Under the auspices of the Festival of Reconstruction, an important anni- versary for Belgrade’s independent art scene was celebrated – 20 years since the rst collective, public drawing of gra ti, which took place in the yard of King Petar I Primary School. To mark this occasion, in the same place, under the recognisable label “United Colours of Belgrade” of Belgrade-based art collective “Paint Kartel”, 15 new works were creat- ed through the combined e orts of around 20 artists and art collectives from the country, the region and further a eld. By combining authors with di erent approaches to street art – from pioneers of the domes- tic scene who returned to drawing after a break of many years, via ac-
tive gra ti artists, to muralists with various visual poetics - Belgrade re- ceived an impressive and signi cant collective work on a wall covering a length of nearly 50 metres, which will serve as a further incentive for all artists wanting to show their creativity in a public space. The partic- ipants included: Nikola Radojčić - Brothers Burazeri and Sub Zero (Ser- bia), Petar Popović – Piros (Serbia), Akira (Serbia), Weedzor (Serbia), Mosk (Croatia), Xymo and Rule (Serbia), Deroks (Serbia) , Branko Tešević - Rage (Serbia), Sensi (Serbia), Easy (Serbia), Japon (Spain), Skirl (Aus- tria), Das Drogen (Serbia), Nikola Mihajlović (Serbia) and the winner of the competition for young muralists – Jobah .
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Initially planned as two independent“neigh- bouring” murals, the works on Mike Alasa Street – authored jointly by Tijana Tripković and Barbara Dimić, from studio“Kriška”, and an artist whose works are known to the Belgrade public under the signature‘Super Timor’– merged during the creation process to form an unexpected whole. Visually delicate illustrative poetics intertwined with powerful socially-en- gaged messages, which characterises Tijana and Barbara’s work, merged with unexpect- ed ease with Timor’s spontaneous, extremely graphically reductionist wall“funny interven- tions” that function as maps of the atmosphere of the space in which they emerge, creating a completely new and magical“piece of territo- ry” that immediately draws the observer in with its unpretentiousness and the impression that the edges of the walls can in no way represent the boundaries of this weightless, simple world.
Isprva planirani kao dva nezavisna „komšijska“ murala, radovi u Ulici Mike Alasa, čije su autorke Tijana Tripković i Barbara Dimić iz studija Kriška i umetnik čiji su radovi beo- gradskoj publici poznati po potpisu Super Timor, u procesu nastanka srasli su u neočeki- vanu celinu. Vizuelno nežna ilustratorska poetika protkana snažnim društvenoangažo- vanim porukama, koja karakteriše Tijanin i Barbarin rad, neočekivano lako srasla je sa Timorovim spontanim, grafički vrlo svedenim zidnim „doskočicama“, koje funkcionišu kao mape atmosfere prostora u kojem nastaju, kreirajući potpuno novo i magično „par- če teritorije“ koje posmatrača odmah uvlači svojom nepretencioznošću i utiskom da ivi- ce zidova nikako ne mogu biti granice tog bestežinskog, jednostavnog sveta.
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