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'We're talking about an artist who is on the list of today's most recognized muralists, with works on five continents. He holds the record for the largest graffiti mural in the world, first achieving this feat with the mural 'Etnias', painted to celebrate the 2016 Olympics, covering 2,500 square meters. Later, he beat his own mark in 2017, with a work in homage to chocolate that occupies a wall of 5,742 square meters on the banks of the Castello Branco Highway, in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo.''
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Eduardo Kobra
Born in 1975 in Jardim Martinica, a poor neighborhood in the south of São Paulo, Eduardo Kobra has become one of the most renowned muralists today, with works on 5 continents
Born in 1975 in Jardim Martinica, a poor neighborhood in the south of São Paulo, Eduardo Kobra has become one of the most renowned muralists today, with works on 5 continents
Kobra started drawing on walls underground, as a graffiti artist, when he was still in his teens. The taste for spontaneous street art was already visible in the boy, who collected warnings for unauthorized interventions at school and was even arrested three times for environmental crimes - precisely because of the irregular use of spray paint on nearby walls.
Kobra started drawing on walls underground, as a graffiti artist, when he was still in his teens. The taste for spontaneous street art was already visible in the boy, who collected warnings for unauthorized interventions at school and was even arrested three times for environmental crimes - precisely because of the irregular use of spray paint on nearby walls.
Self-taught, the muralist admits that he learned and developed his art by observing the work of artists he admires - from the mysterious British street art exponent Banksy, whose identity has never been revealed, to names like the American Eric Grohe (1944- ), the American Keith Haring (1958-1990) and the Mexican Diego Rivera (1886-1957).
The legacy of his hip-hop past is revived in the most striking style of his art: hyper-realistic images, often based on photographs of personalities such as Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012), Spanish artist Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) and Brazilian musician Chico Buarque (1944- ), covered in strong, contrasting colors. These colors ended up becoming his main calling card around the world, the defining style of his work. And, to a greater or lesser extent, they began to appear in works from the most diverse phases of his career.
The legacy of his hip-hop past is revived in the most striking style of his art: hyper-realistic images, often based on photographs of personalities such as Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012), Spanish artist Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) and Brazilian musician Chico Buarque (1944- ), covered in strong, contrasting colors. These colors ended up becoming his main calling card around the world, the defining style of his work. And, to a greater or lesser extent, they began to appear in works from the most diverse phases of his career.
His first mural outside Brazil was in Lyon, France, in 2011. At the time, he had been invited to illustrate a wall in a neighbourhood that was undergoing a revitalization process - in other words, he used his Muros da Memória (Walls of Memory) approach to help enhance the history of the area. Since then, he has painted in countries such as Spain, Italy, Norway, England, Malawi, India, Japan, the United Arab Emirates and several North American cities.
His first mural outside Brazil was in Lyon, France, in 2011. At the time, he had been invited to illustrate a wall in a neighbourhood that was undergoing a revitalization process - in other words, he used his Muros da Memória (Walls of Memory) approach to help enhance the history of the area. Since then, he has painted in countries such as Spain, Italy, Norway, England, Malawi, India, Japan, the United Arab Emirates and several North American cities.
She lives in São Paulo, where her studio is also located.
She lives in São Paulo, where her studio is also located.
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