What they think
Edvando Luiz Castro Pinto (Tucunaré), coordinator of the Project Graffita Salvador
"The work you are doing I think it is very beautiful. And it is necessary. Because you are registering. It is going to be there for everybody see. A work open to the public. You will have the opportunity to hear various graffitists (ex-taggers), besides others with more experience of our project. So that you can also feel what has changed in their lives. Art is in their heads. Intelligence is in their heads. Art and drawing. But seek and take from where it came and where it is going to today. This is good. You can attest what has improved in their quality of live, especially ex-taggers. Precisely so that the population know about this change. You are going to hear a lot of very beautiful histories, of fathers who were happy with the change in the behavior and personality of these boys".Leonel Mattos, artist
"Your work is wonderful. I see that there are also other people interested. The project that is on the streets, the people are aware, and inevitably this work is going to be a wonderful register, because a lot of people do not have these registers and they disappear. People think it is beautiful. They disappear and do not worry about preserving our history. And make it. It is this type of work that you are doing that history is registered. Everything is ephemeral. It depends o how you care for it. Suddenly, the work is perishable, but if you take care, it’ll last".Miguel Cordeiro (Faustino), graffitist, musician-composer and artist
"Very interesting. Interesting, man, your work. Because it is a recollection of thing. That’s what I think. What bothers me, really, is that the new generation from Bahia, people from here do not have any interest in knowing about things. That’s what is worse! So, they do not know, for example: I’m going to leave Faustino out, but they do not know what has of U.P.I., they do not know what was of Kaos, they do not know what was of Madame Mim, they do not know what was of Mancha. They do not know, man! They are not interested! This thing of Internet is on their hands and at the same time it is not, it says nothing. I consider this type of recollection very interesting".Daniela Morozini, artist
"I think it is cool to be part of your project. Of your exhibition. I already see myself as an artist and certainly people are going to know me as an artist. This status pleases me. This makes me happy with my work with my painting. It is a start of something I am idealizing, fighting to win. I think it is laudable, very good, cool, and I am very happy that I was invited. I hope that everybody will take the idea well, and they will certainly appreciate it very fondly. It is a very well elaborated work. It is very difficult to gather everybody. Artist is complicated. To find everybody. To be available. To donate for production. To compose a project, a work. To materialize the idea, it is complicated".Pinel, graffitist from EGS
"I think this work of recollection is important, registering, filing, represent, keeping this. Because there are a lot of negative points of what we used to do, which was tagging. I think that no tagger or graffitist today would think that they would reach what they have reached. There is the Project Graffita, where we get paid to do it. In the past, we used to get beaten because we tagged. I hope this work is not only done by you, but that other also have the initiative, and that they see it as a good thing, as an artistic thing. That this is not only something that has passed, but a phenomenon that has happened. Here in Salvador, there have been people from various states: Rio, São Paulo and Minas, looking at our work. As we have a lot access to the internet, we feel that people do not believe that here what we can do this type of work. I will be very happy to participate of your exhibition".Sank25, graffitist from Nova10Ordem
"Your exhibition is a very good idea. We are going to show the public what we do in our routine. The paintings. How we express ourselves. Around here, I have never see an exhibition of tagging, graffiti and bombarding".Thito Lama, graffitist from MRS
"Your work is, in reality, a demonstration of what is graffiti, of what is tagging. And also of what is art. I think that it is very good this work of yours. You are showing the face of graffitist youth of Salvador and showing to all classes, because many classes are going to see your exhibition. And this, surely, is going to break the concept of many people who still do not understand, who are prejudiced. Still see graffiti as an art of vandalism, because they have no knowledge or conscience of what graffiti is. With this material that you are preparing, I know it’ll have a better repercussion, so that people can see graffiti from another point of view. Although many people are already observing. The city is pretty! And for me, it is great! I also come out of the anonymity".Ademar Galvão, artist, business manager, civil engineer and owner of Arte Viva gallery
"I think that this work that you are doing is very necessary. A very beautiful work, that is going to have a great repercussion. Because you are being successful in making a register. You are being successful I organizing all this structure a register. Because this is a work of difficult registration. Graffiti, when put in a public space, on the next day you do not know whether it will still be there. Sometimes, the wall is fixed, destroyed or a tagger that passes through destroys that work of art. So, if you can register that, bring these declarations, these explanations, all this collection, you will have success in your project. You will b become a curator of a open exhibition. The importance of a curator at an exhibition is fundamental. At this moment, you are becoming a curator. You are choosing what you are going to put there. You are filing all of it. You are composing your exhibition through this register".Bel Borba, artistc
"Besides the quality, the project that you have been developing, independently of the quality of the register, I find interesting the contribution to the memory. Of course! There is the artistic part which is the action of photographing itself. This is cool! The composition and the action itself. This is the artistic side. But this alone is praiseworthy. Congratulations! But what I think is the most important focus and what is most important to the world, for the city, for the country, is registering the face of the city. This is a way of registering our time. It is the face of a city and of a people. So, this is one way of doing it. This project of yours is one way of registering these things".Eder Muniz, graffitist from Calangos de Rua
"You told me that you have been registering for sometime. I want to say something to you: I think that your work will make our work known. I think that art generates art and I am flattered that there is someone who has been following the art of the streets. Who knows that it is a popular art. It is an art that goes out to the people. It is difficult for a guy to go to a gallery, but it is easy for the guy to work and see the art on the streets. And you value that, you recognizes the street artist. I am honored to be here talking to you. This recognition from your part is very important".Denis Sena, artist and graffitist
"Wow! Really beautiful exhibition, man! Done inside a shopping center that is very busy. The aesthetics, chronology, I found it perfect, very cool. I have seen few exhibitions about graffiti which had a chronological order. Starting with Miguel Cordeiro “Faustino” until the most recent artists. There has only been two exhibitions that I liked: yours and Carol Garcia’s. She has photographed the routine of the boys. I found it very cool! It may value the work of the artists. Not only of the graffitists, but also the language of graffiti. Various people have asked: have you seen the exhibition? Have you seen the exhibition? I love photography, because it is plastic and ephemeral. And you have perpetuated it, man! For example, the works from Miguel Cordeiro do not exist anymore. And what you did there, man, has a fantastic value. I have seen the works of Bel, very deserved. He does graffiti. Mosaic is graffiti. Of coures is a different technique, harder, more so than spray.Isa Moniz, artist
"I found the place brilliant, you know? The fact that the exhibition is at Shopping Iguatemi. You have made a great opening and a very beautiful show. The work itself. Art in photography as you presented it. I refer to the place because it was a provocation in a good way. A kind of shaking you give at the middle-class. I am not talking of the local people in general. But people need to learn to respect the values, wherever they are, not only the famous names, etc".Deng, graffitist
"I was very touched. Us who do the “bombarding”, we fight a lot to be recognized. And the, when they told me that there was a work of mine at the Shopping Iguatemi, I did not believe. And I went there to check it out! When I saw it, I was more touched. There is a work of mine. I was very happy. There, in your exhibition, Paranaguá, you showed something that a lot of people can not see with good eyes, but with negative eyes. They see graffiti and “bombarding” as tagging. And then you have told them that it is not that: it is art. And that there is a lot of competent people. I liked that exhibition. It was great!".
