for fifteen years Maria Fernanda Lopez he has vigorously supported the banner of urban art; his fight has risen from the academy, curatorship, cultural management and the street. Almost seven years of his walk has systematized it in his 400 meters. Art, street and community, a work that fuses the methodology and the testimonial part.
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“My interest has been that all the tremendous work that has been done is not lost in oblivion (…). It is an operations manual, if someone wants to do their urban art chair they are up to the task syllabus”, affirms the artist, curator, researcher and teacher.
Among other topics, his 170-page book deals with the precariousness of urban art, something that, he affirms, is interfering with the work of those exponents who capture their own voice and aesthetics in their murals. “Urban art is something else than drawing the soccer player of the year, the girl who says bad words… forgive me, that’s anything, that’s winning likes on TikTok”, points out.
“This type of demonstration is what ruins urban art, because it leaves people with the idiosyncrasy that it is done by people who are not prepared, that it is show business, that they are very vain and commercial subjects…”, Add.
The printed work is out of the conventional, it imposes with a ringing proposal; that is why its author defines it as an anti-book. “Perhaps they are used to hard covers, with a lot of photos and very little reflection… but I am interested in it being like that, that people can open it, use it, since it has pages so they can write their own annotations ”, holds.
In addition, his intention was to get rid of that elitist idea that exists in literature, due to its formats and costs. “I thought that this book should be seen as more friendly, that it should not be seen with that solemnity of a book, but rather as a work tool”, Explain.
Name 400 meters It is a kind of tribute to the first curatorial exercise that López did in 2016 at the University of the Arts, where he teaches.
To acquire the book you can write to López’s social networks or to 099-270-5999. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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