Check this images from French street artists JRs recent project in Rio, photographing the people living in the decrepit urban spaces of Rio’s flavela and transposing the images in en large over the same environment with incredible results. Check it.

The artist known as  “Ignore Por Favor ” , which means ” Ignore it please”,  created a new serie of paintings called “Privacy Invasion – Orkut Victims”, consisting in taking photos from friends on his orkut network and painting them with spray on canvas, with such an incredible quality and realism that I have no words to describe, see it for yourselves !!!

Like that wouldn´t be enough he also produced videos of the whole process, each one with a different and great soundtrack, complementing and making even more beautiful his masterpieces.

This is one of my favorites, he painted a very talented artist and personnal friend, Yusk.

Watch Yusk´s video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN1NFHna5o4

The original photo so you can see what I´m talking about.

All the works and videos from this serie on my new blog !

I also like to show you his previous works from the serie called  “Essential Light”, he painted photos took on our chaotic traffic and turned into amazing artworks.

I went to see this one, live, the other day and I still couldn´t believe my own eyes !

Also on the wall two amazing artits, Gafi and DME.

Keep it REAL like THAT !

I recently, and fortunetely, met  an incredible artist who does amazing works as sculptures, digitally and in plastiline, like this oger which he called Fontaine Project, and this is only for his own study of this form of art.

These photos were taken by Rafael Lucien and it´s up on his blog where you can see the process of the’birth’ of the oger and other very interesting and so well done, works by Ricardo Bargenton.

He’s also part of a video producer’s agency called “porqueeu“.

Keep it fresh !

While people all over the world appreciates the brazilian graffiti and its artists, specially Os Gemeos, here in Brazil we see the exact opposite happening… so sad but so true!

In fact we´ve got the most amazing  ‘public galleries’ (the walls on the streets) in the world and I´m sure of that when I pass by one of the most trafficated avenue here everyday and see something like THIS :

BUT as I posted before, there´s a campaign going on in São Paulo called “Clean City” …or “Gray City” as we should call it…when you see THAT turned into THIS :

   (The shot is awful, at night, but the only one I got of that same wall, where those graffitis used to be…now covered with gray paint! )

WHY IS THAT ??? Here is what the press said about it…

(the video and text is in portuguese, but I´ll translate it !)

” The colors and forms of the graffiti done by the twin brothers Gustavo and Otávio Pandolfo , Os Gemeos, brings life to the gray streets of São Paulo. But in the last Thursday, part of a giant mural, painted by OsGemeos, Nina Pandolfo, Nunca and Herbert Baglione, was erased. According to Mayor City Hall, there was a misunderstanding with the contractor to remove graffiti in public places.

It was “unintentionally”. At least this is the justification of the Prefecture of São Paulo to the attitude of the company  hired to erase the ‘pixos’ in public places.

“It’s sad to see it. In our case and of many artists, our work is so valued outside Brazil, and here it doesn´t happen the same way, “said Gustavo Pandolfo. “We need to know what criteria they are adopting to erase a work like that, with more than 700 square meters,” completes Otávio Pandolfo.

 Where there is a type of art as graffiti occupying a public space, it is generally respected by ‘pichadores’ (the guys who does the ‘pixos’), as the other part of that mural, on the other side of the avenue, is preserved.

” People only care when a work of art is stolen from a museum. I was impressed, a work of art from Sao Paulo was stolen and nobody says anything about it. “claims a psychologist Lima Robson.

A meeting will be scheduled with representatives of the company and the artists to redo the work. “

Can you believe that ?! …me neither!

I was speechless when I saw the wall covered in gray and didn´t even know about the so called “mistake” I thought they really had the intend to erase it since a lot of other amazing works has been erased lately, which has a positive side, which is the new works there are to come after the ‘cleaning’ …and they´ll keep it coming! …as they´ll keep cleaning !

…and I´ll keep on fighting ! Not against anything and anybody but in favor of art, of graffiti, of the streets with beautiful graffitis on it, of standing up for brazilian artists, speacially the street’s artists wordly, of making people see ART as one of the greater achievements that these people who do it may leave for this world. It´s timeless, priceless…not ever worthless !

Now we´re having the opportunity to dicuss about it since this ‘tragedy’ turned a lot of eyes to the graffiti scene in Brazil ! That´s what I took of most positive about this.

Because all you see is how brazilian artists are doing so great in New York, London, Melbourne, California, Chile, Spain…and how about in BRAZIL ?!

Well, that´s an example of how one of the best things we have to offer to the world is being appreciated in here!

KEEP EXPRESSING YOURSELVES !!!

WE’RE FREE TO DO THAT, isn´t that (OUR) RIGHT ?!?!

Some of my favorite brazilian artists got together to make one of the best produce and dopest wall I´ve seen lately!!!

   It took a lot of hard team work and a few discussions to get it done like that but it was all worthed !

So now I, proudly, present you all Nice people out there…from the left to the right :

YUSK / ICONE / FILUR / GOMS

RETOS / HOROIWA

YUSK / HOROIWA zoomed up

 NOSSA / FEIK / NEM 

NEM / FEIK / NICK

ANJO / NICK

ANJO / NICK / BOBI (from Rio de Janeiro)

That´s just PUBLIC GALLERY to me!!!

And the reason why I see on our (dirty, ‘dangerous’, even scary for some people, so used by the politicians to make only themselves looks good while the people who lives there looks so bad, filled with ‘pixações’ / vandalism but still our, because no one owns it really… ) STREETS such a beautiful, colorful, peaceful, so well used by artists like that to do something that looks good making people who loves it feels so good !

Keep walking !

A video shot by Buw, his wife to be and my sister from another mother, that she just sent me and is on ‘youtube’ and right here for you all see the real deal…

PRAKRTI in action !

…It takes skills !!!

Keep it flowing !

Havent been able to post as much as I want lately but have been doing some nice things that Ill be telling all about it here soon!

For starters…looking for a job the other day I just ran into it at a gallery I didnt know about…and saw these works by DAVID HAINES -who I also never heard before but it didnt take a second to make me become an admiror of his surreal (so real!) artwork!

Surprised as much as shocked ! Amazing big canvases, a work of m agic with a pencil on paper, much respect and admiration!

My awful, but still worthed to, shot from my cel phone of my favorite piece.

A nice detail from this one.

Not all of these works are at the Luisa Strina Gallery, where the show is happening here in SP until June 21st.

See the works in exhibition here.

Keepin it on ! Peace !!!

 The exhibition ‘Uni-versos’ that was on until last month was a big success !

As I expected it to be…with amazing artists like that it couldn´t be any different.

It was like the rainest day ever…and people came…a lot of wet people came! And even though we had to close the doors for the rain not to get inside…and still when those people enterde the room they were nothing but pleased to went throught all that…it was worth it !

   The CHÃ project’s stickers on the wall at Coletivo Gallery.

It was packed with people and filled with positive vibrations for those 3.

Sliks section

Jerry, Enivo and Sliks worked so hard, spent days and nights inside that gallery painting, thinking, discussing, how each one would put up their own “universe” on the walls and  still do a collective show that would integrate all of them. And that´s what became after all, one artistic and beautiful universe through the sensibility and vision of 3 amazing artists .

ENIVO section

   Before … 

   and after Enivo’s special ‘touch’ !

In despite of the fact that they´re also very good friends, it´s really special to see what they did, how much they’ve grown artistically.

JERRY section

My humble contribution to the show was the text I translated and that became a banner and was hung on the entrance wall, made me glad to feel part of it somehow.

From the left…ME looking for some paper, probably. Sliks. Jerry. Enivo…chilin’ on the back of the gallery.

Thank you guys, for having me over the process, for always supporting what I do and the reason that I do it is YOU ! All of you talented dearest friends !

Collectivity ! Peace out!

Some cool  action shots of  the guys working on ‘Uni-versos’ and some artist’s history.

SLIKS

He works with street art since 1997. Started his career in Sao Paulo and from there he went on contributing to the artistic growth of the graffiti art scene.

 His artworks are directly connected with the elements of nature and of the Hindu culture, resulting in a fine linear graphics that sprouts from the walls as plants, entitled by the artist as “Stalks”, which carries seeds in its ends focusing energy and purity that nourishes and stimulates the imagination of the observer under futuristic aspects. Also present in his compositions represented by the union between abstract and figurative.

         My favorite tagger.

                                           Finishing up the wall .

Enivo´s working at his share of the Uni-versos show and what was his inspiration on these works. 

ENIVO  

He made a vital pact with painting and its essence by the age of 12 through his first experience with graffiti in 1998. Since then he’s been marking the streets with his art, like a stamp of poetry, expressing his own universe and reaching for a shape´s definition.

Which led him to develop a timeless energy field, portrayed by extra-physical beings, where evolution exempts technology and focus in the spiritual growth through meditation, making possible the physical and mental displacement from this time and space to another one beyond our own.