ARTISTS
Symbols, Totems & Ciphers
27 Nov, 2018 - 22 Dec, 2018
This exhibition features the work of eight artists who were founders of the Street Art movement during the early eighties in New York City. The artists who pioneered Street Art were faced with the task of conceiving of a personal manner to communicate with the general public who would experience their work in passing, in the context of the 鈥渟treet鈥�. This could mean on a wall, on a pole, on the sidewalk, on a fence, in an alley, in an architectural nook, on a bench or in a tree. In response to this set of circumstances, visual vocabularies of symbols, repeated totems and cipher-like writing systems were 鈥渋nvented鈥�, by some of the street artists as a means to communicate or create a dialogue. As in the case of many previous art 鈥渕ovements鈥�, artists realized these conceptual approaches independently and simultaneously with a range of ages and from many different countries.
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This exhibition features the work of eight artists who were founders of the Street Art movement during the early eighties in New York City. The artists who pioneered Street Art were faced with the task of conceiving of a personal manner to communicate with the general public who would experience their work in passing, in the context of the 鈥渟treet鈥�. This could mean on a wall, on a pole, on the sidewalk, on a fence, in an alley, in an architectural nook, on a bench or in a tree. In response to this set of circumstances, visual vocabularies of symbols, repeated totems and cipher-like writing systems were 鈥渋nvented鈥�, by some of the street artists as a means to communicate or create a dialogue. As in the case of many previous art 鈥渕ovements鈥�, artists realized these conceptual approaches independently and simultaneously with a range of ages and from many different countries.
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