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Brooklyn-based artist Bast has been an intricate part of the street art scene for the past 10 years throughout New York and Europe, where his wheat-pasted images feature prominently across the urban landscape.
Interestingly the artist has remained an elusive character that has rarely been seen in public and whose very existence has been debated. Little is known of his work outside of what the public sees throughout New York’s urban environment, but fortunately, more has become known as Bast’s images have evolved to gallery-exhibition status in recent years.
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The project will travel the world where the same images will tell different stories. In a society that revolves around the image, any reading of an image depends on context. Furthermore, a minaret pasted onto the heart of a Swiss town would not have the same meaning as in a Muslim country or in another European country. We interpret every day images through our own frame of reference and personal history.
This minaret forms part of 14 works on show in Vevey, amongst which “The young priests ” by Mario Giacomelli is posted on a church; “Woman with long hair ” by Man Ray is pasted on the Saint Jean Tower; a photo by Gilles Caron taken in 1969 of a man hiding a stone in his fist behind him; the dressing of a building with a photo on the façade by Robert Capa where we see German snipers during the siege of Leipzig; the juxtaposition of a photo by Helen Levitt of a prostitute wrapping the wall of the old prison of Vevey.
The festival takes place from the 4th to the 26th of September 2010.
All photo's ©Ian Cox.
