Louvor da Vivacidade

Louvor da Vivacidade’* tile mural by Add Fuel in Lisbon, dictates the closure of the already designated Azulejo (Traditional Portuguese Tile) Route, a path that has in the last decades branded this important Lisbon axis and where one can find tile panels by renowned Portuguese artists — Maria Keil (1959), Carlos Botelho (1959), Júlio Pomar and Alice Jorge (1959), Sá Nogueira (1959) and Eduardo Nery (1994 and 2001).

The mural ‘Louvor da Vivacidade’ intends to recover the Azulejo's artistic expression, which reflects its historical, architectural, memory and tradition, by bringing it to the present. This way, the use of azulejo — undeniably one of Portugal's identity elements — is used, but with a contemporary aesthetic and approach: the artist's unique trait. * ‘Louvor da Vivacidade’ in english means something like ‘Praise to Liveliness’ or ‘Praise to a Living City’