BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
“The special magic that comes from our cities is germinated in the mad sum of their improbable juxtapositions and impossible contradictions,” says curator Carlo McCormick when talking about the new show opening in Dresden, Germany this week in a former engine factory called Magic City : The Art of the Street.
AIKO at work on her piece for Magic City. Dresden, Germany. (photo © Rainer Christian Kurzeder)
Along with curator Ethel Seno and a creative team (full disclosure, BSA is part of it) McCormick is evoking an interstitial city that rises from the streets in many urban centers globally. Whether it is graffiti, Street Art, urban interventions, detournement, adbusting, or myriad cultural refinements, artists and activists are commonly, sometimes radically, altering the city and our experience of it.
Mad C at work on her piece for Magic City. Dresden, Germany. (photo © Rainer Christian Kurzeder)
By engaging some of the best visual and intellectual examples of the whole current scene with a full knowledge of our recent past, Magic City lays out a route for you to appreciate the individual and a sense of the cumulative. It’s bold and somewhat romantic move to look for magic in the Graffiti / Street Art / Urban Art scene. Some may argue that it consists of nothing less.
Over the last few weeks about 40 artists have been installing brand new pieces and environments in the long wide factory space in advance of the grand preview this weekend. Here are some process shots of the building of a Magic City.
OLEK at work on her piece for Magic City. Dresden, Germany. (photo © Rainer Christian Kurzeder)
OLEK at work on her piece for Magic City. Dresden, Germany. (photo © Rainer Christian Kurzeder)
ROA at work on his piece for Magic City. Dresden, Germany. (photo © Rainer Christian Kurzeder)
Ernest Zacharevic at work on his piece for Magic City. Dresden, Germany. (photo © Rainer Christian Kurzeder)
Benuz at work on his piece for Magic City. Dresden, Germany. (photo © Rainer Christian Kurzeder)
Qi-Xinghua at work on his piece for Magic City. Dresden, Germany. (photo © Rainer Christian Kurzeder)
Replete at work on his piece for Magic City. Dresden, Germany. (photo © Rainer Christian Kurzeder)
Ori Carino and Benjamin Armas at work on their piece for Magic City. Dresden, Germany. (photo © Rainer Christian Kurzeder)
WENU at work on their piece for Magic City. Dresden, Germany. (photo © Rainer Christian Kurzeder)
Jens Besser at work on his piece for Magic City. Dresden, Germany. (photo © Rainer Christian Kurzeder)
Leon Keer at work on his piece for Magic City. Dresden, Germany. (photo © Rainer Christian Kurzeder)
SpY. Magic City. Dresden, Germany. (photo © Rainer Christian Kurzeder)
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