Curating walls. The man bringing colour into the city.
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Intro
Basel is a city of creativity and culture, home to great art museums. But art here isn’t confined to galleries – it’s right out there on the streets. Philipp Brogli knows where to find it.
Basel.
Basel is synonymous with art and culture. It’s the city with the highest density of museums in Switzerland. But Basel is also a big open-air art gallery.
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Street art in Basel.
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A colourful character.
Philipp Brogli is promoter and curator in the art world. You could call him a bridge-builder between urban artists and the people who decide what to do with the city’s grey walls.
I help to make the city more colourful.
Thanks to Philipp Brogli’s network, walls, brickwork and substation facades all over Basel have undergone a beauty treatment with spray cans, paintbrushes, rollers or marker pens. Graffiti is not just mindless vandalism – something more and more people are recognising thanks to Brogli’s work. And the more recognition these artworks receive, the more urban artists of international renown flock to Basel. A case in point: Basel’s inner city now has it’s own, impressive piece by The London Police.
Space Invaders descend on Basel.
The artist known as Invader is a true great of his genre. His Space Invaders can be found on numerous walls and facades across the city. Two dozen of the Parisian street art icon’s mosaics are dotted around Basel. The works depict the baddies in the Space Invaders computer game, which the artist uses to invade cities around the world and leave his mark.
فن الشارع كمنطقة جذب.
من الأسماء الرائعة الأخرى في عالم فن الشارع الحضري يبرز تيكا، وهي فنانة شارع سويسرية ورسامة جرافيتي على الجدران تهوى الأسطح الكبيرة. اكتسبت أعمالها اعترافاً على الصعيد الدولي، ويبرز أحدها - ديك هائل - على جدار كبير في هوهواج. ونظراً لصعوبة اكتشاف الأعمال الفنية إذ يمر الكثيرون بجوارها دون الانتباه لها، فقد توصل فيليب بروغلي إلى إجراء عدد من الجولات الفنية الحضرية.
المعالم البارزة من الفن الحضري
جولات بازلانطلق من متحف الفن إلى الشارع.
ومن ثم، ستمثّل جولات فيليب بروغلي مفاجآت حقيقية. ويربط آخر أعماله، وهو مشروع خاص بعنوان "التجربة الفنية المدينية"، أو يبني جسوراً بين - عدد من الأعمال والأشكال والقنوات المختلفة. ستنقل الجولة المشاركين إلى ما وراء الواجهات المختلفة المزخرفة ببراعة وتتوقف خارج متحف تينغويلي الشهير، حيث يمكن للمشاركين القفز إلى نهر الراين والعوم باتجاه التيار (في الصيف فقط).
In Basel the borders between history, tradition and modernity, and between established and recent art are blurred.
Harbouring creativity.
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The tour also takes in Basel’s port, where a temporary cultural home for creatives has been established, offering space for experimentation.
Five-star hotel meets urban art.
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Explore the art city of Basel in a graffiti-covered Bentley.
There’s something else that makes the Urban Art Experience tour special: its partnership with five-star hotel Les Trois Rois. Urban art enthusiasts can ask to be chauffeured from one highlight to the next in the Hotel Les Trois Rois’s Bentley – a Bentley like no other: not sleek and black, but covered in graffiti.
No limits.
The Bentley is proof that in Basel, the sky’s the limit, and the lines between history, tradition and modernity, between established and recent art, are blurred in this city that straddles the borders of three countries.
