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May 23, 2004
GALERIA DE
"In Salvador, Bahia, can be found the Galeria de Adesivos (Stickers Gallery), the first physical and permanent stickers gallery in Brazil and Latin America. The idea is to spread out this international culture and the Brazilian street art scene. Invited by the fine artist Andrea May, urban artists/crews from many parts of the country had their work pasted in the gallery, which is part of the cultural space Sao Rock (Rio Vermelho Shopping).The street art represents a strong form of contemporary artistic expression. Each day new engaged artists get together in projects related to urban intervention, believing that the art on the streets can reshape the city daily and intervene in a positive and participative way in people's lives.
The street artist becomes a kind of graphic designer of urban environment. May: "The urbe is a big, diversified screen, a great mix of information. Therefore, there, it is the contemporary elements which join the art, whatever it is: poster art, stencil, stickers, graffiti..."
Yet, there are people who regard street art as one more item of visual pollution, but there are also those who see in these anonymous "city planners" a new way of communication, as they open spaces to a non institutionalized, democratic and accessible art. The fashion label Ellus, for instance, has just got the work from the graphic artist from Sao Paulo Calma to be integrated to its new collection through panels and t-shirts.
"Behind all this culture we have concepts, phylosofies, references. But will take time until urban art be understood and received as a form of artistic expression.", says 86, graphic and urban artist of Rio de Janeiro and member of the exhibition.
The street art shows independent solutions to make art in great urban conglomerates unblocking practices of museums and traditional art galleries. It is important to mention that this artistic movement, even regarded as an underground one, seeks at having bases through textual references to be integrated much easier to the society instead of being regarded as a vandalism act.
"The metropolis with street art becomes much more alive, because art is life. The only problem is in people's head, in the way they see art: perhaps an outdoor or a political spray tag on the walls are not as aggressive as a 'true art' because we are already born with this idea which is imposed by the society. But I don't believe that it'll be like this forever... That's why I do art on the street", says Kurru, from Sao Paulo."
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