The mural is one of the classic attractions of Brussels. The tours offered to the tourists include from scenes of comic iconic as Tintin, Lucky Luke, the Smurfs, or Asterix to achieved trompe l’oeil hyper or authentic contemporary art.
The list of fresh city account from two days ago with two new works, two murals that have not left indifferent to anyone and everything to Brussels talks, but that hardly will be part of the tourist circuit officers.
The first appeared for about ten days in the Rue des Poissoniers, wedged between the market of Sainte Catherine, the boutiques in the Dansaert and the most popular café-bars of the center. Of the night to the morning, the wall of the property appeared decorated with a scene of explicit sexual content, the genitals of a man and a woman in the act of penetration. The painting occupies the equivalent of five floors. Some neighbors took days to find out but since the media revealed its existence has become a magnet for walkers and tourists, amazed, amused and shocked in equal parts.
The painting not lacking in technical quality and immediately thought that could be the work of Bonom, a grafitti artist, of French origin, called Vincent Glowinski and which has sometimes been called the Banksy of belgium. In fact, reminiscent of one of explicit content sexual (a woman lying down jerking off decorating from 2013 and a facade of the luxurious avenue Louise and also has been attributed, without confirmation by your part. The artist, however, did know right away that it had nothing to do with the mural.
a Few days later, as if it was a game or a challenge among artists they were, were the residents of the neighborhood of Saint-Gilles who woke up with a surprise: a giant penis in a state of rest painted on a wall a few metres of its central square. “It is our Manneken Pis. In the center have the his and now we, our, bigger,” he says, laughing good win Mary, the owner of Portuguese origin coffee Las Vegas, located under the huge member.
the author of the painting of the penis took advantage of a wall of a residential building in front of a religious school, Institut des Filles de Marie, and the reaction from the neighborhood has been less tolerant. “Yes, it is street art, but there is a limit. If it were in the center I would understand, but not here. There are small children who pass by here every day,” explains a teacher in the college, which has stopped to comment on the controversy with another neighbor of some seventy years, camera in hand, has come to see with their own eyes the work, after discovering its existence on television. “How did you climb up there?, the question intrigued and fun, giving the reason to the educator. Before leaving, the neighbor, the air tense, question: “what do Not I will have pictures by looking at it, right?”.
Both works seem doomed to destinations very different. The mural of the penis gigantic split to the municipal corporation of Saint-Gilles. A few considered it a provocation unacceptable, the other, a legitimate form of street art. Finally, following the complaints of the school, the city Hall of Saint Gilles decided yesterday to do away with work in the next few weeks.
The owner of the building is learned by the media that his wall had become the canvas of a street artist and declares himself shocked by who have been able to do it without being noticed, by the topic… Not denies artistic quality to the work, but also refuses to delete it, as proposed by the Council, but do not want to bear the costs and fears that the wall appears repainted in a short time. the One of the solutions being considered is to convene a competition to select and agree upon a work with which to decorate the space.
the work of The centre, although much less explicit, will survive. The full city Council decided yesterday to leave the mural as is. Meanwhile, the mystery about the authorship of the murals still no answer.
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