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Dept. of culture

the not-so-discreet charm of anton unai

May 28, 2008  4:16 pm

Unai

Street art strives to shock the bourgeoisie, but as suburban kids keep picking up spray cans and graffiti becomes more like urban decor than urban blight, the middle classes are becoming blasé about artists’ attempts to anger them. “The Disenchantment of the Bourgeoisie,” London-born, Berlin-based Anton Unai’s second exhibition at CircleCulture, Berlin’s top “Urban Fine Arts Gallery,” plays with this conundrum. The exhibition, which opens tomorrow, consists of a site-specific installation and relics from the artist’s unauthorized conversion of an abandoned tattoo parlor into a showcase for his art. Unai converts rusty sheet metal and discarded newspapers into canvases paying homage to literary references, African iconography, and artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Sir Howard Hodgkin. Our verdict? It’s most likely to delight viewers from all social strata.

—Ana Finel Honigman

Photo: Anton Unai, courtesy of CircleCulture

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