Photos of Italian street art in Pisa
Written by Karen Bryan
I really loved the street art in the Italian city of Pisa in November 2009.
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Written by Karen Bryan
I really loved the street art in the Italian city of Pisa in November 2009.
I love it when they hire real graffiti artists – or just allow them to work – instead of letting “bad graffiti” happen in an unstructured manner. These are really nice, thanks for sharing. I shall re-share!
Love that street-art – as you know I’m a fan, as long as it’s art not graffiti or tagging that spoils old buildings. You tend to find a lot of this kind of street-art in areas where regeneration’s going on, as there are lots of builders hoardings to act as canvases. And then, the hoardings come down and it’s gone.
Alexandra & Heather – you both highlight the importance of street art actually being art rather than the random defacing of buildings. The street art in Pisa was on hoardings around some renovation work. In some ways it seems a pity that it may well be destroyed once the renovation is completed.
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Really nice. Thanks for sharing Karen. Besides the images, which I find great, also the writings are interesting. I cannot read them all, but at least part of them are somehow a mockery (Tuscan people are well known in Italy for their sharp sense of irony.
For instance the writing on the 4th picture overturns the title of a famous book by Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which has become “the bearable heaviness of the non being”. The second picture is interesting as well since it seems to be an attack to Italian politicians (not clear if addressed only to the current government or to politicians overall).
waitinginthedark – Thanks for you insight into the theme of some of the street art. I am hoping that the artist(s) will leave a comment to reveal their identities and tell us more about their work.