Manifesto IAM
For the past 20 years the streets have been the canvas for hundreds of artistic movements. A place where no-one knows no-one, a generation of artists that have used the streets to get a name, a style, a personality.
Nowadays the influence of these movements can be reflected in a lot of the artistic movements without the importance of the frontiers; autofeeding itself from country to country, from movement to movement. The ink moving is what makes you be you…
Ink and Movement are the two basic materials for any piece of art, the basic materials for a piece of art around the globe.
Ink and Movement comes from two parts that distinguish urban art and that makes it different to other forms of modern art: the gesture of drawing and the reafirmation of “I”.
The first pillar of the project is the premise in which the name is based on: Ink and Movement. The ink symbolizes the tool in every plastic activity, is the creative fuel. The Movement is the action, the gesture that makes a drawing personal. Is the action by which every artist gets their style. As all premises out of the first two propositions, a third one comes up as a conclusion. Our conclusion is the piece of art.
The second pillar is an interpretation of the name in a simbolic way and that takes the other part of urban art: the reafirmation of “I”.
“The spirit of IAM is to put the talent of three of the most internationally relevant urban artists, to create a creative project that will be present around the world thanks to the expositions and other works done exclusively for this project.”
From the beginning of the New York graffiti, the writers have used their name as a creative tool, as a weapon used to defend their individual identity against a pluralized society.
So “Ink and Movement” gathers the principal fundaments of the urban art to generate an artistic project that will mean a conceptual immersion from the artists. The result is an investigation job in the concepts that determine the artistic way of each one and that, up to now, has never been developed.
– The Ink and Movement Team
