For the last three years, Cayetano Ferrer (aka Tano) has been installing a series of absolutely fascinating street sign in the city of Chicago.  If you haven’t yet seen them, here’s a link to the entire series.  After you look at the individual images, check out the video below…

It was no surprise to us that Tano’s work is connected to the ideas and work of Gordon Matta-Clark.  Here’s an email that we received from Tano this morning….

“I´m really into the latest direction you´ve been taking. That building in Argentina was amazing, and that Fekner video was the best youtube video I’ve seen in ages… but especially seeing Krzysztof Wodiczko projections got me hyped. I too have been semi obsessed with projecting outdoors for a couple of years, and was turned onto his work by a professor around the time he was in the Interventionists show at Mass Moca. He was building these makeshift road-warrior style shopping carts and giving them to homeless people.

One thing I wanted to add is that when I see these recent posts I see a thread that would be complimented well by a particular artist… Gordon Matta-Clark. In my opinion, when it comes to street art his shit is fucking untouchable… he was the ultimate. He did a lot of his work illegally which is mind blowing to think about considering he was altering the structures of huge buildings. His influence by the early 70´s graffiti is evident by his obsessive documentation of the train pieces, but I also wonder how much he himself influenced the culture. He was doing his building cuts from 70-76… some of those early writers MUST have known about what he was doing. Eventually he got chased out of the country after he got caught, and spent some time in Europe before he suddenly died of cancer in 1978. Read up, I think the more you learn about him the more you´ll be amazed.

I was reminded of him by seeing John Fekner´s stencil work, which was new to me and also amazing to see… the way the history of the structure and the documentation of its destruction were so important to the work is really rad.”