Cataloguing Works of Art in Urban Spaces, of an Extremely Ephemeral, Performative Nature and/or Using Organic Materials
Abstract
Over the last few years, various research projects presented by institutions in different countries have made significant progress in developing a cataloguing card and protocol for urban art and muralism and even, in some cases, for graffiti (the differences between the three will be explained in the text). As such, essential research has been carried out in this regard thanks to the CAPUS International Project, the GE-IIC Urban and Public Art Group of Spain, the INDIGO research project of Vienna, Austria, the project directed by Professor Adris Díaz that catalogues artworks from the Monterrey Callegenera Festival, or the project “Pintado en la Pared. Estudio de la Pintura sobre muro en la Provincia de Jaén en los siglos XX y XXI” (Painted on the Wall. A study of Wall Painting in the Province of Jaén in the XX and XXI centuries”). However, there are still important issues that deserve further consideration that will be discussed later in this paper, such as, for example, the cataloguing of a type of art that occurs in urban spaces but that is not related to murals, which is the most common form of urban art. These pieces of art usually have a very short lifespan. For this reason, this paper proposes the modification of the urban art cataloguing card based on different experiences in which certain shortcomings have been identified.