Monday, 30 July 2012

Olympic Village Street Art 2012

We all know there was a major Pre-Crime (thought crimes) clean up of the city prior to the Olympics and currently ongoing. Several prominent street artists and two graffiti artists were asked to paint at the Olympic Village. Most of them turned it down including street artist Stik. We were glad to hear that some artists got access to that Olympic loot, K-Guy being one such artist.It came as a little surprise to hear that a London street artist had penetrated the ring of steel and got some paint on a wall within the complex.


The artist remains anonymous though stated...

'It's much easier to infiltrate behind enemy lines when you have a security pass so this one goes out to the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG). Enjoy.'





'NOT THE ONLY KRAY IN THE VILLAGE'


This is a stencil of London's most famous gangsters of the 1960s / 70s. The image of the Kray Twins is synonymous with East London as this was their hunting grounds. Many books, films, documentaries were made about the Kray Twins who have both since died in prison. 



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Many Faces of Street Artist - Nikita Nomerz

Russian graffiti writer Nikita Nomerz has been experimenting with street art and produced a series entitled LIVING WALLS. He then went out of his way to find suitable surfaces in various cities and painted these faces...















Nikita Nomerz



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Ernest Zacharevic's Interactive Street Art

This is one of the most interactive pieces of street art in Malaysia. Locals travel both far and wide to be snapped with Ernest Zacharevic's artwork. Lithuanian artist Ernest is currently living in George Town, Penang, Malaysia and produced a series of works around the streets for the George Town Festival. The piece attracted so much attention they invited folks to send in their snaps thus creating a mountain of photographs then added to his website. You can see many more on his facebook page (link below)...




















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Zebrating - German Street Art

German street art duo Zebrating (making the zebra) have been touring the streets of Germany creating their zebra style art works. It isnt the first time we've featured this style but Zebrating seem to have added a colour aspect to the format...
























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The Aquiles Coins come to London

Money given back is rare! If, in the first place, Aquiles had removed coins from the street and moved them into the limited space of galleries, in a second movement, he gives them back to public space transformed and with a new meaning. The spanish/swiss artist considers the restitution of the money he had taken from his first usage to make it an aesthetic and subversive object. It is a logical follow up of his first reasoning. If he gives back the coins, so delicately transformed by him, he doesn't simply put them back into circulation: he offers them to the public by fixing them into places of high symbolic value, so that everyone can see them for a long period of time and with the same amusement as with the first transformation.


Nevertheless, if Aquiles plans to get back at some institutions like the Palais Fédéral in Bern or Buckingham Palace, he decided to do it without their consent. Imposing the coin he chose in function of the place. He is exposing himself to sanctions because he did not consult the authorities. He will have to incrust the coins discretely and be perfectly organised not to get caught. This is how in these inverted hold-ups, the plastician becomes a performer as well.  The risk taken by Aquiles gives more value to the coin of money, a value that is strictly artistic which hasn't been taken into account by the economists. He is not the author of the transformed coin in Sweden insulting the king of Sweden.



















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