They’re all over the place, beyond the city limits. Rebels love them, fashionistas collect them. It’s a hit, it’s the new fashion manifesto. It’s Anvers.
anvers 2007: The new fashion manifesTo. Antwerpen ’ Leopoldstraat 2 Brussels ’Naamsestraat / Rue de Namur 80 Gent ’ Mageleinstraat 54
Banksy: “Imagine a world where graffiti wasn’t illegal,/a city where everybody could draw wherever they liked./Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases./Where standing at a bus stop was never boring./A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited,/ not just the estate agents and barons of big business./ Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall – it’s wet.”
Banksy: “Imagine a world where graffiti wasn’t illegal,/a city where everybody could draw wherever they liked./Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases./Where standing at a bus stop was never boring./A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited,/ not just the estate agents and barons of big business./ Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall – it’s wet.”
Banksy: “Imagine a world where graffiti wasn’t illegal,/a city where everybody could draw wherever they liked./Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases./Where standing at a
I am an anti-Christ/I am an anarchist,/don’t know what I want/but I know how to get it./ I wanna destroy the passer by/‘cos I wanna be anarchy,/Ho dogs body/ Anarchy for the UK/It’s coming sometime and maybe/I give a wrong time stop a traffic line./ Your future dream is a shopping scheme/ cause I wanna be anarchy,/It’s in the city/How many ways to get what you want/I use the best I use the rest/I use the enemy./I use anarchy/‘cause I wanna be anarchy,/
They’re all over the place, beyond the city limits. Rebels love them, fashionistas collect them. It’s a hit, it’s the new fashion manifesto. It’s Anvers.
ANTWERPEN - Leopoldstraat 2 BRUSSEL - Naamsestraat / Rue de Namur 80 GENT - Mageleinstraat 54 LEUvEN - Brusselsestraat 54 AMSTELvEEN - Rembrandtweg 128 (Corner)
I am an anti-Christ/I am an anarchist,/don’t know what I want/but I know how to get it./ I wanna destroy the passer by/‘cos I wanna be anarchy,/Ho dogs body/ Anarchy for the UK/ It’s coming sometime and maybe/I give a wrong time stop a traffic line./Your future dream is a shopping scheme/ cause I wanna be anarchy,/It’s in the city/How many ways to get what you want/I use the best I use the rest/I use the enemy./I use anarchy/‘cause I wanna be anarchy,/ image 012.jpg
Its the only way to be/Is this the MPLA/or is this the UDA/or is this the IRA/I thought it was the UK/or just another country/ another council tenancy./I wanna be an anarchist/(oh what a name) And l wanna be an anarchist/ (I get pissed destroy)
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Banksy: “Imagine a world where graffiti wasn’t illegal,/a city where everybody could draw wherever they liked./Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases./Where standing at a bus stop was never boring./A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited,/not just the estate agents and barons of big business./Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall – it’s wet.”
The motivations and objectives that drive street artists are as varied as the artists themselves. There is a strong current of activism and subversion in urban art. Street art can be a powerful platform for reaching the public, and frequent themes include adbusting, subvertising and other culture jamming, the abolishment of private property and reclaiming the streets. Other street artists simply see urban space as an untapped format for personal artwork, while others may appreciate the challenges and risks that are associated with installing illicit artwork in public places.
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However the universal theme in most, if not all street art, is that adapting visual artwork into a format which utilizes public space, allows artists who may otherwise feel disenfranchised. To reach a much broader audience than traditional artwork and galleries normally allow. Whereas traditional graffiti artists have primarily used free-hand aerosol paints to produce their works, “street art” encompasses many other media and techniques such as wheatpasting, stickers, stencil graffiti, mosaic tiling, video projection and street installations. For these reasons street art is sometimes considered “postgraffiti” and sometimes even “neo-graffiti”.
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