"Warsaw under Construction: City for Sale" is an exhibition entirely devoted to advertising in Warsaw. Outdoor advertising, to be precise. People from other countries might not be aware of that, but outdoor advertising is actually a huge problem in the city. It deprives us from nice views, it disfigures and deforms the buildings, is responsible for utter lack of atmosphere to the otherwise beautiful capital city. Personally, I can understand movie or theatre posters around, but huge billboards with clothes, cars, banks make me really nervous, to say the least. Several movements have acted against it, and the exhibition is a part of the social response to the politics of aesthetics of the city. An important voice of the urban-dwellers. Too bad "Warsaw under Construction" ends on December 9th 2012 already...
SAY NO TO OUTDOOR!!!
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totally agree! liked the exhibition a lot (especially the video made of old movies and what was shown the upper floor). worth going!
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