Peter Gibson is a modest guy in Montreal who didn't think of himself as an artist when he started spray-painting stencils on the street; he just had inchoate notions about public space and was fueled by a post-9/11 desire to enter what seemed like a new era of discussion -- about, seemingly, everything, but never mind; now seemed like the time to get serious. So he took his cardboard stencils out at night, laid them down on the road and spray-painted mischievous additions to Montreal's roads: turning cross-walks into gigantic shoe-prints or adding zippers to them, even a mysterious "On" button with no obvious function. Non sequiturs were his mode of choice, explicit verbal statements pretty much not on the table. Then he got arrested and was forced to think, seriously, about whether or not he was an artist or just a guy with a weird compulsion. At any rate,...
- 3/24/2009
- by Vadim Rizov
- Spout
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