BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
New York Street Art watchers over the last three or four years have been familiar with the polished irony and gentle sarcasm that Enzo & Nio purvey on often appropriately chosen walls, lamp posts, electric boxes. A collection of inside jokes rendered in a handful of styles, the duo has used photorealism, collage, cartoon, and sloganeering to speak to social ills things like consumerism, surveillance, and our passive acceptance/glorification of violence in the culture, and their own fixation with the archetypal cat and mouse game between graffiti makers and the law. With wheat-pastes and custom stickers that are cryptic, poetic, smirking, inverting, almost invariably un-permissioned, each new E&N occasions a second look and a piqued moment of curiosity.
Enzo & Nio most recent installation. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BSA has published perhaps a hundred or so images of the pairs’ work over these past few years and with recent rather public news on Gallo’s Facebook page announcing their split, we scrambled through our collection to discover that we had, well, quite a collection. The nature of the Street Art conversation is one of continuous re-invention so we can’t all be shocked by change but as this mostly ephemeral scene evolves, we take a moment to recognize the space on the timeline that has marked Enzo & Nio’s eclectic and original voice delivered with a sense of marketing. Witty, salty, poignant and yes funny, here are some examples of their work on the street.
Enzo & Nio most recent installation. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Enzo & Nio most recent installation. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Enzo & Nio most recent installation. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Enzo & Nio most recent installation. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Enzo & Nio from 2011. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Enzo & Nio from 2011. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Enzo & Nio from 2011. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Enzo & Nio from 2012. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Enzo & Nio from 2012. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Enzo & Nio from 2012. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Enzo & Nio from 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Enzo & Nio from 2014. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Enzo & Nio from 2014. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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