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WOOL by ARM Collective

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The WOOL festival kicked of in Covilhã with the ARM Collective, a Portuguese duo who’s been leaving Portugal’s walls brighter and colorful. The next editions will have the presence of Alexandre Farto aka Vhils, BTOY and JR’s Inside Out project. Check the full gallery here.

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“Brilho do sol”

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Stephan Doitschinoff aka CALMA just been to Lisboa to work on his latest artistic project, always surrounding religion and local costumes. A beatiful performance was given this week in one of the most traditional neighborhoods of Lisboa, Mouraria. Full coverage here.

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Push Click

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“Push Click” is a collective “videogame based art” show featuring Portuguese artists: add fuel to the fire, akaCorleone, Fidel, Jucapinga, Min, Phomer, Target & Tosco. Great mood, vintage console systems and games, arcades, original pieces, screenprints, badge magnets and much more.

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Vhils & MaisMenos at MACE

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The Museum of Contemporary Arts of Elvas (MACE) has invited several artists to take part on the exhibition “Museum in ruins” (O Museu em ruínas) and Alexandre Farto aka Vhils and ±MaisMenos are two of the selected artists to be part of the collection of António Cachola.

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The Underdogs

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The new show from Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils along with art agency Vera Cortês brings us “The Underdogs”, a collective show from only Portuguese artists. Vhils, Sphiza, Mais Menos ±, Mar, Ram, Obey (pt), Smart Bastard, Adres, Tosco & Kusca are the first ones to be part of this edition. The pics from last Friday night show can be seen here.



FAILE Temple

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FAILE latest project has made a huge impact to whoever passes by. Placed in one of the busiest avenues in Lisboa, Portugal, the integration of the Cathedral Project within the very fabrics of the city serve a crucial role in granting audiences the ability to engage and interact on their own terms.

For full story visit: stick2target.com
Music by: Monstro Robot



Portuguese Street Art

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Vhils, Adres, Add fuel to the fire, Tosco, Adres, and many more…
The latest street and urban art news of what’s happening in Portugal, or with Portuguese artists here.



Os Gémeos in Lisboa

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The new show from Brazilian graffiti Os Gémeos “Pra quem mora lá, o céu é lá” happened this Monday night in Lisboa. More pics here.



VSP Porto

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Visual Street Performance is a graffiti Portuguese event that brought English David Walker last year alongside Portuguese Mar, Klit, Vhils, Hium, Time and Hibashira and lot’s more guests to the space. This year, they’re taking the event for the first time to the North of Portugal, and with English BestEver as the international guests, and many more Portuguese writers to play along. The works have already started on spot and you can catch all the latest work in progress shots from the event here.



Faile artwork

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Faile is a long known street-art collective, and they have two massive shows in London right now.
Catch the Faile x Bast “Deluxx Fluxx Arcade” show here, and a “Decade of Faile” here.



Portugal Street Art Highlights

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In case you don’t know Portugal street art, it’s well and alive out there.
Vhils is probably the easiest name to remember, but throughout the year lot’s of artists and events have passed by this country that made a real difference to the street art panorama. INSA inaugurated the new Montana Shop in Lisboa, Visual Street Performance had David Walker massive paintings inside, and so many more have done a great job this year.
See the highlights of 2009 in Portugal by artist Target.

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Hard Ass Sessions

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This edition marries the most original sound to come out of Angola through DJ Znobia with Mekwa’s and Target’s art.

The Vinyl Factory and Enchufada present Hard Ass Sessions volume I, featuring an original track by Angola’s DJ Znobia remixed by Buraka Som Sistema, Baobinga & I.D. and Octa Push.

An original artist edition of 400 unique hand painted sleeves. The first 200 make up a large panel that mimics an african social network of people dancing kuduro and reconnecting after years struggle. The second panel of 200 sleeves features one or more large stencils of dancers in Kuduro positions on each sleeve.
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