Video: The ruins have faces. Graffiti by Andre Muniz Gonzaga bringing the ruins to life
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The phrases "there is no comrade for the taste and color" and "how many people, so many opinions" are already so hackneyed and hackneyed that they practically do not evoke emotions. But in fact, behind them lies such a depth, next to which the Mariana Trench will seem like an insignificant notch. So, if one person starts to feel depression at the sight of decrepit houses, ruins and ruins, others find a kind of aesthetics in the destroyed and abandoned, or "revive" these remains in any of the available ways. For example, a Brazilian artist Andre Muniz Gonzaga breathes new life into the ruins with its unusual graffiti. Unlike his contemporaries from different countries, Andre Gonzaga is not looking for clean and even walls, concrete fences, brick houses and other industrial or production facilities. Give him something that no one is interested in and does not need: the crumbling, decrepit walls of abandoned houses, crumbling fences, rusty metal containers, pipes, and similar rubbish that can often be found in city alleys and in the backyards. This is where the artistic reanimation of objects takes place with paints, airbrushes, and sometimes with additional means such as installations and sculptures.
Andre Gonzaga paints strange graffiti, in which there is something transcendent, mystical, otherworldly, which at the same time attracts, like everything unusual, and repels like everything creepy. Agree that at some point it becomes uncomfortable when you suddenly notice that a rusty container on the corner is carefully looking in your direction with painted eyes and grins with the same drawn, but terribly realistic grin. And the collapsed wall of an abandoned fence suddenly turned into a strange, many-eyed and multi-nosed creature with a snake smile, from which it becomes chilly and uncomfortable even on a hot spring day. The artist's other graffiti, mostly surrealistic portraits, as well as non-existent living beings in non-existent, fictional universes, are also ambiguous.
Andre Muniz Gonzaga draws his surreal graffiti not only on walls and fences, but also on paper. His work can be seen in galleries and exhibitions of contemporary art under the pseudonym Dalata, and you can get to know more about his work on a personal website.
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