Yesterday we shared a great little film on the Nuart Festival shot by our friends from the MZM Projects team, and today we present a short two-part documentary they worked on for the 9th Annual Bien Urbain Festival in France.
The video features Berlin-based Jan Vormann, who expands on the Monumental Street Art project he introduced in Besançon last year. Imitating the multicolored oil stains left on the street by gasoline-fueled vehicles, Vormann's iridescent mosaics, which he burns into the asphalt, are a poetically ironic nod to beauty and beastly. Original, innovative and aesthetically amazing, Vormann's surprising interventions also serve as a subtle reminder of arguably the most important issue of the modern world – the environmental crisis.
Part two discusses Vormann's iconic Dispatchwork series that repairs broken structures in public space using LEGO. This practice draws in community of all ages: first, the children who cannot resist taking part in a multi-colored building spree, then adults who resist the bricks, but ruminate in the history and time spent in such structures, sharing these stories with the younger generation. "In a way, an idealistic way, it could also be that these children are the future art historians, the future mayors who will decide what will happen, and if they have a good memory about it, then maybe in 20 years, it will have changed." –Sasha Bogojev
