Paris' Fondation Cartier is renowned for it's exciting contemporary art exhibits, and this new one comes in 3 parts. Firstly on the street, outside walls have been set up for 'local' graffiti artists to make their own contribution, as those shown here were doing during my visit last week. Then, inside on the ground floor and outside in the garden, space is given to contemporary artists working with the ethos of graffiti. Finally, the enormous basement is given over to a retrospective of American graffiti, from the early seventies onwards . For me that part was the most intriguing, perhaps partly because it felt like a trip down memory lane with early Eighties video clips like Blondies' Rapture and Malcolm McLarens' Buffalo Girls, and interviews with the earliest of Manhattans' graffiti artists. Definitely a must see if you're in Paris before 29th November.
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Born on the Streets - Fondation Cartier, Paris
Labels:
'Accidental Art',
Art and Artists,
Graphic Design,
street art
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Labels
- 'Accidental Art'
- Accidental Art
- Architecture
- Art and Artists
- Book of the Week
- Ceramics
- Clothes
- Colour Combinations
- Craftspeople
- design
- Eyecharts
- Fashion
- Flora and Fauna
- Folk Art
- Furniture
- Glorious Food
- Graphic Design
- Great Faces
- Hair and Make-up
- Helpful Hints
- Home Sweet Home
- Illustration
- Inspiring Places
- Interior Design
- Kids Stuff
- Magazines
- Magnificent Smut
- Medieval Books
- naive art
- On The Web
- Photography
- Plaid
- Sculpture
- Self Promotion
- Self Promotion theatre
- Shop Displays
- street art
- Textiles
- The Ellis-Jayne Library of Esoterica
- Toys
- travel
- Typography
- Vintage Goodies
Blog Archive
-
▼
2009
(145)
-
▼
July
(11)
- Illustrated book of the week - The Street Markets ...
- Give More Ink
- Born on the Streets - Fondation Cartier, Paris
- Say It With Flowers
- Illustrated Book of the Week - Exploring England
- The Nordic Bakery - Do The 'Continental'
- It's Just a Facade
- The White Shelf
- Crime of the Century - London Previews
- Fair Dinkum - Playing The Slots
- Illustrated book of the week - Garden People
-
▼
July
(11)
No comments:
Post a Comment