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- Watch Wall to Wall, a short film that explores the world of contemporary London street culture and tells the story behind a series of new murals by emerging street artists.
“Art has a role,” said Ed Hicks. As a rising star of the London street art movement, Hicks spoke to us about the location of a new large-format mural. And said emphatically, “To make art, you have to deal with live ammunition.” Few media are more potent than the anti-establishment movements of street art history with a legacy of resistance and a return to power.
Far from an ordinary institution, street art is not the art you seek in an art gallery space. But the art you encounter when you least expect it, embedded in the fabric of your everyday environment. Unlike canvas borders, streets allow for larger-scale art opportunities. “The great thing about murals is that they’re much bigger than you,” Hicks says.
“You can lose yourself completely in it.”
Once described as “art outside the law” by photographer Martha Cooper. Street art flourished beyond its graphite roots on America’s east coast in the 1970s. Thanks partly to the rise of acclaimed artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Who also managed to adorn downtown NYC’s buildings and subways with their illegal works of art – it was recognized as a legitimate global movement.
Artists such as Barbara Krueger and Jenny Holzer Artist have further developed their ideas about which spaces art can occupy. And spread their provocative texts in various transitional environments in urban landscapes, monuments, extraordinary buildings, and iconic places around the world.
While retaining its distinctive defiant, counter-cultural dimension, Artist street art has contributed to the ongoing discussions about public spaces over the years. And enriched the urban landscape with an explosion of color, creativity, and self-expression. London-based street artist Nacho Wells told Dazed, “I think this could be a very positive thing for society.”
As a large city – twice the size of New York and 15 times the size of Paris – London offers plenty of space and opportunities for aspiring artists. Neighborhoods such as Shoreditch in East London are home to some of the city’s liveliest and most exciting street art.
They are home to Global Street Art, an organization dedicated to assisting the growth and development of this vital art form worldwide, and its current program at Housing. in painted cities.” “Our cities have been around for hundreds, if not thousands of years, and painting is a natural expression,” said GSA co-founder Lee Bofkin.
“When you allow more people to create public spaces by drawing it, you allow more forms of expression.”
A new wall-to-wall short film produced by Dazed in partnership with Squarespace. A full-fledged website building and e-commerce platform, celebrates the unique street art culture that London is thriving today. In addition to Global Street Art, this documentary features a group of emerging. And established local street artists presenting their work on 12 of London’s most extraordinary walls.
From experimental typography to sprawling Gothic landscapes, each mural explores the interaction between an unrestrained imagination. The physicality of their work, also how technology broadens their horizons and allows them to progress as artists. “A website propelled my career,” says Frankie Strand, explaining the origins of the design. “So I decided to have a circular color wheel in the middle, and an animal of the appropriate color emerges from it … an explosion of possibilities.”