Installations on the walls are created in several ways and particular bombers get together to have various Style-Wars caused by synergism. The general museum space is attacked and becomes a place creating discontinuous wonder, called ‘X-COLOR’, which certainly causes what only a museum has done, chain creative reaction. Kress assimilates it to ‘Stunning of graffiti in an unusual place’.

Some legal walls are opened for bombers around the museum and station. These gigantic masterpieces stand out in Mito. A bomber and a policeman enjoy chatting in a graffiti scene photo shot by Great-The-Kabukicho. These legal-paint add spice to a tag on the wall in Daiei Mito, which is in a bad business situation and was bombed badly.

Here in Mito, Art Tower Mito rises up in the center of the city, where art gets close to daily lives, Cafe in Mito for instance. Besides, every works melt into the city where a doctor treats his favorite bomber in a piano bar, where you may find tolerant of the city in a signboard ‘Snack Fishy’.

“I picked up somebody hot and practical on the street” Kress says. On the other hand. Some say “Legal graffiti doesn’t exist.”. QP bombs a lot just like love letters and says “To bomb means To shift or shake mood or society.” That makes me think that armed icons have already broken through an invisible barrier between legal and illegal.

Talking about graffiti, a bunch of things are still left to be described. However, ‘X-COLOR’ is not another ‘Make It Controversial’ exhibit. Where to go keeping a power which confronts viewers pleasantly sometimes even revoltingly. Our way of expression, graffiti, shifts from vandalism to destructive innovation. I believe for sure it’s a breakthrough.

X-COLOR / Graffiti in Japan
Date: October 1st – December 4th, 2005
Open: 9:30 – 18:00 (Closed on Mondays)
Place: Art Tower Mito
Address: 1-6-8 Goken-cho, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Tel: +81 (0)29 227 8111
http://www.arttowermito.or.jp