SOKAK SANATINDA YENI MODA: IŞIK GRAFFITI
NEW FASHION IN STREET ART: LIGHT GRAFFITI

Summary/Abstract: Street art has an important place in urban texture and life. It accepts public spaces as artistic surfaces and is defined as an anti-disciplinary movement influenced by many fields of art. Street art, which started in the 80s, is now accepted as a serious art by people who are interested in art. Although sometimes banned by governments, street art is now accepted as a worldwide phenomenon and continues to color our lives. Street art exhibitions are opened in many parts of the world, including Turkey. The most important feature of the street art is that it allows artists to display their works to countless people. The developments and changes in technology show their effect in the field of art. Along with these developments, a new performance art has attracted attention in the last decade. A part and the latest fashion of street art, the light graffiti (painting with light/light graffiti) is a performance art performed by the method of delaying the camera’s exposure time. Although as light sources, fireworks and torches can be used, led light sources are often preferred. Drawing can be produced on any medium and object. It is also defined as a photographic technique that adds the photographer’s imagination to the frame. It gained popularity in 2007 with Jan Wöllert and Jörg Miedza. Since 2007, it has become a phenomenon and the new fashion of streets. In the current research, the place of the light graffiti within graffiti and street art is discussed by examining the light graffiti works we have frequently encountered in recent years.

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