sábado, 10 de outubro de 2009

French street artist tags murals of west Belfast

By Diana Rusk
08/10/09

sacrilege or privilege? the Bobby Sands Mural, on the Sevastopol Street gable of Sinn Fein’s Falls Road offices, alongside which French graffiti artist Jef Aerosol has tagged a musician and the words “singin’ songs of freedom”.  Main PICTURE: Declan Roughan Above: Mal McCann

sacrilege or privilege? the Bobby Sands Mural, on the Sevastopol Street gable of Sinn Fein’s Falls Road offices, alongside which French graffiti artist Jef Aerosol has tagged a musician and the words “singin’ songs of freedom”. Main PICTURE: Declan Roughan Above: Mal McCann

NORTHERN Ireland is already world famous for the political murals that cover the gable walls of buildings and it appears a celebrated graffiti artist wants a piece of the action.
Over the past few days the people of west Belfast may have noticed some unusual black and white images stencilled...

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2 comentários:

Dalaiama disse...

:)
Na verdade o Jef Aerosol eu tenho na conta de um artista cinzentinho muito pouco politizado. Esta intervenção parece apenas caçar fama, na medida em que nem sequer parece muito comprometida, uma vez que ele poderia ter usado exactamente o mesmo stencil noutro contexto sem conotações políticas.

Madalena Virtuoso disse...

bom isso e verdade. mas gosto da frase do 'singing songs of freedom'!
a verdade e q nao conhe;o mto a fundo o trabalho dele, mas gosto do q pouco conheco, bom.. esteticamente!