About

The paint dip tube of the spray cans used by graffiti artists is called a válvula (valve). Illustrator, cartoonist and visual performer António Jorge Gonçalves and Flávio Almada, a Cape Verdean activist and one of the most striking voices of hip hop in Creole, came together to tell us the history of graffiti. A story that starts on stage with a question: “We like to write on walls. Do we need to write on walls?” Válvula goes back to the time of the strokes that hunter-gatherers did on the rocks 30,000 years ago, in Africa, it goes through the annotations drawn by the Romans on the walls of the houses in Pompeii, stops at the political murals of 100 years ago, talks about the work of contemporary artists as influential as Diego Rivera, Basquiat or Keith Haring. Aimed at an adolescent audience, it is a show that lies somewhere between a conference and a concert, articulating words, drawings and songs. And many questions. How were graffiti born in the Bronx, New York? How does graffiti draw inspiration in the buildings of São Paulo? Art or vandalism? Communication or occupation? Can disobedience be legitimate?

When

From Sunday, 7 March 2021 10:00 To Friday, 19 March 2021 23:59

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