Massive Paint Attack in Berlin
Public Guerilla Art
Introduction
The Rosenthaler Platz in Berlin is a victim of a massive paint attack which took place there yesterday. Several liters of paint made a colorful chaos...
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Yesterday a massive paint attack happened in the heart of Berlin! The Rosenthaler Platz, which is the center of one of Berlin’s creative areas (a lot of street art and nice galleries can be found around it!) was repainted.
The whole action took only a few seconds:
“…bikers had poured paint from big boxes in front of cars that waited for green lights. So the cars and their wheels, if the driver wanted it or not, became the brush tool for this guerilla public art piece.
I could gather the info that the action had no commercial background but can rather be connected to the movement and idea of “Reclaim the City”. Activists taped posters on the lights reading washable, organic, biodegradable to ensure that the paint did no real long term harm to the junction. I still think that most of those car drivers will freak out back home seeing their wheels and body colored over and over…”
(dkomm.wordpress.com)
Guerilla Art or Marketing?
Although it’s maybe one of these guerilla marketing actions, it’s a quite nice idea and a great realization, ’cause the whole painting was done by the public! If you ask me, all the streets should have such a powerful coating.
Today, I took some shots of the colorful chaos – Take a look, right there on berlinpiraten.de!
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Jens (Website) on May 15, 2010
schade, dass es schon so schnell wieder weg war.
brenna (Website) on May 17, 2010
yeah, to bad that the paint was gone that fast…but hey, nobody holds you back to do such an action again ;-)
IEPE (Website) on September 2, 2010
it wasn’t me it wasn’t me … ;-)
check out the official video! just premiered online:
http://painting.iepe.net