Athens Art
3/7/09
Got back from Athens, Greece the other day. Athens is nuts. Full of junkies, anarchists, and tons of great street art.
I don't know what I expected, but I guess when you see all the tourist shit you think you are going to walk into a quaint little town with tons of white buildings and everybody drinking ouzo and eating feta cheese. Don't get me wrong, that is part of Greece too, but for me, I like it dirty. I started to look around for the shitty parts of town. The parts of town that were near lawless. I found plenty, and along the way I found some amazing art too. For the most part, Athens is an aerosol playground. The cops don't really seem to care what the fuck you do.
Peep some of the flicks I took while I was there:
Always interesting, C215
There was tons of anarchy graffiti, but it wasnt some pseudo punk rock type of shit. These dudes were the real deal. The week before I got there, they took an AK-47 and opened up fire on a police station, then did it again the week later. They also set fires to banks and multinational chain stores.
BOING
Alexandros Vasmoulakis
This guy has some massive fucking murals everywhere around Greece. Gotta give him props for getting up as much as he was. It's hard to see, but there are little bits of fabric glued onto the walls as part of this piece.
This was on the other side of the wall from where the Twins has painted. Weather claimed part of it, but it's still dope.
The Twins
More Anarchy graf
Alexandros Vasmoulakis again.
Alexandros Vasmoulakis. This isnt a billboard. it's hand painted. nuts
C215
B.
The Twins wall w tons of others.
This was the facade of a bank that had been torched with a molatov cocktail
The Twins
LIFO. Tons of rollers from Lifo around the city. This is the only one I managed to snap a pic of.
Anarchy!!!
a playground for artists
Inside this tunnel was covered w tags, pieces, and throwups. no one cared if you painted here. Check below to see what it looks like inside:
B.
Vizie. I liked this dudes stuff too.
Joad
Demer. Straight from NY/NJ to Athens!
B.
I don't know who this was, but I really liked this piece.
Alexandros Vasmoulakis. Again, this was hand painted!
B.
This was a mural dedicated to Alexandros Grigoropoulos who was shot by the cops back in December. His death was what sparked the Greek riots that lasted for weeks.
The Twins
B.
I don't know what I expected, but I guess when you see all the tourist shit you think you are going to walk into a quaint little town with tons of white buildings and everybody drinking ouzo and eating feta cheese. Don't get me wrong, that is part of Greece too, but for me, I like it dirty. I started to look around for the shitty parts of town. The parts of town that were near lawless. I found plenty, and along the way I found some amazing art too. For the most part, Athens is an aerosol playground. The cops don't really seem to care what the fuck you do.
Peep some of the flicks I took while I was there:
Always interesting, C215
There was tons of anarchy graffiti, but it wasnt some pseudo punk rock type of shit. These dudes were the real deal. The week before I got there, they took an AK-47 and opened up fire on a police station, then did it again the week later. They also set fires to banks and multinational chain stores.
BOING
Alexandros Vasmoulakis
This guy has some massive fucking murals everywhere around Greece. Gotta give him props for getting up as much as he was. It's hard to see, but there are little bits of fabric glued onto the walls as part of this piece.
This was on the other side of the wall from where the Twins has painted. Weather claimed part of it, but it's still dope.
The Twins
More Anarchy graf
Alexandros Vasmoulakis again.
Alexandros Vasmoulakis. This isnt a billboard. it's hand painted. nuts
C215
B.
The Twins wall w tons of others.
This was the facade of a bank that had been torched with a molatov cocktail
The Twins
LIFO. Tons of rollers from Lifo around the city. This is the only one I managed to snap a pic of.
Anarchy!!!
a playground for artists
Inside this tunnel was covered w tags, pieces, and throwups. no one cared if you painted here. Check below to see what it looks like inside:
B.
Vizie. I liked this dudes stuff too.
Joad
Demer. Straight from NY/NJ to Athens!
B.
I don't know who this was, but I really liked this piece.
Alexandros Vasmoulakis. Again, this was hand painted!
B.
This was a mural dedicated to Alexandros Grigoropoulos who was shot by the cops back in December. His death was what sparked the Greek riots that lasted for weeks.
The Twins
B.
posted by workhorse at 8:58 AM
3 Comments:
Nice to see all the dope as art work from Greece ..
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Yep, some wicked stuff in there....... Liked Vizie's stuff also.... like old icon painting style..... nice to see brushwork on the streets... takes a lot of patience and time!
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