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Graffiti brightens up garden expo

Updated: 2013-04-16 /By Liao Wei (chinadaily.com.cn)
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A graffiti activity kicked off at the ninth China (Beijing) International Garden Expo on April 15. Graffiti artists from across China are busy preparing to tag 18 concrete bridge piers supporting two rail lines that cross the garden. The graffiti activity is themed “My Dream, Beijing’s Dream, China’s Dream”.

This activity will set a world record for the largest single-themed graffiti wall. The giant bridge piers stand eight meters in height and provide a total area of 2,600 square meters for graffiti artists to paint, much larger than Wenshui Road in Shanghai, the previous record-holder with a 1,000-square-meter painting area.

The Beijing garden expo park runs across several rail lines with bare and grey bridge piers that create a poor visual effect upon the modern architectural style of the park. However, as Duan Muqi, chief designer of the garden expo said, the graffiti could turn the disadvantage into an advantage and make the garden expo more beautiful.

The graffiti activity began to collect submissions several months before the expo started. “Graffiti artists are required create designs based on the landscape art, future technology and environment protection,” said Gu Xiaoyuan, a staff member in charge. “Only 18 works stood out in the final selection process, out of roughly 100 entries from over 50 artists across China.”

Colorful graffiti works decorate the garden expo park with various images such as a Chinese dragon and white doves. The graffiti, together with the architecture and landscape in the garden expo, attracts visitors from all over the world.

Graffiti brightens up garden expo

Wang Yue, a graffiti artist well-known online for her hollow tree paintings, tags the bridge piers with images of a giraffe mother and baby, on April 15. Photo by Li Xin / Xinhua

 

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