In early June, professional graffiti artists Tats Cru created a mural for the new Hummer H3. Not long after it’s creation, it was defaced as is standard practice when corporations usurp what is believed by many to be a non-commercial art form. Today, our pavement pounding press persona, Bucky Turco, stumbled upon another Tats Cru-created Hummer H3 mural on East 18th and First Avenue in Manhattan. Acknowledging the create/destruct relationship between cool-hunting corporations and graffiti purists, Turco said, “I give it a shelf life of under 3 days before it is defaced.”
It’s natural for graffiti purists to wash away corporate intrusion on their turf. However, it’s going to be in interesting battle as more and more companies, such as Time, purchase space for commercial graffiti artists to tag. It’s on thing to deface unappealing corporate graffiti on random,. unpaid surfaces. It’s another to deface paid space. View three large images of the mural here.
