Tag: ‘2012’


Wallride

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Pilotów 18a 2012 Monumental Art 2012 The mural of this Swedish trio depicts a rocket, a totem symbolising an avaricious civilisation. The rocket will allow humanity to emigrate to another planet when Earth has been fully exhausted of natural resources. The title The Future was Here is a tag, or a signature in graffiti culture, […]

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Michał Węgrzyn

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National Armed Forces Nagórskiego 11c 2012 Gdansk School of Mural The mural was created for the 70th anniversary of the National Armed Forces, a force of 100,000 in armed conflict with the communist regime during the years directly after the conclusion of the Second World War. It shows the appalling conditions for these ‘enduring’ troops […]

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Lucas Parbo

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An apathetic rider with a standard displaying indifference and protected by a dubious shield with the figure of a modern-day European currency. In 2012 the Euro crisis was just beginning, and the significance of the Argentinian mural gained in strength along with the deepening problems of European debtors.

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Klaus Klinger

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A Hero of Labour from the Age of Consumption wanders through a flowery meadow pushing a bottomless shopping trolley. The mural deliberately recalls the style of socialist-realist propaganda. Interestingly, the woman in the mural is headed straight for a shopping mall built from a converted hangar on Żwirki i Wigury Street, where Gdańsk Wrzeszcz airport terminal was located until 1974.

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Clemens Behr

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The German artist’s mural is a patchwork of the European community, linked by the thin thread of economic interests. Another prophetic mural from the Monumental Art Collection. Events in subsequent years have shown on more than one occasion how fragile a community based on money is.

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