Article paru dans le numéro 85 janvier 2000,
Paysages en ville
Alain Milon
Tag et graff : visage ou paysage ?
Tags - a decorative skin of varying
æsthetic quality cast over the city, or a
more or less painful scar - are the expression
of an outcry, an appeal, and a desire.
They symbolize the ephemeral and the
dynamic ; they alert the passer-by to a
singularity emerging from the shadows.
Today's new mural art form, “graf”, goes
down better with urbanites, and helps
convey the language of tags.