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Entropy (Hardcover)
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Entropy (Hardcover)
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Entropy, from the Greek 'entrope', the action of transforming
itself at random... For the first monograph in English of the
Portuguese artist, Alexander Farto - aka Vhils - it is an
emblematic title indeed. The artist's aim, in carving portraits of
anonymous persons on the degraded walls of our modern cities, is
not only to give a second life to these abandoned mural supports
but also to bring to light ordinary citizens roughly treated by a
society progressing at a fast speed and leaving them out. Hence, in
giving visibility to things and beings whose elimination is
programmed, Vhils explored a new creative path. Giving up the
graffiti, he doesn't use the wall as the simple support of his art
expression anymore but reaches for the very essence of it. His
tools are now the chisel, the jackhammer, even some explosive
devices, but no longer the aerosol, to successively reveal the
various strata hidden under the surface of the wall and generating
human figures hollowed or in relief. But Vhils also works indoors
using metal, wood, polystyrene or cork, testing out a new technique
each time, like laser scraping the 'crust' of layered advertising
posters for the purpose of creating strange palimpsests from which
urban shapes and human faces appear here again. All in all, Vhils's
work is here to make visible the obvious and less obvious links
existing between a city and its inhabitants, and to express the
need of preserving, in 'the sound and fury', what makes us human
beings.
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