PIG TU RES
A drawing of a pig on a wall The research undertaken by the streetart theoreticians and art psychologists of the Uruguayan Universidad de Montevideo revealed that one in five pre-school children chooses instinctively this primitive porcine motif if left to express its artistic inclinations freely over a white wall. The team were trying to answer the not-soobvious question: “Is it a mere scrawling or is it an archetypal motif encoded in our collective subconscious ever since the time of primaeval hunters and their first cave paintings?” What is more – the majority of the subjects in the study had never seen the animal before as such. The present work does not seek to refute or support the Uruguayan theory of “instinctive porcine graffiti”. It merely attempts to point out an error in its methodology: what the Uruguayan team presented is a comparison of the incomparable. The pintaporcos, (which could be rendered into English as “pigturers”) vary in their motives, social and cultural background. A different pigture will be drawn by a Chilean vegetarian, a perfectionist Belgian streetarter, a Panamanian pork butcher, or a Czech anti-islamic activist. And that is perhaps this ambiguous symbolism that makes the pig by far the most often portrayed animal on house-wall all over the world.
Gracias, Honduras 2008
Prague, Czech Rep. 2003
Prague 2005
Karlsruhe, Germany 2004
London, United Kingdom 2010
Prague, Czech Rep. 2009
Leon, Nicaragua 2008
Padova, Italy 2008
Prague, Czech Rep. 2009
Broumov, Czech Rep. 2010
Bologna, Italy 2008
Prague, Czech Rep. 2010
Copenhagen, Denmark 2003
Tegucigalpa, Honduras 2008
Villarica, Chile 2008
Prague, Czech Rep. 2009
Ciudad Mante, Mexico 2002
Berlin, Germany 2010
Prague, Czech Rep. 09
Iquique, Chile 2008
Prague 2009
Padova, Italy 2008
Prague, Czech Rep. 2008
Preetz, Germany 2003
Preetz, Germany 2003
Prague, Czech Rep. 2003 - 2010
Prague, Czech Rep. 2002
Prague, Czech Rep. 2010
Karlovy Vary, Czech Rep. 2009
Prague, Czech Rep. 2010
Danli, Honduras 2008
Bocas del Toro, Panama 2008
Leon, Nicaragua 2008
Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico 2008
Tegucigalpa, Honduras 2008
Gracias, Honduras 2008
Kippax, United Kingdom 2010
Padova, Italy 2010
Padova 2010
Padova 2008
Padova 2010
Sao Paulo, Brazil 2003
Iquique, Chile 2008
Bratislava, Slovakia 2008
Genoa, Italy 2010
Turnov, Czech Rep. 2006
Velka Upa, Czech Rep. 2010
Prague, Czech Rep. 2003
Podebrady, Czech Rep. 2002
Prague 2010
Prague 2003
Doel, Belgium 2010
Iquique, Chile 2008
Huehuetenango, Guatemala 2008
Managua, Nicaragua 2008
Sucre, Bolivia 2008
Copacabana, Bolivia 2008
Iquique, Chile 2008
Milevsko, Czech Rep. 2008
Prague, Czech Rep. 2009
Padova, Italy 2008
Padova, Italy 2010
Prague, Czech Rep. 2008
Leon, Nicaragua 2008
Antigua, Guatemala 2008
Gracias, Honduras 2008
Padova, Italy 2010
Padova, 2008
Padova, 2008
Padova, 2008
Padova, Italy 2010
Bocas del Toro, Panama 2008
Santiago de Chile, Chile 2008
Bologna, Italy 2010
Liberia, Costarica 2008
Padova, Italy 2010
Cochabamba, Bolivia 2008
La Paz, Bolivia 2008
Padova, Italy 2010
Printed in the Czech Republic, 2010