2007.10.01
This is not graffiti - Turin
In the last years, we have been following all the ever increasing applications of graffiti and have also been part of this evolution in our small corner of the world.
Thus, just like Magritte declared in a famous surrealist painting that his pipe is not a pipe, likewise we do not consider this piece of graffiti as "graffiti". The media and position of the piece suggest it is work by graffiti artists: whilst this is so, it is also true that the piece has been conceived and drawn more like a billboard or a static webpage, bearing in common with graffiti the will to "get up", though expressing this need through a famous quote which is here a commercial slogan.
The piece was conceived and painted with Man23.
Thus, just like Magritte declared in a famous surrealist painting that his pipe is not a pipe, likewise we do not consider this piece of graffiti as "graffiti". The media and position of the piece suggest it is work by graffiti artists: whilst this is so, it is also true that the piece has been conceived and drawn more like a billboard or a static webpage, bearing in common with graffiti the will to "get up", though expressing this need through a famous quote which is here a commercial slogan.
The piece was conceived and painted with Man23.