Details: WOOL – Covilhã Urban Art Festival, that merged in 2011 in Covilhã, for various reasons beyond our control, didn’t get more support or funding for a second edition, so obviously we searched for other geographies, new projects and new formats.
The first place that welcome us was LXFactory in Lisbon (as Rua Rodrigues Faria, 103 – www.lxfactory.com), undeniably the most creative and artistic center of the capital, which was installed in an old flourmill and later printer industry, a place filled with old and gray facades.
This piece is one from the 5th edition of WOOL ON TOUR. A piece by Neberra, under his master influence of the pop Surrealism.
Biography: Paul Neberra was born in Mainz, capital of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany, on January 6, 1982. Six years later the family moved to Portugal, where he began his schooling. Always divided between Arts and Science he decided to study Design at IADE-Creative University. In 2004, the year he gained his diploma, he begun working as illustrator for children's magazines. Between 2006 and 2007 he worked in a small advertising agency and after that, he found a teaching post at a Lisbon training school. He dedicated the next 5 years teaching graphic software, always creating illustrations, mostly using a digital process. Unhappy with the fear of turning his self in theorist, he decided to quit his job and to paint all those strange, bizarre but in a way suit and familiar creatures of his own world. Neberra defines is work as being a kind of story telling in the Lowbrow art movement.