With its mix of striking architectural styles and general state of slight dilapidation, the city of Tel Aviv is the perfect canvas for street artists. There's one artist who leaves his signature eggplant sketches on wall corners, and another who brightens up the pavement with his smiling daisies. From small tags to professionally rendered murals spanning entire building sides, street art is definitely a part of Tel Aviv's art scene.
Typically of course, street art is done outside- abandoned buildings, the sides of bus stops, and those retro air conditioner boxes all make for great impromptu art spaces. Street art mixes the high (precise artistic skills) and the low (cheap materials and a low budget gallery space) to make for an interactive and dynamic art form. Street art is spontaneous and of the people, it grabs you as go about your day instead of being tucked away safe behind museum walls. But what would happen if we moved art off the streets and back indoors...
Remember when your mom told you not to draw on the walls? Well a new indoor street art project, Project Palozzo is doing just that with, and producing awesomely creative results. Two illustrators (Zach Cohen and Ori Toor) and a sociology major (Yoav Tamir) are living together in a dilapidated house in Tel Aviv and turning it into a collaborative ongoing art project. According to their sassy little Tumblr, which they frequently update with photographs of their latest creations, the house was built by Yoav's grandfather but was uninhabited for quite a while and fell into a state of disrepair. Now these three are putting their combined skills together, transforming their space by painting, writing and drawing on the walls of their renovation project cum gallery. I wonder what their moms have to say about all this?
Typically of course, street art is done outside- abandoned buildings, the sides of bus stops, and those retro air conditioner boxes all make for great impromptu art spaces. Street art mixes the high (precise artistic skills) and the low (cheap materials and a low budget gallery space) to make for an interactive and dynamic art form. Street art is spontaneous and of the people, it grabs you as go about your day instead of being tucked away safe behind museum walls. But what would happen if we moved art off the streets and back indoors...
Remember when your mom told you not to draw on the walls? Well a new indoor street art project, Project Palozzo is doing just that with, and producing awesomely creative results. Two illustrators (Zach Cohen and Ori Toor) and a sociology major (Yoav Tamir) are living together in a dilapidated house in Tel Aviv and turning it into a collaborative ongoing art project. According to their sassy little Tumblr, which they frequently update with photographs of their latest creations, the house was built by Yoav's grandfather but was uninhabited for quite a while and fell into a state of disrepair. Now these three are putting their combined skills together, transforming their space by painting, writing and drawing on the walls of their renovation project cum gallery. I wonder what their moms have to say about all this?
Project palazzo - Wall drawing timelapse from ori toor on Vimeo.
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