A HOUSE FOR AN EGYPTIAN GRAFITTI ARTIST

Engaged socially and political, Art could lose its “sacredness” and aura, but it could gain in vivacity, vitality, vigor.

This triad - the three Vs - is essential.

The art gallery could easily seem frigid and even useless, by comparison.

To have something to protest against (life is never short in this sense) could be a blessing for art.

And this happened for the graffiti Egyptian art, once the revolution started.

It is very moving the article recently published on Yahoo News. (please see the link to it below).

The vigor of this art can with great difficulty be found in the “art world” that is spoiled and spoiling in countries less troubled.

To imagine a house for a graffiti Egyptian artist is to imagine a house that is engaged politically, that is alive, that is fresh and honest.

And it would be above and beyond fashion and branding and so on.

Such matters would inevitably be vulgar, for such a serious and vital form of art.

The Egyptian revolution was vital.

And so is the Egyptian graffiti!

In many ways, it is a lesson.

Inasmuch as the Egyptian revolution had a vitality its Western counterpart (The Occupy Wall Street movement) didn’t have.

We can still learn from contemplating, looking backwards to the Egyptian revolution, and we can learn by contemplating this Egyptian graffiti what true art is, when there is an anchoring in REAL life, REAL problems,  REAL people.

Its vitality is a resultant of this very seriousness, the gravity of the matters at hand.

How shallow much of the art in the West is, since it addresses, in fact, non-problems.

So let’s imagine A HOUSE FOR AN EGYPTIAN GRAFITTI ARTIST.

An art that does not “play games,” although it doesn’t reject humor.

This temporary, ephemeral, vulnerable fresco that a graffiti is invites to reflection.

It is very possible that a graffiti artist does not need a house. Essentially even a tent might do, or even a gutter, if this doesn’t sound unacceptably cynical. What we mean is that an artist who takes his / her feelings to the street does not really care for the weakening sweetness that accompanies a bourgeois life-style.

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http://news.yahoo.com/preserving-egypts-revolutionary-graffiti-062013460.html