“This art and text project by Caroline Koebel and Kyle Schlesinger is a loving drift through the streets of Berlin to examine and to be inspired by its raw, lively, lustful, sometimes esoteric stencil culture. Exquisitely photographed, this work plays in the in betweens of poetics and politics, the trivial and the insightful, the amusing and the disturbing, the immediate and the aloof. One way or another, this book will seduce you”. -Critical Art Ensemble
SCHABLONE BERLIN: an evening with Caroline Koebel and Kyle Schlesinger | Mutimedia presentation, reading and book launch | Thursday, March 9, 7 p.m. | Big Orbit Gallery, 30 d Essex St. | Free
ABOUT THE BOOK: SCHABLONE BERLIN is an artist’s book as well as a book of documentation, presenting stencil graffiti from the streets of contemporary Berlin. The book consists of over 100 color photographs showing not only the graffiti, but also its placement within the confines of Germany’s most international metropolis. The introduction examines the semiotic and performative aspects of stencil graffiti within the contexts of art history, media and urban anthropology.
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