Bilmo Elephant on Road Sign, Santa Cruz — artwork #757 by Bilmo · Santa Cruz, Portugal
sticking humour animal naïf
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Bilmo is an uncommercial German streetartist representing the region around the streetart hot spots of Duesseldorf and Cologne. He is focussing on handmade stickers and paste-ups. In many of his works he counteracts the machismo of the 1970s´action cinema by using recurring peaceful elements, such as flowers, or tuns it into ridiculous ones by inventing a new kind of art: the Ploppart. The aesthet…
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Added 24/01/2019
Bilmo places his tiny pink elephant sticker on a 'Santa Cruz' road sign in Portugal, humbly occupying an official space. The contrast between the smallness of the sticker and the solemnity of the road sign creates a charming surprise. A poetic message slipped into the everyday of Portuguese roads.
The artwork Éléphant de Bilmo sur panneau, Santa Cruz is of type sticking. You can admire it in the city of Santa Cruz in Portugal, more precisely here: A dos Cunhados e Maceira.
This sticking is also tagged as: humour, animal, naïf.
Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: Bilmo
The photo was published on 24-01-2019 by Bilmo.
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