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Cargando... Little people in the city: the street art of Slinkachu (2008)por Slinkachu
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The little people project, is a set of site-specific mini works that the artist has scattered through the streets of the world with the aim of raising public awareness on two different fronts: the estrangement that we feel in large cities and the pollution with which we now live. Its microcosms represent situations of the real world from a different point of view, underlining both our inability to realize what surrounds us, but also the little interest we have in finding intelligent solutions to problems that, day after day, become increasingly important. Yay! Heard of Slinkachu a year or two ago on German TV, in a short piece about his work. Wrote down his name on a piece of paper and always meant to find out more about him. This week, when I was at the Tate Modern, I spotted this book. I got The Stare from the book store clerk, because I was blocking the cash desk, reading (hey, why do you put the interesting stuff right next to the cashing machine then?). Spent an evening leafing back and forth through the book, even my little niece had a look (but at 3, she doesn't "get" the "overview" pictures, just the scenes themselves). I spared her the cover pic of the shot bumble bee though. I think I'll never look at a crack in the pavement with the same eyes again (a tiny road worker cannot be far away, can he?) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
He's like Banksy - but not as big... They're not pets, Susan, says a stern father who has just shot a bumblebee, its wings sparkling in the evening lamplight; a lone office worker, less than an inch high, looks out over the river in his lunch break, dreaming of packing it all in; and a tiny couple share a First Kiss against the soft neon lights of the city at midnight. Mixing sharp humour with a delicious edge of melancholy, Little People in the City brings together the collected photographs of Slinkachu, a street-artist who for several years has been leaving little hand-painted people in the bustling city to fend for themselves, waiting to be discovered... No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Each artwork is presented in a close-up shot showing the details of the scene, along with a more zoomed-out view showing the work in its surroundings. Most of the scenes depicted are mundane vignettes of urban life: a man reading the paper on a subway, a mother with a young child visiting a gravestone. Only a few — like the bee-hunt depicted on the cover — hint at more exotic aspects of the "little people's" lives.
In general, the book leaves it up to the viewer whether they want to simply enjoy the intrinsic charm of the images or look for deeper artistic and social commentary. The use of miniatures is a clever way of highlighting the concept of differing viewpoints, which allows for many layers of meaning and interpretation around these tiny artworks.
All in all, a fun little book. ( )