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Phenomenon Bansky, the world’s most famous street artist whose identity is still unknown, has flooded art galleries and auctions. The world of street art seems to have made the leap very naturally to the art galleries and has emerged in part from the stolen walls and illicit spaces of the cities.
In Seville, Delimbo it is a gallery that has been insisting on urban art for many years and has just signed up for having brought to our city one of the most international street artists of the current moment, who exhibits in this gallery his first exhibition in Spain that can be seen until April 9.
This is the Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto (1987), known as ‘Vhils’ who exhibits in the Sevillian space the exhibition entitled ‘Fractal’.
Among the many pieces presented, one of the most striking works is the one made after having removed from a wall that kind of mass of paper that make up the posters glued on each other. Cutting and undermining this mass of paper has created a view of the city of Seville in which you can see the Giralda and the towers and belfries of other churches. On the same wall of the gallery he has ‘excavated’ the face of a woman who is his particular tribute to flamenco.
Vhils, studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London he currently lives and works between London and Lisbon. He began to make graffiti when he was twelve years old, and today he is a reference in the international art scene, recognized for the innovative language of his murals carved, cut and drilled on the wall.
His name rose to international fame when his work of a face carved on a wall appeared next to an image of the street artist Banksy at the Cans Festival in London in 2008.
Alexandre Farto grew up in Seixal, an industrial city near Lisbon very affected by the transformations of urban development that the Portuguese country experienced in the 80s and 90s. Marked by this landscape, the artist investigates how the walls of the city absorb the social and historical changes taking place around them. Applying methods of ‘creative destruction’
Vhils reflects as visual poetry from the walls of cities, his work reflects on the passage of time and life in contemporary urban societies, as well as on the erosion of identity in the face of the model of world globalization. Born experimenter, he has developed a personal aesthetic that ranges from stencil painting to metal engraving, through video and sculptural installations. He has also directed music videos, short films and two stage productions
The work of the Portuguese artist has been presented internationally in exhibitions, events and other contexts, from his work in communities of the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to collaborations with prestigious institutions such as the Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati), Le Centquatre-Paris, (Paris), CAFA Art Museum (Beijing), Hong Kong Contemporary Art Foundation (Hong Kong), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), EDP Foundation (Lisbon) and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego), among others.
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