Alexandre Farto (also know as Vhils) is a Portuguese street artist. He studied at the University of Arts in London. Growing up in Portugal, wars in Portugal were going on and they later effect and influenced his work. He was first noticed and compared to street artist Banksy, and was soon after published and offered space for his work.
I like that his street art is more individual than a lot that I've sen before and it steps away from painting. Vhils style is based on carving a relief from and existing structure by digging and drilling through layers of walls. I also like that his work is both in the streets for the world to see as well as in galleries. I feel like it steps outside of borderline vandalism into art.
Another things I really like about Vhils is that he doesn't need to use a lot of color and extreme contrast to make his work noticeable and beautiful. Its impressive that he finds so much detail when carving and drilling into the walls. I'm curious if he's run into problems with the walls and materials he uses, like the wall breaking apart more than he expected or if he has a knowledge of which walls he will be able to use or not.
These are pieces that are shown a gallery space. It looks like he might have taken that chunk of wall and just put it up in the gallery, which I think is pretty cool in itself. It's interesting how there are chunks of wall, plaster, and rubble on the floor beneath a lot of the works. I like that it almost puts itself in it's own world by having the rubble below.
Source:
http://www.streetartbio.com/#!vhils/ci1d
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