A New Book Repaints the Legacy of Street Art by Spotlighting Women Leading the Genre — Colossal

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Medianeras, “The Crystal Ship” (2021) in Ostend, Belgium. All pictures courtesy of the artists and Prestel, shared with authorization

For street artists, the urban landscape is an infinite canvas. Regardless of whether wheat pasted, sprayed, or layered with brushes, lively compositions revitalize community spaces and deliver an at any time-evolving barometer of the political weather and latest affairs. The style has been historically dominated by adult men, but a new ebook by journalist Alessandra Mattanza and Museum of City and Modern Art founder Stephanie Utz shifts the dial.

Women of all ages Road Artists spotlights the diverse techniques of 24 graffiti and mural artists hailing from close to the globe who do the job in a variety of kinds, from huge-scale community tasks like Camilla Falsini’s lively pavement composition in Milan to placing interventions like Olek’s pink, crocheted coverlet for “Charging Bull,” Wall Street’s masculine bronze sculpture. Each and every finds walls, sidewalks, demolished buildings, jail cells, grain silos, and other nontraditional surfaces to convey strategies all over feminism and empowerment, body imagery, racism, the climate disaster, and other essential issues.

You can uncover a duplicate of Girls Avenue Artists on Bookshop.org, accessible now in the U.K. and scheduled for release in the U.S. on December 6.

Elle, “Ruth Bader Ginsburg” (2020) in New York Town

Camilla Falsini, “Tactical Urban Arranging Intervention” (2020) in Milan, Italy. Image by Jungle Agency

#LEDIESIS, “Superwomen” (2019) in Italy

Olek, “Charging Bull” (2010), Wall Road, New York City

Christina Angelina in collaboration with Ease A person (2015) in Miami, Florida

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