Urban Recreation
Street art has changed. It is no longer limited to spray paint and posters, but is now approaching architecture and installation art in its scope. Now, two of Sweden’s — indeed, the world’s — most interesting street artists are stepping out of the shadows: Akay and Peter, the Barsky Brothers, two hardworking artists who treat the streets as if it were their living-room, transforming inhospitable empty spaces into places in which to enjoy oneself. They find abandoned plywood planks and turn them into animal silhouettes; set a party table between two motorway lanes; and hang swings made of city driftwood. In Urban Recreation, Akay and Peter display 13 projects from the last four years — the most famous of which is Traffic Island, the little red cottage that lay on a cliff between two heavily trafficked roads. Hardcover, color.
