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The principle is simple: with a finger, a damp rag or a pressure hose, freestyle or with a stencil, reverse-graffiti* artist ALEXANDRE ORION creates work by removing dirt from walls, pavement and any other surface besmirched by pollution.
The result is brilliant; completely inoffensive to the environment and above all, not a crime. The original idea was to make a statement about pollution, by removing pollutiom with art. The idea was not only to denounce pollution, though, but also to make our world a cleaner place: after all, the only way to remove reverse graffiti, is to clean the wall on which it's been created!
ALEXANDRE ORION spended the past few years drawing skulls in the grimy tunnels of São Paulo (Brazil), his home city. At night, a bucket in hand, he goes where the cars pass, an anti-pollution mask on his face, and creates what he calls "Art Less Pollution". *launched by PAUL CURTIS aka MOOSE, 10 years ago
KEITH SCHOFIELD deserves his own post on WFW. Yeah, I've to admit it: I'm a fan of him since I post his last video for Charlotte Gainsbourg ( a.w.e.s.o.m.e by the way: I’ve watched this video like 10 times now and I”m still catching new things.)KEITH SCHOFIELD is an American director of music videos and television commercials based in Los Angeles. He received the "Best Rock Video" award at the 2008 UK Music Video Awards, for his direction of SUPERGRASS's "Bad Blood" video. The video above has been made for Diesel entitled "Diesel SFW XXX" won a Silver at the 2009 British Television Advertising Awards and a Gold Lion at Cannes Lions 2009.
Enjoy!
© maya rochat. Es stinkt der Mensch, solang er lebt. bookextract 2009 
© maya rochat. Es stinkt der Mensch, solang er lebt. bookextract 2009
© maya rochat. Es stinkt der Mensch, solang er lebt. bookextract 2009 
© maya rochat. insomnia . lambdaprints on alu-dibond 50x60 each. écal 2008 
© maya rochat. Es stinkt der Mensch, solang er lebt. bookextract 2009
This weekend I rediscovered ,in the last edition of Domus (#930), the excellent work of swiss artist MAYA ROCHAT. And I found very interesting her way of working: "My work is inevitably intimate. I photograph what I live, which worries me, what I feel."
Appliquant la méthode situationniste de la Dérive, j ‘erre dans des zones urbaines à la recherche d’athmosphères extraordinaires. Je scrute la périphérie en quête de lieux non contrôlés, organisés, aseptisés.
Je découvre comment l’homme pense et construit son décors et comme vise-versa, le décors définit l’homme et sa réalité. L’observation attentive du quotidien et des lieux où il prend place, me permet de saisir l’ambiance de la ville contemporaine et la manière donc notre environnement influe sur nos sentiments et comportements.
A la fois effrayant, extraordinaire et paradoxalement esthétique, notre décors matériel traduit une réalité de l’homme qui se révèle être confuse, mécanique, hiérarchisée. - by MAYA ROCHAT
+ illustrations by MAYA ROCHAT
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