Tress of the World

Yearly Open Call

As a way to reach new artist’s both local and internationally, in 2010 arte_FITS decided to establish Yearly Open Call. The approach involves a placid competition in which the winning proposal has the opportunity to be conceived. The location where the artistic intervention will be most likely to occur is in the bridge on Road 693 at Dorado, Puerto Rico. Open Call shifts the Foundation’s gears from traditional Earth Art to urban interventions such as graffiti and street art.

“The Graffiti is an Art Form in its Own Right”

The establishment of new art forms usually emerge from artists who crave innovative ways of expression. One of the most radical urban manifestations that’s been recently considered a form of art is Graffiti. The term graffiti derives from the Italian word graffiato, which means scratched. This concept has in fact existed since ancient times in places such as Greece and Egypt.
Originally [speaking in the contemporary, late 20  & 21^st century, time frame] graffiti was a visual representation of political activism and gang territoriality that involved vandalism and defacement of public and sometimes even private spaces. Nonetheless, artists in New York’s downtown 70’s and 80’s scene, such as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, were able to prove that graffiti is in fact an art form in its own right. And why should it not be considered as such? Since it has been capable of traveling from its natal place (the streets), to the gallery, and ultimately art institutions, finding in the end, a permanent niche in contemporary art and one’s natural surroundings.