Lodz is the third largest city in Poland and a former industrial center. Located in the central part of the country, it has a population of 687,702 (2018). It is the capital of the Lodz Voivodeship and is located about 120 kilometers (75 miles) southwest of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canting, since it depicts a boat (Å‚ódź), which alludes to the name of the city.
The growth of street art in Poland may not be so difficult to insert into a historical context as the country has a great tradition of using urban wall space for all kinds of creative ideas. The '60s and' 70s saw vast wall spaces used for the publicity of state companies of the communist era and the current fashion for everything that is retro means that the surviving examples are now re-evaluated and revered as important graphic visions of the time.
Around Lodz it is still possible to see a lot of mural art, from the faded text resembling a ghost on the wall of a building shed at the end of ul. Traugutta to the relatively well preserved graphic painting of a giant butterfly that advertised the state-run Pewex stores (where imported goods could be purchased with US dollars) to ul. Sienkiewicza 21.
info: In the last few years the somewhat dark streets of Lodz have come to life with the addition of numerous huge murals and bright colors. The project to transform Lodz into a permanent outdoor art gallery was started by the Urban Forms Foundation in 2009 and their aim is to improve the current image of Lodz.
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Address: Sienkiewicza 90-009/lok. 121 61a, 90-057
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