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A member of Street Art Utopia on Facebook write some days ago this nice piece about the future:
My son, do you want to hear something strange? ff00ff[/url" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">"] – Yes! What?
You know the new tree painting we did on the garage last week.. Up until around the year 2050 people generally did not have paintings on houses! ff00ff"] – What? Were they grey?
Well, yes, many were. Often they would paint villas in One colour, like blue or yellow, but very rarely in more than one or two colours and almost never any pictures. Most apartment houses and government buildings and so on were grey. Artists sometimes went and painted on tunnels, grey municipal buildings and so on, but the pictures were washed away! By the government! ff00ff[/url" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">"] – …Was art forbidden?
Well no, but it had to be in special buildings only. Some people felt that houses was not to be painted on, except in one pale colour all over. ff00ff"] – Wow.. How dull.
Yes, my son. Now lets get our jackets and go pick some fruit.
Adbusting, or Visual Kidnapping, by Zevs, a French street artist, best known for his trademark “liquidation” technique.
“Visual kidnapping is like entering an interactive game: If the brand on the billboard kidnaps the attention of the public with the purpose of consumer demand, I reverse the situation and I kidnap the model on the poster and I demand a ransom of 500,000€ from the brand. This sum represents the symbolic price of an advertising campaign for the brand.” – Zevs “Of course, there is a graffiti aesthetic to my art but I primarily play with the visual effect. I use the original colours and re-paint the logo with excess. By pouring paint over them, the logo dissolves in front of the viewer’s eyes, drawing attention to, and visually disturbing the recognisable and omnipresent trademark. By doing so, I try to investigate the logo’s visual power. It’s a simple gesture, just as in Aikido when you reverse the power and change the flow of energy.” – Zevs
Content warning: Street Artist Zevs Adbusting, or Visual Kidnapping, by Zevs, a French street artist, best known for his trademark "liquidation" technique. "Visual kidnapping is like entering an interactive game: If the brand on the billboard kidnaps the attention of the
Street Artist Zevs
Adbusting, or Visual Kidnapping, by Zevs, a French street artist, best known for his trademark “liquidation” technique.
“Visual kidnapping is like entering an interactive game: If the brand on the billboard kidnaps the attention of the public with the purpose of consumer demand, I reverse the situation and I kidnap the model on the poster and I demand a ransom of 500,000€ from the brand. This sum represents the symbolic price of an advertising campaign for the brand.” – Zevs “Of course, there is a graffiti aesthetic to my art but I primarily play with the visual effect. I use the original colours and re-paint the logo with excess. By pouring paint over them, the logo dissolves in front of the viewer’s eyes, drawing attention to, and visually disturbing the recognisable and omnipresent trademark. By doing so, I try to investigate the logo’s visual power. It’s a simple gesture, just as in Aikido when you reverse the power and change the flow of energy.” – Zevs
