Alex Vallauri: graffiti stamps the city/ Alex Vallauri: o graffiti carimba a cidade.

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Date: Jan-June 2018
From: GAMA(Issue 11)
Publisher: Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa
Document Type: Article
Length: 2,681 words

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The work of Alex Vallauri, precursor of graffiti in Brazil, is analyzed from his interventions in the city of Sao Paulo. Initially anonymous, his performance was remarked by the graffiti of the black Bota that will figure in severalpoints of the urban space. What is strong and perceptible in a short space of time is the appearance of other stripped figures, coming from the popular imagination, such as cupids, acrobats, animals, musical notes. This is intended to discuss the interaction of his journey with the city and with passers-by, also with the concepts of "corpocidade and coreopolitical". Keywords: Alex Vallauri /graffiti / corpocidade. O trabalho de Alex Vallauri, precursor do graffiti no Brasil, e analisado a partir de suas intervencoes na cidade de Sao Paulo. Inicialmente anonimo, sua atuacao se fez remarcar pelo graffiti da Bota preta que vai figurar em varios pontos do espaco urbano. O que e forte e perceptivel, em curto espaco de tempo, e a aparicao de outras figuras despojadas, vindas do imaginario popular, como cupidos, acrobatas, animais, notas musicais. Com isso pretende-se discorrer sobre a interacao de sua poetica com a cidade e com os transeuntes, outrossim com os conceitos de "corpocidade e coreopolitica". Palavras chave: Alex Vallauri / graffiti / corpocidade.
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