Blu Mural in Kreuzberg übermalt (Update)

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Krasse Nummer: Das weltberühmte Blu Mural an der Kreuzberger Cuvry-Brache wurde schwarz übermalt. Der Künstler selbst ist den Gerüchten nach dafür verantwortlich. Die neusten Bilder bei Tage zeigen, dass die beiden Gemälde tatsächlich komplett übermalt wurden. Auch der Stinkefinger ist weg.

blu - black
blu – black

Update: Das offizielle Statement von Blu

In 2007 and 2008 i painted two walls at Cuvrystraße in Berlin (with the support of Lutz, Artitude and its volunteers) in 2014, after witnessing the changes happening in the surrounding area during the last years, we felt it was time to erase both walls.

blu ist das neue schwarz Foto @MarcHonninger
blu ist das neue schwarz
Foto @hellolivinlarge

Das verzweifelte Statement, das aus dem Umfeld des Künstler Blu stammen soll:

And it is not the city of Berlin doing that, neither it is the real estate developers who want to build a new residential complex at this empty spot.

In fact, it is being done by the people related to BLU — the artist who made this painting.

With his consent.

A sort of desperate statement: having learned that a new house would be built at that spot with a panning view on the paintings (that would be kept on the wall), the artists decided to paint them all black, so that nobody can take advantage of the original work. In a way, it is a “fuck you” gesture towards the city, towards the real estate company, but most of all – to all the people who love this artwork and everything that it’s come to represent.

The argument of the people who are doing that is that Berlin is not the same anymore, that the real estate company will just use the artwork to sell apartments more expensive, that a new statement needs to be made… In a way, they are doing exactly what the artwork says: “reclaim your city”.

But their way of “reclaiming” Berlin is actually accepting their own loss. Accepting that they cannot win the fight. Losing the hope. Sinking the ship that is already drowning.

It’s an act of total despair, pessimistic at its core, devoid of any faith, belief and hope.

The only hope that it has is to make a statement. But that statement is of a negative kind. The sailors of the sinking ship decide to take the ship that is already sinking with a big Bang. So that at least, after they sink, they are remembered.

A gesture that is full of anguish. Attempting to gain control where it cannot exist anymore. And very symptomatic of street art and contemporary art in general: full of irrelevant ego-driven explosions within the small bubbles that nobody cares about anyway.

A gesture that is also full of hypocrisy. The people who are destroying the artwork say that they act from BLU’s consent. They say that he doesn’t want to help real estate companies sell their apartments better. But he does not seem to mind that those same real estate companies inadvertently provide canvases for his own artwork to sell better…

via Polysingularity

DDOS-Attacken oder überlastete Server?

Einige Seiten, die diese Meldung ebenfalls brachten waren zwischenzeitlich nicht zu erreichen. Es wurden DDOS Attacken vermutet. Viel wahrscheinlicher ist allerdings, das der Andrang auf diese Seiten so hoch war, dass die Server in die Knie gingen.

Weitere Bilder und Tweets der vergangenen Nacht:

blu is the new black
blu is the new black, gif von @ivvos

Und so entstand das Mural damals:

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  3. […] A gesture that is also full of hypocrisy. The people who are destroying the artwork say that they act from BLU’s consent. They say that he doesn’t want to help real estate companies sell their apartments better. But he does not seem to mind that those same real estate companies inadvertently provide canvases for his own artwork to sell better…” Quelle und weitere Informationen […]

  7. […] Nachdem Kräne gestern Abend mit der Übermalung des Murals begannen, wurde zunächst über ein Zutun der Stadt und von Investoren spekuliert, da der Eigentümer der Cuvrybrache auf dem Gelände (wahrscheinlich nicht billige) Wohngebäude bauen lassen und deren Wert durch das Wandgemälde selbst erhöhen will. Nachdem jedoch die oberste Hand des Murals plötzlich als Stinkefinger auftauchte, war eigentlich schnell klar, dass nur der Künstler selbst dahinter stecken kann (via Blogrebellen). […]

  15. „But he does not seem to mind that those same real estate companies inadvertently provide canvases for his own artwork to sell better…“

    If he did mind, how would he express that?

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