:: Felipe Yung a.k.a Flip ::: novembro 2009

quarta-feira, novembro 18, 2009

Maquinaria Festival

Aconteceu nos dias 7 e 8 de novembro na Chacara do Jockey em São Paulo, o Maquinaria Festival, com grandes atrações internacionais.Eu participei fazendo uma pintura ao vivo, um dia antes de embarcar pra Moscou com a Famiglia(que será o proximo post...)

Live Painting, high in the sky. 30 m from the ground.

fotos por : Fabio Bitão, Michelle Mamede e Suvinil

FLIP'S RELEASE :

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Felipe Yung a.k.a FLIP

Amongst large brushes and paint, Felipe Yung cultivates roots, reasons in organic textures in a singular way and brings to paper uniquely shaped images, influenced by his tireless researches on Asian culture. His history begins at the neighborhood of Vila Mariana in São Paulo, and it reaches as far as London and Moscow. Paintings and spray paint, which transcend trends and tell the history of Brazilian Graffiti.

His work permeates various worlds. Flip works through the peaceful coexistence of certain oppositions such as figurative and abstract. his style is seriously high-energy,addressing themes such as nature, pain, pleasure and eroticism. In a contemporary gesture he conjugates figurative and abstraction, such as his painted trees which when seen up close are no longer the figure of a tree but abstract lines, Camouflage Pattern, Insane Characters and Strong Calligraphy strokes.

Since mid 90’s , is one of the best-known names in Brazilian street art and had showed his paintings the streets and galleries and has participated of exhibitions and executed works in São Paulo and cities of Brazil, London, Brighton, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Los Angeles and New York. He has also participated of art fairs in Miami (Art Basel), has represented Brazil in Moscow as a guest of the Brazilian Embassy.

domingo, novembro 22, 2009

work in progress...

quarta-feira, novembro 18, 2009

Maquinaria Festival