Remember that one time you dropped acid in '60s? Have you been trying to relive that moment ever since? Well, you're in luck (sort of), thanks to a pair of Dutch artists who would like to turn our city's projects into a giant technicolor dreamcoat. It sounds crazy, and looks pretty gonzo based on the shots above, but they've done it before!
Artists Haas & Hahn (not to be confused with Hanz and Franz) have been Lite-Brighting their way across the favelas of Rio de Janeiro for the past few years, making over slums with their trademark, enormous "Favelapaintings." Now they're in New York as part of the Festival of Ideas for the New City, and they have some prototypes illustrating what they'd like to do for us poor, color-deprived denizens of the dark.
As for the actual feasibility of the project, the artists say it's not happening just yet due to "bureaucratic and cultural difficulties within the social fabric of the city" right this second. But their exhibit with paintings, documentary footage, pictures, sketches and proposals for "future possible intervention in New York" is going up this weekend at Storefront for Art & Architecture, so now's your chance to relive your acid-fueled glory days.
