Video: ROA street art: back to nature
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In those places where our cities now stand, there were once endless steppes, meadows or forests. Or maybe full-flowing rivers or small streams flowed here. And, of course, there was a limitless kingdom of animals and birds. Few people think about it these days - and that's why the works of the Belgian street artist ROA carry so much power. Appearing in ruined and deserted parts of the city, where people try not to look, ROA drawings remind us that those creatures who have not lived here in a long time have found much better use for these places than we do.
Leaving its large-scale drawings depicting the wild inhabitants of our planet on the industrial canvases of the city, ROA thereby compares the natural with the mechanical. His work is a reminder of how the world was used before it was covered with cement and concrete. The author's huge black and white graffiti depicts rodents, bulls, storks dozing on garage doors and cement blocks, copulating in forgotten alleys and dying on brick walls.
Often ROA seeks to depict both the appearance of an animal and its inside view in one drawing. To illustrate such an author's move, we cannot do without a video clip.
Another option for applying an image is to use perspective. Depending on the angle from which the viewer looks at the same image, he sees either the animal itself or what is inside it.
The first images of animals ROA left in the stone jungle of his native Ghent (Belgium). After a while, his works began to appear in other cities: Warsaw, New York, London, Cologne, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona - not only in abandoned places, but also on gallery walls. On May 14, 2010, an exhibition of the author's works opened at New York's Factory Fresh.
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