January 15, 2018
When Plečnik reworked Križanke he had an inscription put into the plaster of the front courtyard: Minljiv si, le tvoja dela so tvoj spomin (You are ephemeral, only your work will be remembered). While this may be true for architects, it’s less so for street artists, whose work is often lost without record.
When I moved to Ljubljana I tried to learn the city and fall in love by taking pictures of street art with my phone. It’s now more than three years later, and some of these works survive unscathed, others are a palimpsest, and more are gone forever.
Now how many of these do you know?
A stencil that still appears in many places around town, Čufarjeva ulica
Metelkova
The famed SQON cat in Petkovškovo nabrežje. This is now EK Bistro
Tovarna Rog (interior)
Tovarna Rog (interior)
Friškovec
Slomškova ulica
Detail, Slomškova ulica
Zoisova cesta. This is now painted over
Vidovdanska ulica
Vidovdanska ulica
Mala ulica. This has been lost
Vegova ulica
Potočnikova ulica
Soteska
Rudolf Maister at the Srednja Ekonomska Sola
Trubarjeva cesta
Kastelčeva ulica
Za čreslom
Usnjarska ulica
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