Ugly New Buildings
Thursday, June 12th, 2008Most of the so called “street-art” pieces are so boring and overused, but sometimes some guys like Dan Witz from NYC hit it so perfectly that we can’t get arround…
About his gentrification-critical series “Ugly New Buildings” he says:
“This year’s series, “Ugly New Buildings”, addresses how in the past few years much of my neighborhood in Brooklyn has been torn down to make way for luxury housing. Personally, I can’t say I like the new modern architecture very much. For the most part it’s sterile and alienating and so arrogantly disconnected with its surroundings sometimes it seems like giant alien space ships have landed in the night. But resenting gentrification in New York City is futile, like complaining about the weather or other forces of (urban) nature. For this year’s project I decided to work with it.
These are photo-based, heavily re-painted stickers, mounted on plastic and glued to the walls of the Ugly New Buildings. In May I put up around 30 and about half are still there.”
Please refer also to The Wall


Heute ist anscheinend deutscher Aktionstag bei Sound Of Sirens! In Hamburg ist es die Kultur, die flöten geht - in Berlin das Stadtbild und die damit einhergehenden Freiräume. Als wenn wir nicht schon genügend Mainstreamkultur und Großveranstaltungshallen hätten, zumal man sowas ja auch in Bezirke packen kann, bei denen nicht so viel gewachsene und liebgewonnene Struktur weichen muss! Als hätte Berlin ein Platzproblem!

