Video: Plaster faces on the walls of Paris: street art by Gregos
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Street art is not only about graffiti and chalk drawings on the pavement. In Paris, for example, there is a street artist named Gregos. He takes plaster casts of his own face and then glues them to walls all over the city.
Gregos has been doing this kind of work for three years. At first, all the plaster casts were clean, and conditionally they could be divided into two groups: with and without a tongue sticking out. Depending on the place in which the author was going to stick this or that face, he decided which face would just look at the audience, and which one would show their tongue.
However, some time later, Gregos realized that if he wanted to enclose some message for passers-by in his works, then one language would not be enough here. Therefore, starting in 2009, the author decided to make his faces colored by painting them with acrylics. According to the artist, this technique provided a much more successful interaction between his work and bystanders. And the fact that this is really important for the author, you can make sure on his website, where he posts not only photographs of his works, but also pictures showing the reaction of people to these works.
Currently, more than a hundred plaster faces are glued to the walls of Paris. Gregos tries to place them in popular places so that his work is freely available to as many people as possible. And in May of this year, painted faces also appeared in Malta.
We do not know the attitude of the city authorities to such creativity, but the tourists are delighted! So if you are in Paris in the near future, carefully study not only the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame, but also the walls of ordinary buildings: suddenly a painted face will smile at you with one of them and show its tongue.
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