Escorne, Marie
Walls in Art: Breaking Out, Demolishing and Rebuilding
- 2012.
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Many artists today prefer to break out of the traditional confines of creating and showing works of art (in workshops, museums or art galleries), to bring what they do out in the open. Some of them have even chosen to explore the idea of walls, working on walls as a medium, telling stories through them, but also attacking or piercing them as a way of breaking down—at least symbolically—the barriers they represent.