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My new works on show now at Colab Gallery for "Public provocations" group show. If you are in #Basel this week don't forget to take a look.
... mal nécessaire ...?
... les plus perspicaces auront bien sûr reconnu Pixel derrière l'affiche ...
"au secours !!! ... enlevez-moi ce truc ...!"
... bien sûr, cliquer sur la pub ne vous mènera nulle part (et puis quoi encore!) ... juste à voir l'affiche ... et l'oreille de Pixel en pleine résolution ...
Street art is visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of the context of traditional art venues. The term gained popularity during the graffiti art boom of the early 1980s and continues to be applied to subsequent incarnations. Stencil graffiti, wheatpasted poster art or sticker art, and street installation or sculpture are common forms of modern street art. Video projection, yarn bombing and Lock On sculpture became popularized at the turn of the 21st century.
The terms "urban art", "guerrilla art", "post-graffiti" and "neo-graffiti" are also sometimes used when referring to artwork created in these contexts.[1] Traditional spray-painted graffiti artwork itself is often included in this category, excluding territorial graffiti or pure vandalism.
Street art is often motivated by a preference on the part of the artist to communicate directly with the public at large, free from perceived confines of the formal art world.[2] Street artists sometimes present socially relevant content infused with esthetic value, to attract attention to a cause or as a form of "art provocation".[3]
Street artists often travel between countries to spread their designs. Some artists have gained cult-followings, media and art world attention, and have gone on to work commercially in the styles which made their work known on the streets.
Off the Shoulder - Cerulean Provocation: A bold, centered presence in vivid blue and a gaze that asks if you're daring enough to step closer.
The Story (a bit of narration this time):
Coming out of a subway station in New York City in June, I saw a nice blue poster announcing the Israel Salute Day Parade on 5th avenue which I took as a personal invitation. I went to the rendezvous expecting wonderful encounters and amazing discoveries. Apart from a few small groups of Arab and Jewish anti-Zionist protesters, the 5th avenue, and for as long as I could see, was loaded with horrific 'hate' posters, racism and provocation ruled! A treasure trove for peace and love mongers…. I did not post these photos at the time (only this one), for I didn't want to politicize my stream... The situation now obliges…
These photos are a testimony to the pure humanistic refinement and philanthropy of the Zionist culture. My comments, from top to bottom, left to right:
1- Expel the arab not the jews: Yep, it's a flat ass racist-hate message right on the 5th avenue in front of a million people and it's the whole point of any Israel actions. One of the finest Zionist traditions, the real code word for it being “population transfer”, it was practiced all over Palestine from 1880 to 1948 the date of the creation of the state of Israel, then with special variations since 1967 on Gaza, the West Bank and the Syrian Golan.
2 and 3- Signs carrying random American family names that immigrated to Israel and the slogan "Israel - Nobody blongs here more than you": Exactly, invite American Jewish families -who are under no danger whatsoever- to immigrate to Israel, give them subsidies, land and money – that’s why they would go anyway… Steal Palestinian land to provide them for illegal settlements, while at the same time, forbidding Palestinian refugees from returning to their land under the pretext there’s no place for them... and think of creative criminal ways to drive out more Palestinians in the future, yep we said it in -1- Expel arabs!
4- If not you then who? If not now, then when?: Uncle Olmert wants you!!! Come on you slacker!!! Get down to it! Go to the promised land of empty promises, go now! We need fuel for future wars, we need soldiers and we need people that want to die and people that want to vote… Go! Become a proud Israeli and make Israel proud of you.... Turn off that TV you Israel-unlover… You can do it! You just have to believe in yourself strong enough!!
5- Israel fights the battle against world terror on the front lines: Hey you US citizens, don't you get it?!?! And you dare ask about your tax money, shame! Come on? Do you wanna fight terror yourself? No need to! Outsource to Israel, it’s cheaper... What Israel is for anti-terror is like what India is fo IT... We get a 1st class job done, ISO standards and all, and cheaper! All you need is to vote! (… and to pay)
6- Israel = Peace & Democracy, Palestinians = Death & Destruction: Somehow there's a man and a woman that were made to believe that the world’s biggest apartheid regime is about peace and democracy (and luv)... For that kind of brainwash, I bow in front of the US media in awe... standing ovation... bravo!
The last sign deserves a special hint:
Israel is our future: All right, future for who ezactly sinior? US citizens, Eskimo, Jews? Actually, I believe it's our sad future here in the Middle East all religions inclusive and that includes the Jews duly invited to become the fuel of the Zionist wars to come… With such good US government support, Zionism will have the power to dispense on us as many joyful surprises as it has done in the past 120 years... It's our future and in our future, and we shall be congratulating ourselves for having such a merit and for being born so close to where it decided to “Aliyah” itself, for generations to come. Amen!
I Apologize for being late, and Happy f***** Salute day to you and see you next year with bigger signs and more out in the sun bigotry
Urban Muse - Raw Provocation: A deliberate play on power and texture. This isn't just a fashion choice; it's an invitation to get closer, provided you can handle the heat.
Format Plaque 4x5
Acquisition 01/08/1985
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Another picture from the my trip to Doncaster Zoo (Yorkshire Wildlife Park). These brown lemurs were in constant conflict with the bigger ruffed lemurs. Not sure if they were cuddling for comfort or planning the next provocation on their more bullish cousins.
Summer's End: Living Sculpture: An exercise in curated opulence. The metallic drape transforms into a second skin, blurring the line between fine art and provocation. Gilded, glowing, and entirely in control.
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Some may argue that the Police State is not simply in the process of arriving, but that it has already been with us for some time. Certainly the events of September 11, 2001 have done nothing to retard the process. There are many small developments, each one seemingly innocuous in itself, which are helping the police forces of the world to increase their grip on the activities of people.
www.quebecoislibre.org/020330-6.htm
www.commondreams.org/views04/1213-28.htm
Police Treatment of Poor Jamaicans
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMUw5W2gjsI&feature=related
Our Militarized Police Departments
Militarization is a broad term that refers to using military-style weapons, tactics, training, uniforms, and even heavy equipment by civilian police departments.
SWAT teams were originally designed to be used in violent, emergency situations like hostage takings, acts of terrorism, or bank robberies. From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, that’s primarily how they were used, and they performed marvelously.
But beginning in the early 1980s, they’ve been increasingly used for routine warrant service in drug cases and other nonviolent crimes. And thanks to the Pentagon transfer programs, there are now a lot more of them.
Americans have long maintained that a man's home is his castle and that he has the right to defend it from unlawful intruders. Unfortunately, that right may be disappearing. Over the last 25 years, America has seen a disturbing militarization of its civilian law enforcement, along with a dramatic and unsettling rise in the use of paramilitary police units (most commonly called Special Weapons and Tactics, or SWAT) for routine police work. The most common use of SWAT teams today is to serve narcotics warrants, usually with forced, unannounced entry into the home.
These increasingly frequent raids, 40,000 per year by one estimate, are needlessly subjecting nonviolent drug offenders, bystanders, and wrongly targeted civilians to the terror of having their homes invaded while they're sleeping, usually by teams of heavily armed paramilitary units dressed not as police officers but as soldiers. These raids bring unnecessary violence and provocation to nonviolent drug offenders, many of whom were guilty of only misdemeanors. The raids terrorize innocents when police mistakenly target the wrong residence. And they have resulted in dozens of needless deaths and injuries, not only of drug offenders, but also of police officers, children, bystanders, and innocent suspects.
reason.com/archives/2007/07/02/our-militarized-police-dep...
Radley Balko | July 2, 2007
Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuRCgG7Fmgo
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Street art is visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of the context of traditional art venues. The term gained popularity during the graffiti art boom of the early 1980s and continues to be applied to subsequent incarnations. Stencil graffiti, wheatpasted poster art or sticker art, and street installation or sculpture are common forms of modern street art. Video projection, yarn bombing and Lock On sculpture became popularized at the turn of the 21st century.
The terms "urban art", "guerrilla art", "post-graffiti" and "neo-graffiti" are also sometimes used when referring to artwork created in these contexts.[1] Traditional spray-painted graffiti artwork itself is often included in this category, excluding territorial graffiti or pure vandalism.
Street art is often motivated by a preference on the part of the artist to communicate directly with the public at large, free from perceived confines of the formal art world.[2] Street artists sometimes present socially relevant content infused with esthetic value, to attract attention to a cause or as a form of "art provocation".[3]
Street artists often travel between countries to spread their designs. Some artists have gained cult-followings, media and art world attention, and have gone on to work commercially in the styles which made their work known on the streets.
Ein Graffiti an einer Haltestelle der AKN hier in Norddeutschland brachte mich zum Nachdenken, da ich den Sinn nicht verstand und er sich mir auch immer noch nicht ganz erschließt. Nachforschungen in Richtung eines Graffitiprojektes zur Prävention von illegalen Graffitis oder Gewaltprävention ergaben keine Treffer.
Meine Bearbeitung des zugrundeliegenden Graffitis zeigt nun eine Interpretation des Graffities.
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Pink Hex - Quiet Provocation - A study in poise and playfulness, where the lighting is soft but the energy is piercing.
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