Spraying what you think (Berlin)
It’s perhaps crass of the artist to make comparisons with the Stasi, but the stencil makes its point.
Sometimes puerile though often political, the simple medium of stencil art is enabling a new generation to make their point all over Europe – using striking images instead of cliched sentences.
This follows in the tradition of such groundbreaking agitprop as the Berkeley 4973 posters of the 60s. A picture tells a thousand words. And it’s difficult to shout down a drawing…