R.U.A. – Festival
Reflexo on Urban Art

Colours, lines and forms of contemporary Brazilian street art

With this event Caramundo states that street art and graffiti are an amazingly valuable addition to museum and gallery art, taking place in public space, being an intervention of everyday life, breaking daily routine of the inhabitants of a city and offering anyone access to free art on any moment of the day.

R.U.A. Festival has added to the change of the generalized public opinion that exists in Rotterdam about graffiti as being vandalism only, into a perception of graffiti being contemporary urban art in public space.

About the Artists

The Brazilian artists invited for the event in Rotterdam are known for their history in Brazilian graffiti, their unique style or upcoming talent. None of them had ever had the opportunity to paint the side of a building by themselves. Who at first doubted about the size of their wall, took back their words when shaking in the bucket of the cherry picker, high up in the sky.

Speto and Onesto, both old school writers from the São Paulo graffiti scene, set the tone of experience with their very fast and decided lines on these big surfaces. Onio (Brasilia) and Gais (Rio de Janeiro), both very promising street artists of Brazil showed the power of black and white figurative and abstract. Rather new in the scene but impossible to neglect any longer are São Paulo based artists Horoiwa and Yusk who both inspire their work for a great deal on the Japanese background of their families. Belo Horizonte representatives Dalata, respected and known for his amazing spray techniques and mysterious and fantastic paintings, and Ramon Martins slowly conquering the world with explosions of colourful thin lines and bubblegum, are only but a few of Brazil’s vast amount of amazing artists, who could participate in Rotterdam.

Visit the R.U.A. Website: www.ruafestival.org or see the pictures