Speto
v Not afraid to get paint on his pants.
Speto is a Brazilian artist whose graffiti and street art works are highly influenced by hip hop and new wave. Starting out in the mid-80s with mostly graffiti, Speto has expanded to illustrations, cartoons and other forms of commercial art for Brazilian magazines.
During an interview:
If you could have one superpower what would it be?
I’d have rubber body parts. Then I could stretch my arms to reach up to high walls where I want to spray.
What is unique about Speto is that he doesn't care where his art is produced/shown: whether it's for paid & commercial purposes, on the street, or in a gallery. According to him, all that matters is "wherever you go you are yourself" (Hell yes). He doesn't believe that art should be an egocentric exercise for the artist to produce only "for himself"; but rather it is to be shared with others and have meaning for the world around him.
As so-called graffiti muses into what is now known as "street art", simultaneously street/graffiti artists ease their way into the "normal" art world-- getting their work up in fine art galleries and into advertising/commercial/popular media. While today's graffiti world is nothing compared to the underground, illegal, raw freshness of the 80's and early 90's (just do it!), there's nothing wrong with making de money, and getting stuff up in galleries... I guess (heh).
Maybe modern street art is just a milquetoast, washed-down version of the old school shit. But even though times change, bringing fine arts to the streets and turned into fine "freet" art (free+street = freet, a term I just made up as I write this) is something that ought to continue growing in my opinion. As a now somewhat commercial artist, Speto manages to keep it real:
“I try not to adapt too much to the client but to adapt the client to me.”
And that's how it is.
http://www.speto.com.br/
Speto is a Brazilian artist whose graffiti and street art works are highly influenced by hip hop and new wave. Starting out in the mid-80s with mostly graffiti, Speto has expanded to illustrations, cartoons and other forms of commercial art for Brazilian magazines.
During an interview:
If you could have one superpower what would it be?
I’d have rubber body parts. Then I could stretch my arms to reach up to high walls where I want to spray.
What is unique about Speto is that he doesn't care where his art is produced/shown: whether it's for paid & commercial purposes, on the street, or in a gallery. According to him, all that matters is "wherever you go you are yourself" (Hell yes). He doesn't believe that art should be an egocentric exercise for the artist to produce only "for himself"; but rather it is to be shared with others and have meaning for the world around him.
As so-called graffiti muses into what is now known as "street art", simultaneously street/graffiti artists ease their way into the "normal" art world-- getting their work up in fine art galleries and into advertising/commercial/popular media. While today's graffiti world is nothing compared to the underground, illegal, raw freshness of the 80's and early 90's (just do it!), there's nothing wrong with making de money, and getting stuff up in galleries... I guess (heh).
Maybe modern street art is just a milquetoast, washed-down version of the old school shit. But even though times change, bringing fine arts to the streets and turned into fine "freet" art (free+street = freet, a term I just made up as I write this) is something that ought to continue growing in my opinion. As a now somewhat commercial artist, Speto manages to keep it real:
“I try not to adapt too much to the client but to adapt the client to me.”
And that's how it is.
http://www.speto.com.br/
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