Street Art at the crossroads

EDITO #80 | December 2024 – January 2025

Street Art is making headlines more than ever through media coverage, the success of exhibitions such as We Are Here at the Petit Palais in Paris (extended until 19 January) and its acquisition by major private and institutional collections. Yet, at the same time, sales in both the primary and secondary markets are dwindling. We need a new impulse and a sensible approach to art investment, whose key points I had the opportunity to outline on the show Tout pour Investir aired on BFM Business TV.
This issue takes us back to the roots of the movement with L’art dans la rue – 40 ans d’aventures urbaines (Art in the Street – 40 Years of Urban Adventures), the landmark exhibition held at the Notre-Dame Abbey in Bernay, France, where we revisit the trends and styles we have been showcasing in our pages since 2008. Beneath the thousand-year-old arches of this historic site, the intersection of Street Art and heritage reaches a pinnacle.
Initiatives to foster dialogue between heritage sites and Street Art are multiplying, and this issue of GraffitiART takes a look at that dialogue, where street artists’ techniques are introduced to sites built in eras when spray paint, stencils, and collages did not exist. Street art is also taking on large housing estates to give them a new lease of life and a new direction. Let’s take the temperature of these initiatives in Łódź in Poland. Once again, we will explore the diversity of Street Art, with the Spanish duo PichiAvo, who reconcile classical aesthetics with graffiti. Meanwhile, the geometric potential of Street Art is put to the test by Tania Mouraud and her labyrinthine lettering and lines; by Remi Rough, whose style combines constructivism, minimalism, and geometric abstraction; by Scaf and his 3D bestiary, masterfully executed using anamorphosis; and finally, by FenX and his pop-culture-inspired female silhouettes.
For those who haven’t seen it yet, the 2024 Guide to Contemporary Urban Art is available on newsstands and our online shop shop.graffitartmagazine.com.
Last but not least, we will be at District 13 at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris from 10 to 12 January 2025.

Street Art : double or quits.

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