Artist Paints Over Graffiti Tags And Makes It Readable

2016-07-25

Graffiti tags… A pleasure to a few and an ugliness to the rest. The tricky bit is that it’s almost hopeless to fight it, and knowing that full well, French artist Mathieu Tremblin has come up with a unique plan. Instead of just painting over them, he decided to rewrite them in distinct letters.

After graduating from the university of fine arts, Tremblin started working with street art. From urban intrusions to graffiti painting, the artist was exploring the street culture and figuring out how it works and what fuels people who take part in it.

That’s how he came up with Tag Clouds project:

“Tag Clouds principle is to replace the all-over of graffiti calligraphy by readable translations like the clouds of keywords which can be found on the Internet,” Tremblin describes his project. “It shows the analogy between a physical tag and virtual tag, both in the form and in substance.“

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