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Wine and gastronomy will be the theme of this year’s Colorful Budapest Festival – PHOTOS, VIDEO
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Wine and gastronomy will be the main theme of this year’s Colorful City Budapest Festival (Színes Város Budapest Fesztivál). The event offers local and foreign street artists the opportunity to display their skills and talents by creating colorful murals on city’s firewalls in various spots designated for displaying artworks.
The annual event, which was launched four years ago shows that there is a great demand for high quality street art not only among artists but also among the general public said Deputy Mayor Alexandra Szalay-Bobrovniczky at the opening press-conference on Thursday.
The deputy mayor emphasized that Berlin would be the highlighted partner of this year’s festival, and as a result, more German street artists invited to take part in the event.
Colorful City Group
According to the official site, the Colorful City is the first association, which colors public spaces.The civil based project has formed itself to be a movement from the very beginning, because coloring up public spaces in a legal way was unknown before 2008, the time we launched the initiative of Colorful City Project. The basic idea is built on Victor Vasarely’s Colorful City concept, published in 1983, which bottom line is for art to set foot on the streets, public spaces and that people should not only meet with fine art pieces in galleries.
Our lightpainting partner is LaLuz Visuals, our pedagogical partner is PPP.
So far, the Colorful City have colored 15, 000 sqm of wall surface.
Introduction of the problem, possible solutions
The problem at hand is that the city we live in is at many spots grey and alienating. The public spaces are neglected, making it hard to love and protect them. This leads to degradation and depletion. It is easy to see that this way the space loses its public function. We also feel threatened by the fact that almost exclusively advertisements, commercial mediums are the only to color up our every day environment. We live in a web of suggestive, consumer stimulating messages. We would like to form collaboration against these adverts, by which, the interests of the citizens, the city and the private sector could prevail, at least to the extent as it is done now through public space advertising channels.
The areas we choose highly represent the unfolded problems. The group look for neglected arteries of the city with large pedestrian traffic. These are in our main focus, which we would like to color up with contemporary or/and functional pieces of art, making it kinder and nicer for the local community.
The Colorful City strive to change the negligence and disrepair of public spaces, to make it felt: the communities help them to stay nice in the long run.
