Street-art is dead, make way for contemporary urban art !
Contemporary Art | Exhibited on gallery picture rails and made credible through auctions, it seems the days of street art as an illegal artistic pastime are over. The internet and social networks, along with recognition from the art market, have thus revolutionised the way in which we approach these pieces from the street, which challenge the place of the individual within urban areas. This phenomenon has been widely challenged, starting with the very definition of street art.
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Banksy - Slave Labour, 2012
© Banksy
In the beginning there was the street
In the 1950s, a new era was born and artists seized the street as a workshop. United around the idea of « poetic recycling of urban reality » , theorised by Pierre Restany, they incorporated elements of the urban and industrial environment into their work. Raymond Hains and Jacques de la Villeglé took down and tore up posters from the street while […]
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