Vhils [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 3899553829 ISBN 13: 9783899553826

Verlag: DGV, 2011

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Portuguese street artist Vhils makes portraits by hacking, drilling and ripping into buildings. His first monograph has just been published by Gestalten and contains some striking imagery of his work... Vhils is the moniker that artist Alexandre Farto uses for his street art, which has appeared on or rather, out of walls across cities all over the world. In their preface to the new book, the Wooster Collective's Marc and Sara Schiller write: By removing bits of plaster and paint, by peeling away layers of history, Vhils reveals the emotion and humanity of his subjects, who are largely unknown photographed on the streets of Portugal or London, or pulled from old magazines and newspapers found at local flea markets. This excavation, often a process of violent removal, stands in sharp contrast to the delicate portraits discovered hidden underneath. --Creative Review Blog

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Vhils is undoubtedly one of the most skilled and talented young artists on the urban art scene today. The young, internationally acclaimed artist Vhils creates technically skilled, contemporary portraits. Instead of only adding paint or other materials onto surfaces, he also carves, drills, scratches, rips, or blasts his images out of walls. With nothing less than archeological meticulousness, he penetrates through countless layers of posters, dirt, and plaster to set free the portraits hidden in urban spaces. Alexandre Farto, alias Vhils, started developing his unusual style, which would be impossible without his outstanding handicraft and manual skill, as a graffiti artist on the streets of his Portuguese homeland at the tender age of 13. The end of a fascist dictatorship there in the 1970s led to a chaotic visual layering of socialist propaganda posters with new western European and American advertising that became fertile ground for his emerging style. Vhils’s almost sculptural art can be seen as a productive form of destruction— figures are blasted from the plaster of walls, silhouettes carved from metal, or unsettlingly poetic portraits created using a chisel and a hammer. Vhils depicts the multiple facets of humans as social beings by using their surroundings, which can then further evolve by being blurred and painted over and maybe eventually forgotten.Alexandre Farto studied at Central Saint Martins in London. His acclaimed work has been exhibited internationally and has appeared in a variety of publications, including on the cover of the venerable Times. This book is his first monograph.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: DGV
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 3899553829
• ISBN 13: 9783899553826
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160