The Tree of mrcury

Okay, I was watching TV this afternoon. So I heard about this street art exhibition in Milan, called Beautiful Losers. I just checked the artist list and there’s some really good stuff worth seeing! Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Spike Jonze, Futura, Shepard Fairey (Obey!)… I mean!

Just last year I’ve been to another street art exhibition in Milan and I’d been completely blown out not really by the exhibition itself but rather by the area surrounding the exhibition building. On a radius of about one to two km around it were spread graffiti, stencils, paintings of the same artists featured in the exhibition: on the walls, under the bridges, on the concrete blocks at the side of the streets, on the canal banks, everywhere. That was the exhibition! That was street art, that was what those artists loved. Transforming places, enhancing and distorting the usual perception of the reality that surrounds us. To make it less predictable, more amusing and much more colourful.