Kali ini kami berkelana menuju negara Irlandia nun jauh di Eropa. Dublin sebagai ibukotanya ternyata menyimpan kekayaan sumber daya street art yang berlimpah. Seorang teman kami bersedia membagikan sedikit cerita mengenai pergerakan seni jalanan dan grafitti disana serta ridak lupa akan kisah seru mengenai gambar tempel. Simak!
Please introduce yourself.
My name is
Dublin Urban Art and I currently on a sabbatical, but between 2008 and 2015 I
snapped approx 30,000 photographs of graffiti, street art and urban art in
Dublin, Ireland.
What's the story behind your street
art name?
I
originally had a short lived website called Dublin City Graffiti but I soon
discovered I disliked that label as I love all forms of expression; tags,
throw-ups, pieces, stickers, stencils, paste-ups, large murals etc and don't
care what category it technically falls into so I used the moniker 'Urban Art'
as a simple catch all name. So I set up a FB page and called it Dublin Urban
Art: https://www.facebook.com/Dublin-Urban-Art-286941637998294/
How is the sticker scene in your
city or country?
The
sticker scene is quite healthy here in Dublin. Like most things it goes through
phases. During the summer there is definitely more stickers popping up around
the place especially from travelling sticker artists and Irish artists waiting
for the good weather.
What's the most important, quantity
or quality?
My
favourite type of sticker that I love photographing is the hand-drawn, simple
and graphic character based sticker, usually drawn on an A4 self-adhesive sheet
and cut out to the shape of the character. I love finding these as some effort
has gone into the making of them. I will usually photograph them several times
on my travels and document the fading, weathering, ripping and natural destruction
of the sticker. The lifespan shots can be great.
There is a
great Italian artist called Vadis who created hundreds of individual hand-drawn
stickers and placed them all over Dublin. They were usually done on an orange
or yellow self-adhesive paper. So for me quality would be most important but
some artists can have both!
I also
love the simple 'Hello My Name Is' stickers that are found everywhere. And some
of the graphically design illustration and printed stickers are very cool. In
these cases quantity seemed to be priority and it worked!
Can you share us your opinion about
sticker art?
The slap
tag or sticker is an essential and exciting part of a vibrant urban art scene
and Dublin Urban Art especially loves documenting it. When you are clued in to
the sticker scene you notice that any walk around your city is never boring and
your head and eyes are always moving from left to right scanning the
walls, lamp posts, doorways etc of your immediate environment looking for
your next visual fix which usually comes in the form of sticker art. It is the
most abundant form of expression on the street and most graffiti and street
artists I know have done some from of sticker art over the years.
Terima kasih Dublin Urban Art! Suatu kisah yang menarik untuk dibagi. Semoga lancar dan sukses kedepan dan tetap mengaum!
Foto: Arsip pribadi Dublin Urban Art
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