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Villas Puzzle

Rodrigo Villas — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:55:17 +0000

A mural that I did at my good friend Malu´s place…!

Light Painting

Rodrigo Villas — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:30:05 +0000

Amazing process and magical photos with my good friend Henrique Madeira…

Sailling

Rodrigo Villas — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:43:21 +0000

Back to the streets… Sailling at Rio de Janeiro

Copa Graffiti

Rodrigo Villas — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:23:56 +0000

This 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 a nice work for the neighbors…!

Thanks to Paola and Lucas for your help and all the pavuna neighborhood for the love!

Tom Zé

Rodrigo Villas — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:13:21 +0000

Tom 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 one of the best projects I ever got involved!

Vovó Cambinda

Rodrigo Villas — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:35:31 +0000

“trabalho para o amor” – Vovó Cambinda (Rio de Janeiro)

Rio de Janeiro has a lot of those informal propaganda painted banners… I decided to make them more fun!

encontros

Rodrigo Villas — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:57:08 +0000

Encounters…

Pimp My Carroça

Rodrigo Villas — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:01:07 +0000

Last couple of weeks I was invited to get part in this really beautiful project, created by the street artist, Mundano, who describes himself as a ARTivist. He created a project called Pimp My Carroça, inspired by MTV’s Pimp My Ride, for which he paints designs with a message on street collectors’ wooden carts to raise funds for them and get more recognition for the incredible recycling work they do.

Thanks to Mel Duarte and her support and to Zé Carlos and his familly who let me paint their cart! It was a special day!

Manguinhos

Rodrigo Villas — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:27:20 +0000

This´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 pass, I´ll be a Bird”

My piece is part of this big mural ( Rio´s biggest mural) and the other artists were Afa, Bruno Big, BR (Fleshbeck Crew), MDGA and Tarm. Big ups for our producer, Carol Lyra.

San Jordi

Rodrigo Villas — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:44:40 +0000

Feliz dia de São Jorge! Feliç diada de Sant Jordi per tothom! Minha Homenagem ao Santo Guerreiro!