The urban intervention "Apposition" was developed by the brazilian artist Fábio Carvalho (Rio de Janeiro) during the period of the Artist in Residence HS13rc in Anjos, Lisbon, Portugal.
More info: www.fabiocarvalho.art.br
For this urban intervention project, three new tile ("azulejo") patterns were created from pictures of pieces from the artist's "Dainty Desire" series.
The "Dainty Desire" series is composed of fire guns made by a patchwork of different laces.
The tile patterns were laser printed on paper in large quantities, then were applied with starch glue on the facades of buildings in Lisbon.
The paper tiles were applied only where the original tiles were already missing on these facades, by decay or theft. No real tile were covered by the paper tiles.
In total, during 35 days 300 paper tiles were applied on 45 points of intervention.
The paper tiles, while causing a certain awkwardness to the eye, can be sometimes confused with the original tiles.
This is the secound time Fábio Carvalho is back to Lisbon doing and urban art intervention. Last year, he did the "Monarc Migration" intervention, in june (http://www.fabiocarvalho.art.br/migracao-monarca.htm).
The urban intervention "Monarch Migration" was specially developed to be executed during the traditional "Festas de Lisboa" (Lisbon festivities). The "Monarchs" are soldiers in camouflage uniform with butterfly wings out of their back, rubber stamped on small sheets of white tissue paper, that were hang amongst the traditional ornaments used in Lisbon during the festivities.
Fábio Carvalho's urban art projects act as small insertions, pieces that invade the space almost like a parasite.
The pieces appear mostly by tensioning what is already there, rather than imposing themselves top down to a space. The pieces require a certain intimacy to get into action. They remain dormant until you activate them with your look. They do not shout - they whisper.
Fábio Carvalho is a Brazilian artist (Rio de Janeiro), with 13 solo shows and more than 110 group exhibitions. Carvalho has joined shows all over his country, and also in Argentina, Cuba, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Germany, Portugal, Russia, UK and USA. Over 70 of his works are in private and public collections in Brazil and abroad.