Stencil in Athens, Wall races vol.II

Stencil in Athens, Wall races vol.II

New, immediate, subversive, flexible and quite iconic, stencil graffiti appeared on the walls of cities at the beginning of the decade of zeros and came to stir the waters of "purity" in the urban landscape of modern megacities. Part of meta-graffiti, the new trend in the subversive space of public wall intervention, the stencil has earned its place in global and Athenian "wall culture". It is an art as well as a technique. It is an aesthetic intervention but also a social criticism. It is a multifaceted phenomenon that brings together the hitherto different traditions in aesthetic and social intervention in the public space, changes the way we see and experience the urban landscape, thus changing our city itself. Stencil in Athens, Murals vol. II contains photographic material from the walls of Athens, and is a complete record of this new street aesthetic.

Stencil in Athens, Wall races vol.II

A few words about the creators

Dimitris Theodosis was born in Piraeus and has been involved in photography and collage for over 25 years. He has made slideshows with the main theme of travel photography, in various parts of Athens. From time to time he has shown part of his work in exhibitions at the Stavlos gallery (2002), the art section of the European Forum Against Globalization (2006), the Manifactura gallery (2006), the Bacaro gallery (2007) and the Municipal Market of Kypseli ( 2007). His slideshows of a socio-political nature have been shown in various places in Athens, while for the last 2 years his exhibition on Street Art has been shown in Athens at the Bacaro gallery. For the last five years, he has been mainly involved in street photojournalism.

Pausanias Karathanasis is a PhD candidate in social anthropology and his research topic is the role of cultural and artistic events in the development of the divided Nicosia. In recent years, he mainly deals with issues and actions of the urban space like graffiti, but he is also involved creatively with the city by photographing it, writing about it, discussing it and above all living it. English translation: Lydia Athanasopoulou