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villas
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04.26.13Villas PuzzleA mural that I did at my good friend Malu´s place...! [nggallery id=36]
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04.13.13Light PaintingAmazing process and magical photos with my good friend Henrique Madeira... [nggallery id=35]
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03.06.13SaillingBack to the streets... Sailling at Rio de Janeiro
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12.13.12Copa GraffitiThis was one week of hard work but it definitely paid back. We were 6 friends (Rafo, Rafa Uzai, Bives, Mdga, Nicolau and me) painting in a very peculiar area of Rio. When you think of Rio de Janeiro, the image that pops up in your mind is Ipanema, copacabana, samba... But this is a really small area of the city. The rest of it, is full of this degraded areas... Poor neighborhoods that has nothing to do with Rio´s stereotype of magical city. It´s the kind of place that I like to paint... where I feel that we did ...
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12.13.12Tom ZéTom Zé has always being one of my favourites Brazilian composers.. I spent half of my life listening to his songs. He was one of the founders of the tropicalia movement, with Caetano Veloso, Torquato Neto, Gilberto Gil, etc.. A couple of months ago, I received this surprising call from a friend that is a art director, Richard Vignais, saying:"Hey Villas, how would you like to make an art for the cover of Tom Zé´s new album?" You can imagine how stoned I got.. The project worked out pretty smooth, Tom Zé loved the painting I did and that was probably ...
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10.30.12Vovó Cambinda[caption id="attachment_1057" align="aligncenter" width="482"] "trabalho para o amor" - Vovó Cambinda (Rio de Janeiro)[/caption] Rio de Janeiro has a lot of those informal propaganda painted banners... I decided to make them more fun!
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06.22.12ManguinhosThis´s a big mural in a super conflictive area here in Rio de Janeiro. This area is quite dangerous, while I was painting there I saw cars being stolen, shootings between police and drug dealers, crack addicts stealing people... Super tense atmosphere... But this neighbourhood has a lot of good people living there as well, with their childrens... So I decided to paint a child´s dream.. playing and being happy. The words that I wrote are from a Brazilian poet (Mario Quintana) and makes a wordplay that translated, it´s not that much fun... but it´s something like "The will ...
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12.16.11Pretos Novos[nggallery id=29] Grande Honra ter sido convidado para pintar esse pequeno mural no Instituto dos Pretos Novos. Lugar incrível e parte da nossa estória (esquecida e vergonhosa). Um cemitério de escravos que chegavam à cidade já debilitados de saúde pela viagem em navio e morriam antes mesmo de serem comprados. Eram jogados todos juntos numa mesma vala coletiva, sem respeito às tradições das religiões africanas que consideram o sepultamento uma premissa para uma continuação da vida em outro plano junto aos seus antepassados. Enfim, o memorial foi inaugurado essa semana e está lindo..! ...
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11.30.11My streetIt´s been a while since I started to make characters made of wood and spread it around, like my birds... This time I wanted to make something fun at my street here in Rio de Janeiro... and interact with the people I hang each single day when I go to work or to the beach... They are all crazy about soccer and they are all day long teasing each other about who´s going to win Brazilian championship...Well, this is my way to say: -" It´s nice to be around again!" [nggallery id=28]
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07.31.11
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06.06.11BirdsRio de Janeiro Barcelona
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03.22.11Verão da CulturaVerão da Cultura, at Parque Laje, Rio de Janeiro. Such a nice exhibition! Good to be back in Rio! [nggallery id=24]
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03.10.11Totems"Totems" , Barcelona january 2011
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02.18.11Birds, BarcelonaThe last few weeks I´ve been spreading a lot of birds arround Barcelona. Time to fly comes by again..! Next stop: Rio de Janeiro! [nggallery id=23]
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11.05.10CiclosNew artwork, "Ciclos" - Spray on wood (40x20)
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11.02.10EquilibristFresh new artwork, "The equilibrist" - Mix Media on a skateboard deck
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10.22.10PrintsFresh! New digital prints 50×70 Signed - Limited edition. [nggallery id=22]
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10.04.10Volando Vengo, Volando VoyRodrigo Villas Solo Exhibition at Cosmo Gallery, Barcelona. From October 16h until November 12h. Opening night October 16h, 20hs @ Cosmo Gallery - Calle Enric Granados, 3 Barcelona opening night party - samba included [nggallery id=20]
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08.09.10rosa, menina rosaSometimes when I paint with my good friend Raquel Sakristan magical things happens!
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07.31.10