“Painting Reality” is a public art project in which unsuspecting drivers unwittingly painted Berlin’s Rosenthaler Platz intersection a strobe-like composition of blue, yellow, purple and red.

In an act of guerilla art, the artists IEPE & the anonymous crew poured vats of water-based environmentally-friendly paint at each corner of the intersection, while traffic was temporarily halted. As the lights turned green, some 2000 cars, including bicyclists, spread the 500-liters of paint in every direction. The vehicles soon spun a mesh of aleatoric lines, varying in thickness and color. Some lines are thin and retain their original hues, while others bleed into each other in wide bands of sickly palate.

by Samuel Medina

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tagged Art, berlin, guerilla art, IEPE & the anonymous crew, Painting Reality, Rosenthaler Platz

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