Urban Art: Novos Ares

Cena7 and Emol



The graffiti artists are increasingly breaking barriers and prejudices about this art that in despite of being ephemeral has consolidated as a leading contemporary.

Through the use of different colors, shapes and features unusual in traditional graffiti, the artists Cena7 and Emol have been standing out for doing an autonomic work of extreme sensitivity. With symbols and compositions, links between the real and the imaginary, the works becomes poetics pulsations on the walls of the chaotic cities or in the placid environment of the art galleries.

“ I reach for capturing elements of my current urban experience, condensed with the studies of my origins and symbologies that I feel are tied to my own personal unconscious, which is coming little by little more conscious, such as fears of my childhood that I can identify as influences on my creations.” says Emerson Emol, 28 years, about his production filled with symbols, color and remarkable figures, referring to his Brazilian roots and how globalized and technologic is the contemporary world. Conciliating his artistic production with the workshops he develops since 2001 in partnership with social entities and the urban wear brand he owns, the inquiet artist who has paintings spread over several cities, including Santiago in Chile.
He is always studying new possibilities with his art, thereby producing canvas, digital graphics, drawings and sculptures with recyclable materials, such as wood, cardboard and metal, besides doing graffiti, without losing the uniqueness and authenticity of his distinct style.

Michel Ramalho de Toledo is his birth name but by a choice that chose and welcomed him, is more known as CENA7, graffiti artist that started painting on the streets of Sao Bernardo do Campo (SP) by the age of 15 and soon stood out as a prodigy.

He had been through several stages during the years of artistic production and living on the street and now with 23 years old finds himself more homogeneous in his production.

The artist talks about his search for new medias, that the authorized square don´ t allow you to achieve for limiting it on itself… But don´ t discard it when it comes to make a production, also part of graffiti.
“ The mad thing about it is to watch your artwork earn proportion with the architecture of the city as with the people who passes by there. Before you know it you can no longer identify if the city is part of your work or if your work is part of the city.

Is like Marcelo Yuka wrote: ‘When art becomes bigger than the creation many will call it masterpiece and when the masterpiece becomes bigger than the man it is called city.’ To me, in parts, that is graffiti.”

In 2007 he was part of the event “Just Writing My Name”, organized by the Montana Cans and recently had an exhibition on the collective show “Os Brasileiros” in Los Angeles (USA).
Learning art through his experiences on the streets, particularly in the region where he lives (ABCD Paulista), these two artists comes to show their works that are impressive and attract a new look at the national and (why not) international street art, renewing the plastic arts scene.

The works will be shown at the collective exhibition “Urban Art: Novos Ares “ (which means ‘new airs’ , as a fresh breeze of works and styles.) along with the artists : Gen, Joaoh and Nick.

The exhibition also celebrate the opening of Qaz – Urban Art, a new art gallery specializing in Brazilian urban art that aims to disseminate the production of respected Brazilian visual artists from graffiti and other forms of art from the streets of the big cities.

It starts on May 29th until June 14th and will be hold at the Coletivo Gallery in Pinheiros (SP) : Rua dos Pinheiros, 493

Posted By: artasty
may 26, 2008 05:03pm