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24. Alexandre Farto aka Vhils

10/24/2012

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  • Street artist
  • Scratches away paint, plaster, brick and stone to leave huge portraits on the facades of run down buildings. He also peels back advertising posters in the same way.
  • He seeks to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this model of uniform development to try to understand what lies behind it.
  • Article 'The walls have ears (and eyes, and noses...). The Independent, 4 March 2011, p9
http://alexandrefarto.com/


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Dakota K link
7/3/2022 04:19:19 pm

Good blogg post

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    I am a second year student studying Drawing and Applied Arts at the University of the West of England.

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