Bloherfelde Five years ago, legal graffiti in the TuS Bloherfelde gym was published with the launch event “Oldenburg becomes Oldenbunt”. The fifth anniversary was the occasion of a new graffiti festival. On Saturday and Sunday, 15 sprayers showed their skills at Brandsweg 56. In addition, the sports club, the prevention council and the Probierwerk association have drawn up an interim assessment. An abrupt model for Renke Harms, head of the graffiti workshop of the Prevention Council and president of the Probierwerk association. “We need more legal spaces to give more space to the graffiti of the art movement now established in Oldenburg. Motorway and rail bridges would offer themselves,” he told city council representatives Margrit Conty (SPD) and Andrea Hufeland (Greens). They gladly accepted the request. The task of politics is clear, art needs space, says Andrea Hufeland. “This is not only an issue for youth and prevention, but it also belongs to the Culture Committee.” Margrit Conty also sees the need for more space, “so bridges could offer higher experience value for everyone passing by.” Renke Harms announced that it would develop a concept that included an updated plan of possible land locations. The aim is to provide legal spaces for graffiti artists and to bring this art form closer to the people of Oldenburg. “By the way, the city is becoming more and more colorful and friendly,” says Harms. “Three to five times a year, the room is completely different,” says Uwe Gröber, who documents this change in photographic form.
Over the years, the artistic quality has also greatly improved in all areas. “There is also less illegal graffiti. This observation is confirmed not only by Klaus Vogt, for the district of Bloherfelde, but also by Rolf Cramer of the city police. “There used to be more than 1,000 ads a year, now there are well under 1,000. There are certainly several reasons for this, but the creation of legal spaces is one of them. “When we made our first contacts, there was great indignation at first. “Now graffiti must also be legalized,” the district said. At the launch event, things were very different,” reports Klaus Vogt from the Bloherfelde Citizens` Association. According to Vogt, it is thanks to TuS Bloherfelde`s approval that the perception of graffiti among residents has changed significantly. The constant overpainting of graffiti according to certain rules is part of the self-image of the scene. The walls of the Bloherfeld gym, where sprayers can let off steam, were vacated five years ago.
A success all along the line. Because legal spraying embellishes not only gray areas, but also police statistics. Claes Oldenburg was born on 28 January 1929 in Stockholm, the son of Gösta Oldenburg[3] and his wife Sigrid Elisabeth née Lindforss. His father was then a Swedish diplomat stationed in New York and in 1936 was appointed Swedish consul general in Chicago, where Oldenburg grew up and attended the Latin School of Chicago.[4] He studied literature and art history at Yale University from 1946 to 1950,[5] then returned to Chicago, where he attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While developing his craft, he worked as a reporter for the City News Bureau in Chicago. He also opened his own studio and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1953. In 1956, he moved to New York and worked for a time at the library of the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, where he also took the opportunity to learn more about art history on his own. [6] Schraubenbogen, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Between 1969 and 1977, Oldenburg was with feminist artist and sculptor Hannah Wilke, who died in 1993.
They shared several studios and traveled together, and Wilke often photographed him.[36] Patty Mucha, who was married to Claes Oldenburg from 1960 to 1970, first met him after moving to New York in 1957 to become an artist. When Oldenburg painted portraits, Mucha became one of his nudes[34] before becoming his first wife. A drawing of Oldenburg by Mucha entitled Pat Reading in Bed, Lenox, 1959[35] is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. She collaborated at the Oldenburg happenings, developing ideas together, making the costumes together, and was also a performer in the play, in addition to collaborating on happenings, she also sewed her famous hamburger on the floor, ice cream and cake. Muncha was the lead singer of The Druds, a group of artists such as Andy Warhol, LaMonte Young, Lucas Samaras and Walter DeMaria before Velvet Underground. It has been two years since the project was first launched. On an area of about 1000 square meters, local and non-local graffiti artists brought their colorful works with aerosol cans on the gigantic pillars of the bridge of motorway 28 over the Hunte over Niedersachsendamm. At that time, the campaign was part of a colourful support programme. In the 1960s, Oldenburg was associated with the Pop Art movement and created many so-called happenings, which were productions related to the performance art of the time.
The name he gave to his own productions was “Ray Gun Theater”. Among the colleagues who appeared in her performances were artists Lucas Samaras, Tom Wesselmann, Carolee Schneemann, Oyvind Fahlstrom and Richard Artschwager, gallery owner Annina Nosei, critic Barbara Rose, and screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer. [8] His first wife (1960-1970) Patty Mucha[12] (Patricia Muchinski),[13] who sewed many of his early soft sculptures, was a constant performer in his happenings. His cheeky, often humorous approach to art contrasted sharply with the prevailing sensibility that art, by its very nature, was interested in “profound” expressions or ideas. But Oldenburg`s fiery art first found a niche, then great popularity, which continues to this day.