The iconic river façade of the Tate Modern Gallery - using Acrylic on linen cloth will display thought provoking 'Street Art' - featuring six international artists between 23 May-25 August. This will be the first ever public display of street art in the UK.
Original street art pieces on the Tate's exterior will also be created by Blu from Bologna, the collective Faile from New York, JR from Paris, Sixeart from Barcelona and the twins Nunca and Os Gemeos from Brazil.
Os Gemeos Os Gemeos have been influencing the cityscape of San Paolo since the 1980s with characters etched into the sides of buildings that talk to the people on the street. Much of their work focus' on globalisation and its effects on a Brazilian society caught between exporting its culture and absorbing foreign products - with some awesome imagery of what Brazil is producing. Their style is unique - with messages and interventions developed over the years through working on various challenging projects.
Street Art is recognised as being extremely difficult categorise as and is a genre in constant state-of-change. Graffiti - taken from the Italian word graffiato meaning 'scratched' - has been since around since ancient times. The first known surviving example of 'modern' graffiti can be found in the former Greek city of Ephesus (now part of Turkey). Locals say it is an advertisement for prostitution.
BanksyLondon's most famous street artist is the anonymous
Banksy who recently caught the publics imagination when he turned a south London tunnel, in Waterloo's Leake Street, into a half mile long exhibition space. During the 3 day exhibition Banksy allowed other artists to add their own stencil work to the tunnel walls. The tunnel's owners have agreed to keep the images in tact for another 6 months. Not everybody likes Banksy. A spokesman for 'Keep Britain Tidy' has described his work as simple vandalism.
Graffiti often courts controversy. In 2004 Banksy walked into the Louve, Paris and hung his own depiction of the Mona Lisa (with a yellow smiley face) which was subsequently removed. He is quoted as saying: 'To actually have to go through the process of having a painting selected must be quite boring. It's a lot mote fun to go and put your own one up.'
On the 14 April 2008 Banksy produced his biggest and most daring work (on the walls of a Post Office just off Oxford Circus) to date when he managed to erect 3 stories of scaffolding behind a security fence and - in front of a bank of CCTV cameras - he painted in 7 foot high letters: ONE NATION UNDER CCTV.
Peaceful wall crawlers or violent gang members?Some see this form of Urban Art as reclaiming the buildings back from corporations; we think nothing of the many bland billboards, flyers, posters, postcards and ads that litter our cityscapes - and yet we label graffiti as vandalism. Is it? Not all graffiti artists are peaceful wall crawlers - some are violent gang members who use their art to designate territory who carry a message to their rivals. And what's artistic about someone scratching his initials onto a lamppost? But graffiti does act as a counterpoint to such topics as poverty, urban decay, authority, conformity and exploitation. And someone's got to. Right?
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