Wow, that sounds pretty amazing! I'd so love to see that, but it's a shame that the building is set for demolition.
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Wow, that sounds pretty amazing! I'd so love to see that, but it's a shame that the building is set for demolition.
It is a shame. But then again if it wasn't, originally, the artists would never have had the chance to do pretty much anything they wanted to do there. Legally. And as many of the artists there are graffiti artists originally, I think it's the nature of graffiti to be covered, destroys destroyed or removed after a while.
Ah, that's true, I guess. It's an interesting concept for sure, and it's nice to see a bit of colour every now and then. Hopefully, we'll get to see more of them coming along :-D
Very nice to see some color, especially in Finland, where most people seem to think brown, grey and white is color enough. And in these kind of concrete blocks that started to be very popular in the 1950's and still that seems to be the only building type the city or the developers build because it's cheaper to built than beautiful curves or decorations.
It's always privy to make things cheap, I suppose. It's pretty interesting to learn about these things, and good to know that if buildings appear a bit too bland, there's always talented graffiti artists to liven it up a little bit :-D
Except in this case, most of the city councils opposed it at first. They saw it as scary art as the people making the art are scary. In their minds. :D
Now of course the city council is proud of what THEY (the council) achieved in the demolition house. There's a demolition art collective that for two years worked hard to make this happen.
But yes, it's nice that this was done and perhaps also works as an example what can be achieved and that graffiti artists are normal people. Not scary at all. :)
Yeah, there's definitely a misconception between some graffiti artists that want to illustrate and make surroundings more colourful, from vandals who just spray paint absolutely everything with profanity. For some people, the line blurs quite easily, but when you have talented and good-hearted folk doing the graffiti, the end result is superbly gorgeous; a gift for the whole community to enjoy :-D