txt: Tate Modern – Street Art – 23 May – 25 August 2008
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In the first major public museum display of street art in London, an awesome line-up of acclaimed street artists will create gigantic new art works on the external walls of Tate Modern overlooking the Thames.
An eclectic group of artists, who have worked in both street and gallery environments, are showing work: Blu from Bologna, Italy; the artist collective Faile from New York, USA; JR from Paris, France; Nunca and Os Gemeos, both from Sao Paulo, Brazil and Sixeart from Barcelona, Spain. This is the first time work has been commissioned for the building’s iconic external wall.
txt: Art World: Is street art losing its ‘outsider’ edge? – The Indipendent Blogs
So a screenprint poking fun at the art establishment is sold by the establishment. In fact, the establishment is now in on the joke. Does this mean urban art is losing its subversive edge? And is it even street art – accessible and (often) transient work created for the ordinary public – if it is connected to a gallery or established institution?
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The question that some young artists may now be asking is, if street art is entering into the mainstream with urban artists increasingly becoming establishment figures, where do the real rebels go to rage against the machine?
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JR
Blu
sixeart
os Gemeos
faile
img: Street Art by “Os Gemeos” – Rob Wallace on flickr.com
