Vhils
His real name is Alexandre Farto, he was born on the first of January in 1987 in Lissabon, that for he´s an portuguesen Street-Artist. Now he´s living in Seixal and normally he works as an Illustratior, graphic artist, for advertising agencies or video animation. His Streetart career started already with 13 years with spraying Graffitis, but in order to reach a bigger number of inhabitants of his city he began to try also other methods of streetart.
Today he mainly focuses on scratching, revising advertising or explosive Streetart, which means he busts his motives into the wall. To process his material, which insists of stone, wood, cork, etc., he uses drills, air hammers, acid or even dynamite.
Today he mainly focuses on scratching, revising advertising or explosive Streetart, which means he busts his motives into the wall. To process his material, which insists of stone, wood, cork, etc., he uses drills, air hammers, acid or even dynamite.
Since Vhils took part at the cans-festival 2008 in London, organized by Banksy, which is a big streetart-festival, he belongs to the most popular streetartists in Europe, because in London his art caused a big sensation. Since then he took part at a lot of streetart festivals in many different countries so now his art can be seen almost all over the world, on the street or in museums.
Vhils uses the principe of vandalism to create something new. By destroying a wall with dynamite or a drill he creates enormous pictures. That´s his way to express himself.
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