WRITE4GOLD GRAFFITI WORLD COMPETITION IN BUDAPEST THIS YEAR
Ten teams, four categories, one theme and 150 meters of painted surface may be summed up as the final of the Central Europe’s official graffiti world competition held on Saturday that gives home at Népszínház street station of Metro 4 on the board set around the building area. About 60 creators from five countries and hundreds of interested people are expected at this event in name of the legal street art on 6th of June according to NeoPaint.hu. The best graffiti artists from Croatia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovakia and Hungary will compete on Saturday on Köztársaság Square after Rome, Moskow, Liverpool, Vienna, Stettin and Halle regional finals, Budapest organizes the Write4Gold graffiti final of the Central Europe’s world competition in 2009. After the Millenáris Park and the shipyard’s island Mokka Cuka, the organizers had picked up as the place of competition the set of board – the legal graffiti wall handed earlier - around the Népszínház street station built by Bilfinger, Porr and Vegyépszer.
Since 2003, the Write4Gold is the most important graffiti competition in the world, in which any team from Europe can participate. In this competitive tender, each participant shall hand over a reference material to W4G the center of Germany, where esteemed graffiti artists shall examine the received works. The selected teams will first compete in a regional final from which the finalists will qualify themselves into the European final held in Germany.
The organizers also want to draw the attention to the fact that the legal wall painting does have a place among the modern artistic fields and carries aesthetic, if legally cultivates its value. The competition takes place in four categories: concept painting (painting a complete picture in eight hours on a 15 m long and 2 m high surface on a given theme), freestyle throw ups (fast painting on a given word) and tagging (writing of a given word).
The program starts at noon and lasts until 9 pm. Further information on www.write4gold.info and on www.neopaint.hu websites.
Budapest, 5th June 2009
DBR Metro Project Directorate
About the world competition
The German Write4Gold civil organization set out the only one official graffiti world competition five years ago. The competition series comprising only European countries at the beginning had taken in the whole World by 2008 and places as Rome, Vienna, Sao Paolo, Melbourne or Cape Town gave home to the event. The organization has created a tradition and a special culture around the world by launching its series of events thus, graffiti appeared to people as an illegal thing and gained much more oppositional than supporters. To average people, this artistic branch was labeled as vandalism and in the last few years has become one of the most popular and most mysterious way of expressing opinion among the youngsters. The Write 4 Gold has proved that graffiti can be indeed an esthetic experience if held in legal frames and that this movement requires a great talent and vocation in order to cultivate it at a high degree.
About NeoPaint.hu
NeoPaint.hu civil organization started to operate in the beginning of year 2004. Its aim was to present the value of the graffiti to the people firstly by holding programs and exhibitions. Only the by-product of graffiti can be seen in Budapest: the doodling, yet there are many world-class creators in the city of Budapest. The scope of the NeoPaint.hu is to color those surfaces that are not used.