We recently finished sorting and naming our many thousand photos from Brazil. I had always thought that I should publish another street art gallery from there. But once all photos were sorted I realised that we have many many more than I expected… So, for the next few weeks you can expect a number of streetart galleries from Brazil.
This first one is exclusively from Florianópolis, precisely from the entire Ilha Santa Catarina, or ‘Floripa‘ as the locals call it. We were astonished how many top StreetArt pieces we discovered – sometimes in out-of-the-way places.
In the inland of Ilha Santa Catarina you can still find places which have a fairly rural feel to them – but even there we often came across outstanding pieces. As we mentioned in our blog post about Florianópolis , we gained the impression that there is a lot of creative talent on this island.
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The longer we stayed, the more we started to recognise the style of some street artists, and we were able to associate individual art pieces with them. For example, we found these fantasy birds with their sleepy bright green eyes almost everywhere. Too often we couldn’t stop to photograph.
The image below is a collage (not individual thumbnails).
One street artist on Santa Catarina Island paints finely detailed animals and birds, all with sleepy looking bright green eyes. We found these all over the island.
Many of the street artists we found featured across the island, also took part in the massive overpass near the airport. This street art collaboration is so big that we dedicated a full gallery post to it . Nearby is a small industrial estate next to the highway, where the perimeter wall is slowly being turned into another gallery.
Florianópolis StreetArt: near to where we documented the amazing large piece covering an overpass is an industrial estate next to the highway. Its perimeter wall is slowly being turned into another street art gallery. If you’re on Santa Catarina island watch this space!
In the city centre of Florianópolis we came upon a few murals, which made our jaws drop for their near photo-realistic look. Several of these artists, like ‘Valdi-Valdi‘, we recognised on the overpass near the airport. Others had left their mark on a long beach themed street art wall, which we discovered when driving the SC406 – a road which runs inland, along the length of the island.
Street Art we found at Lagoa da Conceição
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We noticed two themes which seem to be relatively local to Santa Catarina: a lot of ocean inspired pieces and countless lizards in various styles. The lizards were a prominent motif until we reached Rio de Janeiro – then they stopped.
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This post only contains 22 of the best photos, selected from nearly 90!
Which one is your favourite piece of street art?
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