Digital Young

Now, what about these ones?

What kind of a message is this? And there’s a new communication function: stencils militate for something, they encode a bad practice that has to be changed. Again, the anonymity in which the “urban artist” wraps himself gives him the quality that the clown from royal court had in Medieval times or the musician of little towns (troubadours) had, and that is to represent the voice of the “people”, to militate for something that has be changed. In a very ironical way.

In this case it’s about re-invention and re-design of Self. Why this message in Bucharest or, largely, in Romania? It militates against boredom and uniformity. Of who? Of people, of minds, of attitudes. Therefore this message aims civic attitude; against acceptance without rationality. Or at least this is how I see it.

And here you have a stencil with only aesthetic function: