Tag: São Paulo

Sao Paulo: Walking Batman’s Alley

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A family member who just returned from Sao Paulo tipped me to this constantly changing street gallery called Batman’s Alley.  Brash colors, stark angles and superb art work, Rua Gonçalo Afonso is an authentic open-air graffiti museum.(Above and below: from the Flickr site of traveller Stephanie Sykora – […]

Henrique Oliveira: Room-Filling Amazement

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Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira creates masterful (some say evolutionary) sculptural installations from scrap, pliable wood collected from construction sites in his native city of São Paulo. The huge structures combine the disciplines of painting, sculpture, and architecture, with broken pieces of plywood set in layers like brushstrokes. (Above: […]