txt: Urban contemporary - INTOXICATED DEMONS GALLERY
Is “urban contemporary art” just another modern term for selling products to the suburban youth? Does it explain the different way of living in the city instead of growing up in the country? Nevertheless, we’re not an encyclopedia spending time on scientific explanations. We would like to show you art in a different way.
Urban Contemporary is a term for art that is also recognized as “Street Art” or “Urban Art”, Graffiti and Skateboard culture as its roots. After years in the “underground” this art movement has found his way into the art scene through the addition of more commercial elements like fine illustration, comic and graphic design. Some of the artists are already well known, like for example Shepard Fairey, Barry McGee, Doze Green, Banksy and others.
Let’s come to a point and say: Urban art is a creative melting pot of several different techniques whether they are so called “classic painting” (oil or acrylic) or made with spraycans, markers, stencils, stickers, analog or digital. It reflects our suburban living and the way we think about it. In the end, it’s important so say: There is not really a frontier between so called “fine art” and so called “urban art”. The space between both is liquid. It depends on you - it’s mostly the way you look at it and the way YOU feel it!
video: Berlin’s Street Art 2008 - thankyouradio on youtube.com
