Wednesday, June 16, 2010

praça cantão, favela painting
it is not only dulux who has created these vibrant street scenes, dutch artists jeroen koolhaas and dre urhahn created their first ‘favela painting‘ back in 2006 and yielded two murals which were painted in vila cruzeiro, rio’s most notorious slum. this time their back on a monumental scale – unveiling a 7,000sqm art intervention that sees 34 houses, on the giant hillside favela of praça cantão, given a beautifully vivid overhaul…