Posts Tagged as ‘Os Gêmeos’
February 9, 2010
twin win
Nice lil’ animation that Os Gêmeos created for the 33rd Annual São Paulo film festival, from the niceproduce blog.
June 2, 2009
Ghetturista?
“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.” – V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River
March 31, 2009
Viva Pixo!
I’ve been having a dig into Pixação in the last couple of weeks, and found some fascinating stuff. It seems like it got pretty much left behind when Brazilian ’street art’ went global, but all that might be set to change before long. Whether or not the writers would want it to, though, is an altogether more complicated issue. Here’s the trailer for [...]
March 12, 2009
From the Streets to the Seminars Part 2
Lots of interesting ideas floating around at Chandra Morrison’s seminar on graffiti and street art in São Paulo. But the one that really caught my attention was the local authorities’ deeply ambiguous attitude to the whole thing. A member of the audience relayed a funny story that sums up this attitude pretty neatly. In October last [...]
February 15, 2009
Niemeyer 101
Just stumbled across this great little post on Kátia Lessa’s blog, about a new exhibition in São Paulo where young artists including Nunca and Speto get to mess around on a building designed by Oscar Niemeyer, the man responsible for Brasília’s space-age styles. Incredibly, the Brazilian architect and certified Modernist genius is still going strong at the ripe old age [...]
