Awesome Hungarian Street Art Should Have Credited Chris Ware
There is something special about this fantastic Nefelejcs Project painted by the Budapest-based group Merge Invisible. They are righteous retaliations against the symptomatic destruction of Hungary’s historical houses and their replacement with ugly, new, cheap, badly built buildings: They paint orphaned brick firewalls once anchored to the razed building with “x-ray” images of its past life — floors, rooms, people. Bravo, really! But the other special thing is a style similarity any Chris Ware fan would notice: the particular minimal outline design, the rounded stick-figuresque characters, the very concept architectural X-rays… Coincidence? Perchance, but a credit would have been nice.
by Marina Galperina on December 15, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Editor-in-Chief:
hi dear,
it's Ipek from Merge Invisible,first of all thanx for posting our wall, and thanx for your grats and also for mentioning Chris Ware. To say it frankly we would have put a credit if his name had sound familiar for us – here in remote HUngary
so it is really a coincidence, as we were informed about an other guy from Taiwan making something like our wall – but it only shows that World is small enough to make the same things around
cheers from rainy Budapest
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