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With the exhibition Icons for Now the Aarhus Art Building presents a remarkable exhibition in the public townscape. With their colourful paintings ten renowned Danish and international street artists will decorate gables, streets and facades in the area around the Aarhus Art Building as well as at selected spots around town.
Street art is art meant for the streets. It enters into a dialogue with the city, with the surrounding buildings and the people passing by. In this way a unique exhibition will be created in the cityscape, the first of its kind in Scandinavia. The artists begin their work on the project in the month of August, with completion scheduled in connection with the opening of the Aarhus Festival on August 29.
The outdoor area surrounding the Aarhus Art Building will be turned into a centre of activity where parts of the exhibition will be created as a work in progress. The artists will relate to the town of Aarhus as a unit, to the central placing of the Aarhus Art Building and to the architectural qualities of the building and the surrounding park. Thus the works will be site specific and genuinely unique. Icons for Now will present a series of works that represent a very special opportunity to capture the fleeting signs of the urban metropolis in a more established exhibition connection.
The participating artists have all exhibited at galleries and cultural institutions all over the world and are each respected for their new approaches to the genre of street art and for their original manifestations of the culture in different big cities. All the participating artists create their art in a dialogue with the urban world of signs surrounding them. At the same time the works of these artists are aesthetic, provocative and spontaneous – and as a whole they constitute one of the major currents within contemporary art and design.
Participating artists are: Victor Ash (FR/PT/DK), HuskMitNavn/RememberMyName (DK), Faust (DK), Søren Behncke alias papfar (DK), Zevs (F), Miss.Tic (FR), Blu (IT), Steve Powers (US), Herbert Baglione (BR) and André alias Monsieur A (FR).
The exhibition is curated by Miriam Nielsen and Toke Lykkeberg and is the result of a collaboration between The Aarhus Art Building and the Aarhus Festival. The exhibition is sponsored by the Cultural Development Foundation, the Municipality of Aarhus, the Danish Arts Council’s Committee for Visual Arts, Diesel, Colorama, All Remove and the Nordea Danmark Fund.
 Map of the locations of the art works
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