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Arraiano2014-06-01 - 2014-09-01
WOOL | Covilhã Urban Art Festival
Lisbon | Covilhã , Portugal
WOOL | Covilhã Urban Art Festival _ @ DJERBAHOOD | ARRAIANO
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- Title: Untitled
- Creator: ARRAIANO
- Creator Lifespan: 1977
- Creator Nationality: Portuguese
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Birth Place: Portugal
- Date: 2014-06-01 - 2014-09-01
- Location Created: Erriadh, Djerba., District - Djerba; Country - Tunisia
- location:lon: 10.8553720
- location:lat: 33.820178
- Technique: plastic paint
- Physical Dimensions: w10,00 x h3,00 x d0 m (complete)
- Map: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=213433614628918665172.0004c6b4f652c100ea4be&msa=0&dg=feature
- Details: After the success of the Portuguese group presented at the project TOUR PARIS 13, the mentor Mehdi Ben Cheikh, invited again the WOOL (Lara Seixo Rodrigues) to select a small group of urban artists to integrate the new and ambitious project of Galerie Itinerrance on the island of Djerba, Tunisia. During the months of July and August, a selection of more than 150 artists from the 4 corners of the world (30 nationalities), took turns at every 7 days to leave their mark in the traditional village of Erriadh, who became a space of multicultural expression, a new movement for a country in (trans)formation ', explained the project mentor Mehdi Ben Cheikh. To the artists from countries such as Brazil, Japan, China, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Australia, UK or Spain, among many others, was only requested the execution of one (or more) original artwork, taking into account the authenticity and specificity of the local environment, always looking for an aesthetic appreciation of it. The presence of the Portuguese group in this unique art project, formed by ADD FUEL, MÁRIO BELÉM and Arraiano, between the 7th and 15th July 2014, allowed once again to express the quality and national hallmark, but most of all, to enjoy an equally unique and memorable experience, both the interaction between artists, as the experience of a culture and daily sharing with local and traditional community in such a unique moment in its history '.
- Biography: Paulo Arraiano’s visual universe lies in a duality that merges the natural and the artificial, nature and urbanity, emergence and creation. In the intersection between these two seemingly opposite and excluding worlds, he has managed to set a new-found balance which emerges from the primitive energy that flows between one and the other and lies at the root of his visual dialectics. Seeking society even before the reference “man”. A territory, a body, a drift through flows of energy. Paulo Arraiano’s visual work has been focusing on the immaterial territory and its connection with the physical territory: emotional cartographies where the body acts as an extension of nature through a medium based on the motion and fluidity of the connection to the root, trying to bring to the city the energy it tends to forget. In the visual artist’s work, the detachment for the original work sets off the emotional wandering in a new dialoguing body/space, a convergence between urban cartography and the meridians of the human body, in an alignment of premisses for a work of “urban acupuncture”. Searching for points of conflict, blockage emotional and energetic flows to be returned to the geographical space.
- Provenance: WOOL Fest
- Type: street art
- Rights: WOOL Fest
- External Link: www.woolfest.org
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