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 Article about Streetart and Graffiti on ziuaveche.ro, with our pics "'Capitala voastra e o destinatie faimoasa pentru artistii stradali din Germania. Voi nu spalati vagoanele de metrou, asa ca arta noastra ramane. E ceva unic si grafferii straini vin aici sa-si lase amprenta', spune Chris, un designer-graffer din Koln. Isi insoteste prietena intr-o vizita, dar a avut timp sa se plimbe singur prin Bucuresti. 'Am vazut cateva 'tag-uri' celebre aici. Un artist cunoscut din Hamburg, de exemplu', spune el." ziuaveche.ro  I guess its about tags and stuff are being bad things. Here are two photos of the paste-ups shown in the article.  Pleas tell me if you know whats about in details =) >>>NACHTRAG: Cage OPC send me a translated version. Merci! "War!!! "Cool" mayor against "cool" art in Bucharest Your capital is a famous destination for street artists in Germany. They will not wash subway cars, so our art remains. Foreign writers come here to leave they'r mark, "says Chris, a designer graffer in Cologne. He accompanies a visiting friend, but took time to walk alone in Bucharest. "We saw some famous 'tags' here. An artist known in Hamburg, for example, "he said. Tourists with sprays and local artists could be part of a disappointment though. Mayor of Bucharest with his nonconformist image decreed total war to graffiti. In Great Spring Cleaning, Oprescu intends to clean all the walls covered with graffiti. "It's not even art," says the Mayor. For some, doodles on the walls, for others, art, graffiti has become part of the urban landscape of many cities, and Bucharest makes no exception. However, street artists everywhere have welcomed with anger the authorities idea: in most countries in the world, graffiti is a form of vandalism and is punishable by law. Britain, for example, established a regime of "zero tolerance" against street art. In a cleaning campaign in 2004, several politicians, including Tony Blair, have signed a document that said that "graffiti is not an art, is a crime. Some municipalities have given up but to fight with the artists and have designated special areas where they can express Examples are Budapest and Melbourne. And Oprescu promised to the artists legal walls in a park that will be built, once in place abandoned Esplanada project in central Bucharest. There, the mayor intends to raise several white boards, free to paint. But insufficient for writers. "From my point of view, clean them," said an anonymous artist, member of 7 Click Crew. "Clear the walls and create new places for fresh drawings. Because we don't draw over other pieces . So if you clean them we will go over again, who is faster has a new piece in the street. Spaces built especially for graffiti, they will be used, but the buiding walls will be the ultimate targets. There is no capital in the world without graffiti. Good luck Mr. Oprescu, but you will lose. Older people agree with the mayor. "It's a good idea. It's something that personally bothers me very much. Do not think that is an art form, I think it's a shit" says Maria Danau, an old lady." |