Category: ART

Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto (1987) has been interacting visually with the urban environment under the name of Vhils since his days as a prolific graffiti writer in the early- to mid-2000s.

His groundbreaking carving technique – which forms the basis of the Scratching the Surface project and was first presented to the public at the VSP group exhibition in Lisbon in 2007 and at the Cans Festival in London the following year –, has been hailed as one of the most compelling approaches to art created in the streets in the last decade.

This striking form of visual poetry, showcased around the world in both indoor and outdoor settings, has been described as brutal and complex, yet imbued with a simplicity that speaks to the core of human emotions. An ongoing reflection on identity, on life in contemporary urban societies and their saturated environments, it explores themes such as the struggle between the aspirations of the individual and the demands of everyday life, or the erosion of cultural uniqueness in the face of the dominant model of globalised development and the increasingly uniform reality it has been imposing around the world. It speaks of effacement but also of resistance, of destruction yet also of beauty in this overwhelming setting, exploring the connections and contrasts, similarities and differences, between global and local realities.

Vhils grew up in Seixal, an industrialised suburb across the river from Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, and was deeply influenced by the transformations brought on by the intensive urban development the country underwent in the 1980s and 1990s. He was particularly inspired by the way city walls absorb the social and historical changes that take place around them. Applying his original methods of creative destruction, Vhils digs into the surface layers of our material culture like a contemporary urban archaeologist, exposing what lies beyond the superficiality of things, restoring meaning and beauty to the discarded dimensions buried beneath.

An avid experimentalist, he has been developing his concept of the aesthetics of vandalism in a plurality of media – from stencil painting to wall carvings, from pyrotechnic explosions to 3D modelling, from installation to music videos – which have enabled him to expand the boundaries of visual expression.

His unique approach and artwork have been garnering critical acclaim around the world.

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Model : SCRATCHING THE SURFACE SHANGHAI BY VHILS

Designer : VHILS

Editor : VHILS

Period : 2012

Origin : PORTUGAL

Dimension : 105 x 73 cm

Edition # : 1/50

 

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Model : CATHEDRAL

Designer : PAULO CLIMACHAUSKA

Editor : PAULO CLIMACHAUSKA

Period : 2013

Origin : BRASIL

Material : INK AND ACRYLIC PAINT ON CANVAS

Dimension : L 280 x D 200cm

 

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Born in 1960 in Brussels (Belgium)

Lives and works in Brussels

Photography is and has always been for me the ideal medium to express emotions. The particular energy brought by light and colour is vital both in my private and professional life.  Light, as the only form of energy we can see, presents itself as colour.  My photographs allow the viewer and the creator to explore feelings through abstraction. I see photography very much like a painter and I use my camera like a brush.

My world of photography has developed into four major themes: pictorial, kinetic, optic and urban traces.  Each body of work takes on its own rhythms.

Progressively since 2011, I have become a more global artist; by extending – with the help of my team – the possibilities of photography and associating it to other media and design applications:

       – In 2011, realization of my first monumental installation, Metamorphosis.

       – In 2013, creation of my first sculptures, Crescend’O and Délivrance.

       – In 2015, launch of my first functional design creation:  Destination.

       – In 2017, I started also to work with my team on larger architectural projects.

Photography will always be at the very heart of my work.  And, with the spirit of a scientist, I enjoy pushing its boundariesever farther and further!

 

My abstract artwork is about catching the vital energy supplied by light and bringing it magnified to the viewers.

Following my near death experience in my childhood, light became later naturally the central theme and the driving force as well of all my creations.

By making my camera travel in time and space, I create fairy-like imaginary worlds mostly from ordinary objects. I use my camera as a purely experimental tool. The metamorphosis of the subject is achieved directly during the capture without the need for computerized retouching or effects.

The emotion is central in my photographs. I take a deliberately aesthetic and sensorial approach to bring additional wellbeing to the audience.

My project is to mix photography with other forms of Art.

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Model : DELIVRANCE OUTDOOR SCULPTURE

Designer : YVES ULLENS

Editor : YVES ULLENS

Period : 2013

Origin : BELGIUM

Material : CHROMALUX, STAINLESS STEEL AND PAINT

Dimension : L 56 x D 42 x H 160cm

 

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Joana Vasconcelos was born in 1971. She lives and works in Lisbon. She has exhibited regularly since the mid-1990s. Her work became known internationally after her participation in the 51^st Venice Biennale in 2005, with the work A Noiva [The Bride] (2001-05). She was the first woman and the youngest artist to exhibit at the Palace of Versailles, in 2012. Recent highlights of her career include a solo exhibition at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the project Trafaria Praia, for the Pavilion of Portugal at the 55^th Venice Biennale; the participation in the group exhibition The World Belongs to You at the Palazzo Grassi/François Pinault Foundation, Venice (2011); and her first retrospective, held at the Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon (2010).

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Model : BODY LANDSCAPE THEMATIC

Designer : JOANA VASCONCELOS

Editor : JOANA VASCONCELOS

Period : 2014

Origin : PORTUGAL

Dimension : 110 x 90 cm

 

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Born in 1957 in Sancerre, Lucien Petit lives and works in Boisbelle, a village near La Borne, France. Trained in the techniques of ceramics, very eraly on he associates the interior to his personal work, an image recurring in all of his work. His work develops an interest in architecture, construction and the broader theme of receptacles, structured by the binary opposites of full and empty, form and counter-form, elevation and collapse, convex and concave, mineral and organic. His most recent works evolving between anthropomorphism and abstraction, are part of the tradition of simple shapes of sculptors who have been able to mark the modern history of La Borne. Set in a space and installed on the ground, these sculptures act as the protagonists of a silent piece reminiscent of the monoliths of a constantly changing landscape. Never frozen, it is always likely to be reconfigured or connected to other objects or foreign organic elements.

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Model : COLONNE ECHELLE

Designer : LUCIEN PETIT

Period : 2016

Origin : FRANCE

Material : BRONZE

Dimension : H88 x W29 x D16 cm

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Julian ARNAUD was born in 1978 in La Baule, Frande at the edge of the Atlantic. This self-taught painter and sculptor developed a passion for architecture, Bauhaus, and De Stijl art movements as from the age of 15. He began painting under the influence of those he admired, such as Piet Mondrian and Le Corbusier; then quickly he discovered the works of Mark Rothko and Pierre Soulages, as well as those of Constantin Brancusi. Artists who fascinate him by the apparent simplicity of their achievements, both in the choice of shapes, colors, as proportions. He thus naturally creates his universe, marked by a single will: aesthetics. Considering art as a research laboratory, and setting no boundaries in the use of materials, he plays with them by adapting to the constraints they impose on him. It is a lifelong learning process that allows him to develop new processes that he is constantly improving. For more than 20 years, he will produce works without ever showing them … Then in 2016, he finally decides to expose his work and share his passion with the greatest number.

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Model : UNTITELED ORIGINAL ARTWORK / SATURN COLLECTION

Designer : JULIAN ARNAUD

Editor : JULIAN ARNAUD

Period : 2016

Origin : FRANCE

Material : ACRYL

Dimension : L 110 x H 157cm

 

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Julian ARNAUD was born in 1978 in La Baule, Frande at the edge of the Atlantic. This self-taught painter and sculptor developed a passion for architecture, Bauhaus, and De Stijl art movements as from the age of 15. He began painting under the influence of those he admired, such as Piet Mondrian and Le Corbusier; then quickly he discovered the works of Mark Rothko and Pierre Soulages, as well as those of Constantin Brancusi. Artists who fascinate him by the apparent simplicity of their achievements, both in the choice of shapes, colors, as proportions. He thus naturally creates his universe, marked by a single will: aesthetics. Considering art as a research laboratory, and setting no boundaries in the use of materials, he plays with them by adapting to the constraints they impose on him. It is a lifelong learning process that allows him to develop new processes that he is constantly improving. For more than 20 years, he will produce works without ever showing them … Then in 2016, he finally decides to expose his work and share his passion with the greatest number.

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Model : UNTITELED ORIGINAL ARTWORK

Designer : JULIAN ARNAUD

Editor : JULIAN ARNAUD

Period : 2016

Origin : FRANCE

Material : ACRYL

Dimension : L 106 x H 167cm

 

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The stairs lead to a void, the walls rise to nothing, the ceilings seem useless. The work of David Umemoto exudes mystery, stimulates the imagination, but at the same time gives a sense of reflective discipline. “My most recent works are studies on volume. In the twilight zone between sculpture and architecture, these pieces evoke the feeling of temporary buildings and monuments that stand in distant and remote countries.

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Model : MONUMENT 12

Designer : DAVID UMEMOTO

Editor : DAVID UMEMOTO

Origin : CANADA

Material : CONCRETE

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Model : MONUMENT 16

Designer : DAVID UMEMOTO

Editor : DAVID UMEMOTO

Period : 2017 (EDITION OF 5)

Origin : CANADA

Material : CONCRETE

Dimension : L 30 x D 7,5 x H 30,5cm

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