Fabio Birita, Flavio Lazarino, Geléia da Rocinha, Ozi, and the Fuso Coletivo – Artur KJA and Luciano Cian
Since 1978, when the visual artist Alex Vallauri (1948-1987) made the streets of São Paulo the most controversial environment to expose his work, Street Art has taken a large place in Brazilian art scene.
Nowadays, urban areas offer opportunities for artistic interventions and production of countless works of art in different media. This is the case for outdoor performances, capturing images and sounds for the production of digital art and installations of all kinds. It is in this perspective that has been designed the actual exhibition “Urbana – Brazilian Street Art” on display at espace_L in Geneva.
Great connoisseur of this genre of art, Marco Teobaldo has been invited to be the curator of this exhibition. He assembled artists and collectives of the two largest urban centres in Brazil, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, where one can daily see an explosion of colours, shapes and textures on the facades of buildings and walls.
Acrylic paint, graffiti, stencil, paste-up, poster art, performance art and sound are some techniques that we can find in the streets of these cities and are now in this exhibition.