Portuguese Vhils will make intervention in the concert hall … – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

The Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto, signing as Vhils, moves this month to South Korea, where he will make a statement in a concert hall. The project, “on the song”, will only be visited, according to the creator, in early 2015.

                     

                    � �    The trip to South Korea ends a year of great projection at national and international level, the artist who became known as “scooping” pictures on walls.

In July, Alexandre Farto opened its first major exhibition in a national institution, the Museum of Electricity in Lisbon. Dissection / Dissection was “a heavy project that took quite a while,” but “no doubt it was something positive,” Vihls said in remarks to Lusa.

“It was the first time I could join works that come from reflection and maturation of all the projects I did in various parts of the world. By joining [work] in the same space can you give other force and context for people unable to see the big picture [complete picture], “he said.

In addition to the visual side of Vhils work, this exhibition allowed the audience to see” also the concept that is behind “, which, for him,” is the most important. “

This year was also marked in the career of the Portuguese artist, collaboration with the Irish band U2, who created a video on the visual project Films of Innocence , which will be released next Tuesday, December 9, and is a complement album Songs of Innocence .

The year 2015 must also be full of projects. In March, Alexandre Farto will be a guest of cultural shows Iberian Suite: Arts Remix Across Continents , which will be open between 3 and 24 in John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, USA. There will a picture of Fernando Pessoa, from the poet’s books pages. In addition, “there are a number of other exhibitions, with institutions and galleries, still in talks.”

In parallel, Vhils is also the one responsible for platform Underdogs , a project that “is growing and to have more attention.” This cultural project, which is responsible for the French Pauline Foessel and Vhils, divided between public art, with paintings on the walls of Lisbon and exhibitions indoors, in paragraph 56 of Fernando Straw Street, the Silver Arm recovered and turned into space gallery, and dedicated to the production of limited artistic issues.

“With all this work, the Pauline [Foessel] is increasingly take on the project. It is she who manages more “Vhils said. The initial idea was to create a project “self-sustaining, to help new Portuguese artists and offer a public art program to the city.”

“We are successfully finally things have to forward. Are we achieving the objectives, and this year we put some Portuguese artists out there in festivals, “he said.

To 2015 are also already planned” interesting projects, much more focused on Portuguese artists. ” “We are in talks with institutions to make a tour , possibly out of Portugal, which is also important for the project, and especially to the artists,” he said.