Saturday 19 November 2011

What it feels like to live now (posted on 19/11/11)

Robert Montgomery, 'Words in the city at night' project, Billboard piece No2. Screen shot.

















Read more here.

'Robert Montgomery works in a poetic and melancholic Post-situationist tradition'. He hijacks advertising space in the city, often illegally. His work is intended to be encountered by commuters who don't know it's art, and an attempt to describe in public space what it feels like to live now.

Now this is what I call street 'art' as opposed to hilarious; naive and egoistic pointless graffiti pieces.

Nikos Georgopoulos

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