![]() Courtesy Mike Fazio Barry McGee: One More Thing, installation view at Deitch Projects, New York, 2005. Courtesy the Artist Margaret Kilgallen, Untitled, 1999, latex on panel, 315 x 236 cm. Courtesy K11 Musea Craig Costello, Untitled, 2011, latex enamel and Krink on steel mailbox, 139.7 x 73.7 x 73.7 cm / Untitled, 2011, latex enamel and Krink on steel mailbox, 127 x 63.5 x 63.5 cm. ![]() Presented here are works by artists including Barry McGee, Margaret Kilgallen, Ruby Neri and Craig Costello. The School, which was aligned with the Los Angeles-founded lowbrow art movement, spanned areas including underground comics and cartoons, DIY visual arts, sign painting and skateboard culture. This was largely spearheaded by the counterculture and subculture that emerged from the Mission District, including the art school student-led movement The Mission School. Street art in San Francisco underwent significant creative and stylistic development from the 1990s onwards, a transformation that saw graffiti, which was previously limited to tagging, used as a medium for larger pictorially-inspired paintings and murals on street walls. Courtesy the Artist Gusmano Cesaretti, Chaz Running, 1973. Acrylic paint, stencil with spraycan on canvas. The first section in the show features the names such as FUTURA, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Lady Pink whose ubiquitous presence in contemporary visual culture testify to a continuing stardom. New York From Lee Quiñones and Rammellzee’s 1970s subway train murals to the 1980 Times Square Show that exhibited the works of new wave graffiti artists, street art in New York crawled out of its underground corners and drifted through popular culture via film and music, as the city itself went through mass gentrification. Proof, if any were needed, of how graffiti has become an international culture as much as it was once the product of the need for local expression. Before going all the way through to Hong Kong-based artists such as Uncle, who work in a space that negotiates Chinese characters and Western-influenced artforms. As well as its connections with fashion, design (both clearly visible in the shops adjoining the Musea), various urban subcultures (skate-culture featuring prominently), social and political causes.Īlong the way we encounter pioneering figures, such as Futura and Fab 5 Freddy, as well as some of the best-known artists of the late twentieth century, such as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose artwork continues to inspire everything from carpet design to trainers while continuing to set records at international art auctions some of the most popular artists of our own times such as KAWS, Banksy affiliate AIKO (though the exhibition demonstrates why she doesn’t need mention of the Banksy connection to confirm her importance), and, of course, the currently ubiquitous Martin Wong. Presented in an exhibition space, it also allows for a deeper look at how its forms and materials both diverge from and converge with more mainstream trends in the development of contemporary art, which ultimately (as the fact of this exhibition demonstrates) absorbed it as one of its more popular (and, dare we say it, potentially democratic) modes of expression. Curated by US art dealer Jeffrey Deitch – who, through his gallery Deitch Projects and a number of related exhibitions, did more than most to make street art accepted in the museum context – and staged in the context of an urban shopping mall, the exhibition traces the development of graffiti in the US, from its origins during the 1970s through to the artform’s international spread and changing status in the present day. ![]() As a space in which everyone, potentially, can leave their mark. City as Studio, an exhibition currently on view at K11 Musea in Hong Kong adds to this discourse by presenting the urban landscape as a space for expression and creativity. There are many theories about what makes a city, ranging from the architectural to the psychological, from a space occupied by a collection of individuals to a collection of shared spaces, from planned development to endless sprawl. City as Studio, an exhibition currently on view at Hong Kong’s K11 Musea presents the urban landscape as a space for expression and creativity
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