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February 13, 2007
Habitat. Favela Painting
Habitat. Favela Painting: Mural projects beautify cities. We've seen great work all over the world. For instance, Philadelphia has an excellent mural arts program. The project unifies both the community and commissioned artist to paint a piece reflective of the area's inspirations. Now, thanks to Ray, we've discovered another fantastic mural arts project. This one is located in Brazil.
Dre Urhahn and Jeroen Koolhaas came together to start Favela Painting. It all started two years ago when the two teamed up to produce the documentary Firmeza Total which has been aired on MTV and was shown at several international film festivals. During the production, they came up with the idea for the Favela Painting Project and returned to Brazil in September 2006 to study the possibilities of this project. Now you can view the end results.
Read more about Favela Painting [Here]
Posted by taj at February 13, 2007 02:51 AM