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Back to the streets? The charm of street art in Dresden

Between baroque and sandstone, fine art conquers the city

If you are attentively searching for culture in Dresden between the Frauenkirche and the Zwinger, between Brühl's Terrace and the Palace, between the Golden Rider and the trendy Neustadt district, you will hardly miss the small cultural islands and colourful street art. All over Europe and the world, small and large-format pictures are conquering public space. They are much more than disdainful stylistic blossoms of everyday life. They reflect an attitude to life and are an expression of a society that exchanges ideas in public. Wherever street art finds a space, a lively culture usually unfolds.

Image: Urban Street Art in public space & studio art by a Dresden artist, discover more Street Art paintings by Inspire Art!

What was understood as a youth movement a few years ago is now an integral part of urban art. Current topics are thus exhibited without taking refuge in the safe walls of a museum. Street art gets to the point. No evasions. No hiding.

Street art - a visible trend

On veritable safaris, art lovers are made aware of the large and small formats before the works are reassembled or have to make way for a new idea. The street art protagonists are mostly anonymous, love to disappear into normality and be silent observers of their works in public.
Meanwhile, it is a trend that runs through cities - that art pushes onto the street and back again. Especially during the new Corona Lockdown, this art form might become more and more important. Our gallery discoveries range from delicate tags with subtle messages to detailed miniatures. Their messages can be abstract or contain a statement.

Mixing of filigree tags and subtle messages: Backglass painting of a Dresden street art icon: "Street Art I", 57 x 72 cm, available

Where does street art begin, where does it end?

Anyone who can agree with Joseph Beuys on the expanded concept of art will be delighted to see the many different facets that street art conjures up on the streets. Is advertising on posters already street art? Are tuned cars in the cityscape art? Is the styled party crowd part of cultural perception? Or can all these scene-typical interactions be denied an understanding of art? Certainly not. As concrete as the questions of our time may be, the artistic answers are comparably abstract. Small details, shrill colours, incomprehensible figures, these are the reflective arguments that rarely fail to be effective.

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Street art media "Yard break" (2020)	Hamburg - London - Berlin - Alaska (2020)	Graffiti Art like Banksy: "YEAHHH (2017), Acryl on Canvas

What can street art do?

It is probably a form of expression, a way of life that can inspire reflection. Everyday art and street art are close together, and the boundaries are fortunately fluid. The eye of the beholder is free to flirt with the manifold impressions or to dismiss them as scribblings.
For us, they are colourful ideas, fantastic ideas that have not yet been used up and that may herald an interesting trend. Often it is precisely these seismographic vibrations that need to be detected in order to keep art alive.

 

Illustration: Graffiti art on canvas: "Dynanic Lines" in large format

Can street art be preserved?

Street art actually lives from its transience. At the latest after the auction prank Banksy played on his bidding public in front of running cameras, there can be no doubt that street art - discussed and consumed in public - remains a temporary affair. But there also remains the idea in the room, the shredder that suddenly stops. The photo. The piece of the Berlin Wall. The abstract moment. Street art rarely wants to be behind glass. But what always works well is when artists take up the borrowings and make use of the overwhelming formal language when they create images for the individual spheres. In the best case, the dust, the smell and the message remain. In the worst case, the preservation of street art robs it of life.

The impulses for us are far more than colours. It is this direct expression, the play with colours, the spontaneous ideas that have always captivated us. In the meantime, we have also succeeded in transferring the city's street art into everyday art.

Photos: Free art on canvas: "Yeahhh" (2017) by Ulrike Rendle, 80 x 80 cm, 665,-€ Photo right: urban Medien Art Berlin: Graffiti in public space

Which artists are involved with street art?

Street art - artists have to reinvent themselves again and again. Hardly anyone stands between the public and the zeitgeist anymore. They speak the language of their viewers and have to meet their viewers' attitude to life with their works. They usually involve themselves in a social discourse and move between selective interaction and an awakening aesthetic. What once included the harmony-addicted standards in nature is now much more. The classification of beautiful or unsightly has long since given way to a modern visual language. Sensuality and concupiscence have taken their place. This is a field of tension in which some renowned players are well versed, for example the British artist Banksy, who has already been mentioned and who operates out of anonymity. In the meantime, it can probably be assumed that he travels all over the world with a fast and well-working team, because it is hardly imaginable that he leaves his artworks on walls and façades silently in just a few hours, quasi in camera.

The Portuguese artist Vhils does not work quite so silently. He sometimes works on the façades with hammer and chisel, giving his works a pictorial structure. Sometimes he even goes one step further and detonates small explosive devices that give his artwork a lasting impression.

The motifs that the Belgian ROA leaves all over Europe are animalistic in character. He dissects muscles, makes bodies look bloody or assigns animal bodies to an unsettling environment. And although the street art scene appears to be rather male-dominated, women also repeatedly make the necessary space for themselves and provide a refreshing change of perspective. Hyuro was born in Argentina and is a street artist living in Spain. Again and again, she gives a garment to vulgar plaster. Like an open wardrobe, she hangs her creations on walls and buildings.

Photo left: Graffiti like Banksy on brickwork: Bülow Straße in Berlin (2020), artist unknown | Photo right: Media Art: reverse glass painting by U.Rendle: "Whats Up" (sold)

 

Street Art in a Dresden Gallery

At our gallery, street artists also have their home. Their ideas are not necessarily connected to walls and real estate, but the feeling of everyday art has remained in their works. The play of colours, the desire for expression and the often sought-after liveliness in art is also important to U.Rendle. She says: "Pictures always play a role in my everyday life, in my life. It is the little things, such as shadows on the wall, plays of light, impressions from posts on various platforms or moving images, that trigger a mental cinema in me - and thus also find their way into my painting."

For the Dresden artist, colours and playing with them are part of her basic emotional equipment. "I belong to the generation of patterned wallpaper and was already able to lose myself in it as a small child. What's more, I didn't colour in with an uncharming felt-tip pen or too lax crayons like other colouring books, but with watercolours and a brush." So it was only logical to get involved with street art? "Yes, of course! I was probably influenced by the fact that I was a little wannabe punk girl in Dresden's Neustadt district when I was young; it was a time of a palpable power vacuum, almost without barriers and rules. Those who wanted to could create, those who lacked motivation were observers. Clubs and bars sprang up everywhere, the free spaces were large. The pressure to perform and the consumer fetish were kept within limits."

Photos: Collage "Whau Shi" a tribute to Banksy (2020), example in the middle: urban street art in public spaces, image on the right: urban graffiti in the trendy district of Innere Neustadt in Dresden.

To this day, Rendle likes this way of expression of that art movement, it is a bit weird, cheeky, colourful and a little provocative. This makes it possible to reach a few teenagers and kids who don't feel addressed and seen by other normal things. Looking at her own family reality, the mother of two sons says: "At best, it could lead to a dialogue, and looking from your smartphone at something else is already a great success these days". The aim of her work is always to make something emerge from a disorganised colourless sketch. "How the ideas slowly take shape with colour and thus come to life - that's fascinating". A life without colour is so hard to imagine: "I don't want to imagine that at all!"

At night, in the darkness, it can be relaxing from time to time, when you are no longer bombarded with this multitude of confusing, hectic, constantly changing visual impressions, when it becomes quiet and calm. Then, at the latest, it's time to gather ideas again: "I actually get them presented on a platter early on in my little family, and that runs through the day. I need life to be as lively and sometimes crazy as mine is. If I had a normal everyday life, I would perhaps paint still lifes with flowers. To open my eyes to the life outside and thus to sink freshly and joyfully into a moment with a childlike lightness that no longer sees everything so seriously and doggedly - that is perhaps the motor for creativity".

What then emerges in the calm is made for other people. "I think it's great when I can please someone with it and the pictures go on their journey. But I ask my gallery owner every time to which city or country my works have been sent, I'm always curious somehow."

Loving details, shrill colours, scene figures: subject of the street artist U.Rendle: "Ready for Movie", 33 x 33 cm, 2020 (sold)

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