Anastasia Dunaeva's book "Antistyle: between graffiti and contemporary art" is on sale
Book by artist and researcher Anastasia Dunaeva "Anti-style: between graffiti and contemporary art" dedicated to the phenomenon of ugly graffiti and antistyle in street art was published in December 2023. The book is a collection of essays and photographs of street artworks, whom the author considers representatives of "anti-style".
The book includes works by street artists created as part of a performance, using unusual materials, as well as site-specific works. All these techniques and rethinkings go far beyond traditional graffiti, which allows readers to talk about the convergence of street practices with contemporary art.
"Antistyle or avantgarde graffiti, trash graffiti, "dirty" graffiti, post-graffiti, new style, abstract graffiti, ignorant graffiti - this is a zone of experiments and departure from the canons. The area of graffiti discussed in the collection, I would partly jokingly call author's graffiti, an analogy with art-house cinema. We are talking about otherness, about the fact that the street artist is the bearer of meaning and method," - said Anastasia Dunaeva.
The collection contains photographs of works and essays by the artists from all over the world: Abic (Italy), Eirik Falckner, Dariusz Gwizdala (Hungary), Dima Gred (Russia), Erba (Spain), Fujioka (Brazil), Iksus (Russia), Ludvig (United Kingdom), Maekk (Russia), Maria Pinus (Russia), Matvey Kaif (Russia), NU (Russia), OKRM (Russia), OK (Russia), Pavel Bezor (Russia), Stach Szumski (Poland), Void (Italy), Witch27 (Russia), Art Abstracts (Russia), Bez imeni (Russia), Eduard Cheshuya (Russia), 543 (Russia).
The book is preceded by an article by street practices researcher Anton Polsky (MAKE) about the history of the formation of the concept of "style" in graffiti and its subsequent transformation, as well as reflections by art critic Valentin Dyakonov on the architectonics of anti-style with an analysis of this phenomenon through the prism of modern philosophy of art.
The collection introduces a wide range of readers to the controversial concept of "anti-style" as interpreted by Anastasia Dunaeva due to its novelty, with the unique working methods of modern Russian and foreign street artists, as well as with the author's concepts of the creators of the latest street art practices.
The book was published by the Institute for Street Art Research with the support of INLOCO Initiative in a print run of 1000 copies.
It can be purchased online at the Street Art Storage Shop or offline at the Ruarts Foundation at the address: Moscow, Trubnikovsky Pereulok, 6.