The first 3D models of murals for blind and visually impaired people
The goal of the "Art in Passing" project, implemented by Street Art Belgrade and the Telenor Foundation, is to bring street art closer to blind and partially sighted people through the installation of models made with 3D technology.
The first models were installed at two locations in Vračar, on the occasion of October 15, which is celebrated throughout the world as the Day of the Blind and Visually Impaired.
Mural models are an innovative approach to presenting street art and graffiti, because by creating works of street art in 3D technology, blind and partially sighted people are able to get to know the works of art on the streets of Belgrade through touch.
"Street art is considered the freest form of art, because regardless of its transitory character, it is on the streets that belong to everyone. However, not everyone can see and experience it. In this way, we want to bring this direction of contemporary art closer to blind and partially sighted people and let's make that dynamic and creative world available to them" said Ljiljana Radošević, art historian.
"The City Organization of the Blind in Belgrade gathers around 2,000 blind and partially sighted people from the territory of all Belgrade municipalities. Therefore, every activity that contributes to the blind population having more things to experience is very important. This is not just an artistic display, but this approach respects our population. Within the works of art, there are also descriptions in Braille, which will bring our script closer to citizens who do not have vision problems" said Nikola Đorđević, president of the Belgrade City Organization for the Blind.
"The project 'Art in Passing' brings street art closer to blind and partially sighted people in an innovative and creative way. Art is an expression of freedom, it brings people together, erases borders and obstacles. It has a great role in creating a more inclusive and tolerant environment, to which the Telenor Foundation has been committed since from the very beginning. In this way, we break down another barrier and take a step towards a better society" said Milica Begenišić, manager of the Telenor Foundation.
For the first models, the works of the Belgrade artist Weedzor, who has been present on the streets of Belgrade since 2005 and is known, among other things, for his large-scale works, were selected. The models were made for murals that are recognizable by the elements of cylindrical shapes that form the structure of animal heads - Giraffe and Wolf. Along with the 3D models, there is also a description of the works in Braille, as well as QR codes that lead to a website with more information about the project. Guided tours will be continuously organized for all interested citizens, and the plan is to install 3D murals in several locations in Belgrade.
In Serbia, there are about 12,000 blind and partially sighted people who need support in realizing their rights, as well as integration into all social flows and daily activities, and cultural life and art are an integral and important part of that.
The author of the project is the Street Art Belgrade organization, whose members have been researching, documenting and popularizing street art and graffiti for over two decades.
The project "Art in Passing" is implemented as part of the Telenor Foundation competition "Imagine Everything", with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Information and the Austrian Cultural Forum. Partners in the project are Božidarac and the city organization of the blind in Belgrade. Voxellab, a 3D technology company, has produced 3D models of murals for the blind and partially sighted.
QR codes for the virtual exhibition
Nalepnica sa QR kodom pored rada koji su uradili JANA i HOPE u Cetinjskoj vodi ka prvoj izložbi ulične umetnosti i grafita Beograda u virtuelnom prostoru na platformi VR-All-Art.
U okviru izložbe je predstavljeno preko 40 radova koje su domaći i strani autori stvarali na ulicama Beograda, podeljenih u kategorije - stara škola grafita, saradnje više umetnika, karakteri, šabloni, nalepnice, murali... Izložena dela prate tekstovi koji opisuju kontekst u kojem su izabrani radovi nastajali i pružaju uvid u istoriju razvoja grafiti i street art kulture u Beogradu.
Projekat je realizovan uz podršku Ministarstva kulture i informisanja Republike Srbije.
Love and Hope
A mix of different visual expressions can be seen in the piece by Jana and Hope from 2018, in Cetinjska street. The event this piece was made for revolved around a workshop with children, to whom Cafe 16 is dedicated and in whose yard the event took place. The cafe is called 16 because that is the legal age when children can start working, and in this café, they can get practice in order to help them get a proper job. Jana made her already recognizable heart, which she uses as a template to symbolically represent different motives and emotions. This time, she made it as it is the most important muscle in our body and the general symbol of love. Paired with Hope’s piece, we get a very strong, albeit unintended, message of Love and Hope that filled every pore of this event. Each artist did what they normally do, but they recognized that by working together they could add additional meaning and enhance the overall impression.
Promotion within the "Calle Libre" festival in Vienna
As part of the street art festival in the museum, we presented an exhibition in a virtual space and presented the entire concept of digitization to an international audience.
The project was implemented with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Information for projects in the field of mobility.
This is an innovative approach to the presentation of street art and graffiti that indicates the need to introduce digitization in the field of contemporary creativity. Although nothing can replace the observation and research of graffiti and street art in real space, in the last decade, and especially in 2020, it has become obvious that new technologies give an additional dimension to this field of art.
Calle Libre is one of the largest festivals of urban aesthetics in Europe, where street art is created on decorated walls throughout the city of Vienna.
Through artistic interventions, the festival encourages dialogue between the public and artists. The festival organizes workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions, urban art tours and evening events to create a dialogue and exchange of ideas centered on street art and urban aesthetics. Over the past years, over 16,000 visitors from all walks of life and social strata have passed through the festival. The goal of the festival is to show the other side of street art, in addition to graffiti, which the general public often identifies as vandalism.
You can find more information about the "Calle Libre" festival on the Internet presentation and Instagram profile:
Internet: callelibre.at
Instagram: @callelibre
Third Street Art Weekend in Vračar
We opened the weekend with the third consecutive street art workshop for seniors.
The participants were fellow citizens over 60 years old, and the workshop was led by Jana Danilović, a muralist, street artist and painter with extensive experience.
During the week, we discovered the streets and walls of Vračar on guided tours. Due to the great interest from last year, two groups were organized this year led by art historians Srđan Tunić and curator Ljiljana Radošević.
In addition to walking in real space, visitors had the opportunity to visit the virtual exhibition "Loving street art Belgrade". With VR glasses, experiencing the space and walking through the virtual gallery was a unique experience.
The first outdoor street art lecture
Why do we organize outdoor street art lectures?
To understand street art, you need to immerse yourself in the city, understand the history, motives and artists. Although street art has been around for over 50 years, the wider community is not familiar with the development and value of this visual expression. This problem affects not only artists, researchers and curators, but also society in general, although the actors are not yet aware of it. We want the result to be an additional understanding of the lecture participants that graffiti and street art are ephemeral art forms performed without permission and that this is what makes them the most honest and free artistic expression.
Street art lectures in the open air
Join the team from the "Street Art Belgrade" organization in discovering street art in Belgrade.
In addition to spending quality time outside, you will have the opportunity to get acquainted with those peculiarities of Belgrade that you might not notice at first glance. "Get to know your city in order to love it more" is the principle based on which the outdoor street art lectures were created, and the locations of Savamala, Dorćol, the city center, Vračar and block 45 will be revealed.
Graffiti and street art, as very recognizable artistic expressions, happen in unity with the city. That is why the lectures will not only be about the aforementioned artistic expressions, but also about the coexistence of the city and art.
At each lecture, pearls of street art are revealed, but through the prism of the capital's history. Outdoor lectures are led by professional artists and absolute lovers of the capital, who have been researching and popularizing street art and graffiti for over two decades.
Promotion of digitization of contemporary creativity
The topic of the lecture was the experience of our association in the work of creating a digitized archive of street art in the previous two years, as well as setting up the first exhibition of Belgrade's street art and graffiti in a virtual space in our region.
This exhibition is a unique example of digitization, and it is available to audiences from all over the world on the VR-All-Art platform. More than 40 works created by local and foreign authors on the streets of Belgrade were presented. The works are divided into several categories - old school graffiti, collaborations of several artists, characters, templates, stickers, murals... The exhibited works are accompanied by texts that describe the context in which the selected works were created and provide an insight into the history of the development of graffiti and street art culture in Belgrade. The texts are in English, and audio monitoring of the exhibition is also possible. In addition to the exhibition, a life-size virtual replica of a Belgrade wall (3D wall) was installed in the space.
Students had the opportunity to visit the exhibition and get an impression of the works of art in a virtual space.
During the lecture, art historian Ljiljana Radošević presented the project of digitization of contemporary creativity through the presentation of a digitized archive of photos and texts on the topic of street art.
An example of successful digitization of contemporary creativity is the first exhibition of Belgrade's street art in a virtual space called "Loving Street Art Belgrade".
You can view the exhibition at the following link:
https://vrallart.com/vr-exhibitions/eg/take_3_street_art_belgrade/
It is a long-term project to promote digitization and preservation of street art in Belgrade and Serbia. The goal of the project is to raise awareness of the preservation and processing of existing street art material through digitization and innovative presentation in virtual space.
The project is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Information in the field of digitization of cultural heritage and contemporary creativity for 2021.
The first VR exhibition - Loving Street Art Belgrade
In the unique virtual space of the VR-All-Art platform, an exhibition called "Take III - Loving Street art Belgrade" was set up.
Visitors from all over the world will have the opportunity to access the exhibition through the website from any computer or laptop, as well as with the use of VR equipment. The goal of the exhibition is to provide a unique artistic experience and introduction to the world of graffiti and street art in Belgrade.
When they "step" into the "Take III - Loving Street Art Belgrade" exhibition space, visitors can view over 40 works divided into categories - old school graffiti, multi-artist collaborations, characters, templates, stickers, murals... The exhibited works are accompanied by texts which describe the context in which the selected works were created and provide an insight into the history of the development of graffiti and street art culture in Belgrade. The texts are in English, and audio monitoring of the exhibition is also possible.
In addition to the exhibition, a life-size virtual replica of a Belgrade wall has also been installed in the space. Visitors can approach the wall and inspect the works in detail.
You can view the exhibition here:
https://vrallart.com/vr-exhibitions/eg/take_3_street_art_belgrade/
This is an innovative approach to the presentation of street art and graffiti that will allow you to get to know the works created by local and foreign artists on the streets of Belgrade.
"Although nothing can replace the observation and research of graffiti and street art in real space, in the last decade, and especially in 2020, it has become obvious that new technologies give an additional dimension to this field of art" - said curator Ljiljana Radošević, art historian and author of the exhibition.
The author of the project is the "Street Art Belgrade" organization, whose members have been researching, documenting and popularizing street art and graffiti for over two decades. For the "Loving Street Art Belgrade" exhibition, the works that were the most popular on the "Street art Belgrade" Instagram page in the previous period were selected.
The exhibition is located on the revolutionary platform VR-All-Art, which serves to display and explore works of art in virtual and augmented worlds.
The goal of the project "Street Art Belgrade" and the exhibition is to make photos and information about graffiti and street art available to the general public.
The project was realized with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia.
Exhibition Street Art Tel Aviv
Through this exhibition, the two cities, which share the name "white city", were additionally connected.
White cities are connected by very dynamic and vital street art. Those who walk the streets of Belgrade and Tel Aviv will notice walls with old graffiti, new murals, as well as construction sites that are getting closer and closer. Savamala and Florentin are like reflections in a mirror.
The southern part of Tel Aviv called Florentin is located between the ancient port of Jaffa and the first Jewish settlement of Tel Aviv, Neve Tedek. Florentine is known as a bohemian quarter and is often compared to Berlin's Kreuzberg and New York's Lower East Side, as it is home to people from all over the world, with a wide variety of occupations, sexual orientations and religions. It is a labyrinth of streets in which new buildings can be seen behind half-ruined buildings and open-air stalls; old craft shops are located next to art galleries, and almost every meter of this area is covered with graffiti, murals and messages.
White city
The city of Tel Aviv has existed for 110 years, and the twenties and thirties of the 20th century were marked by a large wave of immigrants from Germany and Austria. There was a need to build apartments for thousands of new residents and so the whole city was built in the Bauhaus style, which was popular at the time. More than 4,000 white buildings were built in Tel Aviv alone, which is why Tel Aviv is called the "White City", because it has the largest group of Bauhaus-style buildings in the world.
Participation in the PDP conference in Novi Sad
During the PDP conference, the association "Kruna" participated in two segments of the program, in the interesting Pecha Kucha Night format where the digitization project was presented and in the panel discussion - Mural Liza - together with Ben Johnston, Uroš Štrboja, Milica Grujić.
PDP (Print, Design, Photography) is a creative media conference that has been gathering designers, photographers and other visual creators for 11 years with the aim of educating the public in the fields of creative media through lectures, workshops and exhibitions, as well as promoting the work of students and young people through competitions. author.
The multidisciplinary program of the PDP conference each year includes lectures, workshops, audio-visual performances, and the presentation of authors and works from the PDP competition for designers, illustrators and other visual creators.
Visual artist Ben Johnston painted a mural on the facade of a building in Antona Chehova Street, across from Eđšeg Cultural Station. Ben has painted numerous murals around the world, and his style is characterized by interesting, often three-dimensional, typographic solutions of always affirmative words or phrases. What is interesting is the fact that he is a self-taught interdisciplinary artist who, in addition to painting murals, is also involved in design, 3D printing and branding.
Tribune "The Eye of the Street"
At the beginning of the year, the forum Street art photographer was held - observer or actor on stage?
Street art and graffiti have become so commonplace that today it is hard to imagine an urban space without them. The limited durability of the works turns city facades into a dynamic stage for different artistic expressions, styles and manuscripts. In a continuous process of transformation, the works disappear and emerge, making each moment of observation unique.
In a similar way that museums do in the case of traditional art, the role of preserving, that is, recording, archiving and presenting these works of limited durability, was taken over by photographers on their own initiative. Acting outside the box and without the strict parameters that institutions rely on, street art photographers approach documenting works on the street in completely different ways, building valuable collections and archives, often accessible to the public.
How do photographers see their role, and what does their role look like from the position of artists? Is their action a partnership, mutually conditioned, or are we witnessing the emergence of a kind of informal institutions that assume the role of evaluation and setting standards? Are these chroniclers of the street art and graffiti scene distant observers or an integral part of it?
Forum participants
Jana Danilović, visual artist and author of a doctoral thesis on the topic "City and painting - the importance and function of artistic interventions in public space", moderator; Ljiljana Radosević, art historian, author and curator of the Street Art Walks tour; Marko Krstić, graffiti artist; Aleksandar Djordjević, photographer, author of the book "Street Art Belgrade".
Organizers
Association Street Art Belgrade, street art festival Rekonstrukcija, street art collective Street Smart, center for education and culture Božidarac.
Photo © Dimitrije Stamenković
Book promotion, Mama Shelter, Paris
Promotion of street art within the activities of the Tourist Organization of Serbia in France.
B2B meetings were held on the rooftop of the Mama Shelter Hotel (the best rooftop in Paris for 2017, according to Vogue magazine), and after that an exhibition of photographs of Belgrade's street art, selected from the book "Street art Belgrade" was arranged for the invited journalists " by Aleksandar Đorđević (translated into French), a performance by the Belgrade street art artist TKV and a shorter performance by the famous Serbian musician, composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Slobodan Trkulja.
Exhibition, Balkan Trafik, Brussels
As part of the "Balkan Trafik" festival, the street art of Belgrade was presented for the first time through an exhibition of works from the book "Street Art Belgrade".
As part of the 12th edition of the "Balkan Trafik Festival", which is organized in Brussels from April 19 to 22, an exhibition dedicated to the street art of Belgrade, by Aleksandar Đorđević, was presented. The exhibition "Street Art Belgrade" presented more than 50 photographs of the street art of Belgrade, selected from the book "Street Art Belgrade".
Balkan Traffic! the festival has been held for 12 years in Brussels, and represents a kind of cultural journey through the Balkan region. The festival gathers participants from the world of media and culture, with the aim of positive promotion of these countries. This year, over 250 artists from the Balkan countries will represent their countries at the Balkan Trafik Festival through music, from traditional to rock, jazz, dub and hip hop, theater, films, dance, traditional customs, culinary workshops and art exhibitions.
Promotion of the Street Art Belgrade project as part of the Graffiti na Gradele festival, SC Zagreb
As part of the Graffiti na Gradele event in Zagreb, there was a presentation and discussion with the authors of graffiti and street art photo monographs and the books "Street Art Zagreb" and "Street Art Belgrade".
In addition to the fact that the top works of local artists are exhibited in one place, the presentation of photo monographs of graffiti and street art scenes of Zagreb and Belgrade, which were recently published and which document what surrounds us everyday on the city streets, was also organized. Photos of numerous works of our friends and collaborators can be found in both photo monographs, so this was an opportunity to show how the Croatian and Serbian graffiti scenes breathe, develop together and actively cooperate.
During the presentation of the books, a conversation was held with the authors and an artist from Belgrade - TKV and an artist from Zagreb - Lunar.
Exhibition of Belgrade street art in Paris - "Face au mur"
In September 2017, an exhibition of street art from Belgrade was presented in the Serbian cultural center in Paris. The works were selected from the book on street art - "Street Art Belgrade", which was translated into French on this occasion.
As part of the manifestation "Week of Foreign Arts", which is organized every year at the end of September in Paris, an exhibition dedicated to the street art of Belgrade was opened in the Serbian cultural center and the book "Street Art Belgrade" by Aleksandar Đorđević, published by Komsha, was presented. On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition, well-known Serbian artists ARTEZ and TKV painted panels live in front of the cultural center, which attracted a lot of attention from passers-by at this central location in Paris, where the cultural center is located. The exhibition "Face au mur" lasted from September 23 to October 21, and visitors had the opportunity to see over 50 photographs of street art. The book has been translated into French, and the French edition is available in Serbia as well as in several well-known bookstores in Paris.
The exhibition "Face au mur" and the book "Street Art Belgrade" deal with the street art of Belgrade. This art is exposed to views, time and emotions. The desire of the author Aleksandar Đorđević and the Komsha publishing house is to preserve, document and popularize, above all, street art as a specific form of art because it is an unavoidable part of the urban environment. The book "Street Art Belgrade" and the exhibition "Face au mur" present an overview of Belgrade's street art, both stylistically and backwards through time.
The first graffiti in Europe appeared precisely in Paris, and Paris had a great influence on the Belgrade graffiti scene. One of the examples is the street artist Jens, who after his stay in Paris, brought a new style from the streets of Paris to Belgrade, thus reviving and starting street art in the 90s, which completely died out due to the political and economic difficulties the country was going through. . Famous Parisian artists visited Belgrade and left their works of art on the walls (Black le Rat, REMED), and many Serbian artists spent time in Paris, where they gained new knowledge and inspiration for their street art.
The exhibition was realized within the competition of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia and with the support and cooperation of the Cultural Center of Serbia in Paris, the French Institute in Serbia and the Forum of Foreign Cultural Centers in Paris.
Street art festival in Kraljevo
Street art festival Kraljevo
In Kraljevo, the promotion of the book "Street Art Belgrade" by Aleksandar Đorđević was held in the courtyard of the French House. At the same time, visitors could see an exhibition of prints from the book with Belgrade graffiti.
Exhibition within the Street Art Festival in Požarevac
We participated with the presentation of the book Street Art Belgrade and the accompanying exhibition in the Street Art Festival program in Požarevac in 2017.
As part of the Street Art Festival program in Požarevac, 15 artists performed murals, 3D illusionistic paintings, interventions in space, art installations, floor mosaics and a mosaic fountain at different locations in the city, and two outdoor exhibitions, workshops, lecture, book promotion and forum.
Locations: The wall of the women's prison, the walls of the Sports Center, as well as smaller interventions on Tabačka čaršija, in Leninova Street, then in front of the San Marco cafe, making a fountain near the market near the City Park, outdoor exhibitions (Stari Korzo and City Park).
Exhibition, Abmasada, Timisoara
Exhibition at the Abmasada gallery in Timisoara.
In June 2017, the promotion of the book Street Art Belgrade and an exhibition of works from the book were held in the urban gallery Ambasada in Timisoara.