Streetart in...

... São Paulo!

São Paulo is worldwide known as a city full of Street art.

Anyone walking through the town with open eyes can discover real treasures between the house walls.

The city of São Paulo in Brazil is home of over hundreds of museums, galleries, one Street-Art-open-air museum, a paradise of urbane culture and it is almost undiscovered despite the millions tourists who fly to Brazil year after year.

Graffiti culture in the Brazilian city is breathtaking, adding color and simultaneously staying in context to the city. Artists use the walls to present all forms of art, including abstract, portraiture and artwork with strong political statements.

In this metropolis there seems to be not even a single wall that is not covered with graffiti, wall paintings or smearings. - What are smearings and what is art, lies in the eye of the beholder.

In 2005 mayor Gilberto Kassab put through a ban of advertising. In one fell swoop millions of banners and signs disappeared. Graffiti artists from the subsoil rushed at the resulted free surfaces.

Beyond these streets, graffiti artists like Os Gêmeos, Nexus, Cadumen and Cranio can be found everywhere you look.

"Os Gêmeos" are worldwide famed superstars, called "The twins". You can admire their surreal masterpieces in the whole town. Gêmeos are represent from one of the most distinguished galleries of the town. You can also find our article about them here!

Once the urban cleaning would have nearly removed one big mural of the twins - „by mistake“ - which applies more than 700 square meters next to the highway.

People  stuck in the traffic jam can rejoice in fantastic beings, yellow bodies with thin limbs or a seated man who holds his own face in his hands far away from himself. 

Another form of the street art in São Paulo is "Pixação", translated with "smearing" and is valid for many inhabitants as crude disfigurement of their town. The world of the "Pixação" originates from an angular alphabet, which can be hardly deciphered. In monotonous black writing, different groups attach their name on different walls and mark their area.

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