Video: Fences with a secret. Street art by Mentalgassi
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
While some artists display their work in museums and galleries, others display their work right among us - on the busy streets of big cities. But at the same time they hide them so skillfully that only the most attentive and curious viewer can find these works.
Mentalgassi is a well-known Berlin-based creative group whose members prefer to remain unnamed. More than a year ago, we introduced the readers of Cultural Studies to the work of this group, but Mentalgassi does not stand still, surprising city dwellers with more and more new projects. And if then it was about the transformation of quite noticeable garbage containers, then this year the authors turned their attention to fences, "hiding" human portraits between the bars.
Mentalgassi's creatives came up with the idea of taking large black and white photographs, cutting them into thin vertical strips and gluing the latter onto the metal bars of the fences from the side. The result is an image that can only be seen from one particular vantage point. In the same case, if a pedestrian stands directly opposite the fence or in any other place, except for the only "correct" one, then it is unlikely that he will be able to guess about the picture next to him. To better imagine how it all "works", we bring to your attention a short video clip.
Such fences with a secret appeared in 2010 in two German cities: Berlin (Kreuzberg district) and Hamburg.
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