Trespass: A History Of Uncommissioned Urban Art

Once again TASCHEN made a book that is worth spending money to have. The great thing of these books is that they truly try to speak about our generation with words but also with good designs, marketing and an awesome line of collaborators that give shape to the ideas of what contemporary stuff is about.

They talk architecture, they talk fashion, they talk any type of art and anything dedicated to saying and documenting how the world of today’s aesthetics works.

In this opportunity they bring us a new book that attempts to talk about the urban culture, the streets, and they do it brilliantly acknowledging that what makes urban culture what it is has a little to do with doing it illegal, hidden, in your face, and they take the concept of urban art from the beginning with the name that defines the book: "Trespass".

And the interesting thing about this is that in our civilization and ideal of what society should be we forget the beauty, the element of surprise and the capacity of looking the world differently. For this we have heroes that trespass the roles imposed by the powerful sections of society and without causing a political revolution they communicate the massage of freedom, beauty and the possibility of free thinking even when something bigger than you doesn't let you.

The thing about trespassing is that we know we are little, we know we can do illegal stuff; we know we're not wanted sometimes, but we also have a voice that we rarely use it in a form that affects many people unless you trespass the normal way of doing things. The urge to use that voice in a form of urban art goes beyond the rules imposed by civilization.

In the Declaration of Dependence the Kings of Convenience talk about this sort of things and I quote how brilliantly they communicate the feeling of trespassing and the concept of the new TASCHEN book:

Boys of today write lines on walls
in the streets at night
in suburbs of cities with no name
is this destruction or just quiet protest
against loneliness?

I want this book and I thing everything around this urban heroes is just beautiful and amazing and so right...Check it out: