{"author":"Jan Brennenstuhl","categories":["Guerrilla Art"],"cover":{"alt":"EPOS 257’s Urban Shooting Paintings","height":1520,"src":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings.jpg","width":2480},"credit":"","date":"2012-06-15T09:29:01Z","description":"Czech urban art crew EPOS 257 uses homemade weapon and ammunition to shoot billboards and create paintball-like paintings in public space!","html":"\u003cp\u003eI just \u003ca href=\"http://blog.vandalog.com/2012/06/target-practice-with-epos257/\"\u003estumbled upon\u003c/a\u003e a six month old project by Czech urban art crew \u003cstrong\u003eEPOS 257\u003c/strong\u003e entitled \u003cem\u003eUrban Shooting Paintings\u003c/em\u003e!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the \u003cem\u003eUrban Shooting Paintings\u003c/em\u003e EPOS 257, who became popular with the \u003ca href=\"/epos-257-appropriation-public-space/\"\u003e50 square meters of public space\u003c/a\u003e intervention in Prague, uses homemade weapon and ammunition\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe theme – a gesture signalling an attack – remains the same. Its essence, however, relates more to the very roots of guerrilla art, established at the end of the 1960s in the US by activist groups refashioning billboard adverts.I move around with the weapon in the open urban landscape. In my case, it is not an attack on a particular advert but billboard as a medium in general, which in this context represents a painter’s canvas in the urban landscape.\u003c/em\u003e (EPOS 257)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you like the action aspect of the project as I do, make sure to check out \u003ca href=\"http://epos257.cz/blog/\"\u003eEPOS 257\u003c/a\u003e’s \u003ca href=\"http://urbanprankster.com/2009/05/paintballed-billboards/\"\u003epaintballed billboards\u003c/a\u003e as well!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"archive-figure historical-figure\"\u003e\u003cpicture style=\"--image-width: 1840px; --image-ratio: 1840 / 1228\" data-source-width=\"1840\" data-source-height=\"1228\" data-width-cap=\"1440\" data-height-cap=\"1228\"\u003e\n  \u003csource type=\"image/avif\" srcset=\"/epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-epos257_hu_b7250dfb2442bd33.avif 480w, /epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-epos257_hu_a504e629c529fcc5.avif 960w, /epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-epos257_hu_ef27741a4547ff1c.avif 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n  \u003csource type=\"image/webp\" srcset=\"/epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-epos257_hu_d6d02094d8272458.webp 480w, /epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-epos257_hu_5809f6e7388dca4c.webp 960w, /epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-epos257_hu_15732d67878c0a33.webp 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg src=\"/epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-epos257_hu_4a117a78915614b4.jpg\" srcset=\"/epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-epos257_hu_9b328c65fa254929.jpg 480w, /epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-epos257_hu_e32bd80ed975495f.jpg 960w, /epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-epos257_hu_4a117a78915614b4.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\" width=\"1440\" height=\"961\" alt=\"urban shoot paintings epos257\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\n\u003c/picture\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eurban shoot paintings epos257\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n \u003cfigure class=\"archive-figure historical-figure\"\u003e\u003cpicture style=\"--image-width: 1840px; --image-ratio: 1840 / 1228\" data-source-width=\"1840\" data-source-height=\"1228\" data-width-cap=\"1440\" data-height-cap=\"1228\"\u003e\n   \u003csource type=\"image/avif\" srcset=\"/epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-2011_hu_fe6cb0d2bf276a1d.avif 480w, /epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-2011_hu_4b198b1309557d1b.avif 960w, /epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-2011_hu_cc65498a82669dfa.avif 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n   \u003csource type=\"image/webp\" srcset=\"/epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-2011_hu_9ed4b3314e86f5a3.webp 480w, /epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-2011_hu_4009f89fbe9b767c.webp 960w, /epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-2011_hu_31dd8de9d01dfb96.webp 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n   \u003cimg src=\"/epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-2011_hu_52ce37caf5920dcb.jpg\" srcset=\"/epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-2011_hu_9047f49db0e3ca70.jpg 480w, /epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-2011_hu_50a58fda76fc1e5b.jpg 960w, /epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-2011_hu_52ce37caf5920dcb.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\" width=\"1440\" height=\"961\" alt=\"urban shoot paintings 2011\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\n \u003c/picture\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eurban shoot paintings 2011\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n \u003c/figure\u003e\n \u003cfigure class=\"archive-figure historical-figure\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"media-unavailable\"\u003eImage unavailable: urban shoot paintings - guerrilla art.\u003c/span\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eurban shoot paintings - guerrilla art\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n \u003c/figure\u003e\n \u003cfigure class=\"archive-figure historical-figure\"\u003e\u003cpicture style=\"--image-width: 1840px; --image-ratio: 1840 / 1228\" data-source-width=\"1840\" data-source-height=\"1228\" data-width-cap=\"1440\" data-height-cap=\"1228\"\u003e\n   \u003csource type=\"image/avif\" srcset=\"/epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-urban-art_hu_b1adc4288b6c38fe.avif 480w, /epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-urban-art_hu_4d043299228ee3f8.avif 960w, /epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-urban-art_hu_322b58f97c8883ba.avif 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n   \u003csource type=\"image/webp\" srcset=\"/epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-urban-art_hu_62e534ed09c7aaaf.webp 480w, /epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-urban-art_hu_c3af99cdd2eda530.webp 960w, /epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-urban-art_hu_9ea75827034dfdaf.webp 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n   \u003cimg src=\"/epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-urban-art_hu_bcd269b51d6633a5.jpg\" srcset=\"/epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-urban-art_hu_7961d26712633d3.jpg 480w, /epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-urban-art_hu_5495ec2d581d44e1.jpg 960w, /epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-urban-art_hu_bcd269b51d6633a5.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\" width=\"1440\" height=\"961\" alt=\"urban shoot paintings - urban art\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\n \u003c/picture\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eurban shoot paintings - urban art\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n \u003c/figure\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e\n","markdown":"\n\n\n\n\n\nI just [stumbled upon](http://blog.vandalog.com/2012/06/target-practice-with-epos257/) a six month old project by Czech urban art crew **EPOS 257** entitled *Urban Shooting Paintings*!\n\nFor the *Urban Shooting Paintings* EPOS 257, who became popular with the [50 square meters of public space](/epos-257-appropriation-public-space/) intervention in Prague, uses homemade weapon and ammunition...\n\n*The theme – a gesture signalling an attack – remains the same. Its essence, however, relates more to the very roots of guerrilla art, established at the end of the 1960s in the US by activist groups refashioning billboard adverts.I move around with the weapon in the open urban landscape. In my case, it is not an attack on a particular advert but billboard as a medium in general, which in this context represents a painter’s canvas in the urban landscape.* (EPOS 257)\n\nIf you like the action aspect of the project as I do, make sure to check out [EPOS 257](http://epos257.cz/blog/)’s [paintballed billboards](http://urbanprankster.com/2009/05/paintballed-billboards/) as well!\n\n![urban shoot paintings epos257](\u003chttps://www.urbanartcore.com/epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-epos257.jpg\u003e)\n\nurban shoot paintings epos257 ![urban shoot paintings 2011](\u003chttps://www.urbanartcore.com/epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-2011.jpg\u003e)\n\nurban shoot paintings 2011 ![urban shoot paintings - guerrilla art](\u003chttps://www.urbanartcore.com/epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-guerrilla-art.jpg\u003e)\n\nurban shoot paintings - guerrilla art ![urban shoot paintings - urban art](\u003chttps://www.urbanartcore.com/epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/urban-shoot-paintings-urban-art.jpg\u003e)\n\nurban shoot paintings - urban art ","tags":["EPOS 257","Painting","Explosion Art","European Urban Art"],"title":"EPOS 257’s Urban Shooting Paintings","url":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/epos257-urban-shooting-paintings/"}