The exhibition may be visited until August 2.
Recently opened a new gallery in the Marvila neighborhood of Lisbon, which bets on convergence between physical and digital art. The first exhibition is by artist Vhils.
Layers of posters collected from the streets – most of Barreiro – tell about five years of urban history. These materials gave rise to a work that It can still be transformed if the artist wants.
“In the end we painted everything in white and I am closed and sculpting. The big challenge is knowing how to stop and maybe it will continue,” said Vhils.
The play is part of the new Vhils exhibition in the Eternal Gallery. On a large scale, it represents the creative process behind more than 50 posters.
The paintings were purchased in white. Through a website, collectors could reveal the image digitally, deciding where the work began and ended. The only accepted payment method was through cryptocurrencies.
“People could destroy the digital file and convert it into something physical, which is what we have here,” explained the artist.
When descending the gallery stairs, visitors find a more immersive part of the exhibition, with videos from a project started in 2011.
These images show explosions on walls of abandoned buildings, and the process of creating each intervention takes an average of one week.
The new gallery in Marvila aims to present works that fuse physical and digital art. These can be seen until August 2.
