication, generally in support of unilateral purposes or their regulation. A multiude of warning signs and paragraphs are moreover created without any exit option since laws are generally created without expiration of validity. Within this exponential growth of regulation and normalisation respectively, life in our industrialised countries appears to be hooked on even more warning signs and paragraphs regulating the regulations. Sometimes this bears fruit in terms of absurd cross relationships like the blind alleyed one way street I once saw in Hamburg.
The technique is simple: The serials are realised by cutting out cardboard (like Bristol) or plastic leafs, then acting as the negative through which a colour is spray-canned up on paper or a wall. The technique seems to be one of the oldest illustration forms, the earliest examples consisting in silhouettes of hands which were found in caves and realised by blowing stone dust through those hands leaning against a wall. Considering light as a very special type of non-permanent eco spray paint, the roots of serial mural painting might as well be seen in stereotomic diaphanous architecture. The exciting artistic essence of this technique for me consists in its vividness and simplicity of making empty space tangible.