{"author":"Jan Brennenstuhl","categories":["Graffiti, Marker \u0026 Spray Cans"],"cover":{"alt":"Brad Downey’s Graffiti Restoration","height":840,"src":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/brad-downey-graffiti-restauration/brad-downey-graffiti-restauration.jpg","width":1880},"credit":"","date":"2010-10-13T17:03:15Z","description":"Brad Downey’s new “Searching for Something Concrete” project uncovered fifteen years of hidden graffiti layers at the wall of fame in Vienna. Reportedly this was just a first test...","html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReverse Graffiti\u003c/em\u003e | I really laughed when I watched that new urban art project \u003cem\u003e“Searching for Something Concrete”\u003c/em\u003e by interventional artist \u003cstrong\u003eBrad Downey\u003c/strong\u003e today, because I had the same idea together with an friend of mine a few month ago when we visited an exhibition in a gallery were the walls are periodically painted by artists, whitewashed by the gallery owner, painted by artists, whitewashed by the gallery owner, and so on\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe had the idea for something like an \u003cem\u003e“reverse exhibition series”\u003c/em\u003e, where each wall layer would consistently be removed. Unfortunately this was more a joke that a real plan. Anyway, what Brad Downey in cooperation with professional restorer \u003cstrong\u003eMagdalena Recova\u003c/strong\u003e recently did is quite similar to my idea!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe worked on a small section of the graffiti wall of fame in Vienna for two days and removed several layers of paint by using various chemical and mechanical processes and rediscovered in that way parts of historically graffiti. Brilliant!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"external-video\" aria-label=\"YouTube video\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVideo / YouTube\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe YouTube player loads only when you choose to load it; YouTube then receives your connection information.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLXyHAvJUdc\" rel=\"noreferrer\"\u003eWatch on YouTube\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cbutton type=\"button\" data-video-src=\"https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/RLXyHAvJUdc\" data-video-title=\"YouTube video referenced by Brad Downey’s Graffiti Restoration\" hidden\u003eLoad YouTube player\u003c/button\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"video-player\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003c/section\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVia \u003ca href=\"http://blog.ekosystem.org/2010/10/brad-downey-grafitti-restoration/\"\u003eblog.ekosystem.org\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","markdown":"\n\n\n\n*Reverse Graffiti* | I really laughed when I watched that new urban art project *“Searching for Something Concrete”* by interventional artist **Brad Downey** today, because I had the same idea together with an friend of mine a few month ago when we visited an exhibition in a gallery were the walls are periodically painted by artists, whitewashed by the gallery owner, painted by artists, whitewashed by the gallery owner, and so on...\n\nWe had the idea for something like an *“reverse exhibition series”*, where each wall layer would consistently be removed. Unfortunately this was more a joke that a real plan. Anyway, what Brad Downey in cooperation with professional restorer **Magdalena Recova** recently did is quite similar to my idea!\n\nHe worked on a small section of the graffiti wall of fame in Vienna for two days and removed several layers of paint by using various chemical and mechanical processes and rediscovered in that way parts of historically graffiti. Brilliant!\n\n[Video on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLXyHAvJUdc)\n\nVia [blog.ekosystem.org](http://blog.ekosystem.org/2010/10/brad-downey-grafitti-restoration/).\n","tags":["Concrete Art","Brad Downey","Art Restoration","Street Art Europe"],"title":"Brad Downey’s Graffiti Restoration","url":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/brad-downey-graffiti-restauration/"}