Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Call for graffiti artists for new exhibition in London
Subway art: From cartoon portraits to abstract murals, the spraycanners have been busy
Graffiti artists are being told to accept responsibility for their work – not to be punished, but rewarded.
Spraycan enthusiasts are being offered the chance to feature in an exhibition run by a photographer impressed by the anonymous artwork.
David Delmonte is desperate to track down the artists whose vivid and detailed work often disappears within days – to be replaced with the work of others.
He has been taking pictures of legal graffiti walls in a tunnel below London Waterloo station every day for the past year.
‘Most people just think of graffiti as the rubbish tags you see scrawled everywhere – it’s horrid,’ said the 62-year-old can fan from Penhurst, Kent. ‘But the guys working on this legal graffiti wall really are so talented – the quality of images is outstanding.
‘The sad thing is that, days later, their work will be gone because someone else has had a go themselves.’
The former advertising agency art director believes most of the graffiti artists keep records of their work
using their mobile phone cameras. Now he is encouraging the renegade Rembrandts to contact him, ahead of an exhibition he is hoping to stage.
Friday, December 16, 2011
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