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The street art of Street art for reflection
Finding the art that is hidden in everyday objects is a virtue that few can boast about, it is no longer just about thestreet art framed in the world of graffiti with famous artists like Banksy or the new trends ofurban art where they dedicate themselves to rewriting graffiti signatures to make them clean and legible.
Street art is much more and the game of altering the original function of objects does not leave anyone indifferent.
Using the public space of the street and squares to create stories with objects that invite reflection, to look at the world around us in a different way, is the goal of the artist Benedetto Bufalino. Creative imagination that can revitalize any urban space. This is Street art but in capital letters! …
Volume in street art
What happens when we change the volume of things?… As part of the International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Anglet (France). Bufalino has installed a "soccer field" in the middle of the beach. He has gone from the plane of ground level and in 2D of the chalk on the sand, to formalize an interactive work in 3D delimited by large concrete tiles that form walls alluding to the effort required to play on a field and, on the other hand, to the rules, order and discipline required to participate in the game.
Interactive art on the beach that transforms the everyday into a different element.
With a humorous approach, he presents us with a street art of a picnic table with enormous dimensions. Its oversized proportions create an optical illusion, the large-scale bench and tabletop play with disorientation before the viewers, a deception that is disconcerting from afar where the viewer cannot believe the scale of the object.
«Although the history of Street art it has always been associated with a type of human manifestation with traits of vandalism, my intention is to raise concerns in a mentally comfortable society »
Another example is an art gallery that only fits one piece inside, distorting the volume of the typical museums that we can find around the world.
Utility
Why should objects be used for what they were created?… They may have other more interesting functions. Here, the artist of streetart wants to make us reflect on the role of everyday objects and their usefulness as well as the loss of interest when they no longer fulfill their original function.
The disuse of an object does not necessarily mean its withdrawal, we can creatively reconvert and recycle it to improve the urban interaction and social of an area. Only good ideas are missing!
In keeping with his urban interventions and good humor, the artist Benedetto returns with the art street sending a caravan straight to heaven. "La Caravane dans le ciel" is a mobile trailer made up of an illuminated caravan that rises above the trees and buildings, a new perspective to illuminate and look at cities.
Art as a game
The French artist rethinks indoor tennis courts, placing it in the context of a livable apartment. Where visitors are invited to take a racket, and engage in a match with a rival that occupies space at the other end of a door frame.
The unexpected within contemporary art, and his interest in redefining the norm, has led to a situation that invites the idea of "art as a game" to stimulate participation and play in joint therapy.
In art theory, many paint, others draw, others recycle and create, some just scratch for the simple pleasure of scratching or putting something that does not make sense at times, others capture their artistic side either on a wall or on paper, on canvas or on asphalt, on the ground or on the sidewalk, on glass or windows … etc, because at the end of it all is about creativity, being unique, expressing ideas and awakening consciences and values that we have forgotten.
As a note, there are two projects of interest that work on geolocation of works and artists to understand a little more about this philosophy and discover what it hides. The first is called Streer Art Project (Here) protected by Google Art Project where different artists of the world contribute their different gaze from the streets and the second Google Arts and Culture (Here) another information base that requires your attention.
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- Hydraulic mosaic tiles
- Architecture on paper
- A sensory urban garden
- The most industrial urban furniture
- The concept of urban creativity
- Public space
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