it was my last day in china… and I woke up hoping for a lot.
before I met up with nicolas, I quickly visited “graffiti park”. this is the studio/gallery of the “reload” crew, which has been active in the graffiti scene since 2004. a year ago, they had to move to an industrial area in one of the outlying districts of shanghai. unfortunately, the studio was closed, but in the alley leading there I found quite a bit of graffiti.
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then I tried to meet nicolas. I couldn’t reach him on the phone, but after our conversation yesterday, I had the feeling he’d give his all to arrive at our rendezvous. I didn’t really have any great expectations for our excursion. I was already very pleased with what I’d seen, especially given the fact that I’d come to shanghai so spontaneously.
nicolas actually arrived and had learned some useful information: on the outskirts of shanghai, at a university, there’s supposedly some graffiti under a bridge. only it was very far away and it would already have been dark when we arrived. so we opted to stay in downtown shanghai and nicolas led me around to show me his take on “graffiti”. however, this turned out to be classical paintings in shops.
he wasn’t really familiar with the type of graffiti I like and am looking for. so we forgot about the topic and walked for hours through shanghai’s smaller neighborhoods and had a nice conversation.
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when we arrived at the bund (a long promenade along the river) and the colorful “pudong” was in sight, I remembered one last tip. since the wall in moganshan road was soon to be demolished, the radisson blu hotel had already offered its parking deck as an alternative.
we went there together and as chance would have it, dezio was out spraying. I talked to him briefly and got some interesting information: in a city of 20 million inhabitants, there are only about 20 sprayers out and about, which is why you hardly find any spontaneous street art. in china, graffiti is painted over or cleaned away pretty quickly. as long as you don’t spray any political statements, graffiti is tolerated by the city officials, and artists won’t encounter any problems.
he gave me one last tip. Apparently, there is an active graffiti scene in the smaller cities of central china. something I can dream about for my next trip…
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posts about shanghai 2012
1 / street art shanghai 2012
2 / graffiti wall in moganshan road – shanghai
3 / abandonded area and the “rucker park” in shanghai
4 / “graffiti park” and the “radisson blu” in shanghai
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