Twistone and the brewery factory

O.K.here is how this story goes...

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Late 1930's The fix brewery factory gets build in the center of athens.It produces beer and soft drinks.Factory closes in 1970something.Its declared an architectural monument but before that athenssubway buys it planning to make a subway station there and exploit the building.

1999 half of the building is demolished in order to keep only the original part(that second half was an extension).

What remains is a ruined since its not used from 1972.

Twister paints a throw-up in the ruins.On the demolished side viewable by the street.

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The piece looks from the street as a silverpiece.But it has only a black outline since that room is actually a metal tank.

My father worked at this factory for 3 months in 1969 when he was a student.

That tank was used for getting rid of beer that wouldnt make it to production.(that tank was constantly filled with beer! for many many years,woah!)

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A couple of months later the building becomes the National Museum of Contemporary Art and a new subway station is opened where the second half was.

Athens subway(still owned the building at the time)places billboards on the demolished side.

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And in order to do that destroys half of twisters piece(folds actually)

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The irony of the thing is that now that twister(with his real name)has a value oficially in the art world(with several gallery shows and a participation to the Venice Bienalle)The museum "owns" one of his works in some way,and hasnt got a clue about that(Funny,isnt it?)

Al these strange coincidents and the weird combination of beer and graff made me laugh.

By the way the piece had a nice character where "o" should be.

thats a very interesting story...how did you hear about all that?

good read. good times.

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"that reminds me of makro and how he enjoys urban exploration. i think he said he liked your story. im a shitface. thank you!"

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The twist flicks are shot by me.All the other is just history and news of my city,

From relatives and press.

I made the combo today in my head,when i got that film developed.

nifty.......i'd like to know what he's up to these days.

does he still get out and paint i wonder?

Originally posted by brown twinkie:

nifty.......i'd like to know what he's up to these days.

does he still get out and paint i wonder?

You must have missed the news...back in June his wife Margaret (aka Matokie Slaughter, aka Meta) died shortly after giving birth to their daughter, Asha.

I get depressed even bringing this up, but it has some bearing on your question.

RIP

no, no cracked................i did hear........................sad.

um...............i didn't mean that to come off insensitive....

just wondering what he's up to......life goes on

that was cool....

Twist tags are a blessing.

Originally posted by Kr430n5_666:

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"that reminds me of makro and how he enjoys urban exploration. i think he said he liked your story. im a shitface. thank you!"

 

hahaha that made me laugh out loud.. tesseract, good post.

...thats kinda a fresh little short story...nice read early in the day...r

Hopefully Twist is staying strong and getting lots of help from family and friends in raising his daughter. I am a dad myself, and couldn't even imagine bringing up my daughter without my wife. Much respect to Twist.

RIP Meta.

stay up.

BUMP

ditto to how zenyth feels.

nice story i like history.. random.. what most people would consider worthless knowledge.

i guess thats what i see graf as.. like the walls a pages.. and the words have stories but you just gotta know how to read them.. yah know?

unlocking moments..

if anyone is interested in a tribute article about margaret killgallen, pick up the new issue of transworld skateboarding. there is a page that shows her artwork and has a nice tribute written by ed templeton.

..These really cool stencils of a girl on a surfboard have been popping up as of late in a certain city, along with labels.Good stuff.

.twist.meta.

I havent seen any of Barry's work up recently, altho i do remeber him doing a show with espo and reas a while back (wich was well recieved by many.)

I hadnt heard the news about his wife, and although that is sad im sure he will continue to produce work and keep bombing, her name up next to his as always.

r.i.p Meta