Imagine waking up to a rainbow every day outside your window. It might help to color your perspective for the better, don’t you think? After filming a documentary in 2005 about Hip Hop in Rio and Sao Paulo, Dutch artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn, known as the artistic duo Haas&Hahn, worked with local youth to bring art to the favelas of Brazil. Now they have plans to bring the this kind of colorful work to New York’s public housing. Their work in Brazil is currently on exhibit at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City, in part to persuade the bureaucratic powers that be to bring such colorful inspiration to the Big Apple. I can’t help but be drawn to this type of work. To me, it demonstrates that art can work in powerful ways to bring communities together, to draw attention to those often ignored and to show that beauty can be found and made in the most unsuspecting places.
*P.S. I know that today is Wednesday but Eidolon has been keeping me so busy that I missed posting on Art Tuesday. When I came across this work, I couldn’t help to share, so I’m posting Art Tuesday on Wednesday 😉
This is awesome!!
very cool. glad you fit art tuesday in even if on wednesday.