Aboriginal art also merges with new trends. Some impulses lead him along the paths of urban art, conjugation of a nomadic reinvented. For now I'm not in love.
But yesterday during a jog along the canal in our city north, I discovered a huge disused warehouse, now roofless, but inhabited by many graffiti. Each tagger had a space. Some are covered, others are listed as unfinished.
For part I was charmed by this underground workshop no one in the morning.
With my phone, I took some pictures that you will find below.
On the miles back, I tried to understand the birth of this art movement in remembering a cousin tagger.
From the first ages of her adolescence in Paris around 1982, in his conquest of the city, his city, he affixed his signature as much as possible "Bobo" on the subway, on the road signs on the walls of the forgotten city ... In his neighborhood, he guessed it was his fiefdom, "Bobo" was everywhere as a title with no real competition at that time.
The handwriting of the word "Bobo" remained simple, strong, a deep blue, thrown a line on a wall. In these four letters, you could feel the wrath of a teenager, the gesture, the acceleration curves, sudden stops at the corners.
© Photo: author of the blog. Graffiti to identify
A fury to claim this dynamic existed outside the singular law. The expression of the tag was not confined to a solitary quest. They practiced this band. Networks of friendships were formed. Quickly became the signature tag pretext for more complex creations. Its small black community called on the color of whole sections of walls.
Some went to New York. The term overseas gave them ambitions. Works were taking shape with disconcerting characters combined with text, all out right of the imaginary.
Jack Lang, Minister of Culture François Mitterrand, offered them a first recognition by emphasizing the creative impulses tags towns.
In the late 80s, the "band in Bobo" was invited to paint an entire wall in a small town on the Côte d'Azur. Imaginary animals and words torn, stretched, illuminated by bright colors, would decorate for more than 10 years a prominent wall ...
30 years have passed. The tag has won acclaim and made the front pages of newspapers of art at auction spectacular, held in underground places.
Recognition of collectors, although belated, has a field a little peculiar to this art form. What was alternative, banned street language of protest, an anger against the established order, back into line with such acceptance in the art world.
What was the benefit of their approach could be mislead into a more conventional expression, as in the last exhibition Cartier. With these letters
heckled, so combined, it is often difficult to read.
At first glance appears the overall composition, then a more accurate reading can distinguish the character and fun of the audacity of the artist, in the efforts made to deformation, to impulsive outbursts of anger organized today.
© Photo: author of the blog. Graffiti to identify
