Hidden street-art
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Pieces of street-art don’t always appear at first glance.
German artistic duo Zebrating creates artworks that can only be viewed from a certain angle.
They use, for their spray paintings, very common elements of the urban environment such as railings or steps.
A nice way to entertain passers-by and an interesting concept that plays with the public’s eye movements. Web Urbanist
Urban alphabet
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As part of an academic project, American artist and designer Audra Hubbell created open-air installation by projecting giant letters on the buildings of Chicago.
The “Letters at Large” project aims at exploring visual interactions between the urban environment and these typographic elements, which can be completely transformed when projected in three dimensions. It also shows an interesting example of how art can change the way we perceive space. Huffington Post
When a painting comes to life
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In order to promote an exhibition dedicated to American painter Edward Hopper held from May to October 2013, New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art set-up a 3D pop-up installation at the triangular ground floor of Manhattan’s iconic Flatiron Building.
The characters sitting at a diner’s wooden bar represented in the artist’s masterpiece “Nighthawk” were recreated, life-size, on the building’s front window, allowing passers-by to become real spectators of the scene. This specific location was chosen as the Flatiron Building is considered a possible source of inspiration for Hopper’s original painting. Design Boom
Reviving the past
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American street-artist Christopher Kameck used an abandoned department store’s facade in Buffalo to paste old advertisements in the unused billboards where they used to be displayed decades ago.
His posters made of wheat paste are reproductions of images taken from the store’s vintage catalogs.
According to the artist, this approach reveals a form of nostalgia for a time when downtown Buffalo was a buoyant and livable area where people went shopping. The Atlantic Cities