“TTSSS*… pixação*, the vastest art. são paulo, brazil”
Organization Boleta (Daniel Medeiros)
http://www.editoradobispo.com.br
Extracting “notes”, from the “historical” diary from a pixador* – was how this book came to existence. Boleta, who put together this volume, is a member of the first generation of VÍCIO*, one of the oldest and most active graphic-manifestation gangs in São Paulo. The diary dates from 1988 to 1998. These personal notes are a testimonial of how pixo* gradually came to life in São Paulo.
We have reproduced pages of this collection of autographs either in their totality or in detail. The photos were the next step. The book’s photographic work reveals how “Pixographics” defines the chaotic mood of the city, yet allowing us to see through the chaos, where beauty lays - multiplying in extension and height – all over the city. Editora do Bispo sees a genuine, contemporary, 21st century form of communication in Pixação*, where a gifted and original graphic creation emerges. This is the first time that their alphabet has been decoded and organized in a book. These symbols, if seen detached from their context, reveal original and sophisticated graphic creations.
Ttsss... does not intend to be an encyclopedia of graphic art. It is, however, the editorial introduction to Pixo. Ttsss… is an important compilation that shows a specific stream of young artists - artists who predominantly come from an underprivileged social segment. Their social condition is, nonetheless, the ingredient that makes their symbolograms one of the most original urban phenomenons in Brazil in recent years.
* TTSSS…. is the buzzing sound of a can of spray paint
*Vício: addict
*Pixadores. A youngster, generally from an underprivileged social background, frequently living under precarious conditions in the outskirts of the city. A pixador uses pixação a form of protest, but at the same time, as a way of expressing his esthetic impulse.
* Pixação.noun. Of Brazilian origin, refers to writing in own, original codes, signs, symbols, and printing types. The hieroglyphics are printed with spray paint along extensions of walls, façades, and building exteriors in great metropolitan capitals. São Paulo, city where the movement originated, has the richest ex hibition of this kind in the world. The origin of the word comes from piche – tar, pitch.
product details:
Title: “ TTSSS… pixação, the vastest art, sao paulo, brazil ”
Organized by Boleta (Daniel Medeiros)
Photos: João Wainer and Boleta
Paperback: 154 pags.
Publisher: Editora do Bispo
Language: english and portuguese
Isbn: 859930708
120 color images
Product dimensions: 24 cm x 17 cm
about 500 gr.
Editora do Bispo
rua Dr. Melo Alves, 278 - 01417- 010 - São Paulo SP Brazil
Tel/fax 55 11 3064 8673
http://www.editoradobispo.com.br
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