The spring edition of the counterculture festival in Lublin Cardboard Fest Vol 5 Maped Tom, an artist dealing with Artem street, led a workshop on one of the most popular techniques used in street art - a template. The festival is the flagship event of the Lublin Area cyclic Creative Initiatives cardboard.
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Mapedem talks with Alice Thomas Burek
know about a few words.
My name is Thomas Piso - Maped - so subscribe to for many years. I am involved in a legal form of street art. I run workshops with street art - teach the construction of large base templates and posters. I'm trying to promote the idea of \u200b\u200bresponsible development and use of public space.
Have anonymously?
Somewhat. I have several different nickname - under different run various workshops and even use several names and some names.
Why just think about the street art? For 13 years I lived in Silesia, in the middle of the great estates, where he ran a very popular team of HDS, and others whose names do not even know. They did cool stuff, I really enjoyed it. A shell of his youth and then pasting it itself is already waterlogged. Podlasie, where he later moved, it was not quite the space for painting - in the trees but not to paint - so I tried to get around it somehow. I started doing installations, which he put in the forest. I was about sixteen years old, it was the first thing. Sometimes I also fly with the markers, because that usually begins in street art - it's as gaining courage in space. And this courage is needed for the job.
To do street art ... you?
You must know the city, your space. How do you want to paint a picture - first recognize a stretcher, and how you want to create art on the streets is such a canvas is for you the whole urban space. And I'm trying to be very places where the paint was not accidental. The choice of this and no other wall must be justified.
order to learn the city - a city of Lublin is the eighteenth, which in the past twelve years I have lived - for example to work, which involves putting up posters. Then it's easy, fast and fun get to know the city and its streets. Possibly Take the bus, drive it is not known where and try to find a way home.
Tektura leading the workshop template. Does this mean that the template is your favorite technique?
This technique, which run workshops for four or five years. I am very technical and the template allows me to fine-tune even the smallest details. But on the other hand, two years more and more discovering graffiti and mix media - you can really squeeze out of this lot of different things. Besides the visual effects are richer, and I like how dirty it is (laughter) - people say I'm efekciarzem - may have right. I really like the effects. It's my style.
How wyjaśniłbyś uninitiated in the street art is a template?
template is a matrix to reflect repeated using spray paints in a variety of designs and images on any flat surface.
It depends on how this template. I make them in different formats (from A5 format 4m x 4m). The longest one template to cut out two weeks - after a few hours each day. It was a rosette 4m x 4m inspired by Art Nouveau works Alphonse Mucha. But once I did, for example, a template, which was much smaller, because the size 1,5 m x 0,5 m. It was a classic illustration Support - cross train - and there was a mass of millimeter lines. Resected it by five days. So I can be very different.
Throughout this process of creating a template up to the point where you cut the last element, you can make changes, corrections. Can you impose, add, subtract, so that going into space with a template and bouncing it, you are sure that this is a polished thing that will not be offended its niedopracowaniem. Left the reflection you have to interfere in space, but may not be invasive. It is best when blending in with her. I think so.
You said that the origins of your adventure with art installations that you did in the forest. You can tell something more?
Two years ago I met in Lublin, a guy who is called Yak. Teaches landscape architecture at Catholic University of Lublin. There is probably an assistant at the moment, leading the exercise. He told me once about the project schedule, which is prepared for its students - had to take them to the forest and order pick up sticks, pebbles, leaves, and all he can find. From what I dug that there would then build your own Land Art [art of the earth - editor. AB] in such a way as not to interfere too much in the area of \u200b\u200bthe forest and there somehow odnajdował while that alluded to this space. I was doing similar things. One of the first work I did with my pocket knife. I went to Forest. Bushes grew there, which always had a spherical shape. I started in this cut, sculpt. These bushes have a lot of small sticks and badyli. Resected them so that they change their form. Then
have not thought about it in terms of art, for me it was just good fun. And that I had to choose Podlasie: drinking, as Drug, sitting at the computer or TV, or just walking in space and doing something in it (which usually also were connected with these other things that are not computer or television), it chose the last. Then I started to introduce more elements of this work, synthetic and I regret it. I did parts of polystyrene and requested them to the forest - I built sheds, once an igloo. But at some point I ran out of money (I was 18 years old) and found that I can not continue. I stopped.
Why regret that these items wprowadzałeś synthetic?
regret because what I was doing with styrofoam began a nothing to do with the forest area. Disrupted her color did not fit the damn thing. Although some of these things I did in the winter.
you've shown someone your first job?
No, I do not even have the documentation of this - I had no camera, I did not have a camera phone and, moreover, do not even think about documentation. It was just fun. But now I take pictures - on the Internet takes place after the second life of art. A street art all the more so because it is naturally something very fleeting. Moreover, as they appear in an illegal urban space paintings and posters, they are usually immediately destroyed, were painted, torn off. And thanks to the documentation of these works continue to operate there somehow - the circle on the network.
Yak took me to a workshop once a wicker and since then a little weave.
first thing I did Lublin was a restroom for dogs, just wicker - lantern wrapped in a simple form at the bottom made out of wicker. It looked as if the lantern grew out of the braid. This was such a luxury, wicker the toilet for dogs. Anyway, he's there all the time - in the Saski Garden at the gorge.
I also have such a habit that I always say good-bye winter - come to the last piles of snow and paint them orange, then stuck a sign reading: "Freshly painted." I try a little bit of urban wit to put in the work ... After that, the stacks of snow there is - because it melts - But I am and I'm waiting for the next winter.
recently released their first album in Poland, presenting artists and their projects streetartowych. Can I therefore say that the Polish street art has already entered the mainstream or whether it can continue to operate outside the art world?
Street art is still working primarily on the periphery of the art world. The process of entering into the mainstream of street art is very slow. Formed a single photo streetartowe. In the western Polish cities such as Poznan, Wroclaw and Tri-City is a lot of really good artists. Grafficiarze are also great in Bydgoszcz - are there virtually a free hand to create the space. But still a few artists had their street art exhibition.
And what about the Lublin street art?
modest. But the fact that here is a mix of people from across the Polish - perhaps one in three people is a student, after all - it runs through this town people who thing they can. Besides going down to the Lublin Polish street art guru - not necessarily painted, but they were here. Importantly, in street art going on - just like in graffiti - a gathering of people seated in this environment.
This public space. We should be able to use this space. I loved the article by Marcin Skrzypek in one of the ZOOM-s last year. Wrote there great thing about the use of urban space. The text was on the bench near the Anderson Theater. Circle the bench was a little table at one time. In this stoliczku sat two gentlemen and drank a cup of tea. And it was normal. These guys simply can bring this little table and it was not like that operates there any pub or something similar. This was not one of the popular and nasty beer gardens. They just have themselves developed area. They used the public space like this, how to use it should be.
At some point, such an approach to urban space began to fade. Public space has lost its importance, become for us, which is the path from point A to point B, but are relevant here only points A and B, and the road itself is of no importance. And there is a huge range of possibilities for artists streetartowych. Implementation of jokes, which appears on the route from point A to point B helps you get out of this momentum, opens his eyes, stops, makes it begin to move quietly and with measured steps, together with heart and breathing. And this is what I love as much in the template. Observation and action aimed at clearly defined target ... And the road is a process. Once I made a poster campaign in Warsaw, which consisted in the fact that I prepared four posters of David Michelangelo - the natural size. It was a four-ply templates, highly polished. Awfully long time on it worked. I glued them in a few places including the passage Topping (near the rotunda, the very center of the capital). Its always put a poster where they sat menel to enter the space around them though a little bit of art. And one of these posters - is on this passage - survived. Once, riding the tram in those surroundings - it was after moving out from Warsaw - I heard a boy talking on the phone said: "What, we arrange the David?" - Very glad, because I thought, "Oh It's probably about my David. ". I had nothing else to do, so I went for this guy. Just out of curiosity. I wanted to see if it actually meant for my David, because in the end it was some one and a half years from the time when I made this realization. I actually went into the passage of David Topping. David was already tattered, much of it was there. But he was. Has become an integral element of the space in which it appeared. Art creates the space and the artist must realize this. Therefore, the action is needed streetartowych responsibility. The space must be used wisely.
And what do you think about tagging the city?
I oppose. Maybe differently - sometimes it happens that the tag [signature that appears in various places, mostly executed spray or marker - editor. AB] is technically polished and it is a nice piece of graphic signature, but usually this is not the primary intention of graffiti artists who are doing it. The same environment of street art is not uniform. There are several trends. It is derived from the mainstream of classical painting, installation and sculpture, but also the trend derived from the natural desire to show off and highlight their presence: "Hey, here I am Damn, notice me." And the tags are often a manifestation of the latter trend. You can tag, but let it be damn nice!
I myself generally do not do that, and generally I am opposed to this form vandalism. People say that this form of tagging are stickers [all kinds of stickers, can be hand drawn or printed - editor. AB]. I give out my other stickers. Alone they are not putting up. Since 2004, I made about 10,000 pieces of such wlepek. They are in Africa, in Asia, the United States, Central America, Canada, and even in Greenland. Lots of time I spend with people open to the world who like to travel. I give them their stickers. It's like saying to them: "Hey! That's me! I give you a part of themselves - do with it what you want. "
What city could In your opinion do to be more friendly to artists and street?
lot! When I made the request to the office of the city to paint the town was not agreed. If I were an association, a foundation, the festival - and not a private artist - I am sure that the agreement would be. When the boy comes from the street to ask about giving him the wall, or asking whether this wall may be painted, it does not recite his whore, he comes to the guy who wants to do something legally. If you will not have a legitimate open spaces (but not those on the outskirts of the city, because that person also wants to show wants to have his work was noticed by a wider audience), it will be walked through the city and painted wherever and whatever. And even as this will not be anything, it will be in a hurry, will be afraid that it zaszczują that the police will catch him and ultimately the implementation will not elaborate. Many artists streetartowych had contact with police, and I also had effects that are different (sometimes unbeatable, winning a case of fictitious crimes from the Criminal Code, intimidation) - street artists are often treated as criminals. And it should not be. It is of course the article 63 of the Code offenses, which says that you can not put any posters, posters, drawings and inscriptions in public places not designed for that either without the consent of the owner under penalty of fine or even imprisonment. It must be able to distinguish such things from the art. In court, we are specialists in various fields, for example, are not psychologists and people who know the art, who would have been involved in this kind of case. And yet art with us almost since the beginning of our existence.
artists themselves may also attempt to open space city \u200b\u200bfor the arts. They can apply for a wall. In Warsaw (in Lublin, moreover, too - although not quite work out), I suggested just getting the street artists such walls: "Tell me which wall you are interested, and I'll help you legalize it." I learned this and I can pass on. Some people do not know how to go about it, others are afraid or simply do not want to walk around the offices - it shows bad about these artists, but not the best on the system of the official line of handling matters. Unfortunately, the effect of these activities was weak. Of the thirty people who have come forward only five actually tried to do something, and of some of the walls were not chosen to legalize - because it was a wall of a supermarket, for example, which has a consistency of visual, and even the wall of the monuments from the register.
mentioned earlier that there is public acceptance of streetartowe spray and other projects. Whether it is something you think about it?
Society oswoiłoby faster with this type of art, if it were in an urban space created more work legally. Because when an artist has a chance to paint all day, do it yourself at the barbecue, meet people who also deal with this, maybe even drink a beer - scratch that now the details, but it is important to the whole atmosphere that accompanied the creation - it can then you really fine-tune this thing to make her something nice, valuable. If such is the elaborate, and not done, at work soon appeared in the city more, I am sure that people began to look at it differently, to see the advantages of such implementation. But unfortunately, the artists at the moment not too many such opportunities have, so they paint as paint - no need to comment on the effects. In a society haunted by a belief that street art is vandalism and not art. It should be emphasized that a large group of people involved in this kind of artistic activity are architects, planners, students of art history, art and other arts-related fields - their work is thought out and designed with the principles of composition in space.
Photos courtesy of the artist
Maped a street artist working since 2000 year. Is the propagator of the injection of art into public space. For several years, the discussions and give herself in issues facing the vandalism. He is a person willing to representing the cultural centers and offices, have been pushed into the gutter art, graffiti.
For many years, in cities scattered over eastern Europe, led the workshop techniques template. Passed on further knowledge gained from WX2 (Poland), C215 (France), and Darek from 3fali Paczkowski (Poland).
5 years studying different artistic direction of education in the visual arts to sculpture.
(based on the page: http://tektura.wordpress.com/ )
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