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The sea ghost
Saddo2014-08-01
WOOL | Covilhã Urban Art Festival
Lisbon | Covilhã , Portugal
WOOL | Covilhã Urban Art Festival _ curating FUSING _ 2nd edition | SADDO
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- Title: The sea ghost
- Creator: SADDO
- Creator Lifespan: 1981
- Creator Nationality: Romanian
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Birth Place: Romania
- Date: 2014-08-01
- Location Created: Torre de sinalização do porto da Figueira da Foz, Av. Espanha, District - Coimbra; Country - Portugal
- location:lon: -8.865470
- location:lat: 40.147736
- Technique: plastic paint
- Physical Dimensions: w4,00 x h6,50 x d0 m (complete)
- Map: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=213433614628918665172.0004c6b4f652c100ea4be&msa=0&dg=feature
- Details: Aitch and Saddo were invited to intervene in the signal tower of the Figueira da Foz port, in order to create their own representations of a fishermans life. The aim was to see represented the contrast between the interpretation of a man and a woman relating to what was asked. The result was a piece of saddo with a fairly loaded colors, which leads immediately to the world of the fantastic, not only by color but by using all those images, the representation of a male figure. AITCH's piece, presents a more sober palette of colors and with the representation of a female figure, the foam of the sea, surrounded by naturalistic elements, which brings us to the life that exists in the sea.
- Biography: Romanian artist, illustrator and muralist, Saddo started his artistic career as founder of one of the first Romanian street art collectives, The Playground, in a time when a freshly graduated artist didn't have other possibilities than to be a graphic designer or a teacher. But his street art activity brought a fresh fun vibe to the whole way of perceiving art and the world, and opened a door to many different projects, commissions for advertising agencies, collaborations with galleries in Bucharest, Vienna, Berlin, Copenhagen, Stockholm, New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, Glasgow, Salvador, etc. Going through many different phases and influences, from horror movie posters, street art, comics, Saddo has recently developed his style into more elaborate shapes, with many different influences from old masters of 15th - 17th century, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Bosch, Brueghel, Walton Ford, naturalistic illustration, pop surrealism, religion, mythology.
- Provenance: WOOL Fest
- Type: street art
- Rights: WOOL Fest
- External Link: www.facebook.com/woolfest
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