Grafiti Di Zaman Moderen

Adanya kelas-kelas sosial yang terpisah terlalu jauh menimbulkan kesulitan bagi masyarakat golongan tertentu untuk mengekspresikan kegiatan seninya. Akibatnya beberapa individu menggunakan sarana yang hampir tersedia di seluruh kota, yaitu dinding.

Pendidikan kesenian yang kurang menyebabkan objek yang sering muncul di grafiti berupa tulisan-tulisan atau sandi yang hanya dipahami golongan tertentu. Biasanya karya ini menunjukkan ketidak puasan terhadap keadaan sosial yang mereka alami.

Meskipun grafiti pada umumnya bersifat merusak dan menyebabkan tingginya biaya pemeliharaan kebersihan kota, namun grafiti tetap merupakan ekspresi seni yang harus dihargai. Ada banyak sekali seniman terkenal yang mengawali karirnya dari kegiatan grafiti.

GRAFFITI IN MALAYSIA

IT WAS a proud moment for KDU College Penang when its team won second place at the Hip-Hop Graffiti Competition held at Gurney Plaza in Penang recently.
KDU College Penang students at the Hip-Hop Graffiti Competition.

More than 30 students from various colleges took part in the competition sponsored by Gurney Plaza.

KDU College Penang sent five teams. Uchi Khor, a second year Interior Design student and Teoh Lee Chen, a second year Digital Art and Design student, won honours for the college.

The participants were required to show their creativity using letters drawn with markers as well as cryptic and colourful spray paint.

The designs reflected the students’ interest in energy conservation activities and their concern about real world problems.

Uchi Khor said: “Society should use graffiti as it is a powerful medium for artistic expression which deepens peoples’ understanding of the world around them.”

“The competition enabled us to be creative and was also compelling and inspiring. Graffiti is a reflection of the unique and multi-faceted communications medium,” said Teoh Lee Chen.

The college's Design Institute head Tan Cheng Keat said: “This was an excellent opportunity for the students to showcase their artwork.”

GRAFFITI IN SINGAPORE

A arts, cultural and activities venue for Singapore’s youth located at the heart of Orchard Road – received a facelift earlier today. This morning saw the unveiling of a 3 storey (12m x 42m) mural titled “evo*scape”. It was a rather laid back event, with cheerleaders kickstarting, oops, we mean kicking start the unveiling.


Guest-of-honour, Parliamentary Secretary for Community Development, Youth and Sports, Mr. Teo Ser Luck spearheaded the unveiling of the mural this morning. Mr. Teo tried his hand at graffiti by personally spraypainting two shuttlecocks onto the mural.
The mural is the proud product of 20 artistes who are part of Hothoused, a *scape visual arts collective where 20 graffiti and visual artistes are housed onsite to lend their diverse talents to social discourse. This is their way of showing support for Singapore’s bid to host the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in 2010.The 20 graffiti artistes hail from different backgrounds which include graffiti art, film, photography, illustration and sculpting.