Julio Barreto - english

JULIO BARRETO

LOST ICONS

VISITOR’S DAY, 2003

| acrylic on canvas | 136 × 128 cm

LOST ICONS,

CURATORS CARLOS MATUCK AND CLAUDIO ROCHA

a retrospective exhibit and recent works by Julio Barreto, an artist who took part in the Graffiti Movement in São Paulo in the 80’s together with Alex Vallauri. He explored issues from pop culture, like characters from movies and comic books, such as the famous Spirit, a Will Eisner character. This exhibit, in addition to paintings on canvas, shows works made with stencil over wood panels and canvas, along with original masks and photographic reproductions of graffiti performed on the streets of São Paulo.

JULIO BARRETO

As an art technique, stencils exist since prehistoric times. In antiquity, they were applied to walls and objects as a decorative motif. They reappeared, renovated in the early 20th century, in the work of modernist painters, and legitimized by pop artists in the 60’s. They achieved the status of an urban, cultural and artistic movement in the late 1980’s, first in Paris, then New York, and eventually spread throughout the world.

The form of expression known as graffiti was popularized in Brazil by Alex Vallauri in the late 70’s, together with Julio Barreto, at the time, a still curious and skilled young boy. He grew up breathing the atmosphere of the street art of his times, and its technically well-designed masks, portraying the universe of comics and mass culture.

In the natural transition from the streets to the studio, the artist combined the visual density and texture of urban space with the exaggeration, deviations and daydreams of society. The icons and characters identified by his sensitive and restless gaze, in absurd or mundane plots, are always present in his work.

5 - 26 JUNE 2013

| photographic record of graffiti on the streets of São Paulo digital print on hahnemuhle paper | 44,5 × 32 cm

VALLAURI / DENNY COLT, 1988

CINEMA, 2013

| spray on canvas | 80 × 70 cm

CINEMA, 2013

| spray on canvas | 80 × 70 cm

VAMPIRELLA, 2008

| acrylic on canvas | 180 × 100 cm

VAMPIRELLA, 2008-2013

| acrylic on cut cardboard mounted on wood | 197 × 112 cm

OH MY GOD, HOW NICE!, 2013

| spray and acrylic on canvas | 120 × 184 cm

DENNY COLT, 1987

| spray on cut cardboard | 200 × 132 cm

DENNY COLT, 2013

| Spray on wood panel | 75 × 46 cm

SPIRIT AND DENNY COLT, 1987-2013

| photographic records of graffiti on the streets of

SĂŁo Paulo | digital print on hahnemuhle paper | 44,5 Ă— 32 cm

THE GIRLS, 2013 |

acrylic and spray on cut cardboard on canvas | 60 × 40 cm

acrylic and spray on canvas | 60 × 40 cm

ALL FOR LOVE, 2013 |

NO TITLE, 2013 (DETAIL)

| spray on wood panel | 65 × 45 cm

GAS MASK GAS MASK, 2013

| spray on cut cardboard | 65 × 55 cm | photographic record of graffiti on the streets of São Paulo | digital print on hahnemuhle paper | 44,5 × 32 cm

| spray on wood panel | 220 × 80 cm

| spray on wood panel | 200 × 66 cm

FRANK ZAPPA, 2013

FRANK ZAPPA, 2013

CAROLINA’S ECSTASY, 2013

| acrylic on canvas | 120 × 80 cm

IT’S TODAY!, 2013

| acrylic and spray on canvas | 70 × 90 cm

| acrylic and spray on cut cardboard on canvas | 50 × 70 cm

BETTER THAN A BANANA, 2013

DIAL SEX, 2013

| acrylic and spray on cut cardboard on canvas | 60 Ă— 40 cm

ORANGE PRINT, 2013

| acrylic and spray on canvas mounted on wood | 90 × 197 cm

GARAGE, 2013

| acrylic and spray on canvas | 80 × 140 cm

FS MOTORCYCLES , 2013 | acrylic on canvas | 120 × 80 cm

TONINHO AND JOÃO, 2013 | spray on canvas | 120 × 80 cm

BIKE, 2012

BIKE, 2012

| spray on lacquered panel | 70 × 100 cm

| spray on lacquered panel | 70 × 100 cm

INDIAN, 2012 | spray on lacquered panel | 50 Ă— 70 cm

SKATEBOARDER , 2012 | spray on lacquered panel | 70 × 100 cm

ROMISETA, 2012 | spray on lacquered panel | 50 × 70 cm

TIGER, 2008-2013

| oil on cut cardboard and wood | 80 × 170 cm

IGNORANCE CAN BE DEALT WITH, NOT STUPIDITY, 2000

| acrylic and spray on canvas | 88 × 223 cm

design: claudio rocha photography: edson kumasaka translation: martha almeida kuhl

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