The other day I was passing my housing area,and there are the words "Cunbai is back" scrawled round the billboards posts and walls.Who the fuck is Cunbai anyways? This person is just merely vandalising.I remembered telling Weiann he's a rapist raping everyone round my neighborhood,but he's just a harmless kid. Problem with the world I'm living in right now,is lack of people like Hogre .
Hogre,Mental Gassi and Banksy have something in common,but my own personal thought,Banksy's a bit too commercialized.Nonetheless,Banksy is definitely a kickass artist.
Hogre is an anonymous urban artist.Same as Mental Gassi,but he rides solo.He is a notorious and famous unknown figure in Rome ever since there are series of red noses which appeared on Italy's most infamous politician on billboards round city.It takes alot of balls to do something of that sort.
Always remaining strictly anonymous,silhouettes of third century men dealing with icons drawn from pop culture’s and television’s imagery, and alienating messages like "Hogre is not dead".
In 2010,he launched his latest project,nella capitale delle meraviglie along with Psycholab.
Some of Hogre's artworks:
Imagine you are reading Reader's Digest or Archie's comics in a library.Or even better, a school library,and a hand drawn picture of a naked body without a head falls onto your hands.How would you react?
A) WHAT THE FUCK, LOOK A THIS.
B)Keep it for voyeurism
C) Dont even take a second look and throw it away
I'd go with A.
On a much controversial note,there's another urban artists,a project,rather,known as Guerilla Spam
SPAM is free,uncensored,independent. It is rebellious and a breath of fresh air.We are in the era where the close minded and the open minded roam.People have thoughts but they tend to hold back from speaking out,afriad of being judged,afraid of being it too provocative.SPAM'S sole purpose is to communicate with society,regain their freedom of thought and expression.
Their works consist of a god awful lot of nudity,but it isn't meant to be portrayed in an obscene way,which explains why question earlier.
Personally,I thought it was brilliant and simply amazing,especially in our era and society where people dare not speak their minds now. The fact that they do ,it deserves acknowledgment.
Some of SPAM's artwroks:
Picture credits:
GUERRILLA SPAM
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