Every world is a microcosm of another. Yes, we know that is very deep.
Slinkachu. Magic City Stockhom. Stockholm, Sweden. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Here we are in Stockholm, Sweden peering in at the microcosm of the street art/graffiti/urban art scene that is Magic City and we realize that this huge warehouse out by the docks delivers one refinement of the global scene, followed by another and another.
Walking through this Nordic expression of an wide ranging traveling exhibition, one realizes that it has matured and strengthened since its first iteration in Dresden and later Munich. More about this later, as we will be in town a couple of days for our BSA Film Weekend and we are sure to be touring the wrong side of town shortly with local vandals and/or artists.
Slinkachu. Magic City Stockhom. Stockholm, Sweden. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
But the small world we struck by this afternoon was the exhibited pieces by a master of “Miniaturesque” since 2006, the creator and photographer Slinkachu. Since his earliest days as a street installation artist his work has made him a phenomenon for focusing on hidden, dare we say magic, worlds inside the larger one that most of us inhabit.
Exhibited in galleries and museums around the world and appearing in books and online and social sites, these images give you an idea of the carefully choreographed petite whimsy that he has become known for.
Slinkachu. Magic City Stockhom. Stockholm, Sweden. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Slinkachu. Magic City Stockhom. Stockholm, Sweden. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Slinkachu. Magic City Stockhom. Stockholm, Sweden. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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