around 14.30 PM, shortly after they have timidly begun to spray first surfaces, you will pass by a box truck the city police. For each of the seasoned graffiti artist that would be the dream situation: in Front of the eyes of the police officers in the public Terrain spray to cool – on the Street-Cred scale, and you get a smooth 10. But Miriam Meier, Therese Fischer and Doris Tognazzo not notice the police at all, as much as you are engrossed in your task. Understandable, it is, after all, her first Time on the wall, that means of pure excitement.

At this point it should be necessarily mentioned that the three women do nothing Illegal, you have to be Latvians their public graffiti premiere at the top, whose walls are officially for Street Art released – which is why the plants that occur here, it usually takes too quickly (so übersprayt); even the big names of the scene to enjoy in this sought-after Rayon no special status.

Item. Much more interesting is the manifest break with the stereotype is. Finally, it is said, older people in Graffiti and co. don’t see much more than a defaced walls and walls and were sometimes awful to the young people Tunichtgute. And yet three of them are now and produce the highest such “graffiti” – incidentally, under the guidance of a Street artist.

it’s All legal: At the top of the Latvians, the walls are officially for Street Art is released.

Actually, you would have been five, says Laurence Landerts, said artist, but two people were unable to be present. The multi-part course was taught in the four women and a man free a lot of specialist knowledge – including the nerdy Details such as the names of the various Caps (spray heads) – is for the young woman, so to speak, a test, that is to say, the practical part of your ZHDK-training to become a Adult instructor in the area of arts and Design.

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Landerts by Ulrike Liebert, the company “wants to help Generation, 65 plus,” Senior citizens in different areas of life, more independence and the Foundation of old dwellings (SAW) a mandate was Hired. Et voilà – that’s because the 63-year-old Miriam Meier and the 65-year-old Doris Tognazzo rent such a SAW-flat and the 76-year-old Therese Fischer had visited a Gaming Workshop by Liebert, you will be become within a few weeks, to graffiti novices. The spraying today, on this frosty Monday on the basis of self-made stencils, a first work on the Latvians wall.

Full graffiti novice Doris “Zita” Tognazzo focused.

In Tognazzo, it is her deceased German shepherd, whose name Zita is now as an artist name used. The former bookseller says she’s encountered the Street type always open, but the recess have kissed her a sleeping creative side awake, it was super. Fischer – Pseudonym “Thaski”, which moved recently from Aargau to Zürich back (“because more is running”), created a fish that complains but in the case of the execution with itself (“Stupid, these course drops”).

Meier – artist name “Flor” (she conjures impressive on the wall) – since the youth days, as a leisure artist and has opened a few years ago a Studio in the Malbegeisterte can let off steam. She says the course was very great, that they had decided together to deepen their Graffiti Skills to the next summer – “of course, in the case of Laurence, we are going to engage then, at their own expense”.

Created: 12.11.2019, 16:03 PM