world`s unemployment / beno

M-city is a play with the form and space of the city, played on the walls, posters, billboards, stickers and in the virtual world. All of the pieces of M-city - about 100 of them - were made as stencils.

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The first step of preparation is a sketch of a given building on the A4 paper. Such drawing is being drawn in isometric perspective and inscribed into a couple of cubes one on top of the other. Thanks to such a technique printing the stencil is much easier, moreover it allows printing a single fragment of the building. All of the buildings can be joined in multiple ways with author's imagination as the only limit. It's easy to customise the buildings by mixing the roofs and elevations - parts of different stencils. All of the objects have a brighter left face and a darker right face which adds them the depth and vividness. After the sketch is done it's being enlarged to A2 format and laminated on both sides. The late guarantees long-term resilience of the stencil, proofing it against absorption of the paint. As the layers of the paint get too thick it's easy to tear them down and use the stencil again (some of the stencils were used hundreds of times). Finally the stencil is being cut out.

chaos / dr.chaos

le port / deimos laevinus

The printing itself does not appear to be much of a problem. It's important to begin printing from the bottom of the project, as the foreground must be printed first (it would be impossible to print it later avoiding permeation of previously printed stencils). Obviously it's possible to use masks and retouches but it makes the work much more toilsome. Before printing the project is very general and limited to the outline of the city, possibly zoning the space into industrial, public, living etc. areas. The streets and buildings planning is never being done, it comes to life during the printing as the work goes on.

blokersi / mariio

The inspiration to the architecture of M-city came mostly from the architecture of Threecity (Gdansk, Sopot, Gdynia, Baltic coast, north of Poland) and it's surroundings, but there's no avoiding of motifs from other regions of Poland. The architecture of the town is in a sense a promotion of groups of people who work together for society. These include independent media, charities, non-governmental organisations, off theatres etc. Most of the project realisations are on especially chosen walls and matching the historical or architectural context of the surroundings. People on the stencils are mostly author's friends or people involved in some local social activity.

city escape / lol

dutch boy / niels de vries

KonstruKtor is a program to build a virtual city. All elements are alike the real stencils. Script is still being constructed. When you finish projecting the city, you can`t save it. You can use "print screen" key and paste "ctrl+v" in graphic program ( paint, photoshop ... ). Then send the city picture to m-city@wp.pl. Your work will be placed in constructor gallery.

m-city web-site, here. We want to specially thanks Carlos Quintans for sharing this wonderful project with us!!