Vhils: Spectra

Galerie Danysz presents an exhibition featuring the latest creations by artist Vhils aka Alexandre Farto. The artist is internationally known for his interventions in urban spaces, particularly his large-scale portraits sculpted directly onto walls. It’s an approach that the artist likes to define as “archaeology of the present,” involving the removal of material in successive layers to reveal the subject, as if the goal were to unearth a relic from the past
and from oblivion.

The anonymous faces he thus brings to light are also a way for Vhils to recentre humanity, giving it precedence over economic logics and massive urbanisation, which we know today can overshadow individuals.

Over the years, Vhils has never stopped exploring new mediums for his art, whether it be the concrete of walls, the paper from advertising posters, the wood of recycled doors, metal plates or resin. After a long period of artistic research, the artist has recently developed an innovative technique that allows him to work with a new medium he had never used before: ceramic tiles. These tiles are usually painted, but the artist, true to his practice, manages to sculpt them despite their extreme fragility.