After talking about serious subjects for the last few days I thought that it’s time for something lighter: a cute stencil graffiti I found in the Old Town.
Nov 292009
Nov 072009
I haven’t posted a stencil graffiti in a long while and thought it was time to remedy that. The one in today’s photograph seems to tell the citizens of Bucharest to get moving. And I agree with it, Bucharest definitely needs more of these – bicyclists not graffiti.
Sep 262009
Sorry for the late posting. I was busy debating the values of capitalism with my friends (you know who you are). That’s because of the new Michael Moore movie, “Capitalism, a love story”, which none of us has seen yet, but about which we read in the press to be a critical look at the American capitalism as it’s practiced today. As people who lived in both communism and capitalist societies we have our own (strong) opinions regarding this subject, and the discussion went on and on … And since we’re talking about values, I found this simple graffiti in an entrance to the inner garden of bloc Dunărea, at University Square, across from the graffiti of the jester which I already posted. I am curious what is your opinion about the message of the graffiti. My interpretation of it is that we should be careful about the values we teach to our children. We live in a material world, to quote Madonna, but that is of our own creation. What do you think? Or maybe I’m just reading too much into it and the graffiti it’s just showing a guy giving a presentation on the financial crisis 🙂
Sep 212009
M-City is an very detailed stencil series created by the Polish artist Mariusz Waras. The main subject of his murals is the city landscape. His works can be seen in many cities including Warsaw, Berlin, Paris, Budapest, Rio de Janeiro, London, Prague and, as you probably already guessed, Bucharest. Waras was invited to Bucharest by the Polish Cultural Center for the “Night of the Cultural Centers”. On this occasion he made two murals, one at the Polish Center (which I didn’t see yet) and the one in today’s photo at the Writer’s Union on Calea Victoriei. His murals are formed from about 100 individual components, representing buildings, infrastructure elements, people etc. which are always placed in a different combination creating a unique mural. You can find more about m-city here. I can’t say exactly why but I didn’t take a picture of the whole ensemble. Instead I took three pictures that put together create the whole graffiti. I guess that’s how inspiration guided me at that moment 🙂 That’s why I decided to post all three pictures, to give you a clearer idea of the entire work.
Sep 072009
Sometimes I see a graffiti like the one in today’s photo and I ask myself: how did its author managed to draw it up there? I mean, did he or she hanged like a climber while drawing it? Did they use scaffolding? Or is there some obvious solution that I’m missing?
Sep 052009
Street art critiques official art 🙂 The graffiti in today’s photo refers to the subject of yesterday’s post. I’ve spotted it in two places, close to the Revolution Square where the “potato” is located. The graffiti reads “The Monument of Errors”. “Of errors” translates in Romanian as “Erorilor” and as you can see the letter “i” has the unmistakable shape of the monument.
Aug 302009
Today’s photo shows a graffiti about a fool in love. I found it in an entrace to the inner garden of bloc Dunărea, at University Square.
Aug 202009
Most regular people hate corruption for the obvious reasons but there are exceptions, like the person who made this drawing on a building on Doamnei Street. “I “heart” corruption” reads the inscription. Maybe he’s working in a government office? 🙂 I rather hope he’s being sarcastic.
Aug 152009
I found this graffiti on Lipscani Street, in the Old Town. I think it predates the death of the artist on June 25th but now it can be viewed as a nice homage to Michael, who concerted in Bucharest twice, in 1992 when he sang in front of 70,000 people and then again in 1996. He was the first big artist to sing in Bucharest after the fall of communism and I still remember the hysteria that surrounded his visit.
Aug 122009
If you walk around in downtown Bucharest you can spot many graffiti, especially in the Old Town. About three years ago I started noticing them and now I see them everywhere. They are very colourful and most of the time they improve the look of the buildings or at least make them less somber. The one in the photo is located to the left of the entrance to Cărtureşti, on Magheru boulevard. I have no idea who the artist is and I’m still trying to decipher its message. Too bad that part of it is covered by the renovation work done on the facade of the bookstore.