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BWA Wrocław, Awangarda gallery / Wita Stwosza 32 str, Wrocław, Poland.
18.07 - 17.08.2008 (Opening : 18th of July at 7 p.m.)
Blu, 108, PMH, Samuel François, Stefan Marx, BFree, Ben Eine, Michael Swaney, Remed,
Jeremi, Flying Fortress, Joe83, M-city, Truth, Antena Boy, Dwaesha, Wojciech Gilewicz,
Peter Fuss, Olaf Brzeski.
The first exhibition in Poland which presents the works of 20 leading European and
Polish artists whose art derives from broadly understood urban art. Different attitudes,
various ways, similar origins. Classical or political graffiti was a significant point
for the development of each invited guest.
The fact of interfering into urban atmosphere with egocentric tag or graphics taken from
the pattern influenced the way the artists think, act, create and share with their mature
andpersonal art.
Those attitudes which derive from counter cultural and alternative acts of urban activism,
seize new areas of social operation and mass culture such as graffiti, street performances,
tatoos, cartoon, typography, photography, illustration or person creation.
The exhibition does not literally transfer street art into sterile space of the gallery but
is rather an attempt to change stereotyped way of its perception,it is the attempt to show
that the barrier between high art and marginal urban art is weak.
It aims to present the inspirations, philosophy and social dimension, crucial for this art,
which reflect contemporary,democratic tendencies to participate in culture.The violent mixture
is created by the attempt to equal working in studio and working in urban space.
This mixture will govern BWA Wrocław and the streets of Wrocław for a month.
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Instalation view
Detail of the 242 drawings on the wall