Vhils has been very busy far away from home creating his iconic murals thoughout Shanghai. Check out the fruits of his labour as well as the video of their making.
Biography
Our youngest artist, the already prolific Portuguese-born Alexandre Farto's range spans from collage to portraiture. Of late he's taken to creating works purely from in situ materials, taking Vandalism as art to its logico ad absurdum conclusion. Advertising hoardings are torn to make fresh images, and plaster drilled away at until the remaining relief forms the work. He is, at the time of writing, experimenting with a cocktail of Quink ink and household bleach. But this is a long way from brutalism. Vhils art is poetic, complex, and ambitious, often focusing on the needs we have abandoned in favour of our wants, and the realisation that trading pleasure back in for happiness will be a less than straightforward exchange.
Available Art
News
Vhils' recent Monograph with Gestalten is one of the most extensive collections of his personal and commissioned work to date, due to be released online this month. The introduction is written by Marc and Sara Schiller of Wooster Collective.
To celebrate the launch of the 'European Bailout Show' at Post No Bills, Vhils flew out to sunny Cali to grace the walls of the Venice Beach gallery with one of his carved wall murals. Carlos Gonzalos captures the process as it unfolds, sick!
A selection of originals and prints by Antony Micallef, Conor Harrington, Ian Francis, Jonathan Yeo, JR, Mode 2, Paul Insect, Stanley Donwood, Vhils and Zevs donned the walls of Lazarides' sister venture Post No Bills in Venice Beach, California. Those of us back in London at the launch of Boxi's new exhibition were certainly jealous of this candid affair. Luckily, there is never any shortage on the art/ fun metre at any event stamped with Laz approval.
