Den portugisiske billedkunstner Alexandre Farto aka Vhils (f. 1987) begyndte at interagere i bymiljøet med graffiti i begyndelsen af 2000’erne, og er blevet hyldet som en af de mest innovative kunstnere i hans generation.
Hans poetiske portrætter, mejslet i afskallede vægge, kan ses som prydende
bybilleder i hele verden.
Baseret på vandalismens æstetik, nedbryder Vhils, så at sige, for at skabe. Han udskærer, hugger, ætser og blæser sig gennem lagene af materialer. Og dog, som en arkæolog, holder han igen for at afsløre skønheden, der ligger fanget under overfladen.
Ivrig efter at eksperimentere har Vhils udviklet sin egen personlige æstetik i en række forskellige medier, fra stencilmaleri til metalætsning, fra pyrotekniske eksplosioner og video til skulpturelle installationer. Han har tillige lavet adskillige musikvideoer, kortfilm og en sceneproduktion.
Hans unikke tilgang og kunst har fået stor anerkendelse over hele kloden.
Siden 2005 har han præsenteret sit arbejde i over 30 lande over hele verden i solo- og gruppearrangementer, stedspecifikke kunstinterventioner, kunstneriske arrangementer og projekter i forskellige sammenhænge – fra at arbejde sammen med lokalsamfund i Rio de Janeiro ”favelas”, til samarbejde med anerkendte kunstneriske og museologiske institutioner som EDP Foundation (Lissabon), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Barbican Center (London), CAFA Art Museum (Beijing) eller Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego).
SOLO UDSTILLINGER
Realm – Shanghai, China
Panorama – New York, USA
Incisão – Brasília, Brasil
2018
Ethereal – Miami, USA
Décombres – Paris, France
Fragments Urbains – Paris, France
Annihilation – Los Angeles, USA
Intrínseco – Lisbon, Portugal
2017
Remains – Hong Kong
Imprint – Beijing, China
Debris | Destroços – Macau
2016
Retrocesso ao Futuro, Portugal
Debris – Hong Kong
Selected Prints 2006-2016 – Lisbon, Portugal
2015
Dissonance – London, UK
2014
Incisão – Recife, Brazil
Vestiges – Paris, France
Dissecção | Dissection – Lisbon, Portugal
Incisão – Curitiba, Brazil
2013
Fragmentos – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dissolve – Sydney, Australia
GRUPPE UDSTILLINGER
2019
Up The Wall , KIRK Gallery, Denmark
Parti Pris, Danysz Gallery, Paris, France
. Conquête Urbaine – street art au musée, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Calais, Calais, France
. ADN – Art dans Nancy, Nancy, France
. Don’t Believe the Hype, Artcurial, Paris, France
. E livres habitamos a substância do tempo, Praça da Liberdade, Almada, Portugal
. La Source, Fondation Carmignac, Île de Porquerolles, France
. NuArt Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
. ARCO Madrid 2016 – Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Vera Cortês Art Agency booth, Madrid, Spain
. Post Contemporary – Urban Graphics 7019, MoCA – Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2018
All the Rage, Mandarin Oriental Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
. Vis a Vis, Danysz Gallery, Paris, France
. Festival Iminente London, The Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
. Arte em São Bento – Coleção António Cachola, Palácio de São Bento, Lisbon, Portugal
. Festival Iminente Lisboa, Panorâmico de Monsanto, Lisbon, Portugal
. One to One, 1:1 Gallery, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
. Imago – A History of Portraits, MUCA – Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art, Munich, Germany
. Annual Arts Exhibition Between China and the Portuguese-speaking Countries – Alter Ego, The Macao Museum of Art, Macau SAR, China
. Do Tirar Polo Natural – inquérito ao retrato português, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal
. Sea of Desire, Fondation Carmignac, Île de Porquerolles, France
. ARTEJO | EDP Foundation Public Art Programme, Atalaia, Portugal
. Splash and Burn project, Medan Indonesia
. Beyond the Streets, Los Angeles, USA
. The Armory Show, Vera Cortês Gallery booth, New York, USA
. Art From the Streets, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
2017
Fireworks, Magda Danysz Gallery, Shanghai, China
. A cidade na cidade – obras da colecção António Cachola, Centro de Artes e Cultura de Ponte de Sor, Ponte de Sor, Portugal
. APP Portfolio House Collection, Mission Hills Artworks, Shenzhen, Guandong, China
. Post no Bills: Public Walls as Studio and Source, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA
. Art from the Streets | The History of Street Art – from New York to Beijing, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
. Portugal, Retrocesso ao Futuro (Vhils & ±MaisMenos±), Jardins Efémeros, Viseu, Portugal
. Abaixo as Fronteiras! Vivam o Design e as Artes, MUDE – Museu do Design e da Moda, Lisbon, Portugal
. Choices, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
. Knock on Wood, Magda Danysz Gallery, Paris, France
. Paradoxes of the Ivory Tower – Painting and pictorial elements in the Norlinda and José Lima Collection, Oliva Creative Factory, São João da Madeira, Portugal
. Point of View, Park of the Pena Palace, Sintra, Portugal
. They Would be Kings: An Exhibition Curated by Steve Lazarides, Sotheyby’s Hong Kong Gallery, Hong Kong
. Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe Trade Fair Center, Galerie Springmann booth, Karlsruhe, Germany
. The Armory Show, Vera Cortês Art Agency booth, New York, USA
. ARCO Madrid 2016 – Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Vera Cortês Art Agency booth, Madrid, Spain
. Still Here, a Decade of Lazarides, Lazarides Gallery, London, UK