Art, Environments
Street Art transcends borders at CASACOR São Paulo 2018
Created in the 1970s, graffiti became very popular as an artistic expression on the streets and now occupies architecture and decoration projects.
By Ana Carolina Harada
Updated at Feb 18, 2020, 7:46 AM - Submitted at Jul 4, 2018, 6:36 PM
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Defining what contemporary style is with certainty is practically impossible. There are so many influences that make up the arts, decoration and architecture that contemporaneity seems a bit diffuse. However, we can identify several trends that converge, such as the urban style that brings street art and, above all, graffiti are strong features. 
Created in the 1970s, graffiti became very popular as an artistic expression for the streets and is now massively used in architecture and decoration projects. At the 32nd edition of CASACOR São Paulo , it is possible to admire this art in the environments of renowned professionals. , who sought to enhance graffiti by including it in modern and original projects. 
In the Paisagens de Luz space, at Plantar Ideias, Bieto creates a kinetic painting that combines colors, giving movement to the lines and tones as the daylight passes, with the help of LED lamps. 
At Casa do Escritor , by Jóia Bergamo, visual artist and muralist Camilo Rodrigues integrates a painting of a writer in a time of transition between handwriting and the typewriter into the decor. 
Urban art also invades the WC No Gender cabins, by Lissandro Piloni. Each cabin received an intervention with vibrant and pure colors, created by Mena and Rafael Zoli. The graffiti proposes a reflection on the human body, the architect's object of inspiration, which proposes a space free from stigma and which embraces diversity and personal acceptance. 
Catê Poli and João Jadão, in Praça CASACOR , proposed two graffiti painted with spray and stencil by the artist Arnaldo Degasperi: a scarab, a sacred Egyptian symbol, on one of the little houses; and a dragonfly, on the pergola. 
The façade of the Leroy Merlin Sustainable House, by Larissa Oliveira and Gabriela Lotufo, features the work of artist Marcos Baru. Based on the theme of the exhibition –The Living House – the artist portrays his main work element, water, in an abstract way. and playful: the lines seek to symbolize water, the submerged, the bubbles rising to the surface and the blue strip, with irregular shapes outlining the two walls, seek movement.