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VALENCIA STREET ART:
By Luz A.Martín In its early stages, Valencia's graffiti was inspired by the New York style, reflecting a blind admiration of African-American culture. During the 1990s, the European graffiti movement matured and became linked more openly with Mexican mural painting, comic book and contemporary illustration. It is this linking that comprises most of the images collected by professional photographer and native of Valencia, Luz A. Martín. |
From interview with street artist, 'END': "The street is the best gallery; the whole world walks through it. What you paint transcends and is not filtered. For me that requires strategy and technique. I see graffiti as a necessary symptom of life in contemporary cities." |
| From interview with street artist, 'ESCIF': "I fundamentally oppose thinking of graffiti as an illustrative technique. Graffiti isn't spray painting an abandoned wall. Graffiti is much more than this" |
| From interview with street artist, 'GRAFFILIA' (Ausias and Felipe-Pantone): "I don't see graffiti as having a particular end. What really is certain is that being in the street, being immediate, free and often anonymous make graffiti a very potent medium for expressing ideas." |
| From interview with street artist, 'JULIETA': "...graffiti is an invasive intervention into the public sphere...but now it is capable of generating debate about what we want and don't want to be on our streets, and that is positive." |
| From interview with street artist, 'NERO': "I felt the need to express myself with graffiti when I was a kid,showing my creations to the rest of the world and breaking through the wall between artist and citizen, creating a concept of a museum in the street that removed artwork from its traditional locations." |
| From interview with street artist, 'ON_LY': "My work is a flash picture of an instant in the movement and passage of time...I reflect on what is fragile, what is mental, on obscurity and silence..." |
| From interview with street artist, 'SAM3': "How much do I take the environment into consideration (the street, wall, plaza or neighborhood) when I design a piece? It depends on the moment. The environment always has interesting stories to tell." |
For additional information: We are pleased to bring you this sampling of Valencia’s remarkable graffiti. The entire collection by professional photographer, Luz A. Martín is available in print and hard cover in: TEXTURA |
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