Video: More joy and giddiness in the gray city: street art from OaKoAk
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-10 02:10
Imagine: you are walking down the street, as usual, completely immersed in your thoughts, and suddenly you see a ninja turtle's hand reaching out from the drain hatch for a piece of pizza half-eaten by someone! Or bump into Bender's head from Futurama instead of a stone pillar. This is unusual and fun, and this is the principle that someone OaKoAk is guided by in his street art, filling the city with funny little people and characters from cartoons and games for Dandy and Gameboy.
It feels like this guy just walks through the city and draws on everything he meets along the way - on poles, on signs, on a thrown-out refrigerator, and on garbage cans! OaKoAk will do everything to turn gray city into a hotbed of joy and carelessness - a thing that everyone needs to one degree or another. Maybe not in too large portions, but necessary.
It is very good that many street artists are not limited to just painting on the walls, but are trying to make the city a better place. And it's great that several such craftsmen come to mind at once. These are Mark Reigelman, who turned the bus stop into a cozy house, and the hydrants into luxurious flower beds, and Evol, who created a separate small city in a big city.
OaKoAk comes from France, and apparently, a certain gray city exactly there. It is difficult to find something about him on the Internet, except, of course, links to these works. Well, apparently, more biographies about him will be told by the little people with whom he filled the city. Some of them descend by parachute, some hanged themselves at a traffic light. There is also a milk bag from the Blur video, a crushed Dream Interpretation hedgehog from a Sega game, Mario and many others. It's a pity that we don't have such craftsmen, and everyone has to look at the gray asphalt and mediocre graffiti from the train window.
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