Art of Asfalt is a project by a group of artists from the Balkan, who share the street as their common place of expression.
They all come from the skateboarding and street culture.
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asphalt is the place where street spirit and art galleries come together, it is giving shape to the global process through wich society and culture are undergoing today.
It expresses the essence of what is given and what is taken away, and the latter is always a public question. Asphalt is still free to BE, to exist within a person or a group, still free to share its existance with the world. Asphalt - street on an exhibiton, is a project by a group of artist who share the street as the common place of expression. They all come from the skateboarding and street culture, and use skateboard as a medium of expression.
The goal of Asphalt and its various artists is to create free thought and action.
Under this title 4 exhibitions went down: in Student Centre in Zagreb (Croatia) where beside the classical exhibition format a big concrete sculpture was build, that fused together different perspectives that present a new step in the development of urban communication and its application to the street, but at the end also gave skateboarders a chance to perform tricks on it, and with that they gave it another meaning; on the island of Korcula (Croatia) where the exhibition was a part of Ooze Festival; at the House of Culture in Pivka (Slovenia) and in the Skateboard Museum in Stuttgart (Germany).
The same group later joined forces for the “Opušteno” exhibition in June of 2009 in Tuzla (BiH) and at the 2009 Motovun film festival (Croatia) as a support for a “Why so serious?” exhibition by Puma 34.