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FRIENDS graffiti

Friends will be friends despite the coats of paint...

This was initially a graffiti like the others... And unlike others it did not get vandalized, but other graffiti artists would interact with it. FRIENDS are important to (almost) everybody.

The owner of that wall (and its building) would regularly repaint the wall and I still don´t know if out of lazyness or sympathy, he alwasy left the FRIENDS graffiti, just painting on top of it !!

The results are so compelling... Here just a few of the interactions. I am going to try to find the rest of the pictures.

The last one in ceramics is a little hommage in Barcelona to that FRIENDS graffiti in Chinatown (NY). Cause FRIENDS know no borders :)))

Project Gallery

Idée Fixe  is a Transdisciplinary Studio of Art and Architecture, run by Cristina Guadalupe Galván.

If in a website you normally find finished objects and products to share, what we are sharing here are more ideas – tested, developed and lived -- and their processes, that in many instances ended up happily physical. The creative process is about experimentation and the life that goes with it. The life and the people.

While building this site I came across a quote that explained it to me much better, by architects Josep Ferrando & Marta Poch, for their Quaderns d´Arquitectura, issue 273, THE THINKING TRADE:

      In a world dominated by images of the finished object and the immediacy of access to multimedia content, this issue of Quaderns sets out to reflect on the role of the architect –by means of their working processes, of the working methods (…) leaving the image of the built project on the background.

For artist Sol LeWitt, the process was also the work:

      The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. (...) It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned. 

Architect Josep Maria Sostres said something similar:

      The project, obviously as a mental conception, as a will to form, has a sovereignty, it has an internal power that must be imposed.

So this archive-website of Idee-Fixe, records more these ideas, processes and in many instances the collaborations that made them possible.

It´s about THE LIFE OF IDEAS.

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