BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
One of the most successful mural festivals in Europe is shifting the focus to the sculptural, considering seriously the public interaction with objects in the 3rd dimension.
LUMP for UNIQA Art Łódź Project. Łódź, Poland. August 2016. (photo © Michał Bieżyński)
6 years of Łódź Murals is now giving way to the UNIQA Art Łódź Project and, by years end. 6 new artists will be installing temporary and permanent sculptures, bas-reliefs, installations, and site-specific realizations in this Polish city of 722,000.
Today we have the first series of installations that reclaim public advertising columns as oversize kitchen objects commonly found in Poland during the 1950s-1980s, when this country was called The Polish People’s Republic.
LUMP for UNIQA Art Łódź Project. Łódź, Poland. August 2016. (photo © Michał Bieżyński)
A subtle ode to a period that the new generation of Millenials will not be familiar, the “Kingsize” project by the artist named LUMP recreates a coffee machine, vacuum flask, pepper shaker, jub, washing machine, and seltzer bottle that all would have been common in homes during those decades.
The three month installation along Piotrkowska Street by the Szczecin-based artist are meant to revive a sort of common memory, if not a longing for an earlier time – or maybe just to remind you of Grandma’s kitchen.
LUMP for UNIQA Art Łódź Project. Łódź, Poland. August 2016. (photo © Michał Bieżyński)
“ Łódź’s murals are famous all over the world and have become major icons of the city,” UNIQA director Michał Bieżyński, as he explains his new vision for these new artworks in the city that people can view from a different perspective.
“Diverse materials and technologies will be employed to make the project as varied as possible. It is essential that residents be presented with the broadest possible range of graphic solutions so that the project, beside the purely artistic format, will offer some visual education.”
LUMP for UNIQA Art Łódź Project. Łódź, Poland. August 2016. (photo © Michał Bieżyński)
LUMP for UNIQA Art Łódź Project. Łódź, Poland. August 2016. (photo © Michał Bieżyński)
LUMP for UNIQA Art Łódź Project. Łódź, Poland. August 2016. (photo © Michał Bieżyński)
LUMP for UNIQA Art Łódź Project. Łódź, Poland. August 2016. (photo © Michał Bieżyński)
Our most sincere thanks to Mr. Bieżyński for sharing this project in exclusive with BSA. For more about UNIQA Art Łódź Project visit:
https://instagram.com/lodzmurals
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